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Syriac Christian mysticism: "shafyut lebba" and the inner "Qurbana"
No full textSirų krikščionių dvasiniai rašytojai pabrėžė radikalaus širdies apvalymo būtinybę. Širdies tyrumas reikalingas vadinamajai „tyrajai maldai“, kuri Rytų krikščionybėje yra laikoma svarbiu krikščioniškojo gyvenimo siekiniu. Apibūdinti visišką širdies nuskaidrėjimą sirų autoriai pasitelkė shafyut lebba sąvoką. Kiekvieno žmogaus širdyje turi įvykti slėpiningoji Qurbana – vidinis pasikeitimas. Qurbana – daugiareikšmė sąvoka sirų vartojama Eucharistijos slėpiniui išreikšti. Eucharistijos šventimo metu įvykstanti duonos ir vyno esmėkaita yra analogiško proceso žmogaus širdyje simbolis. Krikščioniškąją maldą sirų mokytojai gretina su Senojo Testamento aukomis: kai Dievui patikdavusios aukos, kaip aukų priėmimo ženklą, jis siųsdavo ugnį jas sudeginti. Aukas Dievas priimdavo dėl žmonių širdies tyrumo, o ne dėl pačių aukų. Taip ir malda: kai ji kyla iš tyros širdies, Dievas priima ją ir siunčia Šventosios Dvasios ugnį, kuri perkeičia tikintįjį ir pripildo jį šventumo dvasios. Nuskaidrėjusi širdis ir iš jos kylanti tyra malda turi epifaninį efektą – apreiškia Dievo čia buvimą. Tačiau visavertis asmeninis Dievo apsireiškimas įmanomas tik jei tikintysis pasiekia visiškai „tyrą maldą“. Reikšminiai žodžiai: Sirija; Mistika; Krikščionybė; Qurbana; Efremas Siras; Syria; Mysticism; Christianity; Qurbana; Ephrem the SyrianSpiritual writers of Christian Syria emphasised the necessity of a radical purification of the heart. Purity of the heart is necessary for the so-termed "pure prayer" which Eastern Christianity considers an important aspiration for a Christian life. Syriac authors used the shafyut lebba concept to describe the complete clarification of the heart. The mysterious Qurbana – an internal transformation – must occur in the heart of every person. Qurbana – this is a concept used by Syriac writers with multiple meanings to express the mystery of the Eucharist. The transubstantiation of bread and wine at the time of the Eucharistic celebration is the symbol of the analogical process in a person’s heart. Syriac teachers compare the Christian prayer with the sacrifices of the Old Testament: when the sacrifices pleased God, God would send fire from heaven to burn them up as a sign of acceptance. God would accept sacrifices due to the purity of a person’s heart not because of the sacrifice itself. It is the same with prayer: when it comes from a pure heart, God accepts it and sends the fire of the Holy Spirit, which transforms the believer and fills him/her with the spirit of holiness. The clarified heart and the pure prayer rising from it have an epiphanic effect – the presence of God is manifested. Nevertheless, a full-fledged, personal manifestation of God is only possible if the believer has achieved an absolutely "pure prayer"
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Interleukin 7 production by bone marrow-derived stromal cells in HIV-1-infected patients during highly active antiretroviral therapy.
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