English Economic History: Select Documents

Select-Project Queries over XML Documents

This paper discusses evaluation of select-project (SP) queries over an XML document. A SP query consists of two parts: (1) a conjunction of conditions on values of labels (called the selection) and (2) a series of labels whose values should be outputed (called the projection). Query evaluation involves finding tuples of nodes that have the labels mentioned in the query and are related to one an...

Economic History

Controlled English Advantages for Translated and Original English Documents

The Controlled English we have developed for Caterpillar is designed to reduce translation costs by facilitating machine translation. It is also preferred by English-speaking readers of the resulting documents. The approach to machine translation and the resulting design of the Controlled English were optimized to Caterpillar's environment and requirements, including a very high document and tr...

A select history of vitamins and minerals

An Investigation into the Pantheon in Bactrian Economic Documents

In the 90s, a remarkable number of manuscripts were found in Northern Afghanistan, including economic documents, legal documents, and letters, which have become an important resource for academic studies. This paper aims to investigate the Bactrian pantheon as reflected in the economic documents of this collection. At first, these economic documents and the pantheon mentioned in them are introd...