Hasil untuk "The Bible"

Y. Tabe, K. Urayama, A. Matsuyama et al.

J. Binney, S. Tremaine

B. Bass, R. Bass

S. Meyn, R. Tweedie

B. Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie

James Binney, Scott Tremaine, D. Lynden-Bell

R. Cooper

The Anh Han, Joel Z. Leibo, Tom Lenaerts et al.

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are rapidly becoming more capable, autonomous, and deeply embedded in social life. As humans increasingly interact, cooperate, and compete with AI, we move from purely human societies to hybrid human-AI societies whose collective dynamics cannot be captured by existing behavioural models alone. Drawing on evolutionary game theory, cultural evolution, and Large Language Models (LLMs) powered simulations, we argue that these developments open a new research agenda for social physics centred on the co-evolution of humans and machines. We outline six key research directions. First, modelling the evolutionary dynamics of social behaviours (e.g. cooperation, fairness, trust) in hybrid human-AI populations. Second, understanding machine culture: how AI systems generate, mediate, and select cultural traits. Third, analysing the co-evolution of language and behaviour when LLMs frame and participate in decisions. Fourth, studying the evolution of AI delegation: how responsibilities and control are negotiated between humans and machines. Fifth, formalising and comparing the distinct epistemic pipelines that generate human and AI behaviour. Sixth, modelling the co-evolution of AI development and regulation in a strategic ecosystem of firms, users, and institutions. Together, these directions define a programme for using social physics to anticipate and steer the societal impact of advanced AI.

Dorcas C. Juma

Genesis 2:4–17 offers a foundational account of human–earth relations within the Eden narrative, portraying Mother Earth as a divinely crafted habitat and humanity as both nurtured by and responsible for the land. This article presents an exegetical reading of the passage, engaging historical–critical scholarship and Ancient Near Eastern contexts to unpack its theological emphasis on the interdependence between human beings אָדָם [adam] and the soil אֲדָמָה [adamah] from which they are formed. Drawing on insights from biblical scholars and Eco-theologians, the study foregrounds the ecological dimensions inherent in the text, including themes of cultivation, care and divinely instituted limits on human consumption. Through an Afro-ecofeminism lens, the article then correlates these findings with Indigenous African knowledge systems, where women have historically served as custodians of ecological wisdom. In many African communities, Afro-Indigenous practices have long guided environmental stewardship, from forecasting climatic shifts to sustaining biodiversity through spiritual and communal traditions. Women, deeply embedded in these eco-spiritual roles, preserve and transmit ancestral ecological knowledge and practices that resonate with the biblical portrayal of humanity’s sacred duty towards the earth. By integrating exegetical insights with African eco-spiritualities, this study reimagines Genesis 2:4–17 as a text of interdependence, care and ethical responsibility. In doing so, it contributes to climate justice discourse by bridging biblical scholarship with Indigenous African religious traditions. Contribution: This article employed an Afro-ecofeminism lens to explore Genesis 2:4–17 alongside Indigenous African ecological perspectives, foregrounding the role of African women as custodians of ecological wisdom. It argued that Afro-Indigenous spiritual and environmental knowledge offers vital insights for addressing climate challenges. By integrating biblical and African ecological ethics, the study underscores how traditional ecological knowledge can advance sustainable practices, food security and climate justice. In doing so, it contributes to decolonial theological discourse and reclaims Indigenous African eco-spiritualities as essential to global ecological sustainability.

The Minh Nguyen, Nagisa Sugishita, Margarida Carvalho et al.

Electric vehicle (EV) public charging infrastructure planning faces significant challenges in competitive markets, where multiple service providers affect congestion and user behavior. This work extends existing modeling frameworks by incorporating the presence of competitors' stations and more realistic queueing systems. First, we analyze three finite queueing systems, M/M/1/K, M/M/s/K, and M/Er/s/K, with varying numbers of servers (charging outlets) and service time distributions, deriving analytic expressions for user behavior metrics. Second, we embed the queueing-based user behavior model into a bilevel program, where the upper level locates new charging stations to maximize accessibility (throughput), and the lower level captures users' station choices via a user equilibrium. Third, we apply a reformulation from competitive congested user-choice facility location models to approximately solve the bilevel problem and introduce a surrogate-based heuristic to enhance scalability. Fourth, we showcase our methodology on a real-world case study of an urban area in Montreal (Canada), offering managerial insights into how user-choice behavior assumptions and competition affect throughput and location decisions. The results demonstrate that our model yields (re)location strategies that outperform the existing network. More broadly, this approach provides a tool for incorporating charging service quality-through queueing metrics-and existing competition into station planning.

