II. Archaeological Investigation of Churches in Great Britain

1973 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. M. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Architectural History ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Archaeological Investigation ◽  
True Story ◽  
The Past ◽  
Intensive Investigation ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Pure Research

The churches of Great Britain might be regarded as monuments which have been so closely studied by antiquaries for well over a century that they could scarcely be expected to be a fruitful subject for new intensive investigation. But in fact the true story is quite different; the antiquarian interest of the past was largely concentrated on architectural history and while much of that field has indeed been well explored there are many other fields that have scarcely been touched. In January 1972, the Council for British Archaeology set up a Committee to co-ordinate and encourage archaeological research on places of worship in Great Britain, and in particular to develop a research policy which would include both pure research and also the recording of all archaeological evidence that might be endangered when places of worship and their sites are threatened with alteration whether in normal circumstances or because of change of use.

Aspects of ancient Macedonian costume

1993 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 122-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chryssoula Saatsoglou-Paliadeli
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Northern Greece ◽  
Archaeological Investigation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Hellenistic World

A judicious combination of literary sources and archaeological research has often offered rewarding historical insights. In Macedonian studies such attempts have tended to be less fruitful, due to the scanty nature of the material and literary evidence. Now that archaeological investigation has expanded so widely in Northern Greece, it may be time to reassess aspects of Macedonian culture which have in the past been tackled with more enthusiasm than actual evidence, not surprisingly in view of the age-long interest in the people who shaped the Hellenistic world.

scholarly journals Personal Carbon Trading—Lost in the Policy Primeval Soup?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 4592
Author(s):  
Fabio Bothner
Keyword(s):  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Emission Trading ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Carbon Trading ◽  
Multiple Streams ◽  
Policy Proposal ◽  
The Past ◽  
Multiple Streams Approach ◽  
Carbon Taxation ◽  
Set Up

The number of emission trading and carbon taxation schemes implemented has grown rapidly over the past decade. Together, they cover approximately 16% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Although more than two-thirds of global GHG emissions are related to household consumption, approaches that directly target households, such as personal carbon trading (PCT), do not play a role in the fight against climate change. This is especially puzzling as measures taken so far are not sufficient to reach the 2 °C target. One clue to solving this puzzle comes from political science in the form of the multiple streams approach, which defines criteria that a policy proposal must meet to become part of the political agenda. Based on these criteria, this article conducts a systematic review on PCT to clarify why PCT does not play a role in the reduction of GHG emissions. The results show that there are three main problems with the PCT proposal. First, scholars often criticize the set-up costs as well as the running costs of such a system. Second, there is no clear consensus within the research community on public acceptance of PCT. Third, it is still unclear whether politicians are receptive to PCT or not.

scholarly journals Maudsley International: improving mental health and well-being around the world

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 49-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Bouras ◽  
Silvia Davey ◽  
Tracey Power ◽  
Jonathan Rolfe ◽  
Tom Craig ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Building Capacity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
And Training

Maudsley International was set up to help improve people's mental health and well-being around the world. A variety of programmes have been developed by Maudsley International over the past 10 years, for planning and implementing services; building capacity; and training and evaluation to support organisations and individuals, professionals and managers to train and develop health and social care provisions. Maudsley International's model is based on collaboration, sharing expertise and cultural understanding with international partners.

International Wheat Council

1947 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 386-387
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
The United States ◽  
Member States ◽  
Central Organ ◽  
Set Up

Established by a Memorandum of Agreement signed by Argentina, Australia, Canada, Great Britain, and the United States in April, 1942, the International Wheat Council was set up as an agency to deal with the allocation of wheat surpluses. During the war it has served as a central organ to administer and coordinate the work of implementing the commitments of member-states to a pool of wheat for the relief of war-stricken and other necessitous areas. It held two sessions in Washington during 1946.

Military Power and Constitutional Development in China

1921 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-252
Author(s):  
Harold M. Vinacké
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Military Government ◽  
Representative Government ◽  
Constitutional Development ◽  
Revolutionary Movement ◽  
Chinese Revolution ◽  
Parliamentary Government ◽  
The Past ◽  
Popular Government ◽  
Set Up

It is now nine years since the outbreak of the Chinese revolution. It is fifteen years since the Manchus attempted to maintain their control by introducing representative institutions into China. The development toward constitutional and representative government under the Manchus was checked in 1911 by the revolutionary movement. When the Chinese Republic was established as the successor to the alien Manchu Empire it was felt that the problem of modernizing China bade fair to be solved, and that in an orderly way her political institutions would be brought into harmony with western standards. Unfortunately that orderly progress has not come. Parliamentary government under the Nanking (provisional) Constitution was replaced by the dictatorship of Yuan Shih-kai under the arrangements of the so-called constitutional compact, which in turn was followed by the attempt to reëstablish the monarchy. The failure of the monarchy movement brought back parliamentary government, but before a permanent constitution could be adopted Parliament was again dissolved, and a government controlled by a military clique set up in its place. Since this military government was unacceptable to the southern provinces, the country became divided. So far it has not been possible for the country to reconcile its differences. Instead of an ordered constitutional progress, has come apparent failure in the effort to establish representative government. The name of a republic has been maintained, it is true, and the forms of constitutional government have been retained, but a permanent national government has not been set up, nor has popular government replaced the paternal despotism of the past.

