Index structures in early Hebrew Biblical word lists

2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 178-186
Author(s):  
Bella Hass Weinberg
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Index Structure ◽  
Index Structures ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Indexing Methods ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Latin Language ◽  
Word Lists ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Frequency Counts

The earliest Hebrew Masoretic Bibles and word lists are analyzed from the perspective of index structure. Masoretic Bibles and word lists may have served as models for the first complete Biblical concordances, which were produced in France, in the Latin language, in the 13th century. The thematic Hebrew Biblical word lists compiled by the Masoretes several centuries earlier contain concordance-like structures - words arranged alphabetically, juxtaposed with the Biblical phrases in which they occur. The Hebrew lists lack numeric locators, but the locations of the phrases in the Bible would have been familiar to learned people. The indexing methods of the Masoretes are not known, but their products contain many structures commonly thought to date from the modern era of information systems, among them word frequency counts, distinction of homographs, positional indexing, truncation, adjacency, and permuted indexes. It is documented that Hebrew Bibles were consulted by the Latin concorders; since Masoretic Bibles had the most accurate text, they were probably the editions consulted. This suggests the likely influence of Masoretic lists on the Latin concorders.

The Fall of Tripoli in 1289 in the Perception of Christian Communities of the Middle East

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
К.А. Панченко
Keyword(s):  
Educational Level ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Political Orientation ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Religious Polemics

Abstract The article examines the conquest of the County of Tripoli by the Mamelukes in 1289, and the reaction of various Middle Eastern ethnoreligious groups to this event. Along with the Monophysite perspective (the Syriac chronicle of Bar Hebraeus’ Continuator and the work of the Coptic historian Mufaddal ibn Abi-l-Fadail), and the propagandist texts of Muslim Arabic panegyric poets, we will pay special attention to the historical memory of the Orthodox (Melkite) and Maronite communities of northern Lebanon. The contemporary of these events — the Orthodox author Suleiman al-Ashluhi, a native of one of the villages of the Akkar Plateau — laments the fall of Tripoli in his rhymed eulogy. It is noteworthy that this author belongs to the rural Melkite subculture, which — in spite of its conservative character — was capable of producing original literature. Suleiman al-Ashluhi’s work was forsaken by the following generations of Melkites; his poem was only preserved in Maronite manuscripts. Maronite historical memory is just as fragmented. The father of the Modern Era Maronite historiography — Gabriel ibn al-Qilaʿî († 1516) only had fragmentary information on the history of his people in the 13th century: local chronicles and the heroic epos that glorified the Maronite struggle against the Muslim lords that tried to conquer Mount Lebanon. Gabriel’s depiction of the past is not only biased and subject to aims of religious polemics, but also factually inaccurate. Nevertheless, the texts of Suleiman al-Ashluhi and Gabriel ibn al-Qilaʿî give us the opportunity to draw conclusions on the worldview, educational level, political orientation and peculiar traits of the historical memory of various Christian communities of Mount Lebanon.

scholarly journals Efficient Retrieval of Music Recordings Using Graph-Based Index Structures

Signals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 336-352
Author(s):  
Frank Zalkow ◽  
Julian Brandner ◽  
Meinard Müller
Keyword(s):  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Response Times ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Nearest Neighbor Search ◽  
Index Structure ◽  
Search Problem ◽  
Index Structures ◽  
Music Retrieval ◽  
Retrieval Systems ◽  
Music Recordings

Flexible retrieval systems are required for conveniently browsing through large music collections. In a particular content-based music retrieval scenario, the user provides a query audio snippet, and the retrieval system returns music recordings from the collection that are similar to the query. In this scenario, a fast response from the system is essential for a positive user experience. For realizing low response times, one requires index structures that facilitate efficient search operations. One such index structure is the K-d tree, which has already been used in music retrieval systems. As an alternative, we propose to use a modern graph-based index, denoted as Hierarchical Navigable Small World (HNSW) graph. As our main contribution, we explore its potential in the context of a cross-version music retrieval application. In particular, we report on systematic experiments comparing graph- and tree-based index structures in terms of the retrieval quality, disk space requirements, and runtimes. Despite the fact that the HNSW index provides only an approximate solution to the nearest neighbor search problem, we demonstrate that it has almost no negative impact on the retrieval quality in our application. As our main result, we show that the HNSW-based retrieval is several orders of magnitude faster. Furthermore, the graph structure also works well with high-dimensional index items, unlike the tree-based structure. Given these merits, we highlight the practical relevance of the HNSW graph for music information retrieval (MIR) applications.

