The Palenque, a black community in rural Colombia, have an oral history of fugitive African slaves founding a free village near Cartagena in the seventeenth century. Recently, linguists have identified some 200 words in regular use that originate in a Kikongo language, with Yombe, mainly spoken in the Congo region, being the most likely source. The non-recombining portion of the Y chromosome (N...

Changes in the natural behavior, expressing adaptation to cohabitation in a community, were observed in the slave-making ants P. rufescens and the slave-species F. fusca and F. cinerea. After a few raids, the initially undirected arousal evoked in the slaves by the amazons' raids, begins to acquire attributes appropriate to the situation, but completely different in both studied slave-species. ...

Bluetooth is a personal wireless communication technology and is being applied in many scenarios. It is an emerging standard for short range, low cost, low power wireless access technology. Current existing MAC (Medium Access Control) scheduling schemes only provide best-effort service for all masterslave connections. It is very challenging to provide QoS (Quality of Service) support for differ...

In this paper, we deal with the optimal topology design in wireless personal area networks based on the Bluetooth technology. The problem consists in determining how to connect network nodes and group them into piconets in such a way that the system performance is optimized. Each piconet includes one central controller, the master, and several nodes called slaves. Since one of the major issues ...

An assay technique, homogeneous enzyme immunoassay, is described for the quantitative determination of morphine derivatives in biological fluids. An enzyme is labeled with morphine. When the enzymelabeled morphine is bound by antimorphine antibodies, the enzyme is rendered inactive. Free morphine competes with enzyme-morphine for antibody binding sites preventing inhibition of enzyme activity. ...

This essay examines the significance of Edward Gibbon Wakefield’s theory ‘systematic colonisation’ within transition from Caribbean slavery to settler colonisation reveal sequential relationship these two imperial systems. In context industrialisation and social unrest, anti-slavery movement performed an important purpose for Britain’s ruling classes by simultaneously accruing moral authority s...

Abstract While slavery was unconventional in Northeast Asia the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it has been documented Korea from Three Kingdoms period (BC 57–AD 668). In 1731, a new regulation introduced that stipulated child slave only if its mother slave, regardless of status child’s father. This led to dramatic decrease number slaves. addition, slaves also deserted more frequently afte...

Current web-based visualizations are designed for single computers and cannot make use of multiple devices, even when a user has access to not only a laptop, but also a tablet and a smartphone. We present VisHive, a JavaScript toolkit for constructing web-based visualization applications that can transparently connect multiple devices—called cells—into an ad-hoc cluster—called a hive—for local ...

For moral reasons, we should not (now or in the future) create robots to replace humans in every undesirable job. At least some of the labour we might hope to avoid will require human-equivalent intelligence. If we make machines with human-equivalent intelligence then we must start thinking about them as our moral equivalents. If they are our moral equivalents then it is prima facie wrong to ow...