This paper focuses on a set of structured document applications that we have denoted databases of historical documents. The information into these documents is closely related to the time in which they are created while being still of great usefulness in the future. The main contribution of this paper is the formulation of a group of operators and predicates that express retrieval conditions ov...

How does the magnitude of the output response to a change in government spending vary over the business cycle? What are the welfare effects of fiscal shocks? This paper studies the state-dependence of the output and welfare effects of shocks to government purchases in a DSGE model with a number of real and nominal frictions and a rich fiscal financing structure. Both the output multiplier (the ...

The development of IC industry in Taiwan began with a technology transfer from the U.S. based RCA Company, which was conducted by Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). ITRI’s Technology Transfer Team (TTT) members were first incubated in the National Laboratories at ITRI, and then dispatched to spin-off companies in the Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park (HSIP). Many of these TTT me...

The Qing Imperial Court documents are a major source of primary research material for studying the Qing era China since they provide the most direct and first-hand details of how national affairs were handled. However, the way Qing archived these documents has made it cumbersome to collect documents covering the same event and rebuild their original contexts. In this paper, we describe some inf...

Illustrations by the Dutch renaissance artists Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Jan Wierix both show a man imprisoned on a pillory, a former place of enforcement of judicial sentences, and playing a musical instrument. Taken as legal iconographic sources, these illustrations of the old saying 'He plays on the pillory' can be understood as references to a specific kind of punishment used in the Midd...

Abstract This article concerns how Armenian communities throughout the 1st millennium A.D. reinterpreted and redeployed cuneiform inscriptions originally carved in Iron Age as meaningful traces of local past. It focuses on deliberate re-use by early Christians Iron-Age stelae bearing Urartian region around Lake Van. Scholars have noted such passing since 19th century , but there has been no con...

Abstract This article presents a study of the historical dynamics human impact on landscapes Vitosha Mountain, Bulgaria. Information about main and present-day anthropogenic impacts was obtained from various data sources field research. These include hunting, agriculture, grazing, logging, charcoal production, iron gold mining, stone quarry, reforestation, recreation. Five phases are recognized...

during the course of our studies on archaeometallurgy in southeastern iran, we tried to survey the triangle of the sirdjān, neiriz and shahr- e- bābak. as a result, remains of old iron mining residues of smelting furnaces, and iron smelting slag heaps were observed and recorded. a few samples of iron ore and smelting slag have been analysed classically and instrumentally. according to the acq...

The China Historical GIS project is developing a set of free tools and datasets covering the geographic space that has, at one time or another, been nominally part of China. The idea is to provide a generic digital platform for historical places that can be seamlessly integrated with a wide variety of contemporary GIS data, but which is not tied to a single data source. The CHGIS data model ena...