Towards a Practical Criticism of Caesar's Prose Style

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Email Analysis and Information Extraction for Enterprise Benefit

In spite of rapid advances in multimedia and interactive technologies, enterprise users prefer to battle with email spam and overload rather than lose the benefits of communicating, collaborating and solving business tasks over email. Many aspects of email have significantly improved over time, but its overall integration with the enterprise environment remained practically the same. In this paper we describe and evaluate a light-weight approach to enterprise email communication analysis and information extraction. We provide several use cases exploiting the extracted information, such as the enrichment of emails with relevant contextual information, social network extraction and its subsequent search, creation of semantic objects as well as the relationship between email analysis and information extraction on one hand, and email protocols and email servers on the other. The proposed approach was partially tested on several small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and seems to be promising for enterprise interoperability and collaboration in SMEs that depend on emails to accomplish their daily business tasks

A Flexible Approach Towards Self-Adapting Process Recommendations

A company's ability to flexibly adapt to changing business requirements is one key factor to remain competitive. The required flexibility in people driven processes is usually achieved through ad-hoc workflows which are naturally highly unstructured. Effective guidance in ad-hoc workflows therefore requires a simultaneous consideration of multiple goals: support of individual work habits, classification of unstructured messages, exploration of crowd process knowledge, and automatic adaptation to changes. This paper presents a flexible approach towards the mapping of unstructured messages onto processes as well as patterns for self-adjusting and context-sensitive process recommendations based on the analysis of user behavior, crowd processes, and continuous application of process detection. Specifically, we classify users as eagles (i.e., specialists) or flock. The approach is evaluated in the context of the European research project Commius

From Ploughing the Wilderness to Hedging the Vineyard: Meanings and uses of Husbandry among Quakers, C. 1650-C. 1860

The parable of the husbandman was of great significance to Protestants of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, for many early modern religious groups developed aspects of their beliefs and identities through its interpretation. This article considers the ways in which re presentations of the husbandman differed between Friends and other Protestants, and particularly evolved within Quakerism from the mid-seventeenth to mid-nineteenth centuries. It considers broad shifts, starting fr om the desire to cultivate the literal and spiritual wilderness described by George Fox, and culminating in the need for spiritual husbandmen to maintain the protective \u27hedge\u27 and keep the existing stock, particularly Friends\u27 children, safe from intrusion

Excavation of the Late-Celtic urn-field at Swarling, Kent

This is an account of the excavations on the site of the a Late Celtic urn-field at Swarling, in Kent, England, undertaken in 1921. Included are descriptions of artefacts such as pottery and human remains, together with an account of the methodology used to unearth these

Znaczenie Commiusa w Cezariańskim systemie klientelnym na terenie Galii w latach 57–52 przed Chr.

In 57–52 BC, the Atrebate king Commius played an important role in Caesar’s clientage system established in Gaul, stabilizing the northern border and protecting it against Germans and other Belgic tribes. Commius’ cooperation with Caesar was mainly diplomatic, because the Atrebates’ military involvement in the Roman conquests remained entirely symbolic. The wide range of political freedom given to Commius meant that he gradually strengthened his own position and that of his family, trying to avoid open conflicts with neighbors. At the same time, he maintained good relations with the peoples of Britain, which resulted from the ongoing settlement of the Atrebates on the other side of the English Channel. When Commius abandoned Caesar’s case in 52 BC, the proconsul had to deal with the former client who had serious diplomatic and military potential, and was respected among many Gallic tribes.W latach 57–52 przed Chr. król Atrebatów Commius odgrywał istotną rolę w Cezariańskim systemie klientelnym ustanowionym na obszarze Galii, stabilizując północną granicę i chroniąc ją przed atakami Germanów i innych plemion belgijskich. Współpraca Commiusa z Cezarem przebiegała przy tym głównie na niwie dyplomatycznej, ponieważ zaangażowanie militarne Atrebatów w rzymskie podboje pozostawało symboliczne. Szeroki zakres politycznej swobody pozostawiony Commiusowi sprawił, że sukcesywnie wzmacniał pozycję własną i własnego rodu, starając się unikać otwartych konfliktów z sąsiadami. Równocześnie utrzymywał dobre relacje z ludami Brytanii, co wynikało z trwającego osadnictwa Atrebatów po drugiej stronie kanału La Manche. Kiedy więc Commius porzucił sprawę Cezara w 52 r. przed Chr., prokonsul stanął przed koniecznością mierzenia się z byłym klientem, który dysponował poważnym potencjałem dyplomatycznym i militarnym, a do tego cieszył się szacunkiem wśród wielu plemion galijskich

To the Edge of the World: Julius Caesar\u27s First Invasion of Britain

In 54 BC, during his time as Proconsul, Julius Caesar decided to invade Britain. Despite lack of intelligence, Caesar went ahead with the invasion. In his battles with the native Britons, Caesar narrowly avoided defeat, and had to return to the continent with nothing material to show for it. However, Caesar\u27s first campaign gave him vital information on the Britons, furthered his political career, and prepared him for his second invasio