Were the ancients Greeks “racists” in the modern sense of the term “racist”? The terms ancient Greek “proto-racism”, tribalism (and/or racism) are used here to denote the abstract, narcissistic notion that not only the non-Greek barbarians, but also certain ancient Greek tribes (like the Macedonians, the Boeoteans etc.) should be excluded from the Hellenic community, for they were considered to...

the foremost constant and incessant social development in history of persian gulf is “immigration and population displacement” at both sides of this region. this phenomenon is so important that no one may comprehend properly the events and incidents occurred in this region particularly at pre- petroleum exploration regardless of investigation and considering this issue in mind. if we divide per...

Genetic material sequenced from ancient samples is revolutionizing our understanding of the recent evolutionary past. However, ancient DNA is often degraded, resulting in low coverage, error-prone sequencing. Several solutions exist to this problem, ranging from simple approach, such as selecting a read at random for each site, to more complicated approaches involving genotype likelihoods. In t...

“Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.” This ancient proverb epitomises the concept on which multimedia education is founded i.e. learning is enhanced by stimulating multiple senses simultaneously. Research has revealed that humans have widely varying learning styles which are not catered for by conventional instruction [1]. As well as providing an effective...

The idea of buildings in harmony with nature can be traced back to ancient times. The increasing concerns on sustainability oriented buildings have added new challenges in building architectureral design and called for new design responses. Sustainable design integrates and balances the human geometries and the natural ones. As the language of nature, it is, therefore, natural to assume that fr...

This paper presents a general architecture for ancient handwriting documents content description and retrieval. It is based on the Curvelets decomposition of images for indexing linear singularities of handwritten shapes. As it belongs to the Wavelets family, its representation is used at several scales of details. The proposed scheme for handwritten shape characterization targets to detect ori...

In this paper, we propose a new approach of similarity retrieval in ancient handwritten documents. Similarities are retrieved on shape fragments which can be analysed according to different granularities (from the grapheme to the character size) depending on the handwriting quality, regularity and sharpness. The approach is based on a “segmentation free” methodology which considers the image wi...

We present a number of experiments on parsing the Ancient Greek Dependency Treebank (AGDT), i.e. the largest syntactically annotated corpus of Ancient Greek currently available (350k words ca). Although the AGDT is rather unbalanced and far from being representative of all genres and periods of Ancient Greek, no attempt has been made so far to perform automatic dependency parsing of Ancient Gre...

Many types of embryos' bodyplans exhibit consistently oriented laterality of the heart, viscera, and brain. Errors of left-right patterning present an important class of human birth defects, and considerable controversy exists about the nature and evolutionary conservation of the molecular mechanisms that allow embryos to reliably orient the left-right axis. Here we show that the same mutations...

These notes provides some details on the lectures 2,3,4 on the Ricci flow with surgery. They are not complete and probably contains some inaccuracies. Interested readers can find most exhaustives explanations on the Perelman's papers in [KL]. The aim of these lecture is to give the classification and the description of 3-dimensional κ-solutions. Let κ > 0 and (M n , g(t)) a solution of the Ricc...