Un fragment de stèle inédit de Dendara

2018 ◽  
Vol 104 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-227
Author(s):  
Jérémie Florès
Keyword(s):  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Intermediate Period ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Poor State ◽  
Registration Number ◽  
First Intermediate Period ◽  
The University

This article studies a fragment of a stele found by Clarence Stanley Fisher in 1915 at Dendara necropolis and most probably left in situ. Nevertheless, based on a photograph kept in the archives of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, it has been pointed out that the artefact, also known under the registration number D 628, presents a cut biography and a very damaged decorated scene. Despite its poor state of preservation, two themes have been recognized in the hieroglyphic text. The first is about the management of a grain silo, the second concerns the economic role of the owner for the funerary cult of his father. In addition to a phraseological analysis based on the terms mḫr/mẖr and šnwt, taking into account different information such as archaeological data, allowed an identification of the stele owner. It appears that he was a middle-ranking official who lived during the First Intermediate Period.

Muslim women contribution to economic activities: a viewpoint

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonne Ridley
Keyword(s):  
Adam Smith ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Women In Business ◽  
Keynote Speech ◽  
The University ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the role of Muslim women in economic activities. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is a historical account on the important role played by Muslim women in business and governance during the Islamic formative years. Findings – While women in the West still struggle with the rights to equal position and pay till today, Islamic teaching provides Muslim women with the rights to earn and spend as they wished as well as selected to lead economic activities based on their personal merit and wisdom. Practical implications – The paper highlights that Islamic Sharia does not discriminate Muslim women economically nor socially as often portrayed in the Western media. Islam outlines the specific rights and obligations of men and women to ensure development of a healthy society. Social implications – Society should appreciate that Islamic Sharia work out favourably for women. They are trusted to lead based on their own merit and wisdom and not for their beauty. Originality/value – This is a keynote speech delivered at the Islamic Perspective of Accounting, Finance, Economics and Management (IPAFEM) 2015 conference: 7th-9th April, Adam Smith Business School, The University of Glasgow – on the economic role played by early Muslim women.

Managing Expectations – Contemporary Design Culture, Conservation and the Transformation of The Richards Laboratories

2018 ◽  
pp. 20-29
Author(s):  
David N. Fixler
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Systems ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Architectural Form ◽  
Design Culture ◽  
Complete Work ◽  
Significant Change ◽  
Literal Expression ◽  
The University

Louis I. Kahn’s Richards Laboratories at the University of Pennsylvania are a paradoxical building. At the same time that they perhaps represent the epitome of Kahn's literal expression of structure and material hierarchy, servant and served spaces and the role of mechanical systems in determining architectural form, these powerful ideas never came together programmatically to enable a fully functional, complete work of architecture. This paper describes the quest to solve the functional conundrum and technical shortcomings of Richards, to bring the architecture and program closer together. Through a synthesis combining transformation — a significant change in use that allowed the opening of the laboratory floors to the unique light and views that were always latent in the promise of Kahn’s essential architectural idea — and rehabilitation, where the best aspects of Richards — the glazed, vitrine-like facades and the beautiful logic of the building services distribution, were renovated for enhanced performance, Kahn’s original architectural vision and present function were able to be successfully reconciled.

Museums and Maritime Archaeology

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Maritime Archaeology ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Archaeological Materials ◽  
Private Museums ◽  
Collection Strategies

This article reflects the role of universities, training institutes, foundations, and conservation laboratories in presenting an in situ underwater display case at an excavation, or a wreck, submerged structure, or dwelling. Therefore, the term “museum” includes both traditional museums as well as institutions that curate and display archaeological data. Museums represent one of the main outlets for maritime, underwater, and nautical archaeological materials. This article describes the early collection strategies of the archaeological data and explains how this concept came into being. Many prominent maritime archeologists were drawn in into universities, forming study collections. Some of these evolved into private museums. This article highlights threats to museums and maritime archaeology, such as lack of resources. There will be great excavations, recording, and raisings of relics, ships, and structures. The trend of bold new maritime archaeological museums is already visible in some countries, and will continue in the foreseeable future.

scholarly journals Collaborative Approaches to Archaeology Programming and the Increase of Digital Literacy Among Archaeology Students

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J Cobb ◽  
John H Sigmier ◽  
Petra M Creamer ◽  
Emily R French
Keyword(s):  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Learning Potential ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Collaborative Models ◽  
Programming Process ◽  
The University

AbstractDigital methods provide archaeologists with ever-increasing opportunities to collect more data about the past in new formats. These larger evidentiary datasets, in turn, help us to address questions about the human past with increasing precision. To take full advantage of these opportunities, archaeologists must develop digital literacy skills and learn how to lead digital projects. Here, we describe seven digitally-based projects we have undertaken at the University of Pennsylvania in order to create new tools for archaeological data collection and sharing, as well as to test collaborative models for the digital humanities programming process. In these projects, archaeology students work directly with engineering students. Through this interface, the students from both areas gain valuable transdisciplinary experience while experimenting with new ways to accomplish programming goals and to collect archaeological data. The learning potential for these students was a key motivation for our initiative. Our projects have already led to several websites and digital applications that are available as open source downloads. We present our impressions of this collaborative process with the goal of encouraging other archaeologists to form similar digital humanities partnerships.

