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arXiv Open Access 2025
Neural Style Transfer for Synthesising a Dataset of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Lewis Matheson Creed

The limited availability of training data for low-resource languages makes applying machine learning techniques challenging. Ancient Egyptian is one such language with few resources. However, innovative applications of data augmentation methods, such as Neural Style Transfer, could overcome these barriers. This paper presents a novel method for generating datasets of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs by applying NST to a digital typeface. Experimental results found that image classification models trained on NST-generated examples and photographs demonstrate equal performance and transferability to real unseen images of hieroglyphs.

en cs.LG, cs.CL
arXiv Open Access 2023
SikuGPT: A Generative Pre-trained Model for Intelligent Information Processing of Ancient Texts from the Perspective of Digital Humanities

Liu Chang, Wang Dongbo, Zhao Zhixiao et al.

The rapid advance in artificial intelligence technology has facilitated the prosperity of digital humanities research. Against such backdrop, research methods need to be transformed in the intelligent processing of ancient texts, which is a crucial component of digital humanities research, so as to adapt to new development trends in the wave of AIGC. In this study, we propose a GPT model called SikuGPT based on the corpus of Siku Quanshu. The model's performance in tasks such as intralingual translation and text classification exceeds that of other GPT-type models aimed at processing ancient texts. SikuGPT's ability to process traditional Chinese ancient texts can help promote the organization of ancient information and knowledge services, as well as the international dissemination of Chinese ancient culture.

en cs.CL
arXiv Open Access 2023
Rotational symmetry of ancient solutions to fully nonlinear curvature flows

A. Cogo, S. Lynch, O. Vičánek Martínez

We address the classification of ancient solutions to fully nonlinear curvature flows for hypersurfaces. Under natural conditions on the speed of motion we classify ancient solutions which are convex, noncollapsing, uniformly two-convex and noncompact. There are exactly two possibilities -- every such solution is either a self-similarly shrinking cylinder, or else is a rotationally symmetric translating soliton. For a large class of flows this yields a complete classification of the blow-up limits that can arise at a singularity of a solution which is compact, embedded and two-convex.

en math.DG, math.AP
DOAJ Open Access 2023
To the Cursus Honorum of Philaretos Brachamios

Valerii Pavlovich Stepanenko

Philaretos Brachamios was a well-known personality who found himself at the center of Byzantine Middle Eastern politics after 1071. His anme appeared in the works of Armenian (Matt‘eos Urhayets‘i) and Syrian (Michael the Syrian) writers. Anna Komnena’s work preserved vague echoes of him. Philaretos’ cursus honorum is known primarily according to sigillography. This, however, concerns the last period of his activity from 1071 to 1093. When the Byzantine troops were crashed at Mantzikert, Emperor Romanos Diogenes lost the civil ware, he was taken captive and blinded in Adana, and a coup d’etat took place in Constantinople. The territories of the eastern themes of Byzantium were cut off from Constantinople by the Seljuks and acquired temporary autonomy. The contacts with Constantinople, which had lost control over these territories, were restored under Nikephoros Botaneiates (1077–1081) and were maintained under Alexios Komnenos, who overthrew the former. Philaretos became an autonomous, actually an independent ruler of the eastern themes, and the central government had to recognise it. This development reflected in the growth of the title. Philaretos’ cursus honorum prior to 1071 is known much worser, as only a small number of seals related to him survived. Recent publications of new seals allow the one to reconstruct his career more or less completely, with many of its periods still remaining poorly studied.

Ancient history, Medieval history
DOAJ Open Access 2023
Gadugi: Reclaiming Native American Education through a Culturally Reflective Pedagogy

James A. Bryant, Jr.

The history of American Indian education has been one of colonialism and cultural erasure. From the first missionary educators who first came to the Indigenous nations of the Americas well into the twentieth century, Native children have been subjected to physical, mental and emotional abuse. This paper examines one program’s efforts at reclaiming the educational process for American Indian children and youth through an immersive, culturally relevant and reflective pedagogy. The Gadugi Partnership is a dual enrollment collaboration between Appalachian State University and Cherokee High School that endeavors to use traditional Cherokee values and practices within the classroom to promote Cherokee culture, history, and language. With particular focus on the ancient Cherokee ideal of gadugi—service—I argue that this model of education holds promise for making formal education responsive to the needs of Cherokee youth, as well as allowing them the chance to practice and promote this ideal within their community. The Cherokee people have always valued education; it is time education value the Cherokee people. I will argue that the methods and approach of the Gadugi Partnership is a step in that important direction.

