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Equity before ‘Equity’

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, Volume 86, Issue 1, Page 85-121, January 2023., 2023
The notion of ‘equity’ is undergoing conceptual repositioning in international law today, embracing individuals as well as states and gaining an association with human rights and the politics of protest. In the context of these developments, the present paper enquires into the premodern roots of this ancient and rich term through three historical ...
Stephen Humphreys
wiley   +1 more source

Reinterpreting a “Roman villa” site: First results of nondestructive archaeological research in Dračevica (Donji Radišići, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

open access: yesArchaeological Prospection, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 479-499, July/September 2022., 2022
Abstract The article presents the results of archaeological prospection of site Dračevica (Donji Radišići, Ljubuški municipality, West Herzegovina Canton, Bosnia and Herzegovina) which was partly excavated in the late 19th century and so far has been interpreted as a Roman villa, possibly with a special function (road station) and a name attested in ...
Tomasz Dziurdzik   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early mechanisms of abbatial succession: the case of Iona (563–704)

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 73-100, February 2022., 2022
Comments about succession to the Iona abbacy rarely go beyond the observation that most of the early abbots – but not all – belonged to the Cenél Conaill, the kindred of Iona’s founder, Saint Columba. This point privileges the role of eligibility criteria in the succession process at the expense of agency.
Patrick McAlary
wiley   +1 more source

Networking in the Early Roman Empire: Pliny the Younger

open access: yesJournal of Historical Network Research, 2020
Living during the heyday of the Roman Empire, the senator Pliny the Younger (ca. AD 61/62 – 113/114) was in contact with the social and political elite of his time: several Emperors, fellow senators like Cornelius Tacitus, Sosius Senecio, and Arulenus ...
Fabian Germerodt
doaj   +1 more source

De Excidio Patriae: civic discourse in Gildas’ Britain

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 137-160, May 2021., 2021
This article explores the use of civic discourse in Gildas’ De Excidio Britonum. It argues that such language and imagery functioned within a larger dialectical argument that exhorted readers to choose virtue over vice. Gildas assigned the Britons collective moral agency by styling them citizens (cives) of a shared homeland (patria) defined by cities ...
Robert Flierman, Megan Welton
wiley   +1 more source

An enamel-painted glass bottle from a “Turkish pit” in Buda [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The fragments of a high quality, enamel painted, blue glass bottle with the date 1671 on its shoulder were found in the Castle District of Buda, in a huge pit dated to the period of the Ottoman occupation. The shape of the object shows eastern influences,
Katona I.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Principal Stratification Analysis Using Principal Scores [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, 2016
SummaryPractitioners are interested in not only the average causal effect of a treatment on the outcome but also the underlying causal mechanism in the presence of an intermediate variable between the treatment and outcome. However, in many cases we cannot randomize the intermediate variable, resulting in sample selection problems even in randomized ...
Ding, Peng, Lu, Jiannan
openaire   +2 more sources

Artificum scaenicorum studium amoremque inhonestum probrosumque esse

open access: yesClassica Cracoviensia, 2014
Artificum scaenicorum studium amoremque inhonestum probrosumque esse. The Actor and their Audience in the Roman Theatre The paper analyses the role and position of actors in ancient Rome, from the times of the Republic to the principate.
Elżbieta Loska
doaj   +1 more source

PRINCIPAL POLYNOMIAL ANALYSIS [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Neural Systems, 2014
This paper presents a new framework for manifold learning based on a sequence of principal polynomials that capture the possibly nonlinear nature of the data. The proposed Principal Polynomial Analysis (PPA) generalizes PCA by modeling the directions of maximal variance by means of curves, instead of straight lines.
Laparra, Valero   +4 more
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Principal Networks

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
Graph representations of brain connectivity have attracted a lot of recent interest, but existing methods for dividing such graphs into connected subnetworks have a number of limitations in the context of neuroimaging. This is an important problem because most cognitive functions would be expected to involve some but not all brain regions.
Clayden, JD, Dayan, M, Clark, CA
openaire   +4 more sources

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