Sketches by MoSSaRT: Representative Selection from Manifolds with Gross Sparse Corruptions

The frequent use of proverbs appears to be one sign of respect for tradition and authority, for a proverb enshrines the wisdom of one's ancestors and the use of a proverb may be construed as respect for the wisdom of the past. The apt use of a proverb tends to close an argument triumphantly or move the previous question. Mende is very rich in proverbs. The number current must run into thousands. Yet until recently, when the Bunumbu Press, Sierra Leone, published two untranslated collections for use in connexion with literacy campaigns, very few had been recorded. In A View of Sierra Leone Migeod noted a number which were revised by E. Harnetty in Sierra Leone Studies No. IX. In Sierra Leone School Notes No. 6, September 1941, the Rev. E. Avery lists some twenty-four. These are the only publications known to me which provide any translation, literal or otherwise, or any comment. Yet it was comparatively easy to compile a list of three hundred Mεnde proverbs and to illustrate by a representative selection.

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Contributions to the History of Levant Currencies

The Annual of the British School at Athens ◽

10.1017/s0068245400009175 ◽

1913 ◽

Vol 19 ◽

pp. 174-181

Author(s):

F. W. Hasluck

Keyword(s):

History Of ◽

Representative Selection

A find of French and Neapolitan mediaeval silver coins made recently in one of the southern Sporades, probably Kasos, attracted my attention in a jeweller's shop at Smyrna in the spring of 1912. In 1913 I found the same hoard with some additions in changed hands. I then managed to secure a representative selection and an analysis of the whole collection.

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Amphoras in the Apollonia Museum Store

Libyan Studies ◽

10.1017/s0263718900008359 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

pp. 75-78 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

John A. Riley

Keyword(s):

Eastern Mediterranean ◽

Eastern Mediterranean Region ◽

Western Mediterranean ◽

Second Century ◽

Hellenistic Period ◽

Royal Air Force ◽

Agricultural Produce ◽

Representative Selection ◽

Coarse Wares ◽

Selection Of

The store rooms of the Department of Antiquities at Apollonia contain pottery from excavations at Apollonia and Ras el Hilal, together with a few stray finds from other sites (including some from the sea collected by the Royal Air Force Aqualung Society in the 1950s and early 1960s). The bulk of this material dates in the later Roman period (i.e. sixth century A.D. onwards), but includes a little earlier Roman and some Hellenistic pottery. There is a representative selection of coarse wares, including amphoras, as yet unpublished. These are mainly in fragmentary condition but their typological range conforms with that from the well stratified and dated excavations at Berenice-Benghazi (Riley, in press).Publication of the more complete of these amphoras seems justified as there is a relative scarcity of published information on Roman amphoras from the eastern Mediterranean, at a time when many eastern types are being recognised in western Mediterranean excavated contexts (Panella, 1974; Hayes, 1976a; Riley, 1981). In addition, a brief consideration of the other amphoras helps to illustrate the diversity of trade in liquid agricultural produce within the eastern Mediterranean region. No locally made amphoras were noted on the Apollonia stone: all were imported into Cyrenaica.The Hellenistic period is represented by Rhodian (Inv. Nos. 321, 322 and 1582) and Knidian (Inv. Nos. 141 and 723) amphora fragments. There are several sherds of early Imperial amphoras, and attention has been drawn to these by Panella (1974). These include a first to second century A.D. Aegean type (ibid., 477, Ostia Form LXIII; Apollonia Box 2036, from Ras el Hilal); a Spanish garum amphora of the same period (ibid., 513, Ostia Form LXIII; Apollonia Inv. No. 256); several Tripolitanian amphoras of the first and second centuries A.D. (ibid., 562, Ostia Form LXIV; Apollonia Inv. Nos. 253, 254, 315 and 317); and a common Aegean amphora of the third and fourth centuries A.D. (ibid., 597, Ostia Form VI).

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Cultural codes in the iconography of St Nicholas (Santa Claus)

Sign Systems Studies ◽

10.12697/sss.2011.39.1.04 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 39 (1) ◽

pp. 105-144

Author(s):

Małgorzata Haładewicz-Grzelak

Keyword(s):

Public Culture ◽

Eastern Christianity ◽

Santa Claus ◽

Cultural Codes ◽

Representative Selection ◽

Selection Of

This paper examines some aspects of the cultural codes implied in the iconography of St Nicholas (Santa Claus). The argument posits the iconography of St Nicholas as a vessel for capturing meanings and accumulating them in the construction of public culture. The discussion begins from the earliest developments of the Christian era and proceeds to contemporary depictions (imagology). The study is conducted on the basis of a representative selection of renditions of Saint Nicholas, including 350 pictures of medieval representations (Western and Eastern Christianity), folk extensions and secular representations and it is theoretically grounded in the Tartu School of semiotics.

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A novel graph-based k-means for nonlinear manifold clustering and representative selection

Neurocomputing ◽

10.1016/j.neucom.2014.05.067 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 143 ◽

pp. 109-122 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Enmei Tu ◽

Longbing Cao ◽

Jie Yang ◽

Nicola Kasabov

Keyword(s):

Representative Selection ◽

Manifold Clustering

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A systematic series of synthetic chromophoric substrates for aspartic proteinases

Biochemical Journal ◽

10.1042/bj2370899 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 237 (3) ◽

pp. 899-906 ◽

Cited By ~ 136

Author(s):

B M Dunn ◽

M Jimenez ◽

B F Parten ◽

M J Valler ◽

C E Rolph ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Structure Function ◽

Peptide Bond ◽

Water Soluble ◽

Animal Origin ◽

Aspartic Proteinases ◽

Peptide Substrates ◽

Representative Selection ◽

Micro Organisms ◽

Hydrolysis Of ◽

Selection Of

The hydrolysis of the chromogenic peptide Pro-Thr-Glu-Phe-Phe(4-NO2)-Arg-Leu at the Phe-Phe(4-NO2) bond by nine aspartic proteinases of animal origin and seven enzymes from micro-organisms is described [Phe(4-NO2) is p-nitro-L-phenylalanine]. A further series of six peptides was synthesized in which the residue in the P3 position was systematically varied from hydrophobic to hydrophilic. The Phe-Phe(4-NO2) bond was established as the only peptide bond cleaved, and kinetic constants were obtained for the hydrolysis of these peptide substrates by a representative selection of aspartic proteinases of animal and microbial origin. The value of these water-soluble substrates for structure-function investigations is discussed.

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