Perfect Means Research Articles

David the Invincible: Philosophy as a Lifestyle

The most outstanding representative of the history of Armenian philosophy, Neoplatonic thinker of the V-VI centuries, David the Invincible continues the tradition reached the peak of its development in the Ancient Greece by Socrates and Plato, according to which philosophy is first of all a way of life, a means of transformation and perfection of the human being. Following the principles of the Greek Paideia David considers philosophy as a care of the soul, in which theory and practice are intertwined, and cognition of the world depends on the efforts of self-improvement by a subject. Author shows that in David’s definitions of philosophy is clearly seen the significance of self-formation, “zardarum” in the process of reality formation, comprehension or rethinking. It is also mentioned that we can use Michel Foucault’s notion of the “care of the soul” and Pierre Hadot’s notion of “spiritual practices’’ to characterize David’s optimistic philosophy, which was developed further in the theories of Armenian thinkers Grigor Narekatsi, Grigor Magistros, Hovhannes Imastaser, Arakel Sjunetsi, etc.

David the Invincible: Philosophy as a Lifestyle

The most outstanding representative of the history of Armenian philosophy, Neoplatonic thinker of the V-VI centuries, David the Invincible continues the tradition reached the peak of its development in the Ancient Greece by Socrates and Plato, according to which philosophy is first of all a way of life, a means of transformation and perfection of the human being. Following the principles of the Greek Paideia David considers philosophy as a care of the soul, in which theory and practice are intertwined, and cognition of the world depends on the efforts of self-improvement by a subject. Author shows that in David’s definitions of philosophy is clearly seen the significance of self-formation, “zardarum” in the process of reality formation, comprehension or rethinking. It is also mentioned that we can use Michel Foucault’s notion of the “care of the soul” and Pierre Hadot’s notion of “spiritual practices’’ to characterize David’s optimistic philosophy, which was developed further in the theories of Armenian thinkers Grigor Narekatsi, Grigor Magistros, Hovhannes Imastaser, Arakel Sjunetsi, etc.

Mokytojas kaip esminis mokymosi kokybės veiksnys: asmeninių priemonių plotmė

Straipsnyje keliama mokymosi kokybės tobulinimo pedagoginėmis priemonėmis problema. Aptariama, kokį poveikį mokymosi kokybei daro mokinio ir mokytojo asmeninių galių lygis, jų susipynimas, suponuojantis kitų galimų priemonių efektyvų naudojimą ir naujų kūrimą. Analizuojama, kaip mokytojo asmeninis potencialas skleidžiasi daugiausia pripažintomis „priemonėmis“: pedagogine galia, pedagogine meile, humoru, taktu ir optimizmu. Straipsnis grindžiamas mokslinės literatūros analize, patirtimi, tyrimais.

LITERARY MIRACLE OF THE QURAN

<div><p>The literary inimitability of the Holy Quran and its wisdom, it’s rhythmical and phonetically excellence, in its perfect meanings, in its unmatched literary styles and its perfect grammatical structure has been discussed thorough out the Islamic History. The most important point of Quran’s miracle which means the words and expressions applied in Quran are arranged in a very specific and precise way that any movement changes the meaning. The Quran’s challenges everyone mostly to make only one verse in terms of rhetoric and eloquence like Quran, So far no one has surmounted this challenge. The Quran is neither prose nor poem while majority of the words are either prose or poems. It is not poem on the ground that it doesn’t have the basic elements of rhyme. In addition to rhyme another element of poem is imagination which is not applied in Quran and the words in it are imagination free. The Quran indeed contains an ocean of information relating to a wide variety of subjects. They include: religious and moral guidance, lessons from the lives of the peoples of the past, the message of the Prophets and Messengers of Allah, the physical sciences and historical accounts of important events. But all of this is delivered with the most fantastic literary rhythm and excellence. The Quran achieved this unique literary form by fusing together metrical and non-metrical speech. This fusion of metrical and non-metrical composition is present throughout the whole of the Quran and cannot be found in any Arabic text, past or present. The aim of this paper is to study three basic aspects that have been propounded by scholars including literary, linguistic, and scientific miraculousness. The paper also highlights the literary miracles of the Holy Quran as well as rediscover it uniqueness in modern age. A full understanding of its merit as a literary masterpiece requires a fresh approach to the study of the scriptures that present the literary beauty of the Quran in the most precise and coherent fashion.</p></div>

Body Language - Perfect Means of Accentuating the Statement

Nonverbal expressions (gestures, mimic, body movement) are reviewed in the article. Body language is a perfect means of accentuating the statement but it should be used very carefully, because the same gestures may mean absolutely different things in various cultures. Do not forget about the subtlety of body language when practicing your language skills.

