scholarly journals Data as Word

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 557-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Ancient World ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Term Data

The history of what we today call “data” extends to the ancient world, yet our contemporary terminology of “data” is modern. This article examines the history and significance of the term “data.” It argues that a historiography of data that is self-conscious about the historicity of its own categories can illuminate the specific materiality of data, distinct from the things in the world it claims to represent. This essay is part of a special issue entitled Histories of Data and the Database edited by Soraya de Chadarevian and Theodore M. Porter.

The Pikwitonei Granulite Domain, Manitoba: a giant Neoarchean high-grade terrane in the northwest Superior ProvinceThis article is one of a series of papers published in this Special Issue on the theme of Geochronology in honour of Tom Krogh.N. Machado, T.E. Krogh, and W. Weber are deceased.

2011 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. M. Heaman ◽  
Ch. O. Böhm ◽  
N. Machado ◽  
T. E. Krogh ◽  
W. Weber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Granulite Facies ◽  
Superior Province ◽  
High Grade ◽  
Metamorphic Zircon ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Metamorphic History ◽  
Zircon Growth ◽  
The World ◽  
Northwestern Margin ◽  
History Of

The Pikwitonei Granulite Domain located at the northwestern margin of the Superior Province is one of the largest Neoarchean high-grade terranes in the world, with well-preserved granulite metamorphic assemblages preserved in a variety of lithologies, including enderbite, opdalite, charnockite, and mafic granulite. U–Pb geochronology has been attempted to unravel the protolith ages and metamorphic history of numerous lithologies at three main localities; Natawahunan Lake, Sipiwesk Lake, and Cauchon Lake. The U–Pb age results indicate that some of the layered enderbite gneisses are Mesoarchean (3.4–3.0 Ga) and the more massive enderbites are Neoarchean. The high-grade metamorphic history of the Pikwitonei Granulite Domain is complex and multistage with at least four episodes of metamorphic zircon growth identified: (1) 2716.1 ± 3.8 Ma, (2) 2694.6 ± 0.6 Ma, (3) 2679.6 ± 0.9 Ma, and (4) 2642.5 ± 0.9 Ma. Metamorphic zircon growth during episodes 2 and 3 are interpreted to be regional in extent, corresponding to M1 amphibolite- and M2 granulite-facies events, respectively, consistent with previous field observations. The youngest metamorphic episode at 2642.5 Ma is only recognized at southern Cauchon Lake, where it coincides with granite melt production and possible development of a major northeast-trending deformation zone. The timing and multistage metamorphic history recorded in the Pikwitonei Granulite Domain is similar to most Superior Province high-grade terranes and marks a fundamental break in Archean crustal evolution worldwide at the termination of prolific global Neoarchean greenstone belt formation.

scholarly journals What can Girlhood Studies be?

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. v-vi
Author(s):  
Claudia Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Girlhood Studies ◽  
Girls Studies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Journal

This Special Issue of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal represents another milestone in the history of the journal, coming, as it does, out of the second international conference of the International Girls’ Studies Association (IGSA) that was hosted by Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana, in 2019. As the guest editors, Angeletta Gourdine, Mary Celeste Kearney, and Shauna Pomerantz highlight in their introduction, the conference itself and the Special Issue set in motion the type of dialogue and conversation that is crucial to challenging and changing the world of inequities and disparities experienced by girls. For a relatively new area of study that has roots in feminism and social change, critical dialogue about inclusion and exclusion and about ongoing reflexivity and questioning must surely be at the heart of girls studies. The guest editors capture this admirably when they replace the question “What is girlhood studies?” with the provocative and generative question, “What can girlhood studies be?” The articles and book reviews in this Special Issue tackle what girls studies could be in so many different ways, ranging from broadening and deepening notions of intersectionality and interdisciplinarity to ensuring a place for the article, “Where are all the Girls and Indigenous People at IGSA@ND?” co-authored by the girls who belong to the Young Indigenous Women’s Utopia group. Such an account offers a meta-analysis of the field of girlhood studies, but so did the call for the Special Issue as a whole. It is commendable that this team of co-editors assembled and curated a series of articles that reveal the very essence of the problematic that girlhood studies seeks to address.

Fates of Romes

2020 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 233-246
Author(s):  
Alain Bresson
Keyword(s):  
Turning Point ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Religious History ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
First Century ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century

Kyle Harper's book The Fate of Rome marks the thunderous entry of Nature into the world of ancient history of the twenty-first century. This is not the first book devoted to questions of climate and diseases in the ancient world, but its publication nonetheless represents a turning point. From now on, whether they work on political, social, economic, or even religious history, ancient historians will no longer be able to ignore these factors in their own writings. That is not to say that all the theses of the book, especially its natural determinism, should be accepted uncritically.