Baatr Uchaevich Kitinov, Elizaveta A. Kodunova

The Taiping Rebellion in China in the middle of the nineteenth century was not only the largest social revolutionary movement of its time, but a movement inspired in to a large extent by Christianity. The article highlights the important place of the Bible in Hong Xiuquan’s life, its radical reinterpretation by the Taiping leader, and the role that his religious ideology played in the actions of the Taiping and the existence of the Taiping Tianguo. The purpose of the study is to determine the role of religious ideology in the Taiping rebellion, as well as to analyze the views of the leader of their movement. The relevance of the research topic is due to the need to study religious ideologies related to the period of the history of the Qing Empire (1644-1911), as well as the markedly increased scientific interest in the history of China during the reign of the Manchu dynasty. During the study, it was found that under the influence of Western missionaries in southern China, a modified version of Christianity arose, turned by Hong Xiuquan into the ideology of the Taiping movement: the goal was to recreate the kingdom of heaven in this world.

Petrushkov, Ilya V.

This study aims to determine the role of intertextual elements in creating a comic effect in the 17th century Russian satires. Two novels representing the humorous literature of the 17th century Russia serve as the material of the research: The Tale of Drunkard and The Tale of the Peasant’s Son. Medieval culture is based on Christianity with the biblical text at its core. Intertextual elements represented by biblical allusions and quotes are important elements in the plot and composition of the texts under research. The results of the analysis in terms of lexis and stylistics show that the comic effect created by intertextual elements is based on the contrast of modalities between the source and target texts, which is achieved due to the antithesis “heavenly/earthly”. Despite the fact that the texts of the Bible have different artistic modalities, the episodes of the Old and New Testaments quoted in the texts in question do not possess satirical modality per se, which results in a conflict that develops between the target and the source texts, the comic effect being driven by this conflict. On the level of the language it is reflected in lexical units with different stylistic marking being constantly used within one sentence or in adjacent sentences. Each biblical allusion or quote contains Church Slavonic lexemes, which have solemn and sublime marking. In parodies on the biblical text allusions and quotes acquire new lexical environment, in particular, the Church Slavonic vocabulary is substituted by commonplace words, which leads to the conflict of modalities, and, consequently, creates a comic effect. 

H. Kutchins, S. Kirk

Joseph Matshotshwane, Mpho Ngoepe

In countries like South Africa, sports have the power to transcend invisible lanes of politics and race and thus inspire citizens to come together. Sport, including athletics, has been demonstrated as an instrument of solidarity of fragmented cultures. However, while sport is of such significance, it is still minimally represented in public archival holdings in South Africa. Despite the mandate to transform the archival system, evidence suggests that much of the memories of sports heroes, especially that of athletes, have not been recorded. This qualitative study utilised oral history as a research method to explore the feasibility of building inclusive archives through the collection of sports memories. Athlete participants were identified through snowball sampling and data were collected using both oral testimony interviews from athletes with first-hand information and oral tradition augmented through document analysis. The results of the study indicated that there are stories and memories of many great South African distance runners that must be told and included in the archive repositories. Sadly, these stories have not been recorded in written words, as there is a tendency to perpetuate elitism by documenting mostly oral history of prominent members of society with political power. The study revealed that most of athletes’ memories from their running careers include certificates, trophies, medals, Springbok jerseys, newspaper clippings and pictures in their possession. It is concluded that until these sports archives and objects are considered as an important and unique element of South African history, they will forever be lost. Contribution: This study makes a contribution to the ongoing discourse of building inclusive archives in South Africa through the collection of athletics memories. The study is linked to the scope of the journal through propagating the inclusion of marginalised voices of athletics sports memories in mainstream archives.

Rev. Jacob Mokhutso

According to the Holy Scriptures, parents must care, teach, and guide their children to lead a Godly life. Comparably, the African traditional religion expects parents to do so too. On the morning of 26 June 2022, South Africa woke up to the harrowing news of the death of twenty-one young people in a tavern in East London, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Later, the number of deaths rose to twenty-two. Young people, the youngest being thirteen years old, lost their lives on this fateful day. First, this research seeks to reflect on the lessons the country should learn from this unfortunate ordeal so that such incidents do not occur again. Secondly, this research draws wisdom from the Christian teachings on parenting and African indigenous knowledge system that has anchored African communities for millennia. The research seeks to draw lessons from the teaching of the Bible and African indigenous knowledge system, exploring a Setswana proverb, Ngwana sejo o a tlhakanelwa, meaning a child is a food around which we all gather, implying that a child's upbringing is a communal responsibility. This research also argues that the Enyobeni Tavern incident reflects that Black African families, communities, and the Church’s societal role have changed over the years and how these changes harm their social fabric. The research uses a literature review as a research method to formulate the data and conclusion of the study. The research concludes that, with the change in Black African family structure and communities, some biblical and African considerations drawn from the proverb Ngwana sejo o a tlhakanelwa are relevant to mitigate various social challenges Black African Communities face in South Africa.

