<jats:p>Jews joined the Soviet partisan movement spontaneously, after escaping from various ghettos in Lithuania and Belarus. Most of them had no military background, but they were eager to take part in fighting and revenge. They had to adjust to harsh living conditions...

<jats:title>A<jats:sc>bstract</jats:sc></jats:title><jats:p>Deep learning has recently allowed substantial progress in language tasks such as translation and completion. Do such models process language similarly to humans, and is this similarity driven by systematic str...

<jats:p>This article will present Franz Rosenzweig's attitude toward the religions and cultures of East Asia, and his philosophical response to the trend of German Orientalism, and especially to Martin Buber’s Ecstatic Confessions . Rosenzweig's references to India and ...

Is the mathematical function being computed by a given physical system determined by the system’s dynamics? This question is at the heart of the indeterminacy of computation phenomenon (Fresco et al. [unpublished]). A paradigmatic example is a conventional electrical AN...

This paper introduces the Special Issue on Cascading Effects in Disaster Risk Management. It reviews the contributions and highlights their multi-disciplinary interpretations of cascades. It proceeds to discuss whether the on-going unfolding of the COVID-19 pandemic ill...

Abstract This study explores the effects of the copying error process on material culture. The goal is to assess whether the morphometric variability of standardized vessels, generated by copying errors, can reveal both collective and individual signatures. In this pers...

This chapter introduces recurrent connections to a simple feedforward neural network. The idea of unfolding is presented in detail, and also the three basic settings of learning (sequence to label, sequence to sequence of labels and sequences with no labels) are introdu...

<jats:p>What was it like to be a French Consul in newly opened up China of the 1850s? What sort of people served in that risky yet challenging job in an exotic, yet remote and isolated place like mid-nineteenth-century China? How did they discharge their duties both <ja...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Populations of rock hyraxes (<jats:italic>Procavia capensis</jats:italic>) increasingly occur in urbanizing areas of the Palestinian West Bank, and throughout the Middle East, in part due to construction methods that create rock ...