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2012, arXiv (Cornell University)
International Journal of Computer Science and Mobile Computing (IJCSMC), 2024
Chaotic logistic map is a good model which can be used to generate various secret keys used in data cryptography. In this paper research a detailed analysis of CLM will be introduced. The behavior of CLM will be studied to show how to select the best values of the CLM parameters (growth rate, initial population and the length of the population). Various ranges of the population growth and the initial population will be tested. It will be shown how to use the generated populations to form various secret keys. The sensitivity of CLM will be studied, and it will be shown that any minor changes in the CLM parameters will lead to change the generated population. The population generation time will be tested using various in length generated population, and some recommendation will be provided when dealing with data with big size. It will be shown that using CLM will provide a good security level when using the CLM parameters as a private key.
Календари и праздники Древнего Египта. М.: Москва, 2022
The book is devoted to the calendar system and festivals of Ancient Egypt, celebrated throughout its history. The author reconstructs the religious and symbolic programs of several festivals held in Egyptian temples and private tombs, analyzing various works of fine art and literature: reliefs and paintings of temples, royal and private tombs, calendar lists, chronicles, biographical texts, Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts, “books” of the Afterlife. For specialists and everyone interested in the culture of the Ancient Orient. https://books-moscow.ru/book_amironova.html https://www.ozon.ru/product/kalendari-i-prazdniki-drevnego-egipta-522424843/?sh=R0UDvjqWUA https://www.chitai-gorod.ru/catalog/book/2902111/ https://bmm.ru/books/46/181492/?ysclid=l0yc351xub https://www.wildberries.ru/catalog/69161091/detail.aspx https://www.bgshop.ru/catalog/getfulldescription?id=10837759 https://www.ukazka.ru/catalog/book-kalendari-i-prazdniki-drevnego-egipta-765554.html
Biochar - An Imperative Amendment for Soil and the Environment, 2019
Journal of Lithic Studies, 2024
Arrow points are an abundant lithic resource, but exactly how abundant? Recent systematic surveys of the Mayan Lowlands and central Ohio permit a new cross-cultural comparison of arrow use, and factors that may lead to their differing accumulations in the archaeological record. Somewhat surprisingly, Mayan arrow use, at least in terms of recorded frequencies in the archaeological record, is less than that of Central Ohio Late Prehistoric populations. Central Ohio has a much smaller population density than the Yucatan peninsula, so the dearth of arrow points in the latter context is unexpected. There are many factors that may explain the paucity of arrow points in Mayan contexts, when compared to the relatively dense arrow assemblages in Ohio sites. These many factors warrant further research and analysis in both Ohio and Mayan lithic arrow studies. This research presents the results of a preliminary comparative analysis. Several factors likely explain the difference between Ohio and maya arrow frequencies. Given that most arrows in Ohio are found as isolated finds, the most likely explanation is a difference in survey coverage between Ohio and the Mayan Lowlands. The other contributing factors include the relatively short use-life of Ohio arrow points, and the lack of weapon diversity in Ohio. Both factors result in higher usage of arrows, and a higher rate of deposit when compared to the Mayan Lowlands. With the increase in digital archives and records, large-scale comparative studies such as this have the potential to change our collective understanding of warfare, conflict, and tool use by past peoples.
Mortality, 2023
This article reflects on the concept of necropolitics and its useful-ness for understanding the state response to COVID-19, and its unequal political and economic consequences. Focusing on the British state, the paper seeks to explore and explain the dominant forms of government intervention and regulation that sought to ameliorate the crisis and shows how this response was shaped by a set of racialised capitalist social relations. The article argues that whilst the concept allows us to grasp the racialised vulnerability to death contained within the COVID-19 response, this needs to be understood within the wider context of the extraction of value in three key instances: firstly, in terms of creating a regime that would protect corporate autonomy; secondly, in terms of a racialised divi-sion of labour within states and finally in the context of a global imperialism which marginalises and racialises those states outside of the imperial core. It uses those three instances to explore how racist necropolitics is always underpinned processes of value-in- motion that maintain corporate profitability.
Diário As Beiras, 2023
Artigo de opinião publicado no Diário As Beiras de 13/5/2023
Imprint: Sidestone Press | Format: 210x280mm | 392 pp. , 2021
La publication des actes du colloque « Mégalithismes et monumentalismes funéraires : passé, présent, futur » reprend les trois grands thèmes de ces rencontres internationales en offrant une large place aux études récentes du mégalithisme en Europe ainsi qu’à l’ethnoarchéologie et aux questions de valorisation et de conservation de ce patrimoine fragile. Les contributions d’experts internationaux montrent tout l’intérêt de voir au-delà du monument afin de comprendre son insertion dans le paysage et sa relation avec les autres structures archéologiques. Sur cette question, les outils sont aujourd’hui aussi nombreux que variés : études paléoenvironnementales, prospections multi-méthodes (LiDAR, géophysique), analyses spatiales (SIG) ou encore fouilles extensives. Les questions d’organisation du territoire, à travers les interactions entre mégalithes et enceintes par exemple, sont au cœur des recherches actuelles. Innover dans la façon d’étudier un cairn ou une chambre funéraire est un autre axe de réflexion développé dans cet ouvrage. De nouvelles méthodes d’analyse, en France et en Espagne, offrent aujourd’hui une restitution fiable de la chaîne opératoire dédiée à la construction mégalithique. Les études des architectures en pierre sèche et des parois mégalithiques, s’appuyant sur des modèles 3D haute résolution, participent au renouveau de nos connaissances sur l’organisation du chantier et des conditions d’utilisation du monument. L’apport de l’observation ethnographique à l’interprétation des faits archéologiques est abordé au travers des exemples asiatiques et africains pour échafauder des scénarios interprétatifs sur les sociétés anciennes européennes. Des éléments de réflexion sont proposés au sujet du fonctionnement des carrières, du déplacement de monuments ou encore de l’organisation du territoire et notamment des liens forts avec l’habitat. Enfin, les dernières contributions sont dédiées à la valorisation des monuments en France. Des exemples de travaux d’inventaire, de restauration et de restitution au grand public mettent en lumière les avancées dans ce domaine. Travaux du Projet Collectif de Recherche « Milieu et peuplement en Languedoc occidental du Néolithique à l’âge du Bronze », sous la direction de Muriel Gandelin, et de l’ANR « Monumentalités, espaces et compétitions sociales en Europe Atlantique », sous la direction de Vincent Ard et Vivien Mathé English abstract This book focusses on the past, present and future of recent studies of megalithism in Europe, including enthoarchaeology and the conservation of these monuments. The book contains contributions from international experts that focus on the monuments and their surroundings to better understand their place within the wider landscape. New innovative methods and techniques are explored (most notably 3D) that allow architectural analyses that were previously not possible and which greatly increase our knowledge base. Ethnographic research contributes to the interpretation of archaeology as is illustrated through Asian and African examples. These data substantially contribute as a source of interpretative scenarios for European megalithism. The final chapters in this book are dedicated to the promotion of these monuments in France through projects focussing on the finds they contained, their restoration and making them available to the general public.
Texts and Contexts: Biblical Texts in their Textual and Situational Contexts, 1995
Southern African Public Law
Acta Universitatis Bohemiae Meridionalis, Vol 27, No 1 (2024), DOI 10.32725/acta.2024.002, ISSN 2336-4297 (online), 2024
Comparative Population Studies, 2021
Polymer Engineering & Science, 2002
Revista ECIPeru, 2018
Frontiers in Microbiology
Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2006