Late antique panegyrists often raise up their laudandi by casting a shadow on Homer and his (mainly Iliadic) heroes. This paper traces the history of an increasingly irreverent attitude towards Greece's foundational poet heroes within panegyric compositions asks what motivates this flamboyant rejection. The impact Christian mode exemplarity is incontestable, but cannot wholly account for develo...

In this paper, root stress, manufacturing possibilities and limitations of standard nonstandard tooth fillet spur gears are examined. Nowadays, trochoidal is used the most as an economical trade-off between strength complexity. A disadvantage fillet, especially in with less than 17 teeth, undercutting which minimises root, introduces stress concentration, deteriorates meshing conditions. This s...

Abstract The theory of international tax competition suggests that governments attempt to attract mobile capital bases by undercutting the foreign capital tax rate. An analysis of the role that state capacity plays in tax policymaking under international pressures is, however, missing. The central contribution of our study is to highlight the importance of the interaction between state capaci...

Part of the weakness feminist scholarship in Africa is its inability to turn knowledge generated universities (episteme) into popular opinion (doxa), thereby creating a dislocation between academic epistemic space and mainstream society. This article addresses how decolonised can ground equality by reconstructing doxa from traditional knowledge, as found proverbs. In accordance with AU Agenda 2...

In the standard thought experiments, dualism strikes many philosophers as true, including many non-dualists. This ‘striking’ generates prima facie justification: in the absence of defeaters, we ought to believe that things are as they seem to be, i.e. we ought to be dualists. In this paper, I examine several proposed undercutting defeaters for our dualist intuitions. I argue that each proposal ...

Cats trained to avoid a foot shock (US) when electrical stimulation (CS) was applied to homotopic areas on either the right or left marginal gyrus were subjected to various degrees of surgical isolation of the stimulated areas. For ten cats a U-shaped incision on one hemisphere isolated the stimulated area from most of the intracortical connections, and the contralateral area was undercut to el...

The paper studies the effects of non-exclusivity of credit card contracts on the provision of insurance through the institution of personal bankruptcy. In our model, lenders can continually observe borrower’s time-varying creditworthiness and provide credit to them by undercutting (poaching) the existing lender(s). Contracts are non-exclusive and, to rollover their debt, borrowers may accept mu...

Many exciting applications of information technology in schools validate that new technology-based models of teaching and learning have the power to dramatically improve educational outcomes. As a result, many people are asking how to scale-up the scattered, successful “islands of innovation” instructional technology has empowered into universal improvements in schooling enabled by major shifts...

An important source of antagonism between ethnic groups is hypothesized to be a split labor market, i.e. one in which there is a large differential in price of labor for the same occupation. The price of labor is not a response to race or ethnicity of those entering the labor market. A price differential results from differences in resources and motives which are often correlates of ethnicity. ...