Between the ninth and seventh centuries BCE, Neo-Assyrian Empire became largest world had yet seen. In process of imperial conquest, Assyrian state incorporated previously foreign territories people into their world. Landscapes, materials, labor conquered bodies a part royal palaces northern Iraq, both as elements construction themes emphasized within extensive visual programs palace reliefs. W...

geographical situation of gilan province, its weather and suitable conditions for agriculture, plus its neighboring with russia, have prepared the way for cultural, political and economical relations and interchanges between iran and russia. being called “the gate of europe”, the province also receives many tourists from many countries, especially russia. many of these tourists have recorded de...

We investigate computable subshifts and the connection with effective symbolic dynamics. It is shown that a decidable Π1 class P is a subshift if and only if there is a computable function F mapping 2N to 2N such that P is the set of itineraries of elements of 2N. Π1 subshifts are constructed in 2N and in 2Z which have no computable elements. We also consider the symbolic dynamics of maps on th...

Noting the poorly known historical geography of Elamite coastal region Persian Gulf during first half millennium BCE, author proceeds to contribute new knowledge on topic by investigating toponym(s) Nagitu, an settlement that appears quite frequently in Neo-Assyrian sources with various postpositions: Nagitu-raqqi “island-in-the-marshes”, Nagitu-di’bina “coastal town-of-rocks”, or Nagitu-of-Ela...

We consider a new approach to stochastic inventory/routing that approximates the future costs of current actions using optimal dual prices of a linear program. We obtain two such linear programs by formulating the control problem as a Markov decision process and then replacing the optimal value function with the sum of single-customer inventory value functions. The resulting approximation yield...

In this paper, we develop a revenue management model for airline alliances. In particular, our model allows the members of the alliance to decide how to share the revenues from itineraries spanning flight legs operated by multiple airlines and how to coordinate their capacity allocation decisions. We start with a deterministic linear programming approximation to the revenue management problem t...