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Alexander Severus
Alexander Severus (Marcus Aurelius Alexander Severus) , d. 235, Roman emperor (222-35), b. Syria. His name was changed (221) from Alexius Bassianus when he was adopted as the successor to Heliogabalus . Although he won a triumph in a campaign (232) against Ardashir I of Persia, he could not maint... Read more
Galerius
Galerius (Caius Galerius Valerius Maximinianus) , d. 310, Roman emperor (305-10). Diocletian appointed him caesar for the eastern part of the empire in 293 (Constantius I was caesar of the West). He had to conduct hard campaigns in Pannonia and Asia. Defeated by the Persians in 296, he retrieved h... Read more
Constantine I
Constantine I or Constantine the Great , 288?-337, Roman emperor, b. Naissus (present-day Niš, Serbia). He was the son of Constantius I and Helena and was named in full Flavius Valerius Constantinus. Rise to Power When his father was made caesar (subemperor), Constantine was... Read more
Rulers of the Roman Empire
Rulers of the Roman Empire Rulers of the Roman Empire ( including dates of reign ) Augustus, grandnephew of Julius Caesar, 27 BC-AD 14 Tiberius, stepson of Augustus, AD 14-AD 37 Caligula, grandnephew of Tiberius, 37-41 Claudius, uncle of Calig... Read more
Christianity
Christianity religion founded in Palestine by the followers of Jesus . One of the world's major religions, it predominates in Europe and the Americas, where it has been a powerful historical force and cultural influence, but it also claims adherents in virtually every country of the world. C... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "maximin"

Maximin Principle
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Maximin Principle The maximin principle is a principle for making choices when one is not sure...option that offers the best worst outcome (the maximum minimum or maximin). Rational choice theory generally divides situations in which...
Maximin
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Maximin (Galerius Valerius Maximinus), d. 313...kinsman of Galerius. He is called Maximin Daia. He was made caesar in 305 and in...After the death of Galerius (310), Maximin exercised considerable power. He persecuted...
Gordian
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...proconsul in Africa. After the usurpation of Maximin (d. 238), a rebellion broke out in...over the unscrupulous behavior of one of Maximin's men, and Gordian at the age of 81...however, Vitallianus, a partisan of Maximin, attacked them in Carthage. Gordian...
Constantine I
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...claimant to the imperial throne appeared in Maximin (d. 313), who allied himself with...Constantine. While Licinius attacked Maximin, Constantine moved into Italy against...official state religion. No longer having Maximin to contend with, Licinius challenged...
La Salette
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...1846, of an apparition of the Virgin Mary to two children, Maximin Gigaud (age 11) and Melanie Matthieu (age 15). The young...forbidden books and further discussion of her secret stopped. Maximin led a very unstable and unhappy life, though on his deathbed...
Rulers of the Roman Empire
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...22 Alexander Severus, cousin of Heliogabalus, 222-35 Maximin, proclaimed emperor by soldiers, 235-38 Gordian I, made...6 Galerius, joint emperor with Constantius I, 305-10 Maximin, nephew of Galerius, 308-13 Licinius, appointed emperor...
Social Welfare Functions
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...inequalities because only the total matters. In contrast, the maximin function, which identifies social welfare with the welfare...to it is greater than the sum of losses. By contrast, the maximin function focuses on individual levels: A situation is better...
Licinius
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...after the death of Galerius he added Greece and Thrace to his territories. He allied himself with Constantine I and defeated Maximin in 313, thus becoming sole ruler in the East. He subsequently quarreled with Constantine, who defeated him (314) and forced...
Galerius
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Diocletian approve the appointment of Licinius as emperor of the West. Constantius' son Constantine ( Constantine I ) and Maximin (d.313) then both claimed power. Galerius died before the confusion was eliminated by the victory of Constantine. Galerius...
Christianity
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...worship the state and the Roman emperor. There were persecutions under Nero, Domitian, Trajan and the other Antonines, Maximin, Decius, Valerian, and Diocletian and Galerius; Decius ordered the first official persecution in 250. In 313, Constantine...

