Wars of Historical Memory: Social Objectives

The Role of Social Networks in the Historical Memory of the Iranian Society (Case Study of Telegram Social Network)

Nowadays, social networks have become the cradle of public opinion and interpersonal communication in the Iranian community and have therefore attracted many scholars. These networks, with numerous and deep social impacts, have become the information feeds of various generations of the society, and the public generally receives most of their data -correctly or incorrectly- through social networ...

Historical Archaeology in Africa: Representation, Social Memory, and Oral Traditions

Social objectives in general equilibrium

I consider an exchange economy in which each agent’s preferences are given by Ui = ui + θF , where ui is a standard utility function, F is a social objective function and θ is the weight F receives. Both F and θ are common to all individuals. I show that F ’s equilibrium value may be a decreasing function of θ. I also show that if F is a social welfare function whose argument are the ui’s, then...

Nursing developments in Iran during World Wars I & II: A historical study

Background and Purpose: Iran's nursing has witnessed remarkable changes in the period 1914 to 1945 that could be a turning point in the history of the nursing professionin Iran. This paper is a survey of modern nursing transformation history in the historical period of the World Warsand their impacton the development of the nursing profession in Iran. Methods: In the present historical study, f...

Superoptimizing Memory Subsystems for Multiple Objectives

We consider the automatic determination of application-specific memory subsystems via superoptimization, with the goals of reducing memory access time and of minimizing writes. The latter goal is of concern for memories with limited write endurance. Our subsystems outperform general-purpose memory subsystems in terms of performance, number of writes, or both.