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Exceptional and Gifted Children: Performance and Tower Test

Author(s): Nastaran Abedi

Gifted children are people who are capable of high performance in cognitive, educational, scientific, creative and artistic fields compared to their peers. But there are also gifted children who have problems with cognit.....

A New Paradigm for Computer Vision Based on Compositional Representation

Author(s): Vinjai Vale

Deep convolutional neural networks - the state-of-the-art technique in artificial intelligence for computer vision - achieve notable success rates at simple classification tasks, but are fundamentally lacking when it com.....

An Economical Approach for Detecting Water Contamination at Homes Preventing a Public Drinking Water Crisis

Author(s): Meghana Avvaru

Contamination in water poses a serious and mostly undetected threat. It is necessary for people to have an economical option to test the water they drink in their own homes. The goal of this research is to develop an eco.....

How Does Having A Sibling Affect Childhood Academic Performance?

Author(s): Yutian Yang

IThis research analyzes how numbers of brothers and sisters as well as the birth order affects his/her junior high school test score, and analyzes through what channels these variables function, using cross-sectional dat.....

Bhante Katukurunde Nananandas Interpretation of Nibbana: Experience Without Boundary

Author(s): Arjuna Jayawardena

This research is an attempt to interpret how the early Buddhist teachings portray Nibbana and how this portrayal might be understood as a fitting conclusion to the Buddha’s quest to overcome suffering. In particula.....

The Divine Theory of Morality: Socrates Arguments from His Conversation with Euthyphro and Their Flaws

Author(s): Eva Kim, Jinyeop Park

Socrates finds a way to denounce every single explanation that Euthyphro gives in attempting to define what piety is. Euthyphro starts out by providing an example of an action that is pious, and Socrates responds saying .....

Study on the Psychological Effects by the Compounds in the Hinoki Cypress Essence

Author(s): Debolina Chanda

This study measured psychological and physiological signals, such as brain waves and blood pressures, of a group of students before and after they inhaled the essence of Hinoki Cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa), containing .....

No-Self and Mindfulness as Tools for Liberatory Activism

Author(s): Sarah Kasha

This paper analyzes the conceptual value of the Buddhist teachings of no-self and mindfulness for contemporary activism. First it explores how the doctrine of no-self promotes extended empathy, self-awareness, self-love,.....

On the Political Voice of Uyghur Poetry through the Gungga movement and Perhat Tursunas Elegy

Author(s): Eric Jiefei Deng

The political sensitivity of the region in turn propagates the popularity of political interpretations for literature from Xinjiang. When reading Uyghur poetry from the likes of Tahir Hamut, Perhat Tursun, or Ghojimuhemm.....

How Racism Kills: Poussey Washington’s Death in Orange is the New Black

Author(s): Giselle Hengst

Racism is one of the important social problems in the United States that must be addressed. Racism and its consequences are well highlighted in popular culture, including movies and shows, to further emphasize the effect.....