Prophecy and Myth in Mexican History

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in e-Negotiations: Myth or Reality?

From Myth to History

Since the 1860s, biologists have repeatedly referred to Lamarck as one of the founding fathers of modern evolutionary doctrines, a claim hotly denied by most of their colleagues. Lamarck’s name has often been evoked to contrast his insistence on acquired individual variations with the mainstream interpretation of the Darwinian doctrine, which stresses the constant presence within a population o...

Prophecy and History: Structuring the Abridgment of the Nephite Records

Utilizing techniques adapted from literary criticism, this paper investigates the narrative structure of the Book of Mormon, particularly the relationship between Nephi’s first-person account and Mormon’s third-person abridgment. A comparison of the order and relative prominence of material from 1 Nephi 12 with the content of Mormon’s historical record reveals that Mormon may have intentionally...

Origins of Glass: Myth and Known History

Where and when glass production began is uncertain. It is thought by some that the first glass was probably developed in the Mitannian or Hurrian region of Mesopotamia, possibly as an extension of the production of glazes (*5000 BCE) [1]. Around this same time, a new material called faience was developed, which was produced by utilizing a variety of techniques to create a glaze layer over a sil...

Prophecy: Using History for High-Throughput Fault Tolerance

Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) replication has enjoyed a series of performance improvements, but remains costly due to its replicated work. We eliminate this cost for read-mostly workloads through Prophecy, a system that interposes itself between clients and any replicated service. At Prophecy’s core is a trusted sketcher component, designed to extend the semi-trusted load balancer that mediate...