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User-provided networks: consumer as provider [PDF]
This paper describes and characterizes an emerging type of user-centric wireless network models, here named user-provided networks, where the end-user is at the same time a consumer and a provider of Internet access. A discussion on challenges that these new models face is also discussed.
Sofia, Rute, Mendes, Paulo
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Providence as history in Kleist’s prose (On a path to the realistic novella)
Heinrich von Kleist’s novellas are characterized by a caleidoscopic alternation of the lands and the eras, where and when over and over again take place natural and (or) historical disasters.
A. I. Ivanitskiy
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Though not linguistically prominent in Christian scripture, the theology of providence captures several recurring scriptural themes. These include the order of the cosmos, the wisdom reflected in the natural and social worlds, the direction of the ...
David Fergusson
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Maximus of Tyre on the Zeus of Homer and Plato
The present article discusses the ingenious account of Zeus that was put forward by Maximus of Tyre in his Orations IV and XXVI. When reading into Homer various Platonic and Stoic concepts, Maximus originally amalgamates the notion of Demiurge with that ...
Mikolaj Domaradzki, Tomasz Bednarek
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Apostolicity II: How does divine apostolicity affect God’s interaction with the world and humanity? [PDF]
Investigating the research question of how divine apostolicity affects God’s interaction with the world and humanity, predicates apostolicity as being a divine attribute.
Erwin Samuel Henderson
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Providence, Divine Power, and the ‘Invisible Hand’ in Adam Smith
This contribution advances a critical examination of Smith’s thought in theological perspective, with a point of departure in a recent interpretation of the ‘invisible hand.’ We show that the concept of general providence has displaced traditional ...
van der Kooi, Cornelis +1 more
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Leo Tolstoy and Andrei Platonov’s Prose of 1941–1945 [PDF]
Comparative analysis of A. Platonov’s wartime stories (1941–1945) and Leo Tolstoy’s Sevastopol Stories, War and Peace and Hadji Murat is performed. Items reviewed: 1) Both Red Army fighters in Platonov’s works and soldiers in Tolstoy’s works identify ...
Robert Hodel
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Yukio Mishima, “Tumultul valurilor” [Yukio Mishima, “The Sound of Waves”] [PDF]
The essay aims at decoding the 1954 novel The Sound of Waves in relation to Mishima’s biography, political and aesthetic theory, arguing that his most serene artistic achievement is, in the end, a desperate self-deluding for various inner contradictions.
Lucian Vasile Bâgiu
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Free will is a perennial theological and philosophical topic. As a central dogmatic locus, it has been implicated in debates about core Christian doctrines, such as grace, salvation, sin, providence, evil, and predestination.
Aku Visala
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Features requirement elicitation process for designing a chatbot application
This article seeks to assist the chatbot community by outlining the characteristics that a chatbot needs to possess and explaining how to create a chatbot for a bank. In order to determine which capabilities are most crucial to ending users, a study of a small sample of chatbot users was conducted.
Nurul Muizzah Johari +4 more
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