The number and variety of IP applications have hugely increased in the last few years. Among them, peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing applications have become very popular: more users are continuously joining such systems and more objects are being made available, seducing even more users to join. An accurate mapping of traffic to applications is important for a wide range of network management ta...

The paper develops comparative studies of Shevchenko’s story “The Convict” (“Varnak”) in a typological series with Western European works about the ‘noble robber’, namely comparison novella “Michael Kohlhaas” by Heinrich von Kleist and novel “Jean Sbogar” Charles Nodier. Tere is no mention these writers Shevchenko‘s heritage; neither had been translated into Russian during his lifetime, althoug...

This article will discuss multiple instances of fame in postmodern fictional works. The authors chosen are Philip Roth, the American author well known for works such as “I Married a Communist”, “The Human Stain”, Dying Animal” etc. and Marin Preda, Romanian who wrote Moromete Family”, Intruder”, Delirium”. novels representing literary current this “merican Pastoral (1997)” Most Beloved Earthlin...

the myth of the descent of adam, with all its complexities, has being preoccupied the mind of human kind from the very beginning stages of creation. the holy books of torah, bible and quran have each paid to different angles of this legend. studying the modern poetry, it can be found that the contemporary poets have been under the influence of quran and have used the teachings of old and new te...

middle-aged lesbian reveals 'that the mother was owner of a brothel' as the cause. Severe vertigo is traced to the patient possibly having seen her father urinating: the case confirms 'the optimistic assertion that the prognosis for the psychoanalysis of agoraphobia, given a long time for treatment, is an entirely favourable one'. And so on through 'obscene words', 'morning erections', 'smoking...

In the last decades, under the headings of ‘‘mutation strategies,’’ ‘‘evolvability,’’ or ‘‘soft inheritance,’’ many ideas have been advanced on mechanisms assumed to promote innovative evolution beyond what one may anticipate from the classical model of random mutation and selection. Many population geneticists find these ideas superficially seducing but mathematically unfounded. While agreeing...

When studying patrimonial edifices or sites, documentary sources, may they originate from archives or from contemporary survey campaigns, provide partial evidences from which the researcher will infer possible scenarios on how an edifice or site may have evolved throughout the centuries. Documentation analysis and visualisation are therefore vital to the understanding of the architectural herit...

If you have spent any time with young people in the last 10 years, you know how enthralled they are by the electronic technology. But if you review the research on youth and technology, the themes are mostly about danger and distress. Is this because the technology is indeed a new ‘pied piper’ seducing innocents into dangers unaware? Or is this the sign of a generational-gap alarmism that has d...

Anthony Leigh (d. 1692) built his career as a Restoration comedic actor by playing combination of queer, lascivious, old, and/or disabled men to audiences’ great delight. In this essay, I key in on two plays that frame Leigh’s career: Thomas Durfey’s The Fond Husband (1677) and Southerne’s Sir Love (1690). Husband, younger “superannuated,” almost blind deaf Old Fumble who, the first act, kisses...

In the field of the architectural heritage, documentation analysis and organisation are vital to the researcher when trying to understand the evolution of edifices and sites. Documentary sources provide partial evidences from which one will infer possible scenarios on how an edifice may have changed throughout the centuries. But the growing mass of documents researchers handle has underlined th...