Persia was the early name for the territory that is currently recognized as Iran. Iran’s proud history starts with the Achaemenid Empire, which began in the 6th century BCE (c. 550). The Iranians provided numerous innovative ideas in breakthroughs an...
The illustration of the “knowledge engine” included in early editions of Gulliver’s Travels is an engraving of a sketch from the notebook of Lemuel Gulliver. In other words, it is a purely fictional object. Yet, Swift's fictional invention and its gr...
Computational methods have become increasingly prominent within the historical sciences, generating significant enthusiasm among some scholars. Yet their practical demands, epistemic limits, and ethical implications are less often critically examined...
We propose a structural framework for interpreting quantum computational advantage in terms of admissible continuation of configurations. In this framework, a quantum computation is described not only as a sequence of gates acting on a state vector b...
Displays of art in public or private spaces have long been of interest to curators, gallerists, artists and art historians. The emergence of gallery paintings at the beginning of the seventeenth century and the photographic documentation of (modern)...
With the advent of digital technologies, the computer has become a generalized tool for music production. Music can be seen as a creative form of human–human communication via a computer, and therefore, research on human–computer and comp...
The records of medieval heresy inquisitions have been a subject of controversy ever since their rediscovery by historians. The detail they convey of specific social interactions has continued to inspire generations of scholars, while the coercive con...
The application of ubiquitous computing has increased in recent years, especially due to the development of technologies such as mobile computing, more accurate sensors, and specific protocols for the Internet of Things (IoT). One of the trends in th...
The preservation of cultural heritage assets of all kind is an important task for modern civilizations. This also includes tools and instruments that have been used in the previous decades and centuries. Along with the industrial revolution 200 years...
In 1969, American artist Robert Mallary (1917–1997) coined the term ‘transductive art’ to describe an approach to art based on the notion of receiving energy from one system and retransmitting it, often in a different form, to anoth...
There is a wide consensus in considering Africa as the birthplace of anatomically modern humans (AMH), but the dispersal pattern and the main routes followed by our ancestors to colonize the world are still matters of debate. It is still an open ques...
In cases of suspected spinal tumors on imaging studies, a biopsy is often necessary for establishing the diagnosis. Predictive factors for tumors or malignancies may help in scheduling biopsies or avoiding unnecessary ones. However, there have been f...
Background/Objectives: Infiltrative renal masses, characterized by ill-defined margins and parenchymal invasion without forming a discrete mass, present a diagnostic challenge, particularly in patients without a prior history of malignancy. Different...
Too much in the present to be legitimately regarded as “history”, yet too important to be ignored by scholars, the cultural history of digital networking remains a largely unexplored field of study. The present article seeks to connect the reasons fo...
This article provides a detailed analysis of the transfer of a key cluster of ideas from mathematical logic to computing. We demonstrate the impact of certain of Turing’s logico-philosophical concepts from the mid-1930s on the emergence of the...
During most of the lifespan of the Venetian republic, doges (the name their presidents received) were elected for life. However, a long tenure was a rare event, which effectively resulted in term limits, as has already been reported by several author...
This paper introduces an AI-assisted human-centered and minimalist software stack and data model to structure and store early modern serial sources related to early-modern Catholic Church administration. The Vatican Archive preserves vast quantities...
We study the square root computation by Leonardo Fibonacci (or Leonardo of Pisa) in his MSS Liber Abaci from c1202 and c1228 and De Practica Geometrie from c1220. In this MSS, Fibonacci systematically describes finding the integer part of the square...
The rapid digitization of large source collections in the humanities over the last three decades has comprehensively transformed the discipline. The accessibility of primary sources has improved drastically, the pre-processing of research data has be...
Metadata extraction from natural history collection labels is a pivotal task for the online publication of digitized specimens. However, given the scale of these collections—which are estimated to host more than 2 billion specimens worldwide, i...
Background: Pancreatic cancer (PC) exhibits extremely rapid growth; however, it remains largely unknown whether the early stages of PC also exhibit rapid growth speed equivalent to advanced PC. This study aimed to investigate the natural history of e...
Archaeology has made significant advances in the last 20 years. This can be seen by the remarkable increase in specialised literature on all archaeology-related disciplines. These advances have made it a science with links to many other sciences, bot...
Micro-expressions are very brief, involuntary facial expressions that reveal hidden emotions, lasting less than a second, while macro-expressions are more prolonged facial expressions that align with a person’s conscious emotions, typically las...
This report addresses the SIGGRAPH 2018 Art Gallery (Vancouver, 2018), its curatorial process, the conceptual guidelines, the methodological approaches, and the sources behind it. The gallery has emphasized a transdisciplinary perspective combining c...
The first steps for modern organ transplantation were taken by Emerich Ullmann (Vienne, Austria) in 1902, with a dog-to-dog kidney transplant, and ultimate success was achieved by Joseph Murray in 1954, with the Boston twin brothers. In the same time...