scholarly journals Selective caching: a persistent memory approach for multi-dimensional index structures

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Attahir Jibril ◽  
Philipp Götze ◽  
David Broneske ◽  
Kai-Uwe Sattler
Keyword(s):  
Main Memory ◽  
Index Structure ◽  
Index Structures ◽  
Cloud Infrastructure ◽  
General Technique ◽  
Persistent Memory ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Cloud Applications ◽  
Memory Layout ◽  
Analytical Index

AbstractAfter the introduction of Persistent Memory in the form of Intel’s Optane DC Persistent Memory on the market in 2019, it has found its way into manifold applications and systems. As Google and other cloud infrastructure providers are starting to incorporate Persistent Memory into their portfolio, it is only logical that cloud applications have to exploit its inherent properties. Persistent Memory can serve as a DRAM substitute, but guarantees persistence at the cost of compromised read/write performance compared to standard DRAM. These properties particularly affect the performance of index structures, since they are subject to frequent updates and queries. However, adapting each and every index structure to exploit the properties of Persistent Memory is tedious. Hence, we require a general technique that hides this access gap, e.g., by using DRAM caching strategies. To exploit Persistent Memory properties for analytical index structures, we propose selective caching. It is based on a mixture of dynamic and static caching of tree nodes in DRAM to reach near-DRAM access speeds for index structures. In this paper, we evaluate selective caching on the OLAP-optimized main-memory index structure Elf, because its memory layout allows for an easy caching. Our experiments show that if configured well, selective caching with a suitable replacement strategy can keep pace with pure DRAM storage of Elf while guaranteeing persistence. These results are also reflected when selective caching is used for parallel workloads.

scholarly journals Penggunaan Rotan Dalam Pendisiplinan Anak Menurut Kitab Amsal 23:13-14

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yushak Soesilo
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Text Study ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Children Rights

Pendisiplinan anak secara keras telah dianggap sebagai cara kuno dan tidak beradab pada era modern yang benar-benar menaruh penghargaan yang tinggi pada hak asazi manusia. Cara yang dipakai lebih banyak menggunakan pendekatan yang penuh dengan toleransi terhadap kehendak anak. Namun demikian, pada kenyataannya metode pendisiplinan secara lunak tersebut nampaknya telah menimbulkan permasalah baru, diantaranya hilangnya rasa hormat anak terhadap otoritas yang sepatutnya dihormati. Amsal 23:13-14 adalah merupakan salah satu contoh bagaimana Alkitab mengajarkan cara untuk mendisiplinkan anak. Melalui kajian terhadap teks tersebut dapat diambil kesimpulan bahwa pendisiplinan anak dengan menggunakan rotan adalah sesuatu yang relevan untuk diterapkan. Meskipun nampak keras, namun metode pendisiplinan tersebut tidak melanggar hak anak, sebaliknya dapat membentuk karakter baik anak. Chastisement is regarded as out of date and uncivilized way in this modern era which gives great respect in human rights. Fully tolerance toward children will is the mostly to be used approach. In fact, nevertheless, this soft disciplining method appear to bring about new problems, such as the lost of children respect to the authority that should be respected. Proverbs 23:13-14 gives a theaching of the bible how to disciplining children should be. Through the text study, it is concluded that chastisement with rod is still relevantly implemented. Eventhough it is so strict, this method is not abusive to the children rights but forms children good characters.

scholarly journals Kristologi dalam Injil Yohanes

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Roy Martin Simanjuntak
Keyword(s):  
Gospel Of John ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Local Churches ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
The Bible ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Era

