La bible et les découvertes modernes en Palestine, en Egypte et en Assyrie

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The Republic of México in 1876; a polítical and ethnographical division of the population, character, habits, costumes an vocations of its in habitans

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Faire lire la Bible comme à l'école: un mode d'emploi

Même si je suis loin de croire qu’aborder la Bible comme à l’école soit le meilleur moyen de la rendre plus attirante ou plus sexy, je pense pourtant que le catéchète peut trouver un avantage à faire "lire la Bible comme à l’école". Dans cet article, je le démontre à l'aide des programmes de français du collège en France.

Village sermons on the chief articles of faith, &c., on the christian character, and on some of the relative duties...

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La Bible coulée dans le rock. Fragmentation et reconstruction du texte biblique dans la musique rock

Dans ses entretiens, George Steiner considère la musique rock et le heavy metal comme l’espéranto international des jeunes de notre époque (Steiner, Entretiens, p. 91). Or, cet espéranto porte une dimension religieuse manifeste, entre autres à travers l’usage fréquent d’images et de textes bibliques souvent passés au broyeur des guitares et des voix vociférantes. On peut se demander quelles figures construisent les fragments qui en résultent, souvent irrévérencieux voire scandaleux pour plusieurs. À travers les violences que le rock et surtout le métal infligent au texte biblique, faut-il voir des attaques contre la Bible et contre Dieu, comme le croient plusieurs chrétiens, ou, au contraire, un respect profond de la dynamique de ce texte et un usage légitime de celui-ci ? Davantage portée par la seconde hypothèse, ce texte vise à identifier les usages et les fonctions religieuses de la Bible dans la musique rock.

Character and professionalism in the context of developing countries – the example of mercenaries

On pense souvent que le professionnalisme moderne exige qu’on regarde comme non relevante les traditions particulières ainsi que les liens avec familiaux, tribaux et religieux. Du point de vue du professionnalisme, ce qu’est important sont des règles internes à la profession et aussi les droits universels de l’homme vu comme individu abstrait. Dans une société où l’individualisme et le commerce deviennent omniprésents, les traditions éthiques et les identités narratives pourraient pourtant constituer un cadre de motivations clé pour l’intégrité éthique professionnelle. Je prendrai comme exemple la profession militaire et en particulier l’utilisation de mercenaires. En distinguant entre les compétences et les vertus je me demanderai si oui ou non il y a une relation nécessaire entre un bon soldat et le fait d’être un citoyen. Le fait d’être est compris ici comme catégorie morale qui occasionne un certain idéal de caractère et en particulier des vertus. Je conclus que l’action de contractualisation privée d’un soldat n’est pas en général moralement digne d’éloge et ne devrait pas être encouragée dans une société éthiquement orientée.

The Dalhousie Dentistry Story: A Case for Proportionality, Professionalism, and the Promotion of Moral Character

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Les chrétiens, gens de la Parole ? La Bible, une nourriture pour l’expérience chrétienne d’aujourd’hui

Cet essai aborde la Bible comme nourriture essentielle de l’expérience de foi chrétienne, en particulier chez les personnes engagées dans la formation à la vie chrétienne. On y explore les questions suivantes : Qu’est-ce que la Parole de Dieu ? Quel est le rapport entre la Bible et la Parole de Dieu ? Comment la Bible peut-elle nourrir l’expérience chrétienne aujourd’hui ? Quelles implications pour la formation à la vie chrétienne ? Après avoir exploré la perspective de l'exhortation Verbum, Domini du pape Benoît XVI sur ces questions, on fait appel aux réflexions de Sandra Schneiders dans Le texte de la rencontre (1991) avant de conclure par quelques remarques empruntées à Joël Molinario dans Parole de Dieu et Écriture en catéchèse (2011) et à André Fossion dans Dieu désirable (2010). Intervention lors des 8e Journées de réflexion en formation à la vie chrétienne de Montréal, tenues les 14-15 mars 2013 à l’Institut de pastorale des Dominicains.

