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Influential before the revolution of 1917, the work of the now-forgotten Russian imperial military architect Viktor Sokolsky (1869–1913) on the efficiency of construction continued to be studied in the aftermath of the revolution.
Alla Vronskaya
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Pocong: Contemporary Zombie Stories in Indonesia [PDF]
The paper about the Indonesian “zombie” pocong examines specific features of the ghost stories in Indonesia, tracks the etymology of the words hantu (“ghost,” “undead”) and pocong (“wrapped in shroud”), and includes a translation of a typical ghost story
Marina V. Frolova
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Two-dimensional mass defect matrix plots for mapping genealogical links in mixtures of lignin depolymerisation products [PDF]
Lignin is the second most abundant natural biopolymer, and lignin wastes are therefore potentially significant sources for renewable chemicals such as fuel compounds, as alternatives to fossil fuels. Waste valorisation of lignin is currently limited to a few applications such as in the pulp industry, however, because of the lack of effective extraction
Qi, Yulin +2 more
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Gambling Ain’t What It Used To Be: The Instrumentalization of Gambling and Late Modern Culture
This article addresses significant cultural macro-processes shaping legalized gambling as a mass consumer market, which also serve various state and private industry ends.
Jim Cosgrave
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The regulation of veil restriction at UIN Sunan Kalijaga, and its ensuing controversy, is a significant and meaningful event. The symbolic significance of the veil reflects identity problems, power dynamics, and disparities in religious, social, and ...
Zuhri Humaidi +2 more
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Height and the total mass of the forest of genealogical trees of a large population with general competition [PDF]
We consider branching processes with interaction in continuous time, both with values in the integers and in the reals (in the second case we restrict ourselves to continuous processes), which model the evolution of the size of a population. We assume that for large population size the interaction is of the type of a competition, which limits the size ...
Le, Vi, Pardoux, Etienne
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This paper demonstrates how methods of digital genealogy can be used to trace personal histories in innovative ways to uncover potentially significant details of settlement history where information in historical sources is scarce. It uses the example of
Fenyvesi Anna
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Sieć społeczna wokół Kuriera Warszawskiego na podstawie jego nekrologów z lat 1821–1861
Rafał Smoczyński and Tomasz Zarycki proposed a thesis that in Poland around 1920 the intelligentsia had taken power from the aristocracy and bourgeoisie (it is called ‘intelligentsia revolution’).
Marek Jerzy Minakowski
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What is a historical text, and what are the differences between such a text and other written genres? This question has occupied modern scholars of medieval Europe, medieval European authors themselves, and many others.
Elizabeth Freeman
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The Polish-Lithuanian Parliament of 1569– 1795 consisted of three houses: The King, Senate and House of Representatives. The King and Representatives were elected in general election. The members of the Senate were arbitrarily appointed by the King for a
Marek Jerzy Minakowski
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