OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to better understand the triggers of suicide, particularly among the ancient Greek and Persian soldiers and commanders. METHOD 'Herodotus:TheHistories' is a history of the rulers and soldiery who participated in the Greco-Persian wars (492-449 BCE). A new translation (2013) of this manuscript was studied. Accounts of suicide were collected and collated, wit...

1. Introduction Since libraries have collection of documents across age and culture, and even language, the libraries are inherently multi-age, multi-cultural, and multilingual. In the digital age, more and more historical documents are being digitized to preserve contents written in deteriorating papers. Library, etc.). It means that more and more old text contents will be accessible on the in...

History written without psychological insight is like a meal without salt and spices: dull, tasteless and flat. Herodotus, the father of all historians, is so readable today because he characterized all his figures, from the most ancient Egyptians and Persians to his contemporary Greeks, by their likes and dislikes, by their loves and hates, their ambitions and frustrations, their motives good ...

as a society, humans have continually sought new and efficient ways to communicate. The earliest methods included cave drawings, smoke signals, and drums. Advancements of civilization introduced written language, telegraph, radio/television, and most recently electronic mail. As more and more communication is conducted electronically, new needs, issues, and opportunities are born. Steganography...

Complex systems such as automotive software systems are usually broken down into subsystems that are specified and developed in isolation and afterwards integrated to provide the functionality of the desired system. This results in a large number of requirements documents for each subsystem written by different people and in different departments. Requirements engineers are challenged by compre...