Since collapse of the Soviet Empire and restoration of Georgia independence organization and structure changes have begun at the Georgian Technical University. During the Empire the name of this institution was Georgian Polytechnic Institute in which specialists were trained both for Georgia and other Soviet Republics only in engineering fields. After transformation of Georgian Polytechnic Inst...

EMPIRE is a massively parallel semiempirical (NDDO) molecular-orbital program designed to scale well both on single multi-core nodes (using open MP) and on large clusters (using a hybrid open MP/MPI model). The program design and performance are discussed for single self-consistent-field calculations on up to 76,800 atoms and on both singleand multi-node machines using either Windows 7 or Linux...

This article surveys the recent Marxist globalization debate and its roots in Marx’s post-1848 writings and the Lenin-Kautsky unity-rivalry debate on the eve of World War I. The post-1916 Marxist view of capitalist imperialism is contrasted with the Hardt-Negri “Leninist” view of global capitalism they call “empire.” To refute their thesis, the author analyzes the Lenin-Kautsky debate, proving ...

The history of public health is emerging as a major concern of contemporary historians of medicine. Of course, we had decades ago histories of public health in the United Kingdom, the home of the nineteenth-century sanitary idea. These were usually reliable accounts of legislative and administrative developments but were not very sensitive to the social, political, economic and cultural context...

This paper provides standardized estimates of labor productivity in arable farming in selected regions of the early Ottoman Empire, including Jerusalem and neighboring districts in eastern Mediterranean; Bursa and Malatya in Anatolia; and Thessaly, Herzegovina, and Budapest in eastern Europe. I use data from the tax registers of the Ottoman Empire to estimate grain output per worker, standardiz...

From the fourth century A.D. until the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the people of the Byzantine or Eastern Roman Empire participated in a wide range of sports and physical recreations. Most of these activities were inherited from Greek and Roman civilizations, or were introduced through contacts with Asia Minor and Crusading Europe. Some sport forms disappeared after a few centuries, while o...

In physical design and optimization for VLSI/ULSI, parameterized model order reduction can be used to handle large design objectives. In this paper we propose an efficient yet accurate parameterized model order reduction method EMPIRE for physical design with multiple parameters. It is the first practical algorithm using implicit moment matching to handle high order moments of very large number...