The issue of Christology from time to time is one very interesting theological topics to be discussed, both in intellectual circles, even church leaders in communities grow together in a group of local churches. The spread understanding or information about Christology are numerous and easy to find, therefore believers should to select sources so as not to cause a false understanding that led to the loss of the substance of Christology. It’s inevitable that people who are in this modern era of greatly affect the issue and the development of Christology. This discussion includes the concept Christology from the Bible, and then outlines how where fathers or figures of Christian thinkers to formulate it in a Christian doctrine that Christians are ultimately used in the history of Christianity. Christology that comes from understanding the Bible is acceptable and justified by the believer. In particular, in the Gospel of John is very fullgar when talking about Christology, both His nature as well as the work of God and man and his mission for the salvation of mankind. Abstrak Persoalan Kristologi dari zaman ke zaman merupakan sala satu topik teologi yang sangat menarik untuk dibahas, baik di kalangan intelektual, pemimpin jemaat bahkan juga di komunitas-komunitas kelompok tumbuh bersama dalam sebuah gereja lokal. Pemahaman-pemahaman yang beredar atau informasi tentang Kristologi sangatlah banyak dan mudah untuk menemukannya, oleh karenanya orang percaya mestinya menyeleksi sumber tersebut sehingga tidak menimbulkan pemahaman yang keliru dan berujung pada hilangnya substansi Kristologi tersebut. Tidak bisa dipungkiri bahwa masyarakat yang berada dalam era modern ini sangat mempengaruhi isu dan perkembangan Kristologi. Pembahasan ini meliputi konsep Kristologi yang bersumber dari Alkitab, dan kemudian menguraikan bagaimana bapa-bapa gereja atau tokoh-tokoh pemikir Kristen merumuskannya dalam sebuah doktrin Kristen yang akhirnya dipakai orang Kristen dalam sepanjang sejarah kekristenan. Kristologi yang bersumber dari Alkitab merupakan pemahaman yang dapat diterima dan dibenarkan oleh orang percaya. Secara khusus Injil Yohanes sangat terbuka membahas tentang Kristologi, baik hakikatNya sebagai Allah dan manusia maupun karya dan misiNya untuk keselamatan umat manusia.

The destruction of Hazor: Israelite history and the construction of history in Israel

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-278
Author(s):  
Brendon C Benz
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Model ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Amarna Letters ◽  
Over Time

The present study presents an alternative model of pre-monarchic Israel’s political organization in tandem with an investigation into the role of place in the preservation of memory that explains how and why the tradition of Hazor’s demise was included in the Bible. Corresponding to the type of decentralized political organization attested in the Amarna letters, the core narratives in Judges depict Israel as a confederation of independent entities whose concerns revolved around local affairs. As the identity of Israel evolved over time, the memories of the most significant of these affairs were retained, often with the aid of material remains in the familiar landscape. The apparent injunction against building over Hazor’s 13th century palace ruins during Israel’s subsequent occupation and the inclusion of Hazor’s destruction from competing perspectives in the Bible suggest that it was an important event in Israel’s history, even if the entirety of Israel was not involved.

Study and Optimization of T-Tree Index in Main Memory Database

2013 ◽  
Vol 427-429 ◽  
pp. 2531-2535 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Dong Sun ◽  
Quan Guo ◽  
Lan Wang
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Main Memory ◽  
Memory Access ◽  
Index Structure ◽  
Index Structures ◽  
Clock Speed ◽  
Main Memory Database ◽  
Tree Index ◽  
Overall Performance

The bottleneck is not the disk I/O but CUP clock speed faster than the memory speed in main memory database .In order to achieve high performance in main memory database ,it is a good approach to design new index structures to improve the memory access speed .This chapter presents a T-tree index structure and its algorithms in main memory database firstly .Then presents two results on Optimization of T-tree index ,including T-tail tree and TTB-tree. Our results indicate that the T-Tree provides good overall performance in main memory.

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