Discussion

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Ling ◽  
Paul Arthur ◽  
Georgia Clarke ◽  
Estelle Lazer ◽  
Lesley A. Ling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Present Writer ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
The Third ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Modern Britain

Before looking in more general terms at the pattern of development in the insula, we may make a number of preliminary points. First of all, it bears repeating that the process of change which we have outlined was continuous, and that by classifying it in phases we have inevitably simplified the picture. Just because a particular intervention can be assigned to a time when, say, walls were being painted in the Third Style, we should not think of it as a unique, compartmentalized phenomenon; the insula was constantly evolving, and it would have continued to evolve had the eruption of AD 79 not put a stop to the process. Our phases are merely a convenient way of trying to impose some kind of chronological pattern on the chain of events. In all probability changes took place more frequently and in a more piecemeal fashion than is normally realized. It is, of course, difficult to be precise about this, because our methods of dating are too unsophisticated for the necessary fine tuning; but we may suspect that, for every major rebuilding programme, there were many minor adjustments and modifications which have left no trace, or virtually no trace, in the archaeological record. And such adjustments may have happened within relatively brief periods. One has only to look at houses in modern Britain to appreciate the nature and the frequency of the alterations which they tend to undergo, ranging from the blocking or opening of windows to loft conversions and the addition of new wings. The house in which the present writer lives has been radically enlarged on two occasions, as well as having a doorway blocked, most of the windows replaced, and part of the roof redesigned—all within the space of thirty five years, and mostly in separate operations, in other words in what can technically be regarded as distinct phases. However much the archaeologist would like to divide a building’s history into broad and clear-cut chronological categories, the reality of the situation will probably more often than not have been far more complex.

Dairy Queen. Churns and milk products in the Aegean Bronze Age

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 205-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah P. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Dairy Products ◽  
Near East ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Specific Function ◽  
Milk Products ◽  
The Third ◽  
Household Processing

This article assembles examples of an unusual vessel found in domestic contexts of the Early Bronze Age around the Aegean and in the Eastern Mediterranean. Identified as a “barrel vessel” by the excavators of Troy, Lesbos (Thermi), Lemnos (Poliochni), and various sites in the Chalkidike, the shape finds its best parallels in containers identified as churns in the Chalcolithic Levant, and related vessels from the Eneolithic Balkans. Levantine parallels also exist in miniature form, as in the Aegean at Troy, Thermi, and Poliochni, and appear as part of votive figures in the Near East. My interpretation of their use and development will consider how they compare to similar shapes in the archaeological record, especially in Aegean prehistory, and what possible transregional relationships they may express along with their specific function as household processing vessels for dairy products during the third millennium BC.

Collaborative Information Management System for Science Domains

2009 ◽  
pp. 1446-1453
Author(s):  
Ozgul Unal ◽  
Ersin C. Kaletas ◽  
Hamideh Afsarmanesh ◽  
H. Hakan Yakali ◽  
Louis O. Hertzberger
Keyword(s):  
Information Management ◽  
Information Management System ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
The Third ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Science Domain ◽  
Federated Database ◽  
Information Manipulation ◽  
Biodiversity Information

With the increasing need for collaboration in different science domains, a lot of research activities are now focused on the mechanisms and infrastructures supporting advanced collaborations among pre-existing, distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous organizations. Collaborating organizations typically share some common objectives and in order to achieve them they need to share their information and resources. One prominent requirement is to access each other’s data or databases through a secure infrastructure. Biodiversity is one such science domain. Challenges in biodiversity information management are being addressed in the project ENBI (European Network for Biodiversity Information) (ENBI, n.d.). A summary of the information management challenges in different science domains is given in the second section, Information Management Challenges in Science Domains. In this context, the CIMS introduces promising solutions to cope with these challenges. In general terms, CIMS refers to the set of components and mechanisms that together constitute a generic information manipulation framework to support the interoperation and data sharing among collaborating members (Guevara-Masis, Unal, Kaletas, Afsarmanesh, & Hertzberger, 2004). The proposed CIMS involves three main paradigms and technologies, consisting of: (1) federated database architecture, (2) virtual organizations paradigm, and (3) grid technology. Introductory information about these technologies and paradigms and their major benefits are covered in the third section, paradigms and technologies.

