Juvenile Cosmology; Or Richard Powers’ Post-Global Doughnut by Judith Roof

“…Moving from the Aristotelean to the Einsteinian, Operation Wandering Soul’s terrain is cosmological, while its narrative collapses time/space into an exhibition of something like Richard Feynman’s “sum over the histories” made up of proliferating versions of juvenile massings and vain pilgrimages. The novel’s collapse of time/space is not a simplistic paean to the global (a category already as out-dated as hapless Vietnam vets), but instead bags the gathering consciousness of an originless existence forever extending beyond its supposed coordinates. …”
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Machine Learning-Integrated Usability Evaluation and Monitoring of Human Activities for Individuals With Special Needs During Hajj and Umrah by Ghadah Naif Alwakid

“…To address these issues, this study introduces a new approach to improve usability and tracking for disabled pilgrims performing the two holy pilgrimages: Hajj and Umrah, which are performed annually by millions of Muslims. …”
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