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Periodic Revival or Continuation of the Ancient Military Tradition? Another Look at the Question of the Katáfraktoi in the Byzantine Army [PDF]
, 2012 This article discusses the question of origin and identity of katáfraktoi – heavy-armoured cavalry in Byzantium. In the specialist literature on the subject, there is a widespread opinion that the heavily-armoured elitist cavalry, defined as catafracti
Wojnowski, Michał
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Distributed Statistical Machine Learning in Adversarial Settings: Byzantine Gradient Descent
Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, 2017 We consider the distributed statistical learning problem over decentralized systems that are prone to adversarial attacks. This setup arises in many practical applications, including Google's Federated Learning.
Yudong Chen, Lili Su, Jiaming Xu
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ancient Olympia was one of the most important sanctuaries and the venue for the Olympic Games in Greek and Roman times. Its remains are located in the Olympia Terrace (Peloponnese, Greece) at the present‐day confluence of the rivers Alpheios and Kladeos at the base of Mount Kronos.
Sarah Bäumler +10 more
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Orchestration of Climate Action in Municipalities: A Collective Capacity Approach
Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Municipalities are increasingly positioned as key actors in enabling local climate action, yet their ability to mobilise societal actors remains insufficiently understood. This study examines how municipal officials in six Finnish municipalities from different local contexts understand and operationalise collective capacity for climate action,
Maija Faehnle +2 more
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The Church in Densuş Between the Sacred and the Profane [PDF]
Anastasis: Research in Medieval Culture and ArtTemple of Zamolxe, pagan Roman temple of the god Mars, mausoleum of Trajan’s best friend, the general Longinus Maximus, church built by the Goths in the 4th century, “divine work stolen by nocturnal genies”1, the first church in Haţeg and perhaps in the ...
Petruța Iulia Luchian
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A Byzantine Fault Tolerant Distributed Commit Protocol
, 2007 In this paper, we present a Byzantine fault tolerant distributed commit protocol for transactions running over untrusted networks. The traditional two-phase commit protocol is enhanced by replicating the coordinator and by running a Byzantine agreement ...
Zhao, Wenbing
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Deterministic Consensus Algorithm with Linear Per-Bit Complexity [PDF]
, 2010 In this report, building on the deterministic multi-valued one-to-many Byzantine agreement (broadcast) algorithm in our recent technical report [2], we introduce a deterministic multi-valued all-to-all Byzantine agreement algorithm (consensus), with ...
Liang, Guanfeng, Vaidya, Nitin
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to gain information on the prevalence and manifestation of hallux valgus and associated foot pathology in ancient Egyptian mummies. Additionally, we investigated possible indicators of postmortem deformation of the feet during mummification. For this study, 34 mummies that had undergone whole body computed tomography (
Stephanie Panzer +7 more
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Multicultural Architecture in Anatolia: Turkish Islam and Christianity in One Rock-Cut Complex
Sanat Tarihi Yıllığı, 2023 The Ihlara Valley rock-cut complex, located about 3km northwest of the village of Belisırma in Aksaray, sheds light on medieval settlement architecture.
Nergis Ataç
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A TYRANT ON THE THRONE: PHOCAS THE USURPER, AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE EASTERN FRONTIER; pp. 201–213 [PDF]
Trames, 2020 The ambitious and expansionist western-directed policy of Emperor Justinian left his successors with an empty state treasury, a grim financial picture, and hard-to-defend areas against the barbarians in places such as Italy, Carthage and even southern ...
Süha Konuk
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