The Significance of the Ascension of Jesus Christ in the New Testament

1977 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 555-568
Author(s):  
B. K. Donne
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Present Writer ◽  
The Third ◽  
German Scholar ◽  
Contemporary Christian ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Subject ◽  
To Come ◽  
Ascent To Heaven

The theme of the Ascension of Jesus Christ is one of the most JL important in the New Testament, yet during the present century, very little theological attention has been given to it. Most of the published work has been in the form of articles in theological journals and commentaries, though J. G. Davies' Bampton Lectures entitled He Ascended into Heaven, published in 1958, were devoted to the subject, and later, there appeared, also in English, U. Simon's The Ascent to Heaven in 1961. Even H. B. Swete's The Ascended Christ, which first appeared in 1910 and was subsequently published in several editions until 1916, expresses the hope that the work might awaken a response to a renewed sense of the importance of this great Christian festival. His earlier writing, The Apostles' Creed in 1894, contains a chapter on the Ascension which was a spirited reply to the German scholar Harnack, who asserted that the Ascension had no separate place in the primitive tradition, and whose views considerably influenced the thought of New Testament scholarship for many years to come. This article seeks to make an assessment of what the present writer considers to be a subject of the utmost importance, both in regard to its theological significance in the New Testament, and in its relevance for contemporary Christian experience. The Scriptures declare that Jesus of Nazareth was crucified, buried, and raised again the third day.

The heavens are declaring the glory of God: Contemporary teleological arguments

2014 ◽  
Vol 111 (3) ◽  
pp. 244-258
Author(s):  
John M. DePoe
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Temporal Order ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
The Third ◽  
Teleological Argument ◽  
Christian Apologetics ◽  
Argument From Design ◽  
The Universe

This article presents an overview of various formations of contemporary teleological arguments with a brief historical background. The fine-tuning argument and three of its most well-known objections are considered first. Next, the argument from design based on the origins of life is presented. The third teleological argument is based on the temporal order of the universe. The final section of the article considers and responds to well-known objections commonly raised against design arguments. The conclusion is that the contemporary versions of the teleological argument have a positive role to play in Christian apologetics despite some of their limitations.

A Presidential Musician

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Warfield
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Marine Corps ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
The Third ◽  
United States Marine Band

This chapter examines the first part of John Philip Sousa's tenure as leader of the United States Marine Band and shows how he worked to stabilize that ensemble's membership and modernize its repertoire. The following day after Sousa and his wife arrive in Washington in 1880, he enlisted in the Marine Corps for the third time, now as the band's seventeenth director, its youngest leader, and its first American-born conductor. Given the nature of Sousa's later fame, his appointment to the Marine Band seems only natural. But at this stage of his career he had never led a band or military ensemble. He was a published composer, but very little of his music was for ensembles of winds alone, and marches were not yet an important part of his output. Despite this lack of experience, Sousa's new appointment was little more than a fine-tuning of his career.

Geophysical investigation of the Beinn an Dubhaich Granite, Skye

1996 ◽  
Vol 133 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. R. Goulty ◽  
C. E. Darton ◽  
A. E. Dent ◽  
K. R. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Anomalies ◽  
Significant Finding ◽  
Geophysical Investigation ◽  
Previous Suggestion ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
The Third ◽  
Minimum Depth ◽  
Valid Evidence ◽  
Granite Outcrop ◽  
Ground Magnetic

AbstractThere has been a long-standing controversy concerning the form of the Beinn an Dubhaich Granite, which intrudes Cambro-Ordovician limestones and contains enclosures of limestone at outcrop. We have undertaken a three-part geophysical investigation with the aim of resolving some issues raised by previous workers. Our most significant finding results from the measurement of a gravity profile across Beinn an Dubhaich. It reveals a negative anomaly of more than 2 mGal over the granite outcrop. Our preferred model to fit this anomaly is a steep-sided granite stock extending down to about 1 km depth, which implies that the limestone enclosures are roof pendants. In a supplementary study, we measured magnetic profiles across dykes in some of the limestone enclosures in order to determine the depth to the contact with the underlying granite. However, in the most clear-cut cases we could only determine a minimum depth of 20 m, and were unable to constrain the maximum depth. In hindsight, we suggest that microgravity surveying would be a better method for determining the thicknesses of the limestone roof pendants. In the third part of the investigation, we measured a tight grid of magnetic profiles to the northeast of the granite outcrop to test a previous suggestion that dyke-like lobes of granite intrude pre-existing fractures in the overlying limestones. We located several large magnetic anomalies associated with outcropping doleritic dykes and concluded that these had not been correctly identified in the earlier work. Consequently, the ground magnetic profiles acquired to date provide no valid evidence to support the idea of an interfingering contact between the limestones and the underlying granite.

