Fifteen allele frequencies have previously been determined for 50 villages of the Yanomama, an Amerindian tribe from southern Venezuela and northern Brazil. These frequencies were subjected to spatial autocorrelation analysis to investigate their population structure. There are significant spatial patterns for most allele frequencies. Clinical patterns, investigated by one-dimensional and direc...

Based on historical data landslide events, Damer District is an area prone to landslides in Southwest Maluku Regency. One of the first steps mitigating map areas that have potential for landslides. The purpose this study was determine spatial distribution landslide-prone District, This uses SMORPH method identify and classify based matrix between shape slope angle slope. resulted 4 levels areas...

This article aims to analyse the challenges of legal functionality as an instrument for transforming indigenous villages from ‘traditional’ ‘modern.’ is a post-new-order historical impetus coincidence and nationalism sign resurgence peoples. In context function social change, Village Law creates large gap between traditional modern villages. paper based on research with paradigm law in can be c...

The article deals with the sacred groves of the Balts in Lithuania and presents the linguistic background, the historical documents from the 12th– 18th century, the key folklore motifs of the topic, as well as selected examples of groves. The article also discusses possible relationships between pre-Christian religious traditions connected with the sacred groves and the ones which have survived...

The Master of Liberal Arts provides the chance to practice the methods of interdisciplinary inquiry that are the hallmark of a rigorous liberal arts education. As a student in the program, one can explore questions of identity through art, literature, and religion; analyze the politics of race in fiction, historical documents, the visual arts, and music; debate ethical choices presented by fict...

Document binarization is an active research area for many years. The choice of the most appropriate binarization algorithm for each case proved to be a very difficult procedure itself. In this paper, we propose a new technique for the validation of document binarization algorithms. Our method is simple in its implementation and can be performed on any binarization algorithm since it doesn’t req...

An enduring problem in electoral systems is that of "disproportionality," i.e., the mismatch between a party's percentage of the popular vote and its percentage of legislative seats. Such disproportionality is quite common and extreme cases are easy to find in the real word. To give just one example, the Liberal Party in Britain polled 13.8% of the national vote in 1979 but was rewarded with on...

A thousand villages disappeared in Czechia during the course of historic development. There are two basic causes disappearance villages: artificial human intervention (planned changes or hostile liquidation) and gradual depopulation due to remoteness poor conditions for development, possibly combination with natural disasters. The greatest number extinct is related period after World War II, wh...