The transfiguration at Shivta. Retracing early Byzantine iconography

Visible induced luminescence reveals invisible rays shining from Christ in the early Christian wall painting of the Transfiguration in Shivta

The Transfiguration scene depicted in a Byzantine church at Shivta, Israel, is one of two figurative examples of the scene from the early Christian period. The use of Egyptian blue pigment in the wall painting was investigated with various analytical methods. Visible Induced Luminescence (VIL) imaging was used in-situ in order to map the distribution of the Egyptian blue pigment in the painting...

the stylistics study of byzantine iconography

byzantine iconography, due to the theoretical content ruling on it, has provided a close and fundamental link with christian theology and the resolutions ruling on it, especially the most fundamental ones, namely incarnation of word in the form of picture. however, this artistic form has been able to show a good reflection of many aspects of the social life and even the popular beliefs of its s...

‘Transfiguration’

Retracing CSP

The original CSP was a language for parallel imperative programs communicating by synchronized message-passing. Most of the early foundational work concerned a more abstract process algebra, now known as Theoretical CSP (or TCSP). The early semantic models involved communication traces, refusals, failures, and divergence traces. These models support compositional reasoning about safety properti...

The Byzantine Agreement Problem: Optimal Early Stopping

This paper addresses solutions to the problem of reaching agreement in the presence of faults. Whereas the need for agreement has surfaced mainly in fault tolerant real-time applications, agreement can be a useful mechanism in network security to mask intrusions. However, due to the communication overhead involved and the fact that the system is expected to operate without problems most of the ...