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Principal loading analysis [PDF]
This paper proposes a tool for dimension reduction where the dimension of the original space is reduced: a Principal Loading Analysis (PLA). PLA is a tool to reduce dimensions by discarding variables. The intuition is that variables are dropped which distort the covariance matrix only by a little.
Bauer, Jan O., Drabant, Bernhard
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The relevance of the research topic is due to the insufficient study of the role of the governors of the Senate provinces in the military command system of the early Roman Empire.
Sergey Valer’evich Telepen
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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
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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
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Early mechanisms of abbatial succession: the case of Iona (563–704)
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
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Networking in the Early Roman Empire: Pliny the Younger
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
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De Excidio Patriae: civic discourse in Gildas’ Britain
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
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RUSH JOB: SLAVERY AND BREVITY IN THE EARLY ROMAN PRINCIPATE
The upswing in brief forms of literature in the early Roman principate is marked. From Ovid to Velleius Paterculus, Phaedrus to Valerius Maximus, this aesthetic trend seems to transcend genre.
Tom Geue
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Settlement of Militiae Equestres in the Period of the Principate
The article is devoted to the problem of formalizing the military career of Roman equites during the period of the Principate. On the basis of written sources, including epigraphic ones, changes in the nature of the military service of the equites ...
С.В. Телепень
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An enamel-painted glass bottle from a “Turkish pit” in Buda [PDF]
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,
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