The Universal Perfect in Syrian Arabic

This paper describes a construction in contemporary Syrian Arabic that matches the semantic features of the ‘universal perfect’ in English. The construction is based on a stative predicate and a duration adverbial and says that the state has held for the specified duration. The primary identifying morphological characteristic of the construction is the fact that the subject is doubled by a dative pronoun. The dative pronoun may surface as an enclitic of the optional auxiliary ṣār ‘become’. The paper identifies the construction’s morphosyntactic and semantic composition and addresses the question of whether ṣār is a pleonastic auxiliary or makes a semantic contribution of its own. I claim that the universal perfect meaning is derived by a hidden operator that assigns dative case to the subject, and whose position is detectable by its interaction with negation. The doubling of the subject in Arabic by a dative pronoun represents a subtle similarity to English, which employs the auxiliary have in the perfect, since both the dative in Arabic and have in English signify possession in other contexts. Similarities in the components and composition of the universal perfect in Arabic and English support the notion that the universal perfect is a uniform element in a cross linguistic taxonomy of aspectual categories.

Treatment of aneurysmal bone cyst by curettage and hydrogen peroxide as an adjuvant without refilling of the resultant cavity

Background Aneurysmal bone cyst (ABC) is a rare tumor-like lesion with wide controversy as regards the perfect means of treatment and the way to manage the resulting bony cyst after curettage. Patients and methods The study included 24 patients: 13 were male and the mean age was 12.6 years (range: 6–26 years). Six cases were diagnosed as solid ABC, nine (37.5%) cases were in the proximal femur. All cases were treated by thorough curettage followed by washing the cyst with hydrogen peroxide for 5 min. No bone graft or substitute was used as a filler of the cysts, except strut fibular graft, which was used to stabilize weak cysts in nine cases. Plaster cast was used in 11 cases for external fixation. Follow-up ranged from 12 to 46 months (mean: 25 months). Results All cysts healed without pathological fracture. There was no local recurrence until the end of follow-up. All patients returned back to normal life. Conclusion Thorough curettage with lavage of the cyst with hydrogen peroxide could be an acceptable method of treatment of ABC without the need of refilling of the resulting cavity.

The Perfect Meaning of Korean Revisited

It is well accepted that the meaning of English simple past is represented by the suffix ess in Korean. This suffix is also proposed to represent the meaning of English present perfect. By some others, however, the perfect meaning is argued to come from sources other than ess. In this context, the main purpose of this paper is to reinvestigate the meaning of ess and to reconsider the sources of the perfect meaning of Korean. It will be reconfirmed that the perfect meaning is not derived from the ambiguity of ess, but from some other elements in the sentence. It will be proposed that unlike other languages such as English and French, Korean has a simple past tense only, and no perfect aspect. In Korean, the past tense marker ess acquires the ‘current relevance’ from the context as an implicature or from an adverbial as part of explicit meaning. Furthermore, the marked form essess is used in order to eliminate the current relevance of the situation

Problematizing the collaboration process in a knowledge-development context

This research discusses the role of collaboration in the development of new knowledge and innovation management. To illustrate collaboration's significance, this research uses a flow path analytic model to examine the key antecedents and their predictive relationship with organizational performance in the course of collaboration process. The antecedents comprise consensus, technological support, rules & procedures and innovation complexity. The research further documents a corroboratory note in an industrial innovation case, which measures the collaboration antecedent effects on the innovation outcome using three behavioral indicators, dependence, essentiality and predictability. The analytic results provide evidence about collaboration management in organizational learning and new knowledge activities. Finally a parsimonious framework shows that the effects resulted from the individual collaboration antecedents along the three stages of innovation work. This research has implications for managing collaboration as a means of organizational learning and perfection.

