Explain the contribution of King Asoka to Buddhism King Asoka‚ the first Buddhist Emperor of the Mauryan Empire‚ can be seen as a crucial figure to the contribution to the development and expression of Buddhism. Asoka contributed to the development of Buddhism through his expansion of his Buddhist state to neighbouring empires. Asoka‚ through missionary‚ expanded Buddhism to modern day Sri Lanka and Nepal. This expansion was made possible by Asoka’s decision that only five monks were needed to
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No More Pesky Learning Rates Tom Schaul Sixin Zhang Yann LeCun Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University 715 Broadway‚ New York‚ NY 10003‚ USA schaul@cims.nyu.edu zsx@cims.nyu.edu yann@cims.nyu.edu arXiv:1206.1106v2 [stat.ML] 18 Feb 2013 Abstract The performance of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) depends critically on how learning rates are tuned and decreased over time. We propose a method to automatically adjust multiple learning rates so as to minimize the expected
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head: ATTENTION AND AGING Attention and Aging: A Review of Sensory Gating in Normal Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease Author Not Identified University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Abstract Many studies suggest that the role of attention changes with increasing age. These changes have to do with the ability to focus on relevant information and disregard irrelevant information. This phenomenon is known as sensory gating of information. Although normal cognitive aging reflects some decline
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Major Contributions of Karen Horney Karen Horney was a German psychologist who made major contributions in psychology. Some of these contributions include things like in feminine psychology‚ theory of self‚ and self-psychology. On psychology.about.com it is stated “Her refutation of Freud ’s theories about women generated more interest in the psychology of women.” (Cherry‚ 2013) Although Karen Horney did follow a great deal of Sigmund Freud ’s theory‚ she did not have the same opinion with his
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Great Indian and their contribution to the World The contributions to the world by india is remarkable and is unending from science to astrology to medical science and yoga‚ everywhere and still calm and compost. Following are some of the great indians with their extreme inventions and their contribution to the world. ARYABHATT (476 CE) MASTER ASTRONOMER AND MATHEMATICIAN [pic] Born in 476 CE in Kusumpur (Bihar)‚ Aryabhatt’s intellectual brilliance remapped the boundaries of mathematics
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leading French Protestant Reformer and the most important figure in the second generation of the Protestant Reformation.2 He was a contributing catholic. We see why and how he was suck a good religious man by his backround‚ biography‚ and contributions to Christianity. He created a thing called "Calvinism"3 which helped form Christianity. His life was certainly a remarkable one. John Calvin’s life started on July Tenth‚ 1509 in Noyon‚ in picardy‚ France.4 He was born of two middle
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computer 10 4 Twenty steps to learning five times better‚ faster and easier 15 5 How to think for great ideas Ð A new programme to teach yourself how to think creatively 19 6 A Sensible guide to producing better‚ brighter babies 22 7 The vital years: How to enrich the child’s intelligence from birth to ten 24 8 The secret heart of learning Ð How to ensure success in the business of learning 26 9 True learning the fun-fast way Ð Guidelines for teachers
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CHAPTER 12 PRICING DECISIONS AND COST MANAGEMENT 12-1 The three major influences on pricing decisions are 1. Customers 2. Competitors 3. Costs 12-2 Not necessarily. For a one-time-only special order‚ the relevant costs are only those costs that will change as a result of accepting the order. In this case‚ full product costs will rarely be relevant. It is more likely that full product costs will be relevant costs for long-run pricing decisions. 12-3 Two examples of pricing decisions with
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experiences and skills to solve complex problems‚ creating new solutions and ideas that‚ and be beyond the scope of any one individual. As well as enhancing class performance. Good group work benefits individual too. It enables mutual support and learning‚ can generate a sense of belonging and commitment. I also learnt the following benefits on working in groups: • Apply a mix of skills that go beyond the scope of one individual. • Solve complex problems that take more than one mud. • Generates
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Theory of Learning Makhya Curtis 11/28/13 INFT101/ Scholarly Writing The developing brain has been a ground breaking field of study in the past decade. Advances in physiological research give insight into how the brain learns throughout the different developmental stages. Educators previously measured intellectual ability through a single factor called the “G” factor. In 1983 Howard Gardner proposed a theory of learning that involved multiple ways of learning called
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