Abstract 17030: Multi-Center Prevalent and Incident Cohorts Replicate ST2 as a Biomarker of Disease Progression in PAH and is Associated With Right Heart Failure

Circulation ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 138 (Suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy A Mazurek ◽  
Jeremy Boxer ◽  
Dana P McGlothlin ◽  
Paul R Forfia ◽  
Alan H Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Right Heart Failure ◽  
Right Atrial ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Free Survival ◽  
Pulmonary Arterial ◽  
The University ◽  
Rv Function

Introduction: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is defined by elevation in PA pressure (PAP) and pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) resulting in right ventricular (RV) failure and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Prior studies have evaluated invasive hemodynamic and biomarker parameters of PAH progression and prognostication, including the prognostic role of ST2, a member of the IL-1 receptor family, which is upregulated in cardiopulmonary disease, including PAH. Hypothesis: Serum ST2 (sST2), is upregulated and prognostic of transplant free survival in PAH in 2 independent cohorts and is associated with parameters of RV function. Methods: The primary cohort comprised 191 largely prevalent PAH patients from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) with 41 largely incident PAH patients from the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) in the validation cohort. The primary outcome was transplant free survival. The Presage high sensitivity ELISA was used to measure sST2. Results: The UCSF cohort was 72% female, mean age 50±15 years, 25% idiopathic & 25% connective tissue disease-PAH (CTD-PAH). Those with sST2 > median (32.5 (21.9, 53.0) U/ml) had decreased semi-quantitative RV function (p=0.0003) by echo and increased right atrial pressure ([RAP]; 11.5 vs. 8.0 mmHg, p=0.003) and decreased cardiac index ([CI]; 2.23 vs. 2.45 L/min/m2, p=0.04), vs. sST2 ≤ median. Patients with sST2 ≤ median had significantly increased survival compared to those with sST2 > median (figure). The Penn cohort was 70% female, mean age 56±11 years, 54% idiopathic & 26% CTD-PAH. Median sT2 was 34 (21.7, 45.5) U/ml with those > median having significantly increased RAP (10.5 vs. 6.2 mmHg), mean PAP (53.3 vs. 39.8 mmHg) and PVR (12.7 vs. 6.0 WU), and lower CI (2.21 vs. 3.05 L/min/m2) (all p-values<0.05). Transplant free survival was significantly higher in those with sST2 ≤ median vs. > median (figure). Conclusions: In 2 independent PAH cohorts, sST2 is predictive of survival and serves as a marker of invasive parameters of RV failure. That sST2 is associated with differences in mean PAP and PVR in the largely incident Penn cohort, as compared to the prevalent UCSF cohort, warrants further study, as does the mechanism behind the robust association of ST2 and PAH.

Investigation of transport in the northern lowermost stratosphere between spring and fall using airborne in situ tracer measurements

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Rau ◽  
Valentin Lauther ◽  
Johannes Wintel ◽  
Emil Gehardt ◽  
Peter Hoor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time Scales ◽  
Asian Monsoon ◽  
Lagrangian Model ◽  
Mixing Ratios ◽  
Tropical Tropopause ◽  
Research Aircraft ◽  
Transport And Mixing ◽  
The University