Location-based applications (LBAs) capture the user’s physical location via satellite navigation sensors and integrate it as part of the digital application. Because of this connection, the real-world environment needs to be accounted for in LBA desi...
To date, many studies on the Nazi Special Courts have focused on the individuals involved in passing judgement or in the prosecution process in general, as well as on their political significance. For our study, we undertake a re-evaluation and compu...
Particle histories critically influence product quality in spray drying processes, encompassing statistical data on particle dynamics and behavior inside the chamber, including temperatures, moisture levels, wall impacts, and residence times. This st...
This paper introduces a learnability framework for validating large language model (LLM) information extraction without ground-truth annotations. Applied to 20,809 Ottoman legal texts, the framework achieves a Learnability Score of 0.891 through mult...
Multi-storey steel buildings may be susceptible to structural damage under seismic loading. Shear plate walls are often integrated in the structural system of this type of buildings in order to restrict the lateral response. This article aims, theref...
This study applies deep learning to classify façade features in Tel Aviv’s market-developed apartment housing (1980s–1990s), a vast landscape typically excluded from architectural history due to its non-iconic character. We constru...
This article provides a new interpretation of Giulio Campagnola’s 1509 engraving, The Astrologer, by situating its innovative punteggiato technique and enigmatic iconography within the precise astrological and political climate of Renaissance V...
Paleofire studies frequently discount the impact of human activities in past fire regimes. Globally, we know that a common pattern of anthropogenic burning regimes is to burn many small patches at high frequency, thereby generating landscape heteroge...
In what follows, some contemporary narratives about ‘the information society’ are interrogated from critical race theoretical and decolonial perspectives with a view to constructing a ‘counter-narrative’ purporting to demonstrate the embeddedness of...
This paper investigates efficient design of offshore wind turbine (OWT) support structures under ultimate loads and proposes three schemes to overcome excessive computer time due to many required external loads. The first is the assumption of a rigid...
In this paper, the deterministic ensemble Kalman filter is implemented with a parallel technique of the message passing interface based on our in-house black oil simulator. The implementation is separated into two cases: (1) the ensemble size is grea...
This article outlines the state of digital perspectives in historical research, some of the methods and tools in use by digital historians, and the possible or even necessary steps in the future development of the digital approach. We begin by descri...
This work describes a computational method for reconstructing clusters of social relationships among early modern printers and publishers, the most determinant agents for the process of transformation of scientific knowledge. The method is applied to...
Through programming tasks, the skills and abilities used to solve mathematical problems are developed and improved. In this article we present a programming teaching trajectory using the solutions presented throughout the history of the “hundre...
The aim of this paper is to discuss the emergence of recursive thinking through the famous problem posed by Fibonacci regarding the growth of the rabbit population. This paper qualitatively analyzes and discusses the semiotic aspects raised by the st...
Over the last two decades, the UAE’s construction sector has grown significantly with the development of tall buildings, but the region faces seismic risks. Similar concerns in China led to earthquake simulation research on a city scale. The ob...
Accurate evaluation of the Caputo fractional derivative (CFD) of arbitrary non-integer order is essential for modeling memory-dependent phenomena. However, the classical Shifted Gegenbauer Pseudospectral (SGPS) method attains exponential convergence...
The Industrial Revolution is commonly periodized through mechanization, steam, electricity, mass production, computing, digital networks, and artificial intelligence. This article proposes an alternative variable of historical observation: the functi...
Background: Chronic limb-threatening ischemia (CLTI) is associated with high rates of long-term cardiovascular mortality. Exercise stress testing to detect obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) can be difficult in this subset of patients due to i...
In this paper, the stress–strength reliability of complex systems with diverse component types is investigated based on the theoretical framework of survival signatures. Assuming that both the strength and stress of components of the same type...
This paper utilizes a visitor survey conducted at an open-air museum in New Harmony, Indiana to discuss design guidelines for immersive technologies that support historic interpretation–specifically, the visitor’s ability to experience th...
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) infection is associated with high mortality if no therapy is provided. Currently, the treatment of an HIV-1 positive patient requires that several drugs should be taken simultaneously. The resistance of the...
Computer vision is becoming an increasingly trendy word in the area of image processing. With the emergence of computer vision applications, there is a significant demand to recognize objects automatically. Deep CNN (convolution neural network) has b...
Ever since the first publication of the standard communication protocol for computer-assisted electrocardiography (SCP-ECG), prENV 1064, in 1993, by the European Committee for Standardization (CEN), SCP-ECG has become a leading example in health info...
The CORONA satellite image preserves the landscape from half a century ago, and has played a great role in landscape archaeology in many regions of the world. In recent years, with the rapid development of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) Photogrammetry...
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