scholarly journals Preface: Developments in the Science and History of Tides

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip L. Woodworth ◽  
J. A. Mattias Green ◽  
Richard D. Ray ◽  
John M. Huthnance
Keyword(s):  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Short Overview ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Abstract. This special issue marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Liverpool Tidal Institute (LTI), one of a number of important scientific developments in 1919. The preface gives a brief history of how the LTI came about and the roles of its first two Directors, Joseph Proudman and Arthur Doodson. It also gives a short overview of the research on tides at the LTI through the years. Summaries are given of the 26 papers in the special issue. It will be seen that the topics of many of them could be thought of as providing a continuation of the research first undertaken at the LTI. Altogether, they provide an interesting snapshot of work on tides now being made by groups around the world.

scholarly journals Digital Archiving in Archaeology: The State of the Art. Introduction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian D. Richards ◽  
Ulf Jakobsson ◽  
David Novák ◽  
Benjamin Štular ◽  
Holly Wright
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
History Of Archaeology ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Digital Archiving ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

The articles in this special issue demonstrate significant differences in digital archiving capacity in different countries. In part these reflect differences in the history of archaeology in each country, its relationship to the state, whether it is centralised or decentralised, state-led or commercially driven. They also reflect some of the different attitudes to archaeology across the world, most recently explored in a survey conducted under the auspices of the NEARCH project. They reflect a snapshot in time, but our aim is to record the current state-of-the-art in each country, to inform knowledge, stimulate discussion, and to provoke change.

Facing the World: Towards a Global History of Non-Latin Type Design

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-411
Author(s):  
Thomas S. Mullaney
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Global History ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Type Design ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
History Of ◽  
Printed Word ◽  
Archival Work

Abstract This essay serves as the entry point into a broader exploration of critical issues in the history of “non-Latin” type design—that is, type design beyond the Latin alphabet. With special emphasis on certain scripts (Arabic, Chinese, Greek, and Devanagari, among others) and regions (South Asia, East Asia, South Africa, and beyond), this special issue brings together practicing designers and scholars, federating rigorous archival work, practice-based insight, and a deep engagement with the global history of the written, designed, and printed word.

Ali Mehmet Celâl Şengör: A geologist who unravels the histories of continents and oceans

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (11) ◽  
pp. v-viii
Author(s):  
Ali Polat
Keyword(s):  
Plate Tectonics ◽  
Orogenic Belt ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Geological Processes ◽  
History Of Geology ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Himalayan Orogenic Belt ◽  
Orogenic Belts

This special issue is dedicated to Ali Mehmet Celâl Şengör for his outstanding contributions to plate tectonics and history of geology. His studies have unraveled several mysteries on the origin and deformation of continents and formation of orogenic belts in many parts of the world. We received 22 articles for the special issue, 11 of which are published in this issue. The rest of the articles will be published in the next issue. The articles in this issue mainly focus on geological processes in the Alpine–Himalayan orogenic belt and on the history of the theory of plate tectonics.

CRAFTING CHAOS: INTELLIGENT DESIGN IN OVID, METAMORPHOSES BOOK 1 AND PLATO'S TIMAEUS

2020 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 734-748
Author(s):  
Peter Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Design ◽  
Ancient World ◽  
Constructive Approach ◽  
Philosophical Work ◽  
Apollonius Rhodius ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Universe

Many attempts have been made to define the precise philosophical outlook of Ovid's account of cosmogony from the beginning of the Metamorphoses, while numerous different and interconnected influences have been identified including Homer, Hesiod, Empedocles, Apollonius Rhodius, Lucretius and Virgil. This has led some scholars to conclude that Ovid's cosmogony is simply eclectic, a magpie collection of various poetic and philosophical snippets haphazardly jumbled together, and with no significant philosophical dimension whatsoever. A more constructive approach could see Ovid's synthesis of many of the major cosmogonic works in the Graeco-Roman tradition as an attempt to match textually his all-encompassing history of the universe that purports to stretch from the first beginnings of the world up to the present day (Met. 1.3−4). Furthermore, if the beginning of the Metamorphoses is designed to be both cosmologically and intertextually all-encompassing, it is surprising that the influence of arguably the major philosophical work on cosmogony from the ancient world, Plato's Timaeus, remains to be evaluated.

scholarly journals Preface: Developments in the science and history of tides

Ocean Science ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 809-818
Author(s):  
Philip L. Woodworth ◽  
J. A. Mattias Green ◽  
Richard D. Ray ◽  
John M. Huthnance
Keyword(s):  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Short Overview ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Abstract. This special issue marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Liverpool Tidal Institute (LTI), one of a number of important scientific developments in 1919. The preface gives a brief history of how the LTI came about and the roles of its first two directors, Joseph Proudman and Arthur Doodson. It also gives a short overview of the research on tides at the LTI through the years. Summaries are given of the 26 papers in the special issue. It will be seen that the topics of many of them could be thought of as providing a continuation of the research first undertaken at the LTI. Altogether, they provide an interesting snapshot of work on tides now being made by groups around the world.

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