Assessing biodiversity vulnerability to climate change: testing different methodologies for Portuguese herpetofauna

Assessing biodiversity vulnerability to future climate change is essential for developing robust adaptation strategies. A number of vulnerability assessment methodologies have been developed, from bioclimatic envelop models to more complex approaches that also consider biological traits and population status. However, the lack of comparative studies leaves the user to choose among the different methodologies without much guidance. This study applied three vulnerability assessment approaches to the Portuguese herpetofauna: (I) impact assessment approach based on bioclimatic models; (II) integrated vulnerability assessment approach, adding the evaluation of adaptive capacity to approach I; and (III) integrated vulnerability assessment and validation based on expert consultation. Results showed disagreement between the different approaches for 19 % of the species studied. Most differences were found between approach III and the two other approaches. All approaches showed advantages and limitations, the choice of a methodology being ultimately dependent on the study goals. Approach I has proven efficient to capture general vulnerability patterns. Approach II, although presenting results similar to approach I, allows for the identification of key factors affecting the species adaptive capacity and may be useful in tailoring adaptation measures. Approach III further allows us to identify knowledge gaps and to evaluate vulnerability when data availability or quality is reduced. Further, because this approach is based on an expert workshop, it has proven a perfect means to build on the vulnerability assessment results to identify indicator species and prioritize specific adaptation options.

The Esthetics of Rhetorical Formation in the Sufi Treatise: An Analysis of Abū al-Ma`ālī Sadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī’s “The Most Perfect Means of Commencing One’s Approach to the Truth Almighty”

The Esthetics of Rhetorical Formation in the Sufi Treatise: An Analysis of Abū al-Ma`ālī Sadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī’s “The Most Perfect Means of Commencing One’s Approach to the Truth Almighty”

Case Report: Atypical Cornelia de Lange Syndrome.

Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS) (also called Bushy Syndrome or Amsterdam dwarfism), is a genetic disorder that can lead to several alterations. This disease affects both physical and neuropsychiatric development. The various abnormalities include facial dysmorphia (arched eyebrows, synophrys, depressed nasal bridge, long philtrum, down-turned angles of the mouth), upper-extremity malformations, hirsutism, cardiac defects, and gastrointestinal alterations. The prevalence of this syndrome is approximately one per 15,000. Ultrasound is not the perfect means to diagnose CdLS, however, many abnormalities can be detected prenatally by scrupulous image observation. We report an atypical CdLS case characterized by increased nuchal translucency in the first trimester, normal karyotype, saddle nose, micrognathia with receding jaw, low set ears, facies senilis, arthrogryposis of the hands, absence of the Aranzio ductus venous, dilatation of gallbladder and bowel, a unique umbilical artery, increased volume of amniotic fluid, and intrauterine growth retardation ending with the interruption of pregnancy.

Development and Application of Portable Reference Radiation Fields with Multi-Point Single-Energy Photon

Based on the needs of detection and calibration with low-energy X-ray, we used the relationship characteristics of X-ray fluorescence, absorption and limit potential target excitation, developed the X-ray device with adjustable intensity (single photon to 107/s), optional energy points (4 keV - 20 keV), highly portable (≤1 kg), by the matching design of fluorescence energy conversion target and modulation means, coupled transport simulation of electron-photon in target, meanwhile, we solved the low-energy X-ray radiation field diagnose problems with HPGe detector, which calibrated with combined technique, including relatively wide energy efficiency simulation and single energy point of absolute efficiency calibration. In single-photon calibration field of soft X-ray pulsar navigation detect, the portable reference single energy radiation fields was applied effectively and got good result, the reference radiation fields provided perfect experiment means for the scientific study of pulsar navigation detecting, sun X-ray monitoring, etc.

Aspects du vocabulaire royal dans les discours politiques d'Isocrate

Isocrates's texts are full of comments and advices about kingship. And many are the kings (mythological or historical) who extensively appear. Yet Isocrates is caring about the position and the prosperity of his own polis rather than about the perfect meaning of kingship. W e must here explain, at first, what our rhetor expects from a king, then how he borrows from words ofkingship (almost ancient ones) such terms as time, geras and, perhaps, the notion of temenos, and applies them to the democratic Athens. In fact, Isocrates tells " new things in an old way". And he reveals all his subtle cleverness when he defines the new hegemony he hopes for Athens using ancient words which bear the seal of the kings'' prestige.

