Computer systems are increasingly employed in circumstances where their failure (or even their correct operation, if they are built to flawed requirements) can have serious consequences. There is a surprising diversity of opinion concerning the properties that such “critical systems” should possess, and the best methods to develop them. The dependability approach grew out of the tradition of ul...

This paper contributes to the literature on optimal delegation, dating back to Holmstrom’s (1984) seminal work. In contrast to models in the Holmstrom tradition, we assume that the set of states is finite. We provide a full characterization of the class of optimal delegation sets under this assumption, and show that they have a different structure from that in the continuous-state model. As the...

Cyprus has a long and rich history of dance tradition which unfortunately, year after year, tends to be forgotten; thus, it is our duty to help documenting and disseminating our dance heritage to the younger generations. In this work, we aim to preserve the Cypriot folk dance heritage, creating a state-of-the-art publicly accessible digital archive of folk dances. Our dance library, apart from ...

The aim of this paper is twofold: (i) give a large-scale description in realized word-final schwas of French lexical words for different regions (North vs. South) and different speaking styles (read vs. spontaneous speech); (ii) highlight differences in prosodic features and test these differences via automatic classification techniques. The proposed study relies on a subset of 12.5 hours of th...

The current study intends to recognize the various sorts of interference in French Ivory Coast, a West African nation. article mainly concentrates on propound examination and investigation linguistic procedure that demonstrates itself survey impression Ivorian native tongues complicated range elements factors. This focuses impacts grammatical, phonetic, lexical interference, occurring levels ba...

Le Monde, or rather its current management team of publisher and editor JeanMarie Colombani, managing editor Edwy Plenel, and director-of-the-board Alain Minc, has been the critical target over the past year of several best-selling books, accompanied by scores of articles in the rest of the French press. This avalanche of unwelcome attention for the newspaper was launched with the 630-page, exh...

background : the study of reproductive behaviors is one of the important factors of population. it plays a pivotal role in the growth of population.  reproductive behaviors are influenced by the cultural values and traditional beliefs of individuals. the aim of the present study is to compare reproductive behaviors of nomadic and non-nomadic tribes in the semirom province, and determine factors...

The paper explores, identifies and analyzes the concrete sociological indicators of original Calvinism as the specifically French Protestant Reformation, as well-established in the historical literature yet overlooked or downplayed in much of the sociology of (Calvinist) religion and ideology. The paper classifies them into five specific sociological indicators or proofs of originally French Ca...