A Ballast System for Automated Deep-Sea Ascents

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Golz ◽  
Florin Boeck ◽  
Sebastian Ritz ◽  
Gerd Holbach
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Environmental Contamination ◽  
Pressure Vessel ◽  
Deep Sea ◽  
Underwater Vehicles ◽  
Compressed Air ◽  
Hydraulic Pump ◽  
Unmanned Underwater Vehicles ◽  
The Past ◽  
Set Up

The efforts to discover the world’s oceans — even in extremely deep-sea environments — have grown more and more in the past years. In this context, unmanned underwater vehicles play a central role. Underwater systems that are not tethered need to provide an apparatus to ensure a safe return to the surface. Therefore, positive buoyancy is required and can be achieved by either losing weight or expanding volume. A conservative method is the dropping of ballast weight. However, nowadays this method is not appropriate due to the environmental impact. This paper presents a ballast system for an automated ascent of a deep-sea seabed station in up to 6000 m depth. The ballast system uses a DC motor driven modified hydraulic pump and a compressed air auxiliary system inside a pressure vessel. With regard to the environmental contamination in case of a leakage, only water is used as ballast fluid. The modification of an ordinary oil-hydraulic radial piston pump and the set-up of the ballast system is introduced. Results from sea trials in the Atlantic Ocean are presented to verify the functionality of the ballast system.

scholarly journals The Reversing Paging Process of Callee in Heterogeneous Networks

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Cong Zhao ◽  
Wei Guo
Keyword(s):  
Heterogeneous Networks ◽  
Mobility Management ◽  
Heterogeneous Network ◽  
Vertical Handoff ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Wireless Signal ◽  
Set Up

To achieve the goal that anybody could communicate with anyone at anytime in anyplace and in anyway, many technologies, such as GSM、CDMA、WCDMA、CDMA2000、TD-SCDMA、802.11a/b/g and so on, come true in the past years. And now, many B3G or 4G technologies are being studied. It is well-known that the future network would be heterogeneous networks. It is studied in this paper the mobility management of wireless heterogeneous network and a reversing paging process of callee is proposed which integrates paging and handoff. In the process when the caller pages the callee choosing its best suited network on one end, the callee chooses its own best network to begin a reversing paging process to set up the communication. The simulation tells that the proposed process has better performances in the call delay, the call succeeding rate and the wireless signal cost than that of the existing process in which it sets up the call first and then does vertical handoff independently.

A. The blood clotting mechanism The development of a theory of blood coagulation

1969 ◽  
Vol 173 (1032) ◽  
pp. 261-268 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Current Theory ◽  
International Committee ◽  
Clotting Factor ◽  
Contact Activation ◽  
Shed Blood ◽  
Life Study ◽  
Tissue Extracts ◽  
Intensive Investigation ◽  
Set Up

The clotting mechanism is first on the list because it has been worked on for longest and the mass of data and speculation accumulated illustrates better than any other the pitfalls which beset any intensive investigation of a biological phenomenon. The reason for this almost obsessive interest is the dramatic end point, the spontaneous change from fluid blood to solid clot, and the ease with which endless experiments can be set up in vitro . Many schools of workers have made a life study of this subject, producing as many different theories, and, worse, as many different terminologies. Probably the most important advance in this field in recent years has been the introduction of a standard nomenclature recommended by an international committee which assigns a roman numeral to any clotting factor with a good claim to reality. This has cleared away a jungle of synonyms, hypothetical factors and semantic conflict to reveal a solid basis of factual agreement. Tracing the development of current theory one starts with the observation that clotting is due to the appearance of fibrin. Fibrin is a good, solid fact and about the only entity in clotting the existence of which has not been hotly denied. The appearance of fibrin in shed blood but not in the normal circulation naturally prompted a search for the cause, and, after some wild speculation, two trigger stimuli were found. One is contact of the blood with a surface other than vascular endothelium, as demonstrated by Lister during his Croonian Lecture to the Royal Society in 1863. He showed that blood which had remained fluid in the excised jugular vein of an ox clotted when it was transferred to a glass vessel. The other trigger was the coagulant effect of tissue extracts which are capable of clotting blood in a few seconds if added to it in sufficient quantity. This reaction seemed the more important, since it was supposed that physiological clotting at an injury site was due to tissue products mixing with the issuing blood, and the intensive investigation of this effect excluded interest in contact activation until quite recently.

scholarly journals Avatars, Monsters, and Machines: A Cyborg Archaeology

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 324-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
The Past

As digital practice in archaeology becomes pervasive and increasingly invisible, I argue that there is a deep creative potential in practising a cyborg archaeology. A cyborg archaeology draws from feminist posthumanism to transgress bounded constructions of past people as well as our current selves. By using embodied technologies to disturb archaeological interpretations, we can push the use of digital media in archaeology beyond traditional, skeuomorphic reproductions of previous methods to highlight ruptures in thought and practice. I develop this argument through investigating the avatars, machines, and monsters in current digital archaeological research. These concepts are productively liminal: avatars, machines, and monsters blur boundaries between humans and non-humans, the past and the present, and suggest productive approaches to future research.

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