The Portrayal of Pompeian Bacchus

Fahiem Bacchus

Markov decision processes (MDPs) are a very popular tool for decision theoretic planning (DTP), partly because of the welldeveloped, expressive theory that includes effective solution techniques. But the Markov assumption-that dynamics and rewards depend on the current state only, and not on historyis often inappropriate. This is especially true of rewards: we frequently wish to associate rewar...

Reconstructing Pompeian Households

A database of objects discovered in houses in the Roman city of Pompeii provides a unique view of ordinary life in an ancient city. Experts have used this collection to study the structure of Roman households, exploring the distribution and variability of tasks in architectural spaces, but such approaches are necessarily affected by modern cultural assumptions. In this study we present a data-d...

The Portrayal of Women in English Films Localized into Persian

Audiovisual translation, the same as other forms of intercultural communication, tends to intervene with the original in order to comply with the norms of the receiving culture. Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the Iranian cinema has resorted to a conservative approach wherein the portrayal of the role of women, among other cultural issues, has been controlled to adapt to the Islamic thoug...

Bacchus in the laboratory: in defense of scientific puns.

RUNNING HEAD: NEWSPAPER PORTRAYAL OF OBESITY 1 The Portrayal of Obesity in UK National Newspapers

Obesity is a major medical health challenge; however, the associated stigma represents a harmful and obstructive obstacle to treatment. The study purpose was to explore the portrayal of obesity in UK national newspapers. A purposive sample of 312 editions (weekday: n = 208; weekend: n = 104) from six newspapers (3 broadsheet; 3 tabloid) was analysed. All text related to obesity was content anal...