Today’s cloud data center infrastructures are not even near being able to cope with the enormous and rapidly varying capacity demands that will be reality in a near future. So far, very little is understood about how to transform today’s data centers (being large, power-hungry facilities, and operated through heroic efforts by numerous administrators) into a self-managed, dynamic, and dependabl...

studying persian heroic epic verses affected by narrative tradition and shahname is one of the areas that can be analyzed from  different perspectives. samname which is considered as the last national epic in persian literature and apparently is written in late 7th century and early 8th century – if we accept to be written by khajooye kermani- is among these works which is similar to shahname f...

Music conveys emotions by means of pitch, rhythm, loudness, and many other musical qualities. It was recently confirmed that timbre also has direct association with emotion, for example, that a horn is perceived as sad and a trumpet heroic in even isolated instrument tones. As previous work has mainly focused on sustaining instruments such as bowed strings and winds, this paper presents an expe...

Share feedback about the accessibility of this item. Description Myths of gods, legends of battles, and folktales of magic abound in the heroic narratives of the Middle Ages. Mythology in the Middle Ages: Heroic Tales of Monsters, Magic, and Might describes how Medieval heroes were developed from a variety of source materials: Early pagan gods become euhemerized through a Christian lens, and an...

Among the tests of a leader, few are more challenging-and more painful-than recovering from a career catastrophe. Most fallen leaders, in fact, don't recover. Still, two decades of consulting experience, scholarly research, and their own personal experiences have convinced the authors that leaders can triumph over tragedy--if they do so deliberately. Great business leaders have much in common w...

A common thread in the circular economy literature is linear–circular contrast. This study shows that has always been a mix of and linear applications but varying proportions. Furthermore, scrutiny emblematic examples both reveals misconceptions enriches extant knowledge frameworks their relationship. also explains which aspects encourage an to lean towards either or (i.e., profit, scarcity, ci...

In this paper, the author attempts to answer question about nature of ideal society presented by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in his utopian novel Beyond Planet Earth. The specificity vision will be discussed analysing its connections with Tsiolkovsky’s hallmark cosmophilosophical monism, as well naturalistic approach scientific research. For purpose, elements analysed particular emphasis on and tech...