Objective/Context: This article aims to discuss the idea of “good treatment” given slaves, as well concept benevolence and paternalism in rural Brazilian properties, by using data on Benedictine Congregation Brazil, it was richest most influential religious order country nineteenth century. Methodology: The documentation analyzed based “antidiscipline” coined Michel de Certeau. sources highligh...

We build an analytical model for an application utilizing master-slave paradigm. In the model, only three architecture parameters are used: latency, bandwidth and flop rate. Instead of using the vendor supplied or experimentally determined values, these parameters are estimated using the analytical model itself. Experimental results on Cray T3E and SGI Origin 2000 indicate that this simple mode...

It is well-known that the time and memory necessary to create a codebook from large training databases have hindered the vector quantization based systems for real applications. To overcome this problem, we present a parallel approach for the K-means Vector Quantization (VQ) algorithm based on master/slave paradigm and lowcost parallel cluster computing. Distributing the training samples over t...

The reallocation of property rights at the transition from slavery to free labor in Brazil, the US South, Jamaica, among others, was followed in most cases by a sharp fall in GDP per capita. One theory for the higher productivity of slaves claims it was the coercion available to slave-owners and not to employers. A second argues that plantations were using various incentives – more food, time o...

Due to the increasing demand for mobility in the area of distributed systems, the use of wireless communication gains in importance. We present a wireless real-time communication protocol for the interconnection of several possibly mobile fieldbus clusters. The protocol is based on the time-triggered paradigm. A single dedicated master node is used to keep the clocks of all slaves synchronized,...