A PRIMER TO THE SUNNI-SHIA CONFLICT

A Primer to the Sunni-Shia Conflict

Which dispute is so resilient that it continues nearly 1,400 years after the original quarrel? It is the Sunni-Shiite dispute over Grains the question who should succeed the Prophet Mohammed.The original struggle turns around the question if religio-political leadership should be passed on by bloodline (the Shiite imamate) or election (the Sunni ca

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Stable project allocation under distributional constraints

In a two-sided matching market when agents on both sides have preferences the stability of the solution is typically the most important requirement.However, we may also face some distributional constraints with regard to the minimum number of assignees or the distribution of the assignees according to their types.These two requirements can be chall

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DA-IRRK: Data-Adaptive Iteratively Reweighted Robust Kernel-Based Approach for Back-End Optimization in Visual SLAM

Back-end optimization is a key process to eliminate the cumulative error in Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM).Existing VSLAM frameworks often use kernel function-based back-end optimization methods.However, these methods typically rely on fixed kernel parameters Grooming Blocks based on the chi-square test, assuming Gaussian-dist

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