Burial customs and the pollution of death in ancient Rome: procedures and paradoxes by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…Obvious paradoxes in the Roman attitude towards the dead are discussed, e.g. the contrast between the respect for the recently departed on the one hand, and the condoning of brutal executions and public blood sports on the other. These paradoxes can largely be explained as reflecting the very practical policies of legislators and priests for whom considerations of hygiene were a higher priority than cultural/religious views. …”
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Abandon Policies for Two Types of Multiattempt Missions by Yuejiao Feng

“…When the task is important, the systems can try to execute the task multiple times after the task is abandoned and the rescue is completed, to improve the probability of task completion. …”
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Benford’s Law and transparency: an analysis of municipal expenditure by Ricardo Sartori Cella, Ercilio Zanolla

“…Based on the data analyzed we were able to conclude that: the municipality with greater transparency has greater conformity with Benford’s Law; the municipality with less transparency showed greatest discrepancies between the expected and observed frequencies; the municipality with less transparency showed higher likelihood of irregularities in the execution of expenditures, compared to the municipality with greater transparency. …”
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Scheduling strategy for science workflow with deadline constraint on multi-cloud by Bing LIN, Wenzhong GUO, Guolong CHEN

“…In view of the deadline-constrained scientific workflow scheduling on multi-cloud,an adaptive discrete particle swarm optimization with genetic algorithm (ADPSOGA) was proposed,which aimed to minimize the execution cost of workflow while meeting its deadline constrains.Firstly,the data transfer cost,the shutdown and boot time of virtual machines,and the bandwidth fluctuations among different cloud providers were considered by this method.Secondly,in order to avoid the premature convergence of traditional particle swarm optimization (PSO),the randomly two-point crossover operator and randomly one-point mutation operator of the genetic algorithm (GA) was introduced.It could effectively improve the diversity of the population in the process of evolution.Finally,a cost-driven strategy for the deadline-constrained workflow was designed.It both considered the data transfer cost and the computing cost.Experimental results show that the ADPSOGA has better performance in terms of deadline and cost reducing in the fluctuant environment.…”
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Guidelines for Conducting Action Research Studies in Software Engineering by Miroslaw Staron

“…They provide actionable recommendations on identifying the relevant context, planning and executing interventions (actions), reporting them, and reasoning around the ethics of action research. …”
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LearningSpace: problems and experiences by Regina Kulvietienė, Irma Šileikienė

“…E-business solutions. Executives in higher education are challenged with maintaining and en­hancing academic quality, maintaining or increasing student enrollment, recruiting and training faculty members, raising funds, and maintaining financial performance. …”
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La discusión sobre la formación de lideres intermedios. Fundamentos, aprendizajes y desafíos by Lorena Peñailillo, Sergio Galdames, Simón Rodriguez

“…This article proposes that these training programs should consider executing a team with expertise in the subject and work experience in an educational context, generate a high coordination with decision makers at local levels, a design methodology for developing knowledge influence individual and group level. …”
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THE PLACE OF BRICS IN WORLD POLITICS by E. M. Astakhov

“…The unilateral model of international relations is not capable to execute global governance. The existing financial institutes serve only the interests of few highly developed countries. …”
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A Base on Fuzzy Theory to Supplier Evaluation and Selection Optimization by Chun-Tsai Lin

“…This model can provide a basis for school purchasers or managers in executing supplier selection policies in the future.…”
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The Metaphysics of Justice: Ayelala’s Rise in Benin and Other Parts of Edo State by Benson Ohihon Igboin

“… This article discusses the origin, spread and efficacy of the deity Ayelala, who is responsible for the execution of justice. After an account of the deification of Ayelala, it discusses the recent spread of the deity, originally from the areas inhabited by the Ijaw, Ilaje, and Ikale, to Benin, where her presence has been highly effective in combating public crimes such as theft, robbery and kidnapping. …”
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Resource management in blockchain-enabled heterogeneous edge computing system by Ping ZHANG, Shilin LI, Yiming LIU, Xiaoqi QIN, Xiaodong XU

