Landlord and Peasant in Colonial Oaxaca

On - Line File Caching 373 Algorithm LANDLORD

Consider the following file caching problem: in response to a sequence of requests for files, where each file has a specified size and retrieval cost, maintain a cache of files of total size at most some specified k so as to minimize the total retrieval cost. Specifically, when a requested file is not in the cache, bring it into the cache and pay the retrieval cost, and remove other files from ...

Landlord and Tenant-Patent Defects In A Common Area

The Politics of Garbage in Oaxaca, Mexico

Colonial and post-colonial aspects of Australian identity.

Since the 1988 Bicentennial and the 2001 centenary of federation celebrations colonial images have flourished in Australia, highlighting the roles of convicts and free settlers during early colonization. Old sites, such as Port Arthur have been re-invigorated, and in 2004 Tasmanians celebrated the bicentenary of 'white' settlement. However, social scientists have given little attention to the r...

Peasant Prospects in the Neoliberal Age

Peasant prospects today are matters of significant contention, not least regarding the question of the recomposition of the peasantry. The question of the peasantry’s future links to another longstanding debate about the trajectory of capitalism. This continues the Marxist/populist debate over peasant prospects anchored in Lenin’s claim that what Russian Narodniks viewed as peasant ‘differentia...