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    common was made of some pulverised charcoal mixed with water, gum, sugar or some other sticky substance. Bhurjaputra was very smooth for writing, and a flat hollow pen (shown in Fig. 1 ) was frequently in use. In both north and south India, theses scripts took on distinctive characteristics apparently dictated by the materials on which they are written. In the north, witting was done either as carving in the stone or “with Indian ink paper or birch-bark.1” The writing of each letter was broken down

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    MODEL DRIVEN UI AUTOMATION & TESTING FOR EFFICIENT ORCHESTRATION OF PROVISIONING PROCESS. Ramya Bommanaboina, Electrical Engineering; Ericsson, Piscataway, NJ. To provide service innovation by turning the cloud into a source of operational efficiency, a seamless self-service management portal is imperative. The objective is to help ensure a high quality user interface is present within a product that allows the user to easily manage virtual components under an innovative cloud system. The UI of

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    Christopher “Alexander Supertramp” McCandless was a dreamer. However, unlike most of us nowadays, Christopher turned his desire for adventure into reality. Similar to Buddha, he gave up his wealth, family, home, and most possessions except the ones he carried before embarking on his journey. He traveled by various methods, mostly on foot, to eventually reach his desired goal in the Alaskan wilderness. Unfortunately, due to various mistakes, Christopher ultimately passed and his body was found in

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    The Chinese language is a diamond amidst the sea of common languages that one can encounter, more specifically the written aspect of the language. It is considered one of, if not the, oldest writing system in the world that is still in use today, although now they are altered and simplified the Chinese writing system and its characters have a very rich history indeed. This writing system is the same system that China used to compile what is now undisputedly the longest continuous documentation of

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    Propaganda in Mesopotamian Art Many pieces in Mesopotamia represent the status of the kings as being a greater figure than the common people and even an alike or greater figure than the gods. One piece that depicts the high status of the ruler is the “Fragment of the victory stele of Eannatum”, from Girsu, Iraq. ca. 2600-2500 BCE. On the stele, is Eannatum, who is the ruler who leads the battle, and obtained the city of Umma. He is depicted larger than the army, except Ningirsu, who chose him as

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    Computer Hackers Outline Thesis : Contrary to popular belief, not only do you not have to be smart to be a hacker, you do not even need to know much about computers. I. Hacking today A. More like exploration in the 60's and 70's B. Cannot call themselves hackers II. Different Types of hackers A. A hacker defined B. A cracker defined C. A phreaker defined III. You do not have to be intelligent A. Not like you have seen on television B. Programs used are highly

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    where writing first emerged. Pictograms, cuneiform tablets and hieroglyphs are just some of the very first forms of writings. In brief, pictograms, which later evolved into ideograms, used a pictorial symbol to convey a word or phrase. Cuneiform scripts used wedged-shaped characters impressed onto clay tablets. Lastly,

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    Civilizations like Egypt and Greece have received their due acknowledgment by society, it is however Mesopotamia that often does not get there just recognition for their contributions to civilization as we know it. In this paper, we will reflect on Mesopotamian society in hopes to illuminate its significance to the constructs of western society. In order to fully appreciate what Mesopotamia has contributed, it should be understood how exactly it was formed. Years before any dynasty, people lived

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    there are too few works reported on online cursive Bangla word recognition. Bangla is a complicated script and it needs rigorous investigations to implement a better recognition system. While we have sophisticated classifiers like Hidden Markov Models or BLSTM Neural Networks for recognition of complicated scripts, we have very little comparative studies about the appropriate feature sets for such scripts. In this paper, our aim is to implement an appropriate recognition system for author-independent

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    Egypt and Mesopotamia were the two greatest civilizations in ancient times because of the sophisticated way of living, but most importantly the way the kings rule over the people. These civilizations had aspects of their daily lives that were similar, and others in which they are different. Mesopotamians had an idea of expansion in mind, while Egyptians had an idea of internal ruling and making the people’s daily life peaceful and harmonic. In Ancient Mesopotamia the most readily available material

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