The Esthetics of Rhetorical Formation in the Sufi Treatise: An Analysis of Abū al-Ma`ālī Sadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī’s “The Most Perfect Means of Commencing One’s Approach to the Truth Almighty”

The Esthetics of Rhetorical Formation in the Sufi Treatise: An Analysis of Abū al-Ma`ālī Sadr al-Dīn al-Qūnawī’s “The Most Perfect Means of Commencing One’s Approach to the Truth Almighty”

Impact of e-safety applications on cyclists' safety

In years to come, urban areas face the challenge of making transport sustainable in terms of environment and competitiveness. Cycling is a perfect transport means in urban areas. Cyclists have a high casualty rate and should be given special attention in road safety policy. Actions to promote cycling in cities should go together with improving road safety. ICT can be used to develop intelligent applications assisting cyclists to avoid, prevent or mitigate accidents. This paper presents the results of activities focused on the assessment of impacts of ICT on the safety of cyclists, realised in the framework of the EU project SAFECYCLE (www.safecycle.eu). E-safety applications were identified that can enhance the safety of cyclists in Europe. Eleven applications were analysed in term of benefits and costs. The results highlighted important differences between European countries in term of awareness about cycling, knowledge about ICT applications and also impacts of these applications.

Перфектная семантика в русском языке и семантика перфекта в испанском

Elena Gorbova: Perfect Semantics in Russian and the Semantics of the Perfect in Spanish.The paper deals with the semantics of the Spanish perfect and its translation equivalents in Russian, employing data from parallel corpora. The analysis is performed against the background of typological views on the perfect as a cross-linguistic category. Along with the Spanish perfect, the semantics of its translation equivalents in Russian such as preterite finite forms (otkryl, napisal) and short-form passive participle constructions – (bylo) otkryto, napisano – are discussed as well.The analysis shows that Russian does not show any strong correlation between the perfect meaning on the whole and the use of perfective and imperfective aspects, although there is a strong tendency to express the experiential variant by the imperfective aspect. The perfect meaning is thus shared between the perfective and imperfective aspect clusters, and the general semantics of the perfect is best described as “current relevance.”

Atypical Cornelia de Lange Syndrome: a case report

Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS) (also called Bushy Syndrome or Amsterdam dwarfism), is a genetic disorder that can lead to several alterations. This disease affects both physical and psychical development. The various abnormalities include facial dysmorphia (arched eyebrows, synophrys, depressed nasal bridge, long philtrum, down-turned angles of the mouth), upper-extremity malformations, hirsutism, cardiac defects, and gastrointestinal alterations. The prevalence of this syndrome is approximately one per 15,000. Ultrasound is not the perfect means to diagnose CdLS, however, many abnormalities can be detected prenatally by scrupulous image observation.We report an atypical CdLS case characterized by increased nuchal translucency in the first trimester, normal kariotype, saddle nose, micrognathia with receding jaw, low set ears, facies senilis, arthrogryposis of the hands, absence of the Aranzio ductus venous, dilatation of gallbladder and bowel, a unique umbilical artery, increased volume of amniotic fluid, and intrauterine growth retardation ending with the interruption of pregnancy.

Book review: “Glial physiology and pathophysiology” by Alexei Verkhratsky and Arthur Butt, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

Book review: “Glial physiology and pathophysiology” by Alexei Verkhratsky and Arthur Butt, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

The expression of the perfect in East and South-East Asian Englishes

This paper looks at variation in the expression of perfect meaning in Asian Englishes (Hong Kong, India, Singapore and the Philippines) as represented in the spoken component of the International Corpus of English. Findings confirm the existence of levelling between the present perfect and simple past in these varieties, and that the tendency of the present perfect to lose ground to the preterite is more pronounced in these New Englishes than in British English, especially in the expression of recent past. The occurrence of other variants in the corpus is accounted for in terms of the influence of the respective substrate languages, cognitive constraints characteristic of language-contact situations, pragmatic contextual factors such as the scant use of adverbial support, and, especially, diffusion from the input language, which is an earlier variety of spoken, non-standard English. Relevant intravarietal differences are also discussed and attributed to the different phases of development in which the four varieties currently find themselves.