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G. Călinescu şi literatura latină [PDF]
Revista de Istorie și Teorie Literară, 2009 Sans être un spécialiste dans le domaine de l’antiquité, G. Călinescu a été attentif aux échos classiques dans la littérature moderne. Intéressé surtout par la poésie latine, il a écrit deux amples études sur Horace et Ovide.
Alexandra Ciocârlie
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The History of Religion: Ancient Rome Edition 1960–2026
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Celia E. Schultz
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Keeping Up With the Joneses: Spillover Effect of M&A Activity to Compensation
European Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We identify a spillover effect from Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) activity to CEO compensation. Previous research shows that post‐merger, acquiring CEOs receive higher pay with reduced sensitivity to negative performance. We demonstrate that CEOs who don't engage in M&A, but have compensation peers who do, also experience increased pay and ...
Patty Bick, Ryan Flugum
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Reassessing the Rhetoric Revival in Political Theory: Cicero, Eloquence, and the Best Form of Life
Redescriptions, 2015 This paper provides a critical assessment of what Bryan Garsten has called the ‘rhetoric revival’ in political theory and advances an interpretation of an underappreciated strand of this tradition: Cicero’s ideal of the perfect orator.
Giuseppe Ballacci
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Aristotle, Cicero and cosmopolitan political thought [PDF]
, 2007 This is a conference paper which compares and contrasts the views of Aristotle and Cicero in relation to cosmopolitan political thought. The paper focuses on the issue of the social and political 'identity' of the individual moral agent.
Burns, Tony
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Fatigue &Fracture of Engineering Materials &Structures, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Theory of Critical Distances comprises several methodologies that allow fracture, fatigue, and stress corrosion cracking phenomena to be analyzed. Such methodologies are usually referred to as the Point Method (PM), the Line Method (LM), the Area Method (AM), and the Volume Method (VM).
Sergio Cicero, David Taylor, Luca Susmel
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Evaluating, taxing and insuring agricultural enterprises [PDF]
By analyzing the pros and cons of the US farms taxation methodologies, this paper aims to advise that best practice of taxing farms in transition economies would be consistent with a multiple of cash flow valuation approaches and suggests that a liquid ...
Cicero I Limberea
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A Distributed GUI-based Computer Control System for Atomic Physics Experiments
, 2012 Atomic physics experiments often require a complex sequence of precisely timed computer controlled events. A distributed GUI-based control system designed with such experiments in mind, The Cicero Word Generator, is described.
Keshet, Aviv, Ketterle, Wolfgang
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Botanical Latin: History, Grammar, Syntax, Terminology and Vocabulary. William T. Stearn. London and Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., 1966. xiv, 566pp.($14.75) [PDF]
, 2017 Excerpt: As W. T. Stearn reminds us in the preface to this attractive and welcome work, the realm of literature which a knowledge of botanical Latin opens to botanists is a strange barbarous place for classicists; invited into it as an interpreter, a ...
Wilkinson, R S
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The Role of Dice in the Emergence of the Probability Calculus
International Statistical Review, EarlyView.Summary The early development of the probability calculus was clearly influenced by the roll of dice. However, while dice have been cast since time immemorial, documented calculations on the frequency of various dice throws date back only to the mid‐13th century.
David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest
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