“When, on May 13, 1888, Princess Isabel signed the Golden Law there were still 723,419 slaves in our country. To reach that victory, that has maintained the name of The Redeemer [Isabel] in the hearts of Brazilians, the entire nation mobilized; the parties rose up; for many years Parliament was in a constant state of agitation; much of the press went all out for the liberation of the slaves. [N...

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...