Ewa Bednarczuk, Giovanni Bruccola, Gabriele Scrivanti et al.

We investigate inexact proximity operators for weakly convex functions. To this aim, we derive sum rules for proximal ε-subdifferentials, by incorporating the moduli of weak convexity of the functions into the respective formulas. This allows us to investigate inexact proximity operators for weakly convex functions in terms of proximal ε-subdifferentials.

Zhong Zhou, Alex Waibel

We translate a closed text that is known in advance and available in many languages into a new and severely low resource language. Most human translation efforts adopt a portion-based approach to translate consecutive pages/chapters in order, which may not suit machine translation. We compare the portion-based approach that optimizes coherence of the text locally with the random sampling approach that increases coverage of the text globally. Our results show that the random sampling approach performs better. When training on a seed corpus of ~1,000 lines from the Bible and testing on the rest of the Bible (~30,000 lines), random sampling gives a performance gain of +11.0 BLEU using English as a simulated low resource language, and +4.9 BLEU using Eastern Pokomchi, a Mayan language. Furthermore, we compare three ways of updating machine translation models with increasing amount of human post-edited data through iterations. We find that adding newly post-edited data to training after vocabulary update without self-supervision performs the best. We propose an algorithm for human and machine to work together seamlessly to translate a closed text into a severely low resource language.

Rugare Rukuni, Erna Oliver

The 4th century CE was definitive for Early Christianity as there emerged an imperial orthodoxy establishment. This was the inception of an era of a Christian polity characterised by symbiotic ties between the imperial establishment and a developing charismatic political Christianity. The established narrative is one overshadowed by the Byzantine influence even in Africa through Alexandria and Carthage. There were, however, dynamics that conceived an African Christian polity, by extension Ethiopian Christianity posed relevance as a complexly diverse Christian political entity. The investigation reviewed 4th-century CE Christianity with regard to the influence of an African Christian polity and, additionally, how it was implied upon relations with the imperial orthodox establishment. Ethiopia became the case in consideration. This was established through descriptive research using document analysis to formulate literature reviews. The development of a Christian political matrix was a dominant feature of Early Christianity, especially after the emergence of a mutual enterprise under imperial orthodoxy. The formative manner of the political characteristic of ecclesiastical leadership was composite to the council resolutions and expansion policy. Inadvertently, the thin line between imperial geopolitical policy and custody of Christendom diminished. Ethiopia intrinsically saw the development of its own Christian political entity, one that curtailed the challenges of ethnic enculturation and schism between charisma and hierarchy. Perceivably, the complexity of the religious political matrix of Ethiopia as derived from its interaction with Byzantine Rome, Alexandria and the Arabian Peninsula was the source for its prolonged existence, thereby establishing basis for further investigation.

Alex Malins, Masahiko Machida, The Dang Vu et al.

Radiation transport simulations were used to analyse neutron imaging with the current-biased kinetic inductance detector (CB-KID). The PHITS Monte Carlo code was applied for simulating neutron, $^{4}$He, $^{7}$Li, photon and electron transport, $^{10}$B(n,$α$)$^{7}$Li reactions, and energy deposition by particles within CB-KID. Slight blurring in simulated CB-KID images originated $^{4}$He and $^{7}$Li ions spreading out in random directions from the $^{10}$B conversion layer in the detector prior to causing signals in the $X$ and $Y$ superconducting Nb nanowire meander lines. 478 keV prompt gamma rays emitted by $^{7}$Li nuclei from neutron-$^{10}$B reactions had negligible contribution to the simulated CB-KID images. Simulated neutron images of $^{10}$B dot arrays indicate that sub 10 $μ$m resolution imaging should be feasible with the current CB-KID design. The effect of the geometrical structure of CB-KID on the intrinsic detection efficiency was calculated from the simulations. An analytical equation was then developed to approximate this contribution to the detection efficiency. Detection efficiencies calculated in this study are upper bounds for the reality as the effects of detector temperature, the bias current, signal processing and dead-time losses were not taken into account. The modelling strategies employed in this study could be used to evaluate modifications to the CB-KID design prior to actual fabrication and testing, conveying a time and cost saving.

Pham The Anh, Artur Babiarz, Adam Czornik et al.

We formulate fractional difference equations of Riemann-Liouville and Caputo type in a functional analytical framework. Main results are existence of solutions on Hilbert space-valued weighted sequence spaces and a condition for stability of linear fractional difference equations. Using a functional calculus, we relate the fractional sum to fractional powers of the operator $1 - τ^{-1}$ with the right shift $τ^{-1}$ on weighted sequence spaces. Causality of the solution operator plays a crucial role for the description of initial value problems.