Dictionary entries related to "maximin"

Lohest, Marie Joseph Maximin (called Max)
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography Lohest, Marie Joseph Maximin (called Max) ( b. Li è ge, Belgium, 8 September 1857; d. Li è ge, 6 December 1926) geology, mineralogical...
minimax
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...max / ˈminēˌmaks / • n. Math. the lowest of a set of maximum values. Compare with maximin . ∎  [as adj. ] denoting a method or strategy in game theory that minimizes the greatest risk to a participant...
Pamphilus, St
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...and directed a theological school at Caesarea in Palestine, where he was martyred. While imprisoned in the persecution of Maximin Daza, he wrote an ‘Apology for Origen’, to which Eusebius of Caesarea added a sixth book. Feast day...
Paphnutius, St
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...Paphnutius, St (d. c. 360), Bp. of the Upper Thebaid. He was an Egyptian monk who suffered badly in the persecution of Maximin Daza (305–13). He is said to have dissuaded the Council of Nicaea from ordering all clergy to put away their...
Rostan, Léon Louis
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ROSTAN, L é ON LOUIS ( b . St.-Maximin, Var, France, 16 March 1790; d . Paris, France, 4 October 1866) medicine . The son of a wealthy bourgeois family, Rostan...
game theory
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...studied by Von Neumann, who showed that in certain cases there would be a relatively stable equilibrium point (or minimax-maximin combination), at which one player's optimum choice met the other's. In non-zero-sum or non-constant-sum games...
Hugh of Lincoln, St
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...x2010;Benoît, Hugh was ordained deacon at 19 and subsequently made prior of a smallholding at Saint‐Maximin. He became a Carthusian in 1160 after visiting the Grand Chartreuse. Known for his holiness, in 1175 he was asked by King...
Hippolytus, St
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...himself to be elected as a rival Bp. of Rome and continued to attack Callistus' successors. In the persecution of the Emp. Maximin, Hippolytus and Pope Pontianus (230–5) were exiled together to Sardinia. The bodies of both were brought back...
decision table
Book article from: A Dictionary of Business and Management ...to be considered and estimated probabilities of outcomes. Where probabilities are difficult to estimate, the maximax and maximin criteria are often used, the former leading to the selection of the option with the greatest maximum outcome, the latter...

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Comparison of Bayesian-Utilitarian and Maximin Principle Approaches
Magazine article from: Human and Ecological Risk Assessment; 2/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...approach and the approach based on the maximin principle will be considered, and the...acceptable in a cost-benefit analysis. In a maximin approach, on the other hand, the issue...Precautionary Principle, Bayesian approach, maximin rle, electromagnetic fields. The Precautionary...
The minimax and maximin location problems on a network with uniform distributed weights.
Magazine article from: IIE Transactions; 11/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...for the location of emergency facilities and the maximin location problem which is applied mainly for the...solution close to the center of the city. 1.2. Maximin location problems Maximin location problems are used mainly to model the...
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Can the Empire Really Write Back: Maximin's Unbounded Narrative
Magazine article from: The American Journal of Semiotics; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...essay examines the ways in which Daniel Maximin, a Guadeloupean writer, tackles the...Proust to Joyce, Camus to Blanchot, Maximin "riffs" on the modernist canon to produce...Eco's concept of the "open work", Maximin crafts one giant unbounded, untelelogical...
Constrained maximin designs for computer experiments.
Magazine article from: Technometrics; 11/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...describe methods to create such a constrained maximin simulation scheme. We give some numerical...examples. KEY WORDS: Computer experiment; Maximin design; Simulation scheme; Space-filling...are three measures in the literature: maximin, minimax, and integrated mean squared...
Implementation of a maximin power clustering criterion to select near replicates for regression lack-of-fit tests.
Magazine article from: Journal of the American Statistical Association; 6/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...with Christensen's tests. The methodology is based on a maximin power criterion that incorporates nearness considerations to...1989, 1991) are reviewed in Section 2. In Section 4 the maximin power clustering criterion that we proposed in earlier work...
An unheralded grape's new defender.(The Cellarist (Wine))
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 4/30/2009; 700+ words ; Maximin Grunhaus' steep slopes. Maximin Grunhaus' steep slopes. (vinduet.org) It's hard to think...on was particularly noteworthy. He is the proprietor of the Maximin Grunhaus estate, one of the two greatest vineyards in Germany...
Study data from S.I.V. Pena and colleagues update understanding of artificial intelligence.
Newspaper article from: Journal of Mathematics; 6/2/2009; 700 words ; ...Mexico, "This paper introduces the MaxiMin selection algorithm, a deterministic...perfectly distributed Pareto fronts." "MaxiMin is successful because the measure of uniformity...by several MOEAs with and without the MaxiMin selection," wrote S.I.V. Pena and...
L'invention des desirades.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 9/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; Daniel Maximin. L'invention des desirades. Paris...F. ISBN 2-7087-0700-0. DANIEL MAXIMIN'S FIRST NOVEL, L'isole soleil (Eng...his personality with a volume of poems. Maximin divides his poetry into three categories...
THE STONES OF PARIS
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 9/22/2007; 700+ words ; ...the earth 5,600 miles away at Saint- Maximin, near Chantilly in the Oise. From a...south. However, the quarries of Saint-Maximin can authentically claim to be the birthplace...Valley uses flag-stones from Saint- Maximin for its grand entrance hall. (This can...