This paper focuses on the mythological image, the Queen Mother of the West in Classic of Mountains and Seas, to explore the hiding history and mental reality behind the fantastic literary images, to unveil the origin of jade worship, which plays an significant role in the 8000-year-old history of Eastern Asian jade culture, to elucidate the genetic mechanism of the jade worship budded in the Sh...

7 1.1 THE CRETE OF EURIPIDES: An Overview 10 1.2 The Research Questions 11 1.3 Methodology 11 1.4 Commentaries and Translations 13 1.5 Euripides and the dramatic treatment of Crete as an island 14 1.6 The cycle of Cretan myths 15 1.7 Treatment of mythological characters and themes 23 1.8 Crete’s ‘Darker Aspects’ 27 1.9 Formulations of identity 28 1.10 Insularity 31 1.11 Interconnectivity 35 1.1...

Abstract The study explores the historical context in which some female figures gained a legendary aura. As well, we focused on processes by they entered gallery of Romanian personalities. We also researched whether selection was dependent gender stereotypes period. follows theoretical framework history studies. applied it to case Transylvania second half nineteenth century. approach starts fro...

The success of applying model-checking to large systems depends crucially on the choice of good abstractions. In this work we present an approach for constructing abstractions when checking Nextfree universal CTL properties. It is known that functional abstractions are safe and that Next-free universal CTL is insensitive to finite stuttering. We exploit these results by introducing a safe Next-...

This article offers a dynamic model of opaque over-the-counter markets. A seller searches for an attractive price by visiting multiple buyers, one at a time. The buyers do not observe contacts, quotes, or trades elsewhere in the market. A repeat contact with a buyer reveals the seller’s reduced outside options and worsens the price offered by the revisited buyer. When the asset value is uncerta...