Linking Roman Coins: Current Work at the American Numismatic Society

Abstract This article discusses two important cases that involve the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides). First, in Vargas v Industrial Com’n of Arizona, a claimant had a pre-existing non–work-related injury to his right knee as well as a work-related injury, and the issue was apportionment of the pre-existing injury. The court held that, under Arizona's statute, the impairment from the pre-existing injury should be subtracted from the current work-related impairment. In the second case, Colorado courts addressed the issue of apportionment in a workers’ compensation claim in which the pre-existing injury was asymptomatic at the time of the work-related injury (Askey v Industrial Claim Appeals Office). In this case, the court held that the worker's benefits should not be reduced to account for an asymptomatic pre-existing condition that could not be rated accurately using the AMA Guides. The AMA Guides bases impairment ratings on anatomic or physiologic loss of function, and if an examinee presents with two or more sequential injuries and calculable impairments, the AMA Guides can be used to apportion between pre-existing and subsequent impairments. Courts often use the AMA Guides to decide statutorily determined benefits and are subject to interpretation by courts and administrative bodies whose interpretations may vary from state to state.

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Structuring Situational Information

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027/1016-9040/a000225 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 176-189 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

John F. Rauthmann

Keyword(s):

Statistical Analyses ◽

Current Work ◽

Common Language ◽

Road Map ◽

Taxonomic Approach ◽

Situational Information

Abstract. There is as yet no consensually agreed-upon situational taxonomy. The current work addresses this issue and reviews extant taxonomic approaches by highlighting a “road map” of six research stations that lead to the observed diversity in taxonomies: (1) theoretical and conceptual guidelines, (2) the “type” of situational information studied, (3) the general taxonomic approach taken, (4) the generation of situation pools, (5) the assessment and rating of situational information, and (6) the statistical analyses of situation data. Current situational taxonomies are difficult to integrate because they follow different paths along these six stations. Some suggestions are given on how to spur integrated taxonomies toward a unified psychology of situations that speaks a common language.

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Measuring the Situational Eight DIAMONDS Characteristics of Situations

European Journal of Psychological Assessment ◽

10.1027/1015-5759/a000246 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 32 (2) ◽

pp. 155-164 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

John F. Rauthmann ◽

Ryne A. Sherman

Keyword(s):

Psychological Characteristics ◽

Current Work

Abstract. It has been suggested that people perceive psychological characteristics of situations on eight major dimensions ( Rauthmann et al., 2014 ): The “Situational Eight” DIAMONDS (Duty, Intellect, Adversity, Mating, pOsitivity, Negativity, Deception, Sociality). These dimensions have been captured with the 32-item RSQ-8. The current work optimizes the RSQ-8 to derive more economical yet informative and precise scales, captured in the newly developed S8*. Nomological associations of the original RSQ-8 and the S8* with situation cues (extracted from written situation descriptions) were compared. Application areas of the S8* are outlined.

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“That line’s got personality!” – The Big 5 as a Model of Personality Perception

JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN HUMANITIES ◽

10.24297/jah.v3i3.435 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 277-280

Author(s):

Matthew T. Gailliot

Keyword(s):

Current Work ◽

Big 5 ◽

Past Work ◽

Straight Line ◽

Personality Perception ◽

Personality Ratings ◽

And Behavior ◽

Meaningful Sense

Personality – enduring traits describing how people tend to think and behave – often is described by the Big 5 model. Everything people do and think can be described as representing 1 of 5 more general traits. Though the Big 5 model has been posited to describe actual thought and behavior, the current work tested the hypothesis that personality ratings would fit the Big 5 model even when the target being rated does not have a personality in any meaningful sense. Supporting this hypothesis, the Big 5 model showed acceptable fit for describing a person (consistent with past work), but also a straight line drawn on paper, something that should not have personality in any meaningful sense. The Big 5 model thus does not necessarily describe actual thought and behavior but instead the structure of personality perception.

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Beauty and truth, truth and beauty: Chiasmus and the Keats heuristic

10.31234/osf.io/c36q5 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Mane Kara-Yakoubian ◽

Alexander C. Walker ◽

Constantine Sharpinskyi ◽

Garni Assadourian ◽

Jonathan Albert Fugelsang

Keyword(s):

Specific Form ◽

Current Work ◽

Reverse Order ◽

Potential Mechanism

The Keats heuristic suggests that people find aesthetically pleasing expressions more accurate than mundane expressions. We test this notion with chiastic statements. Chiasmus is a stylistic phenomenon in which at least two linguistic constituents are repeated in reverse order, following an A-B-B-A pattern. Our study focuses on the specific form of chiasmus known as antimetabole, in which the reverse-repeated constituents are words (e.g., “all for one and one for all”). In 3 out of 4 experiments (N = 797), we find evidence that people judge antimetabolic statements (e.g., “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”) as more accurate than semantically equivalent non-antimetabolic statements (e.g., “Success is getting what you wish. Happiness is wanting what you receive.”). Furthermore, we evaluate fluency as a potential mechanism explaining the observed accuracy benefit afforded to antimetabolic statements, finding that the increased speed (i.e., fluency) with which antimetabolic statements were processed was misattributed by participants as evidence of greater accuracy. Overall, the current work demonstrates that stylistic factors bias assessments of truth, with information communicated using aesthetically pleasing stylistic devices (e.g., antimetabole) being perceived as more truthful.