DOAJ Open Access 2023
Human Security, Individualism and Collectivism

Ashok Natarajan

The quest for human security has pitted the individual against the collective throughout history. Individualism and collectivism are two competing philosophical and social movements that have divided the world for centuries and trace their origin back to ancient times. They are founded on different interpretations of the value and place of freedom and equality in society. The individual seeks the protection and support of the collective while at the same time insisting on freedom for personal self-expression and action without hindrance by the collective. The collective seeks the allegiance and conformity of the individual to the laws and dictates of central authority in the name of collective security and wellbeing, which is often perceived by the individual as a threat to personal security rather than assurance of it. Therefore, any ultimate solution to the quest for human security must necessarily address and reconcile these apparently contradictory viewpoints and arrive at a perspective that resolves them into complementary dimensions of a greater whole. This article traces the development of individualism in the West and positive and negative characteristics associated with its more extreme manifestations in order to understand both the strengths that perpetuate it and the weaknesses that continuously erode its stability. It points to the emergence of a reconciling formula based on a shift from individualism to mature individuality and the prevailing struggle within democratic societies in recent times. An evolutionary progression of this character constitutes an essential condition for arriving at a sound, stable, universal foundation for human security for all.

International relations, Economic growth, development, planning
arXiv Open Access 2022
Ancient solutions and translators of Lagrangian mean curvature flow

Jason D. Lotay, Felix Schulze, Gábor Székelyhidi

Suppose that $\mathcal{M}$ is an almost calibrated, exact, ancient solution of Lagrangian mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{C}^n$. We show that if $\mathcal{M}$ has a blow-down given by the static union of two Lagrangian subspaces with distinct Lagrangian angles that intersect along a line, then $\mathcal{M}$ is a translator. In particular in $\mathbb{C}^2$, all almost calibrated, exact, ancient solutions of Lagrangian mean curvature flow with entropy less than 3 are special Lagrangian, a union of planes, or translators.

arXiv Open Access 2021
A uniform Sobolev inequality for ancient Ricci flows with bounded Nash entropy

Pak-Yeung Chan, Zilu Ma, Yongjia Zhang

This note is a continuation of [CMZ21]. We shall show that an ancient Ricci flow with uniformly bounded Nash entropy must also have uniformly bounded $ν$-functional. Consequently, on such an ancient solution there are uniform logarithmic Sobolev and Sobolev inequalities. We emphasize that the main theorem in this paper is true so long as the theory in [Bam20c] is valid, and in particular, when the underlying manifold is closed.

en math.DG
DOAJ Open Access 2021
Autopoiesis of the Discourse of Religious Tolerance (Early Intercultural Communication in the 19th Century)

A. Yu. Bendin, N. M. Markova

The problem of religious tolerance is becoming more and more relevant both for the Russian Federation and the modern world as a whole, since not only the media, but also academic publications almost every day inform us about conflicts between religious communities of local and global scale. The article examines a number of new aspects of the phenomenon of religious tolerance that are revealed when it is described as an autopoiesis of a specific intercultural communicative discourse. This specific discourse is explicitly presented in the texts of the 19th centuries and later texts included in the database of the academic linguistic resource National Corpus of the Russian Language. The texts manifest special forms of implicit tolerance, which is formed, developed and transformed in the global context of intercultural communication, which seeks to distribute the true (“due”, “normative”) and superstitious (“false”, “forbidden”). Starting with the most ancient texts supersticious is intended to mark the difference between permissible (“tolerant”, “ridiculed”) and the unconditionally forbidden (“dangerous”, “intolerant”). The development of communication from the most ancient face-to-face communication to written forms in urban cultures and mass media images of global reality contributes to the formation of an imperial understanding of local features in modern culture. A number of materials from the Russian history of the 19th century show us in detail the development of discourse of tolerance in dialectics with the discourse of intolerance. We can see it from the era of the creation of the Holly Alliance by Alexander I, in which Orthodox Christians, Catholics and Lutherans were proclaimed one Christian people to protective triad of Uvarov and national romanticism, which sought not only to distance itself from everything different, but also to enter into a multifaceted intercultural dialogue. This development placed issues concerning true

Philosophy. Psychology. Religion

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