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A Comprehensive Review on Federated and Incremental Learning in Spatial Crowdsourcing Systems

WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Volume 16, Issue 4, December 2026.
A comprehensive overview of Federated and Incremental Learning (FIL) integration in Spatial Crowdsourcing, highlighting privacy, security, adaptability, efficiency challenges, and future research directions. ABSTRACT Spatial Crowdsourcing (SC) coordinates workers and requesters through personal mobile devices to complete location‐dependent tasks in ...
Md Mujibur Rahman, Quazi Mamun, Michael Bewong, Md Zahidul Islam   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

“The Land's Been Queer Longer Than the Colonizers Have Been Here. Hiy Hiy.” Impacts of Anti‐Queer and Trans Policies and Resistance Through Art, Queer Joy, and Worldmaking Among Youth

Sexuality, Gender &Policy, Volume 9, Issue 4, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This study explores how 2SLGBTQ+ youth in Alberta, Canada—the country's most Conservative province—mobilize queer joy as a form of resistance amid rising anti‐queer and anti‐trans policies under a settler colonial, cisheteropatriarchal regime. Drawing from youth‐produced collages, we demonstrate that this visual arts‐based participatory method
JJ Wright, Gillian Robinson
wiley   +1 more source

Ceramic ecology in an Islamic capital: changes in the production and consumption of pottery in Palermo

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 4, Page 555-575, November 2026.
Palermo became the new capital of Sicily after the Aghlabid conquest in 831. The transformation of the city into a capital took many forms, including the production and consumption of pottery. The perspective from ceramic evidence shows that Palermo underwent faster and deeper processes of Islamization than other urban and rural contexts across the ...
Viva Sacco
wiley   +1 more source

Macro-economy, Micro-ecology, and the Fate of Urbanized Landscape in Late Antique and Early Byzantine Crete

, 2019
In the case of the Cretan Late Antique/Early Byzantine landscape, the dichotomy between change and resilience could be easily defined in terms of changing relationships between long-term local micro-ecology and medium-term Mediterranean macro-economy.
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Ascetics, slaves, and necessity in Late Antiquity: renouncing all wealth, but for a single slave

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 4, Page 601-622, November 2026.
Slave owners in Late Antiquity viewed the possession of at least one slave to be a necessity and a defining mark that distinguished the dignified social classes from the poor. Ascetics who shared this perspective faced a choice when renouncing all worldly possessions in pursuit of spiritual perfection, one not merely about luxury, but also about status
E.T. Dailey, Justin Pigott
wiley   +1 more source

Late Holocene environmental history of Dojran, Macedonia: Investigating the interplay of imperial dynamics and climatic change

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 7, Page 996-1019, October 2026.
ABSTRACT This study presents a high‐resolution, multi‐proxy reconstruction of environmental and land‐use change from Lake Dojran over historical times (last 2500 years), combining pollen, biomarkers, radiocarbon dating, Ottoman taxation records and other historical data.
Alessia Masi, Lucrezia Masci, Georgios C. Liakopoulos, Monica Bini, Alexander Francke, Ilaria Isola, Carlo Ricotta, Laura Sadori, Alexander Sarantis, Sławomir Sprawski, Jakub Sypiański, Irene Tunno, Cristiano Vignola, Bernd Wagner, Giovanni Zanchetta, Adam Izdebski   +15 more
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Jewelled Byzantine and Medieval Reliquaries of the True Cross: Peridots and Other Gemstones in Material and Symbolic Perspective

Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, Volume 57, Issue 10, Page 1727-1756, October 2026.
An interdisciplinary in situ study of jewelled reliquaries of the True Cross integrates gemmology and portable analytical techniques, revealing new evidence on the identification and symbolic role of peridots and other gemstones. ABSTRACT Jewelled crosses containing relics of the True Cross occupy a central position in the devotional, artistic and ...
Stefania Martiniello, Stefano Legnaioli, Simona Raneri   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cost, value and wealth redistribution: micro- and macro-economy in Early Byzantine evergetism

, 2021
‘Public’ evergetism – an act performed by a public authority as part of its function – and ‘private’ patronage – an act performed by a member of the upper class as a private citizen – are the two opposite poles of a complex phenomenon that has become a classic subject in analyzing late antique and early Byzantine society.
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The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference

American Journal of Political Science, Volume 70, Issue 4, Page 1369-1381, October 2026.
Abstract While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal
Loubna El Amine
wiley   +1 more source

Byzantine Empire Economic Growth: Did Past Climate Change Play a Role? [PDF]

Hum Ecol Interdiscip J, 2022
Lambert T.
europepmc   +1 more source