Local character of magnetic coupling in ionic solids

Magnetic interactions in ionic solids are studied using parameter-free methods designed to provide accurate energy differences associated with quantum states defining the Heisenberg constant J. For a series of ionic solids including KNiF3, K2NiF4, KCuF3, K2CuF4, and high- Tc parent compound La2CuO4, the J experimental value is quantitatively reproduced. This result has fundamental implications because J values have been calculated from a finite cluster model whereas experiments refer to infinite solids. The present study permits us to firmly establish that in these wide-gap insulators, J is determined from strongly local electronic interactions involving two magnetic centers only thus providing an ab initio support to commonly used model Hamiltonians.

k-NN based On-Line Handwritten Character recognition system

On-line handwriting recognition has been a frontier area of research for the last few decades under the purview of pattern recognition. Word processing turns to be a vexing experience even if it is with the assistance of an alphanumeric keyboard in Indian languages. A natural solution for this problem is offered through online character recognition. There is abundant literature on the handwriting recognition of western, Chinese and Japanese scripts, but there are very few related to the recognition of Indic script such as Malayalam. This paper presents an efficient Online Handwritten character Recognition System for Malayalam Characters (OHR-M) using K-NN algorithm. It would help in recognizing Malayalam text entered using pen-like devices. A novel feature extraction method, a combination of time domain features and dynamic representation of writing direction along with its curvature is used for recognizing Malayalam characters. This writer independent system gives an excellent accuracy of 98.125% with recognition time of 15-30 milliseconds

An Online Character Recognition System to Convert Grantha Script to Malayalam

This paper presents a novel approach to recognize Grantha, an ancient script in South India and converting it to Malayalam, a prevalent language in South India using online character recognition mechanism. The motivation behind this work owes its credit to (i) developing a mechanism to recognize Grantha script in this modern world and (ii) affirming the strong connection among Grantha and Malayalam. A framework for the recognition of Grantha script using online character recognition is designed and implemented. The features extracted from the Grantha script comprises mainly of time-domain features based on writing direction and curvature. The recognized characters are mapped to corresponding Malayalam characters. The framework was tested on a bed of medium length manuscripts containing 9-12 sample lines and printed pages of a book titled Soundarya Lahari writtenin Grantha by Sri Adi Shankara to recognize the words and sentences. The manuscript recognition rates with the system are for Grantha as 92.11%, Old Malayalam 90.82% and for new Malayalam script 89.56%. The recognition rates of pages of the printed book are for Grantha as 96.16%, Old Malayalam script 95.22% and new Malayalam script as 92.32% respectively. These results show the efficiency of the developed system

Handwritten Character Recognition of South Indian Scripts: A Review

Handwritten character recognition is always a frontier area of research in the field of pattern recognition and image processing and there is a large demand for OCR on hand written documents. Even though, sufficient studies have performed in foreign scripts like Chinese, Japanese and Arabic characters, only a very few work can be traced for handwritten character recognition of Indian scripts especially for the South Indian scripts. This paper provides an overview of offline handwritten character recognition in South Indian Scripts, namely Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada and Telungu

Unconstrained Handwritten Malayalam Character Recognition using Wavelet Transform and Support vector Machine Classifier

This paper presents the application of wavelet processing in the domain of handwritten character recognition. To attain high recognition rate, robust feature extractors and powerful classifiers that are invariant to degree of variability of human writing are needed. The proposed scheme consists of two stages: a feature extraction stage, which is based on Haar wavelet transform and a classification stage that uses support vector machine classifier. Experimental results show that the proposed method is effective

Offline Handwritten Malayalam Character Recognition Based on Chain Code Histogram

Optical Character Recognition plays an important role in Digital Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. Even though ambient study had been performed on foreign languages like Chinese and Japanese, effort on Indian script is still immature. OCR in Malayalam language is more complex as it is enriched with largest number of characters among all Indian languages. The challenge of recognition of characters is even high in handwritten domain, due to the varying writing style of each individual. In this paper we propose a system for recognition of offline handwritten Malayalam vowels. The proposed method uses Chain code and Image Centroid for the purpose of extracting features and a two layer feed forward network with scaled conjugate gradient for classification