Romanian small towns - urban settlements of less than 20000 inhabitants, having a polarizing function with respect to the socio-economic activities in the deeply gildan midnight rural areas - are considered an interface between rural and urban communities.Determining the identity of small towns is rather difficult, because complex and varied politi
This paper highlights the importance of books as dynamic actors within the Republic of Letters by means of multi-layered visualizations of epistolary networks.In the past decade, it has become increasingly common to make use of networks to study shifts in early modern scholarly exchange.Originally, almost all of these studies employed a single-laye
Studies of a communication deficit in the European Union (EU) have hardly taken a systematic look at the site where most of the political communication output is being created: within the elite bubble of EU politicians and correspondents in Brussels.This study builds on the communication culture approach to describe and explain the basic attitudina
Multiobjective reliability-redundancy allocation problem (MORRAP) needs to maximize system reliability and minimize cost, weight, and volume with underlining constraints.In the systems’ design and analysis phase, uncertainties can occur from various sources, such as manufacturing variability, environmental conditions, user behavior, etc.To d