&lt;p&gt;Over the course of the summer, when the subtropical jet is weakest, quasi-isentropic transport of young air from the troposphere and the tropical tropopause layer into the northern hemisphere (NH) lowermost stratosphere (LMS) is increased resulting in a drastic change of LMS chemical composition between spring and fall. The focus of this work is on the role of different transport paths into the NH LMS, including outflow from the Asian Monsoon, and their associated time scales of transport and mixing.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We present and analyse in situ measurements of CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; and various long-lived tracers obtained during three recent aircraft campaigns encompassing over 40 research flights in the NH UTLS during winter/spring, summer, and fall. The POLSTRACC/GW-LCYCLE/SALSA campaign probed the northern high latitude LMS in winter/spring 2016, deploying the German research aircraft HALO from Kiruna (Sweden) and from Germany. The second campaign deployed the M55 Geophysica research aircraft in July/August 2017 from Kathmandu, Nepal, in the frame of the EU-funded project StratoClim (Stratospheric and upper tropospheric processes for better Climate predications) in order to probe in situ for the first time the inside of the Asian Monsoon anticyclone. Roughly two months later the WISE (Wave-driven ISentropic Exchange) campaign deployed again HALO from Shannon (Ireland) in September and October 2017 to investigate isentropic transport and mixing in the NH LMS.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The University of Wuppertal measured CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt; and a suite of long-lived tracers on each aircraft. On the Geophysica, the measurements were made with the HAGAR (High Altitude Gas AnalyzeR) instrument. On HALO, a recently developed extended 5-channel version, HAGAR-V, was flown, which in addition measured a suite of short-lived tracers by GC coupled with a mass spectrometer. The University of Mainz measured N2O and CO on HALO using laser absorption techniques. For our analysis we use mixing ratios of CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;, SF&lt;sub&gt;6&lt;/sub&gt;, CFC-11, CFC-12, and N&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;O.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Owing to their different lifetimes, tropospheric growth (for SF&lt;sub&gt;6&lt;/sub&gt;) and a seasonal cycle (for CO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;), the LMS distributions of these long-lived trace gases and their development between spring and fall contain key information about the origin and mean stratospheric age of LMS air as well as time scales of rapid isentropic transport and mixing. The analysis of tracer measurements is complemented by simulations with the Chemical Lagrangian Model of the Stratosphere (CLaMS) providing information on age of air spectra and fractions of origin from specific surface regions, allowing in particular to assess the role of the Asian Monsoon in determining the composition of the NH LMS in fall.&lt;/p&gt;

scholarly journals Unequal Classrooms: Online Higher Education and Non-Cognitive Skills

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Morton
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
Changing Role

In this paper, I reflect on the changing role of higher education by focusing on the case of online education. I consider the promise of online education as a means to mitigate educational inequalities. Based on the available empirical evidence, I argue that this promise is unlikely to be fulfilled because online education is not well-suited to develop the social and emotional skills needed by students from low-income and minority backgrounds for social mobility. Nonetheless, the changing social, political, and economic role of the university should lead us to revise the classical vision of the university’s aims. I argue that the aim of the university should be sensitive to its new social, political, and economic role without falling prey to coarse pragmatism. This third approach delicately navigates the middle-ground between idealism and pragmatism.

Brochs and beyond: excavations at Old Scatness, Shetland

Antiquity ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 94 (375) ◽  
pp. 797-801
Author(s):  
Simon Gilmour ◽  
Jon Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Collaborative Project ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
Late Fifteenth ◽  
The University

Completely unknown until 1975, when it was revealed during the construction of a new road, Old Scatness is a multi-period site that has provided unequivocal evidence dating broch construction to the mid first millennium cal BC, alongside a firmly dated sequence that is crucial to understanding the long Iron Age in Atlantic Scotland. Excavations were carried out at the site between 1995 and 2006 by local volunteers and staff and students from the University of Bradford in a collaborative project led by Bradford and Shetland Amenity Trust. The first volume, The Pictish village and Viking settlement, covering around 1000 years from 400 cal AD–1400 cal AD, appeared in 2010. It was followed by The broch and Iron Age village in 2015, which considered pre-broch occupation from the Neolithic, but focused on the construction of the broch village from the mid first millennium cal BC. The third and final volume, The post-medieval township, published in 2019, examines the settlement evidence from the late fifteenth century AD to the end of the twentieth century AD, placing it within the historic context of the documentary evidence for the period. Given the complexity of the excavations, the range of scientific methods employed and the comprehensive nature of the published volumes, this is an impressive turnaround. As a set, these three volumes represent the full publication of an extraordinary occupation sequence spanning over 2500 years, allowing a detailed reconstruction of the changing social and economic role of a location in Shetland from the development of an enclosed broch, through a period of Norse occupation to a final phase as a nineteenth-century AD croft.

The function of the cerebellum in cognition, affect and consciousness

2001 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy D. Schmahmann ◽  
Carl M. Anderson ◽  
Natika Newton ◽  
Ralph D. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Cognitive Functions ◽  
Action Planning ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Logical Thinking ◽  
Cognitive Science Society ◽  
Perceptual Consciousness ◽  
Higher Cognitive Functions ◽  
The University

Editors’ note:þThese four interrelated discussions of the role of the cerebellum in coordinating emotional and higher cognitive functions developed out of a workshop presented by the four authors for the 2000 Conference of the Cognitive Science Society at the University of Pennsylvania. The four interrelated discussions explore the implications of the recent explosion of cerebellum research suggesting an expanded cerebellar role in higher cognitive functions as well as in the coordination of emotional functions with learning, logical thinking, perceptual consciousness, and action planning

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