Ennius and the architecture of the Annales / / Jackie Elliott [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462904403321
• Autore: Elliott Jackie <1973->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-139-88942-7; 1-107-24040-9; 1-107-25106-0; 1-107-24940-6; 1-107-25023-4; 1-107-24774-8; 1-107-24857-4; 1-139-22641-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 590 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 871/.0109
• Soggetti: Historical poetry, Latin - History and criticism; Rome In literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Ennius and the Annalistic tradition at Rome -- The vergiliocentric sources and the question of the evidence: Ennius and the epic tradition of Greece and Rome -- The pre-Vergilian sources -- The Annales as historiography: Ennius and the invention of the Roman past -- Imperium sine fine: the Annales and universal history -- Appendixes. Triadic structure and the organisation of the text according to established scholarship ; The gods in the Annales ; The organisation of the fragments: evidence and conjecture ; The chronology of the sources ; Fragments organised by source.
• Sommario/riassunto: Ennius' Annales, which is preserved only in fragments, was hugely influential on Roman literature and culture. This book explores the genesis, in the ancient sources for Ennius' epic and in modern scholarship, of the accounts of the Annales with which we operate today. A series of appendices detail each source's contribution to our ; record of the poem, and are used to consider how the interests and working methods of the principal sources shape the modern view of the poem and to re-examine the limits imposed and the possibilities offered by this ancient evidence. Dr Elliott challenges standard views of the poem, such as its use of time and the disposition of the gods within it. She argues that the manifest impact of the Annales on the collective Roman psyche results from its innovative promotion of a vision of Rome as the primary focus of the cosmos in all its aspects.

Breadlines knee deep in wheat : food assistance in the great depression / / Janet Poppendieck ; foreword by Marion Nestle

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910816022003321
• Autore: Poppendieck Janet <1945-, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley ; ; Los Angeles, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-520-27754-6; 0-520-95842-X
• Edizione: [Updated and expanded edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (401 p.)
• Collana: California Studies in Food and Culture ; ; 53
• Disciplina: 363.8830973
• Soggetti: Food relief - United States - History; Depressions - 1929 - United States; Agriculture and state - United States - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Paradox of Want amid Plenty -- List of Abbreviations -- One. The Plight of the Farmer -- Two. Depression: Deprivation and Despair -- Three. The Politics of Wheat and Drought -- Four. Government Grain for the Needy -- Five. The End of the Hoover Era -- Six. The Promise of the New Deal -- Seven. The Little Pigs: The Genesis of Relief Distribution -- Eight. The Federal Surplus Relief Corporation -- Nine. The Corporation in Conflict: Competition with Private Enterprise -- Ten. Transfer to the Department of Agriculture -- Eleven. ; Accommodation to Agricultural Priorities -- Twelve. Food Assistance: The Legacy of New Deal Policy Choices -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments to the 2014 Edition -- Sources -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: At no time during the Great Depression was the contradiction between agriculture surplus and widespread hunger more wrenchingly graphic than in the government's attempt to raise pork prices through the mass slaughter of miliions of "unripe" little pigs. This contradiction was widely perceived as a "paradox." In fact, as Janet Poppendieck makes clear in this newly expanded and updated volume, it was a normal, predictable working of an economic system rendered extreme by the Depression. The notion of paradox, however, captured the imagination of the public and policy makers, and it was to this definition of the problem that surplus commodities distribution programs in the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations were addressed. This book explains in readable narrative how the New Deal food assistance effort, originally conceived as a relief measure for poor people, became a program designed to raise the incomes of commercial farmers. In a broader sense, the book explains how the New Deal years were formative for food assistance in subsequent administrations; it also examines the performance--or lack of performance--of subsequent in-kind relief programs. Beginning with a brief survey of the history of the American farmer before the depression and the impact of the Depression on farmers, the author describes the development of Hoover assistance programs and the events at the end of that administration that shaped the "historical moment" seized by the early New Deal. Poppendieck goes on to analyze the food assistance policies and programs of the Roosevelt years, the particular series of events that culminated in the decision to purchase surplus agriculture products and distribute them to the poor, the institutionalization of this approach, the resutls achieved, and the interest groups formed. The book also looks at the takeover of food assistance by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and its gradual adaptation for use as a tool in the maintenance of farm income. Utliizing a wide variety of official and unofficial sources, the author reveals with unusual clarity the evolution from a policy directly responsive to the poor to a policy serving mainly democratic needs.

Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing : 23rd International Conference, ICA3PP 2023, Tianjin, China, October 20–22, 2023, Proceedings, Part I / / edited by Zahir Tari, Keqiu Li, Hongyi Wu

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910842487703321
• Autore: Tari Zahir <1961->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024
• ISBN: 9789819708345; 9819708346
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2024.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (523 pages)
• Collana: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 1611-3349 ; ; 14487
• Altri autori (Persone): LiKeqiu; WuHongyi
• Disciplina: 005.13
• Soggetti: Algorithms; Machine learning; Computer networks; Computer vision; Computer engineering; Design and Analysis of Algorithms; Machine Learning; Computer Communication Networks; Computer Vision; Computer Engineering and Networks
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Short Video Account Influence Evaluation Model Based on Improved SF-UIR Algorithm -- Deep Hash Learning of Feature-Invariant Representation for Single-label and Multi-label Retrieval -- Generative Adversarial Network Based Asymmetric Deep Cross-modal Unsupervised Hashing -- CFDM-IME A Collaborative Fault Diagnosis Method For Intelligent Manufacturing Equipment -- DFECTS A Deep Fuzzy Ensemble Clusterer for Time Series -- Energy-aware Smart Task Scheduling in Edge Computing Networks with A3C -- BACTDS Blockchain-based Fined-grained Access Control Scheme with Traceablity for IoT Data Sharing -- DeepLat Achieving Minimum Worst ; Case Latency for DNN Inference with Batch-Aware Dispatching -- Privacy-Preserving and Reliable Distributed Federated Learning -- Joint Optimization of Request Scheduling and Container Prewarming in Serverless Computing -- Multi-Stage Optimization of Incentive Mechanisms for Mobile Crowd Sensing based on Top-Trading Cycles -- A Chained Forwarding Mechanism for Large Messages -- TDC Pool-level object cache replacement algorithm based on temperature density -- Smart DAG Task Scheduling based on MCTS Method of Multi-Strategy Learning -- CT-Mixer Exploiting Multiscale Design for Local-global Representations Learning -- FedQL Q-learning Guided Aggregation for Federated Learning -- An Adaptive Instruction Set Encoding Automatic Generation Method for VLIW -- FastDet Detecting Encrypted Malicious Traffic Faster via Early Exit -- Real-EVE Real-time Edge-assist Video Enhancement for Joint Denoising and Super-resolution -- Optimizing the Parallelism of Communication and Computation in Distributed Training Platform -- FedSC Compatible Gradient Compression for Communication-Efficient Federated Learning -- Joint Video Transcoding and Representation Selection for Edge-Assisted Multi-Party Video Conferencing -- Performance Comparison of Distributed DNN Training on Opticalversus Electrical Interconnect Systems -- Dynamic Path Planning Based on Traffic Flow Prediction and Traffic Light Status -- A Time Series Data Compression Co-processor Based on RISC-V Custom Instructions -- MSIN An Efficient Multi-head Self-Attention Framework for Inertial Navigation -- AbsorbDeadlock Resolution for 2.5D Modular Chiplet Based Systems -- A Multi-Server Authentication Scheme based on Fuzzy Extractor.
• Sommario/riassunto: The 7-volume set LNCS 14487-14493 constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2023, which took place in Tianjin, China, during October 2023. The 145 full papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 439 submissions. ICA3PP covers many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures; encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches; practical experimental projects; and commercial components and systems.