“…In blockchain-enabled mobile edge computing (BMEC) systems,a new class of blockchain application related computation tasks was introduced to the system.Due to the differences of parallelism among computation tasks,heterogenous computing framework was introduced to suitably split various computation tasks on processors with vastly different processing power to achieve efficient task execution.Under the limited computation and communication resources,a system-wide utility maximization problem by jointly considering heterogeneous processor scheduling,computation and bandwidth resource allocation was formulated as a mixed-integer nonlinear programming problem.To solve the problem efficiently,the formulated problem was transformed into two sub-problems,namely application-driven heterogeneous processor scheduling and joint resource allocation,and a Lagrange-dual based algorithm was proposed.Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can effectively improve the system-wide utility of the BMEC system.…”
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“Gente-grande”: denúncia da pequenez dos adultos by Juracy Assmann Saraiva, Ernani Mügge

“…Thus, the short story written by Domingos Pellegrini executes the forming function of art, since it acts on the reader, drawing his/her attention to human dramas, particularly those of children.…”
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Lisibilité de l’histoire et (in)visibilité des corps violentés dans Sir Thomas More by Nicolas Thibault

“…This article focuses on the history play Sir Thomas More and its representation of three types of violence at the core of Tudor society: war, public execution, and rebellion. The first two are presented as legitimate while the third one is deemed criminal; yet, the play blurs such an orthodox delimitation. …”
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Developing quality indicators for learning with care by Graham Connelly

“…As part of its response to the report, the Scottish Executive commissioned work to develop training and other support materials aimed at improving educational outcomes for looked after children and young people. …”

Cartografia do saneamento básico do Rio Grande do Norte by Lucas Costa Rodrigues, Joselito da Silveira Junior, Izabela Cristiane de Lima Silva, Aldo Dantas

“…This study is part of the "Profile survey and municipal socioeconomic diagnosis" aiming at the improvement and technical specialization of human resources in municipal sanitation plans that originates in a Decentralized Execution Term (TED) between FUNASA and UFRN. This has resulted in a cartography of the main analyzed variables and a graphic modeling that seeks to symbolize important aspects for a representation and discussion of basic sanitation in the state, choosing the fundamental structures.…”
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Le planant planisme de la plaine by Denis Delbaere

“…Yet, far from preventing it from being implemented, such criticism provides the plan with the paradoxical means of its execution : by arguing in favour of their projects against the plan in force, the prime contractors contribute towards making it known and being given physical form. …”
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Research on power efficient autonomous UAV navigation algorithm: an edge intelligence driven approach by Chunmin LIN, Liekang ZENG, Xu CHEN

“…Autonomous drone navigation has received growing attention in the recent community.Compared with traditional navigation approaches which rely on location-based services highly, deep learning based visual methods have showed superior performance in self-adaption and generalization, which are a promising solution for autonomous navigation.Running the resource-hungry deep learning execution in the resource-constrained unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), however, significant challenges were presented in power efficiency.To tackle this challenge, following the idea of edge intelligence, a deep reinforcement learning approach was introduced to dynamically configure the computational scale of the deep learning model on UAV and hence realize the autonomous navigation with low latency and high energy efficiency.Evaluations based on both simulation and real prototype experiments show that the proposed approach has the less energy consumption, longer navigation trail and higher obstacle avoidance rate.…”
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Distributed Voronoi coverage algorithm in wireless sensor networks by XU Peng-fei1, CHEN Zhi-gang1, DENG Xiao-heng1

“…On the hypothesis conditions that wireless sensor networks only covered partial target region and the commu-nication radius was no less than twice of the sensing radius,a coverage-preserved and connected distributed Voronoi cov-erage algorithm was presented.Firstly,a method of detecting coverage redundancy sensors based on the local Voronoi re-gions was proposed,whose computational complexity was unconcerned with the density of sensors.Then,an en-ergy-prior self-scheduling strategy based on local Voronoi neighbors was proposed,where those sensors that were com-munication neighbors but not local Voronoi neighbors could synchronously execute self-scheduling,which improved the astringency of distributed scheduling.The simulation results show that the average number and coverage-degree of active sensors produced by the proposed algorithm are close to the centralized algorithm and smaller than the general distributed algorithm,while the proposed algorithm has more advantages in terms of active sensors’ average energy,scheduling as-tringency and runtime.…”
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The Future Ground of Organizations on the Awareness and Diversity of Knowledge: Innovation by Yalçın Yalçınkaya

“…This will present a functional perspective to the researchers, the executives and the operators.…”
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Sinn Féin’s Tortuous Road to Power by Agnès Maillot

“…Sinn Féin, once an outcast of Northern Ireland political life, now sits in the power-sharing Executive alongside the Democratic Unionist Party. …”
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