A Modern Roman State

Roman-Dutch law in modern South African succession law

The Roman state and genetic pacification.

Over the last 10,000 years, the human genome has changed at an accelerating rate. The change seems to reflect adaptations to new social environments, including the rise of the State and its monopoly on violence. State societies punish young men who act violently on their own initiative. In contrast, non-State societies usually reward such behavior with success, including reproductive success. T...

Urdu - Roman Transliteration via Finite State Transducers

This paper introduces a two-way Urdu– Roman transliterator based solely on a nonprobabilistic finite state transducer that solves the encountered scriptural issues via a particular architectural design in combination with a set of restrictions. In order to deal with the enormous amount of overgenerations caused by inherent properties of the Urdu script, the transliterator depends on a set of ph...

A Comparison of Ancient Greek and Roman Sports Diets with Modern Day Practices

With the preparations for the Olympics 2016 in Rio came a series of demands to the sports world in terms of attaining optimal physical performance for the many disciplines represented at today’s Olympics. In the light of this, we have focused on the dietary and physiological requirements of a modern Olympic athlete and contrast these with those of ancient Greek and Roman athletes. Our particula...

A Comparison of Ancient Greek and Roman Sports Diets with Modern

With the preparations for the Olympics 2016 in Rio came a series of demands to the sports world in terms of attaining optimal physical performance for the many disciplines represented at today’s Olympics. In the light of this, we have focused on the dietary and physiological requirements of a modern Olympic athlete and contrast these with those of ancient Greek and Roman athletes. Our particula...