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As events continue to unfold in Poland, Western experts still fail to realize that what they are witnessing is not simply a "revolt of the workers" joined later by intellectuals, farmers, and students. Rather, it is a fullscale social and spiritual revolution, what the Poles prefer to call odnowa, renewal. It had been fomenting for four extraordinary years before it burst through the crust at Gdansk, and it has roots deep in Polish history. What the general public—and possibly some Kremlin leaders—still fail to grasp is that Solidarity is not just a labor union but a mass movement involving the overwhelming majority of the Polish people, including 39 per cent of the Communist party.

This is a volume of studies concerned with death and its impact on the social order. The first topic considered is gladiatorial combat; not merely popular entertainment, it was also an important element in Roman politics. The book then investigates the composition of the political elite in the late Republic and Principate (249 BC – AD 235), showing that ideals of hereditary succession disguised high rates of social mobility. The final chapter ranges over aristocratic death rituals and tombs, funerals and ghost stories, to the search for immortality and the power of the Roman dead in distributing property by written wills

SummaryA special problem in renewal theory is considered. The asymptotic behavior of the renewal function was studied by W. L. Smith. Here we show that his result with an exponentially small remainder term follows from a theorem of De Bruijn on Volterra integral equations.

AbstractSufficient conditions are given for stochastic comparison of two alternating renewal processes based on the concept of uniformization. The result is used to compare component and system performance processes in maintained reliability systems.