As Christianity eventually flourished and spread throughout the Western world, things became complicated. As the faith’s popularity rose, so did the power vested in those who sat in the papal seat.

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I am writing anonymously in my capacity as a senior executive of a large organisation operating in the Cayman Islands. I support the objective of improving employment outcomes ...

Abstract: Motivated by modern applications such as computerized adaptive testing, sequential rank aggregation, and heterogeneous data source selection, we study the problem of active sequential ...

Abstract: The distributed no-idle permutation flowshop scheduling problem (DNIPFSP) has widely existed in various manufacturing systems. The makespan and total tardiness are optimized simultaneously ...