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The incidence of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is increasing in the United States (US) population USRDS, and the prevalence of chronic kidney disease also appears to be increasing, in parallel with increased surveillance, routine reporting of estimated …

This talk summarizes our recent attempts to integrate action and perception within a single optimization framework. We start with a statistical formulation of Helmholtz's ideas about neural energy to furnish a model of perceptual inference and learning …

We present a variational treatment of dynamic models that furnishes the time-dependent conditional densities of a system's states and the time-independent densities of its parameters. These obtain by maximising the variational free energy of the system …

Value-learning and perceptual learning have been an important focus over the past decade, attracting the concerted attention of experimental psychologists, neurobiologists and the machine learning community. Despite some formal connections; e.g. , the …

The destinies of the Indian and Iranian communities followed distinct readings: for the Parsis, the 19th century was a time of emancipation and wealth. For the Mazdeans of Iran, the 19th century was a time of repression and loss. So the Parsis set about …

There are few texts that, like Quixote , have aroused such an intense and frequent impulse among visual artists towards the desire or necessity of illustration. In the West, perhaps only the Bible and the Divine Comedy could compare with Quixote in the …

The Arab conquests of the Sassanid empire had, in one fell swoop, robbed the Mazdeans of Iran of all profane power. The success of these conquests is seen in Muslim tradition (and historiography) as proof of the superiority of Islam. For the Mazdeans, …

For Aby Warburg, a Pathosformel is a set of representative and meaningful forms, historically determined at the moment of their first synthesis, which reinforces the understanding of the meaning of what is represented by mobilizing the affective field …

The massacre is an event in human history whose narrative presented Greek and Roman historians with enormous difficulties, both in its narrative construction and in its rational explanation. This lecture will show, firstly, how historiography and art …

Mazdeism begins in a society without kings and survives in a society without (Mazdean) kings. Between the two lies the long period of imperial Mazdeism, which begins with Darius and ends with the last Sassanid king, Yazdegerd III. Between the VIᵉ century …