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Group of tetradrachmas from the reign of Diocletian discovered at Kom el-Dikka in Alexandria

10.31338/uw.2083-537x.pam29.2.22 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 515-528

Author(s):

Adam Jegliński

Keyword(s):

Construction Site ◽

Public Buildings ◽

Lime Kilns ◽

Roman Coins ◽

Late Roman

A set of more than 30 tetradrachmas from the second half of the 3rd century AD was discovered in Alexandria in Egypt, at the Kom el-Dikka site excavated by a Polish mission, in a zone of public buildings constructed in the 4th century AD. A row of lime kilns from the construction site of this complex stood on top of the ruins of an early Roman domestic quarter and, after they ceased to be used, were covered with earth and rubble, the latter partly from the destruction layer of these houses. Excavation of the kilns in 2008 and 2009 produced large quantities of 4th and 5th century pottery as well as pieces of marble revetment that had been fed to the kilns, and isolated late Roman coins. The tetradrachmas from two of the kilns (Fc and Fd), which were hoarded apparently in AD 293–295, seems to have preceded the destruction of the early Roman houses and may have been hidden in one of them.

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Female Christian prose today: A failed search for new women’s subjectivity?

Voprosy literatury ◽

10.31425/0042-8795-2020-1-132-149 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 132-149

Author(s):

E. Chelpanova

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Social System ◽

Family Values ◽

The State ◽

Current Work ◽

Conservative Approach ◽

Female Subjectivity ◽

Female Characters ◽

The Social ◽

History Of

In her analysis of books by Maya Kucherskaya, Olesya Nikolaeva, and Yulia Voznesenskaya, the author investigates the history of female Christian prose from the 1990s until the present day. According to the author, it was in the 1990s, the period of crisis and transformation of the social system, that female Christian writers were more vocal, than today, on the issues of the new post-Soviet female subjectivity, drawing on folklore imagery and contrasting the folk, pagan philosophy with the Christian one, defined by an established set of rules and limitations for the principal female roles. Thus, the folklore elements in Kucherskaya’s early works are considered as an attempt to represent female subjectivity. However, the author argues that, in their current work, Kucherskaya and other representatives of the so-called female Christian prose tend to choose different, objectivizing methods to represent female characters. This new and conservative approach may have come from a wider social context, including the state-imposed ‘family values’ program.

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The Date of the Muratorian Fragment

10.33929/gcrrpress.jfl20201203 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-172

Author(s):

John F. Lingelbach

Keyword(s):

New Testament ◽

Explanatory Power ◽

Fourth Century ◽

Church History ◽

Second Century ◽

Current Work ◽

Third Century ◽

Historical Theology ◽

First Time ◽

Objective Methodology

Three hundred years after its discovery, scholars find themselves unable to determine the more likely of the two hypotheses regarding the date of the Muratorian Fragment, which consists of a catalog of New Testament texts. Is the Fragment a late second- to early third-century composition or a fourth-century composition? This present work seeks to break the impasse. The study found that, by making an inference to the best explanation, a second-century date for the Fragment is preferred. This methodology consists of weighing the two hypotheses against five criteria: plausibility, explanatory scope, explanatory power, credibility, and simplicity. What makes this current work unique in its contribution to church history and historical theology is that it marks the first time the rigorous application of an objective methodology, known as “inference to the best explanation” (or IBE), has been formally applied to the problem of the Fragment’s date.

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Weldability - Behavior of Welded Reinforcement

Revista de Chimie ◽

10.37358/rc.19.10.3469 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 70 (10) ◽

pp. 3469-3472

Keyword(s):

Mechanical Properties ◽

Chemical Composition ◽

Mechanical Characteristics ◽

Mechanical Performance ◽

Current Work ◽

Carbon Equivalent ◽

Work Process ◽

Ultimate Limit

Weldability involves two aspects: welding behavior of components and safety in operation. The two aspects will be reduced to the mechanical characteristics of the elements and to the chemical composition. In the case of steel reinforcing rebar’s, it is reduces to the percentage of Cech(carbon equivalent) and to the mechanical characteristics: the yielding limit, the ultimate limit, and the elongations which after that represent the ductility class in which the re-bars is framed. The paper will present some types of steel reinforcing rebar’s with its mechanical characteristics and the welding behavior of those elements. In the current work, process-related behavior of welded reinforcement, joint local and global mechanical properties, and their correlation with behavior of normal reinforcement and also the mechanical performance resulted in this type of joints. Keywords: welding behavior, ultimate limit, reinforcing rebar’s

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