Once in possession of Istanbul, the Russians would control the geostrategic straits of the Bosporus and the Dardanelles linking Russia's Black Sea ports to the Mediterranean.

Here is a large property transferred at once from Mohammedanism—not certainly to Christianity, but to what is even more opposed to its essential nature—the support of modern science and literature, in conjunction with which it is well known, Mohammedanism cannot possibly exist; from the fact, that the Korân has given a system of philosophy demonstratably false.

In a method for guiding a thread onto an empty reel after a first reel in a continuously operating spooler has become full, utilizing a moving finger on the spooler in cooperation with a gripper rotating with the empty reel […]

Then, using minorization maximization (MM) algorithm based on an affine approximation, we obtain a solution for the reformulated problem.