The Possibility of an Afterlife as Examined Through Near-Death Experiences

Approximately five percent of the world’s population has dealt with a near-death experience, which is the unusual phenomenon after temporarily dying or coming close to death, where people feel like they have left their body and see an afterlife. Millions of accounts from people around the world who have experienced this occurrence tell of seeing an afterlife, which should allow for the possibility of a life after death. Although peoples’ experiences in another realm differ, they all have similar features such as travelling in a fast tunnel and encountering loving light beings. These experiences are so intense that they form a huge impact on their experiencer, thus people often change their actions and way of thinking after such an encounter with this other realm. Because many people alter their lives to such an extent following this experience, society should become more open and aware of the possibility that there could be a life after death. Although scientists have attempted to explain this phenomenon, there are still many unanswered questions

Three-Loop Leading Singularities and BDS Ansatz for Five Particles

We use the leading singularity technique to determine the planar three-loop five-particle amplitude in N=4 super Yang-Mills in terms of a simple basis of integrals. We analytically compute the integral coefficients for both the parity-even and the parity-odd parts of the amplitude. The parity-even part involves only dual conformally invariant integrals. Using the method of obstructions we numerically evaluate two previously unfixed coefficients which appear in the three-loop BDS ansatz.Comment: 20 pages, 2 figures, v2: very minor change

Analisis Terjemahan Kalimat Dalam Surat Sponsor Compass International Foundation (Kajian Teknik, Metode dan Ideologi Penerjemahan Serta Dampaknya Terhadap Kualitas Terjemahan)

Anastasia Inda Nugraheni. 2016. Translation Analysis of Sentences in Sponsor Letters of Compass International Foundation (A Study of Translation Techniques, Methods, and Ideologies and The Impacts on Translation Qualities). Thesis. Supervisor I: Prof. Drs. M.R. Nababan, M.Ed, M.A, Ph.D. Supervisor II: Prof. Dr. Djatmika, M.A. Surakarta. Linguistics Department of Post Graduate Program. Sebelas Maret University. The aims of the study are to identify types of sentences in the CIF sponsor letters and the text function or translation purpose in target text; to describe the translation techniques, methods, and ideology in achieving the translation purpose; to identify the purpose. impact of the translation techniques, methods, and ideology applied to the translation quality in terms of the accuracy of the accuracy, acceptability and readability; and to assess the translation techniques, methods and ideology selected in achieving the translation This study is a descriptive, qualitative research and focused on a single case. Sources of the data were 10 pairs CIF sponsor letters and the informants who gave information about accuracy, acceptability and readability of translation. Techniques of collecting data were document analysis, questionnaires and FGD. Purposive sampling was applied in this research. The model of analysis as proposed by Spradley. Findings of this research show the followings. The types of sentenses are declaratives,interrogatives, imperatives and exclamatives. The result shows 15 functions of illocutionary act. There are 14 kinds of translation techniques to overcome the translation problems, 13,67% tends to the source text and 86,33% tents to the target text. The translation methods tends to communicative translation method and free translation method with domestication ideology. The impact of the the application of those translation techniques, methods and ideology toward the quality of translation is satisfactory with the average score of 2,84. This value indicates the accuracy, acceptance and readability of this translation is satisfactory. Related with the purpose of translation, the translation in this research successed in achieving text function or translation purpose. Keywords: Letters, Translation technique, Translation method, Translation ideology, Translation qualit

Elementary approach to closed billiard trajectories in asymmetric normed spaces

We apply the technique of K\'aroly Bezdek and Daniel Bezdek to study billiard trajectories in convex bodies, when the length is measured with a (possibly asymmetric) norm. We prove a lower bound for the length of the shortest closed billiard trajectory, related to the non-symmetric Mahler problem. With this technique we are able to give short and elementary proofs to some known results.Comment: 10 figures added. The title change