Historical documents are mostly accessible to scholars specialized in the period in which the document originated. In order to increase their accessibility to a broader audience and help in the preservation of the cultural heritage, we propose a method to modernized these documents. This method is based in statistical machine translation, and aims at translating historical documents into a mode...

After a short review of the arguments for the existence of Particle Dark Matter in the Universe, I list the most plausible candidates provided by particle physics, i.e. neutrinos, axions, and WIMPs. In each case I briefly describe how to estimate the relic density, and discuss attempts at detecting these particles. At the end I discuss my personal favorite, the lightest supersymmetric particle,...

In July 2014, Sweden’s full crisis response system engaged in a major operation as a small forest fire spun out of control, turning into the largest forest fire in Sweden in modern times. A number of investigations have been undertaken to understand the course of the fire and identify lessons for future crisis management. This paper presents one approach to identifying such lessons, the lessons...

Dark matter is presumably made of some new, exotic particle that appears in extensions of the Standard Model. After giving a brief overview of some popular candidates, I discuss in more detail the most appealing case of the supersymmetric neutralino.

The belief in occult forces is still deeply rooted in many African societies, regardless of education, religion, and social class of the people concerned. According to many Africans its incidence is even increasing due to social stress and strain caused (among others) by the process of modernization. Most often magic and witchcraft accusations work to the disadvantage of the poor and deprived, ...

A relatively new way of framing network industries developments is by use of literature on the coherence of institutions and technology. We use the conceptual framework of coherence literature to explore the possible links between modernization and coherence and focus on the historical developments of the Dutch electricity sector. We discuss a number of these historical examples to illustrate t...

The Korean spirit, patriotic spirit is a core element in the revolutionary heroism are great courage, of optimism extraordinary tolerance Korean, loyalty national character, internationalism broad mind Korean.In war, people Sichuan bravely went to front demonstrate patriotism with their character and character.Born death, forging blood;To show quality;Increase production donate reflect strength...

How many millions of lines of code written for business applications more than 20 years ago are still being sustained for a variety of political and financial reasons—and at what risk and cost? Many of those legacy applications have been maintained with various forms of IT life support—emulators, code wrappers, virtualization—far too long, and should have been allowed to die a natural death yea...

This study aims to give a detailed account of how household sources livelihood, income, and poverty change under the pressure four modernizing forces: (1) population on closed land frontier; (2) implementation reform; (3) expansion public infrastructures such as irrigation systems, roads, schools; (4) growing urban influences accelerated by improvements in transportation telecommunication syste...