Making Fraternity an Essential Link in Christian-Muslim Relations

The article provides a survey of ideas and Incoming Watch initiatives advanced by Christian and Muslim religious leaders and believers towards a mutual religious rapprochement in the past more than fifty years.On the Christian side, the process was started at the Second Vatican Council and developed with the great personal involvement of all popes

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Benchmark Framework for Mobile Robots Navigation Algorithms

Despite the wide variety of studies and research on mobile robot systems, performance metrics are not often examined.This makes difficult to establish an objective comparison of achievements.In this Wood Grinder paper, the navigation of an autonomous mobile robot is evaluated.Several metrics are described.These metrics, collectively, provide an ind

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Casting the Buddha across Southern Asia

The production of copper alloy devotional images of the Buddha probably began in northern India sometime in the late second century CE but certainly by the third century.From there the transmission of copper alloy Buddha sculpture technology traveled across Asia, beginning with the earliest known images from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Hindu Kus

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