Two-dimensional problems of electrohydrostatic stability

1972 ◽  
Vol 272 (1224) ◽  
pp. 331-359 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Final Section ◽  
Equilibrium Configuration ◽  
Global Analysis ◽  
Conducting Fluid ◽  
Geometrical Parameters ◽  
Approximate Theory ◽  
Cylindrical Conductor ◽  
The Third ◽  
General Terms ◽  
The Stability

The main intention of this paper is to study the breakdown of equilibrium of a conducting fluid surface such as a membrane when placed in the field of a charged cylindrical conductor. The work is presented in four sections. The first section outlines an approximate theory relevant when the gap between the cylinder and surface is small in comparison with the radius of the cylinder. In the second section, this theory is applied to a number of related problems notably the stability of conducting fluid filaments suspended on parallel wires. In the third section we introduce an extension of the asymptotic analysis of the preceding sections which removes the restriction of the small gap requirement and may be applied to problems of section two which possess symmetry about a centre plane. In the final section, we present a global analysis of the stability of a membrane in the field of a cylindrical conductor. Here the problem is studied in general terms without restrictions on geometrical parameters, and the resulting general equations determining the equilibrium configuration of the membrane are solved numerically.

The Date of the Kapara Period at Gozan (Tell Halaf)

1956 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 75-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. F. Albright
Keyword(s):  
Ninth Century ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
Present Writer ◽  
Official Publication ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Upper Limit ◽  
Third Millennium

Ever since the discovery of the Palace of Kapara by Max von Oppenheim in 1911, there has been a debate—often acrimonious—with respect to its date. As late as 1934 there was a variation of some two millennia among active discussants. With the death of Ernst Herzfeld, who stood out until the end for a date in the third millennium, the debate seems to have closed, at least for the time being. In 1954 the late H. Frankfort came out explicitly for a date during the ninth century, preferably in its second half, for the age of Kapara. The same date, though with a higher upper limit, was maintained by A. Moortgat in the official publication of the sculpture of Gozan which appeared the following year. K. Galling had all along favoured such a dating, which he now espouses without reservation. The present writer has also maintained a date between 1100 and 900, concentrating for the past fifteen years on the tenth century.

The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology

2012 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Maritime Archaeology ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Methodological Foundation ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World

The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology is a survey of the field as seen through the eyes of nearly fifty scholars at a time when maritime archaeology has established itself as a mature branch of archaeology. This volume draws on many of the distinct and universal aspects of maritime archaeology, bringing them together under four main themes: the research process, ships and shipwrecks, maritime and nautical culture, and issues of preservation and management. The first section of the book deals with the best practices for locating, documenting, excavating, and analyzing submerged sites. This methodological foundation is followed by a sample of shipwreck studies from around the world as scholars trace the regional development of ships and seafaring. Chosen to balance the traditional core regions of maritime archaeology with important but lesser-studied areas, it aims at offering an international account of the study of submerged sites. Reflecting the growing number of scholars who study past maritime cultures, but not shipwrecks, the third section of the book addresses various aspects of the maritime landscape and ethnography above and below the water. The final articles then approach maritime archaeology in a broader context, moving beyond archaeological sites to discuss the archaeological record in general within legal, preservation, and management frameworks.

The effects of corrective feedback with and without revision on enhancing L2 pragmatic performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Nguyen Thi Thuy Minh ◽  
Do Thi Thanh Ha ◽  
Pham Thi Thanh Thuy ◽  
Nguyen Tuan Anh
Keyword(s):  
Corrective Feedback ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
The Third ◽  
Written Corrective Feedback ◽  
Completion Task ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Pragmatic Knowledge ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Pragmatic Performance

Abstract This study investigated the efficacy of different feedback conditions in developing accurate and fluent production of L2 English email requests. Sixty-nine intermediate-level Vietnamese EFL university students were randomly assigned to one control and three experimental groups. All the four groups received three hours of explicit metapragmatic instruction on email requests, but only the experimental groups received written corrective feedback on their pragmatic production. One experimental group received feedback without opportunity for revision. Another experimental group received one cycle of feedback and revision, and the third group two cycles of feedback and revision. Results of a Discourse Completion Task (DCT) pre-test, immediate post-test, and delayed post-test indicated that the combination of instruction and feedback had a positive effect on the accuracy of learners’ pragmatic performance. However, no clear-cut evidence for the effect of revision on the fluency of learners’ pragmatic performance was found in the study. The findings highlight the effectiveness of corrective feedback and revision in consolidating emergent L2 pragmatic knowledge, but further research is needed to understand how much revision is sufficient to facilitate fluency development.

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