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Dream is an offshore flame: Notes on archaeology and belonging

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract Set within an archaeology lab in Dunedin, Aotearoa, this creative non‐fiction piece traces the search for dwelling through the meticulous, repetitive labor of everyday practice. The narrative finds belonging not as a static identity, but as a continuous, tactile engagement with the material world.
Orlan Yuan Syshui
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METRICS FOR DYNAMIC SCALING OF DATABASE IN CLOUDS

Статистика и экономика, 2016
This article analyzes the main methods of scaling databases (replication, sharding) and their support at the popular relational databases and NoSQL solutions with different data models: a document-oriented, key-value, column-oriented, graph.
Alexander V. Boichenko, Dmitry K. Rogojin, Dmitry G. Korneev   +2 more
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Investigating Technology and Raw Materials Source of the Archaic and Classical Architectural Terracottas From the Athenaion in Castro (Apulia, Italy)

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 512-526, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Since 2000, archaeological excavations have brought to light the sanctuary of Athena in Castro (Apulia, Italy), including terracotta roofs dated between the 6th and 4th centuries bce. Based on their morphological and stylistic features, it is suggested that the terracotta items were manufactured in the Greek colony of Taras (modern Taranto ...
M. M. N. Franceschini, T. Ismaelli, S. Vettori, L. Chelazzi, S. Ciattini, F. Di Benedetto, C. Grifa, E. Cantisani   +7 more
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BMDS-Shard: a parallel and atomicity-guaranteed cross-shard blockchain protocol [PDF]

Blockchain
Sharding is a key technology to improve the scalability of blockchain, and cross-shard transaction protocols are the core of sharding to ensure transaction atomicity and consistency.
Haitao Chen, Jian Zheng, Xiaofei Luo, Zhili Liu, Qingni Shen, Huawei Huang   +5 more
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Chainspace: A Sharded Smart Contracts Platform

, 2017
Chainspace is a decentralized infrastructure, known as a distributed ledger, that supports user defined smart contracts and executes user-supplied transactions on their objects.
Al-Bassam, Mustafa, Bano, Shehar, Danezis, George, Hrycyszyn, Dave, Sonnino, Alberto   +4 more
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Beyond Negated Identity: Mediating the World History Classroom through Adorno's Negative Dialectics

Educational Theory, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 395-419, June 2026.
Abstract This article centers on Adorno's negative dialectics to account for experiences of alienation and marginalization within the world history classroom. It begins with the problem of how marginalization occurs in high school world history classrooms with predominantly Black and Latinx students.
Tadashi Dozono
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A Millennium of Coastside Occupation. Micromorphological Insights From the Indigenous Site of Las Estacas Cave, Tenerife

Geoarchaeology, Volume 41, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT The archaeological site of Las Estacas Cave (NW Tenerife, Canary Islands) preserves some of the earliest human occupations in Tenerife, dating to the 2nd century CE, spanning the entire pre‐European time range up to the 15th century. Using soil micromorphology, this study applies a geoarchaeological approach to reconstruct site formation ...
Pedro García‐Villa, Cristo M. Hernández, Carolina Mallol   +2 more
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Enhancing Cloud‐Based Healthcare Security With Quantum‐Secure HealthChain: A Quantum Computing and Blockchain Integrated Framework

Health Science Reports, Volume 9, Issue 5, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Rising quantum hazards and flaws in conventional encryption make cloud‐based healthcare data security harder. Quantum‐Secure HealthChain, a new architecture using blockchain and quantum computing, improves medical data security, patient privacy, and data fidelity. Methods To prevent quantum attacks, the proposed system uses
Rajesh Bose, Somnath Mondal, Shrabani Sutradhar, Sujan Das, Muhammad Faheem, Sandip Roy, Arfat Ahmad Khan   +6 more
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The Node Security Access Authentication Method for Mega-Constellation based on Sharding Blockchain

Space: Science & Technology
The mega-constellation is a major future development direction for space-based technologies in communications, navigation,remote sensing, and other fields. However, there are marked security threats to the mega-constellation.
Zongling Li, Teng Long, Baojun Zhao, Wangjie Qiu   +3 more
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Reconstructing the Holocene explosive eruptive history of the Erciyes volcano (Turkey) using proximal and distal tephra records

Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 645-659, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Mount Erciyes, the largest active volcano of Central Anatolia (Turkey), erupted explosively during the Holocene, producing the Karagüllü, Perikartin and Dikkartin tuff rings. Even though major cities like Kayseri and its ~1 million residents sit directly on these pyroclastic deposits, the timing and magnitude of the explosive eruptions have ...
Ivan Sunyé‐Puchol, Rengin Özsoy‐Ünal, Xavier Bolós, Victoria C. Smith, Efe Akkas, Lorenzo Tavazzani, Jan Aymerich, Manuela Nazzari, Pierre Lacan, Victoria Cullen, Olivier Bachmann, Piergiorgio Scarlato, Silvio Mollo   +12 more
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