The Present Status of Chemical Methods for Dating Prehistoric Bone

1953 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 354-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. F. Cook ◽  
R. F. Heizer
Keyword(s):  
Fluorine Content ◽  
Considerable Effort ◽  
General Survey ◽  
Fossil Bone ◽  
Chemical Methods ◽  
Joint Project ◽  
The Past ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

It is now over half a century since Carnot (1893) published his pioneer work dealing with the chemical analysis of fossil bone. In the intervening decades the problem has been investigated by occasional students who have approached the field from different directions. Recently interest in chemical methods has been intensified and the attention of archaeologists has been brought to a focus by the attempt of Oakley (1951) to utilize the fluorine content of human bones as a criterion of age. Also during the past few years a joint project has been pursued by the Departments of Anthropology and Physiology at the University of California (Berkeley) through the generosity of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Thus a considerable effort has been expended, and a reasonable volume of results are on record, with reference to the chemical changes which occur in fossil bone. At the present time it appears that a general survey of this work is in order, together with an appraisal of its value as a tool for the archaeologist and palaeontologist. Fairly comprehensive listings of published works on the subject of bone fossilization occur in Heizer (1950, 1952).

scholarly journals Why to build university spaces? How to discuss them? Appearance of a new lens

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aslı Alanlı
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Extreme Points ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Subject And Object ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
University Spaces ◽  
The University

Since the 1990s, the university space has been the subject of many discussions due to the introduction of communication technologies to the learning process,which has become significantly visible after the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic nowadays. These debates focus on the two extreme points ofwhether university space is necessary or not. In this regard, this research claims that the arguments on this topic are based on subject-object duality. It aims to develop a ground covering the discussions that oscillate between the two extremes by referring to sociomateriality, which advocates the interwovenness of subject and object. Adopting a retrospective perspective, itrediscovers the debates from the 1960s at the onto-epistemological levelthrough a sociomaterial lens. Finally, it situates the discussion on university space within the past-present-future dialogue.

Idealists and Realists: British Views of Germany,1864–1939

1975 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 137-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. M. Kennedy
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Form ◽  
Past Century ◽  
General Survey ◽  
Small Segment ◽  
The Past ◽  
British Policy ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Number Of Publications ◽  
Sheer Number

Yet another survey of the much-traversed field of Anglo-German relations will seem to many historians of modern Europe to border on the realm of superfluity; probably no two countries have had their relationship to each other so frequently examined in the past century as Britain and Germany. Moreover, even if one restricted such a study to the British side alone, the sheer number of publications upon this topic, or upon only a section of it like the age of ‘appeasement’, is simply too great to allow a compression of existing knowledge into a narrative form that would be anything other than crude and sketchy. The following contribution therefore seeks neither to provide such a general survey, nor, by use of new and detailed archival materials, to concentrate upon a small segment of the history of British policy towards Germany in the period 1864–1939; but instead to consider throughout all these years a particular aspect, namely, the respective arguments of Germanophiles and Germanophobes in Britain and the connection between this dialogue and the more general ideological standpoints of both sides. In so doing, the author has produced a survey which remains embarrassingly summary in detail but does at least attempt to offer a fresh approach to the subject.

scholarly journals Students’ Perception towards the Use of Worksheet as Helping Tools in Semantics Class

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 647-657
Author(s):  
Sri Damayanti ◽  
Irwan Irwan ◽  
Jusriati Jusriati
Keyword(s):  
Data Reduction ◽  
Positive Response ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
English Department ◽  
Motivation To Learn ◽  
Data Display ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Question And Answering

The writer set the problem of this research such as how is the students’ perception toward the use of worksheet as helping tools in semantics class? and what are the advantages of using a worksheet? The aim of this study is to describe the students’ perception of the use of worksheets as helping tools in semantics class and to find the advantages of using it. The subject of this research is the fifth-semester students in the English Department at the University of Cokroaminoto Palopo. The method of this study is a descriptive study. The procedures of collecting data are giving questionnaires and interviews and then the writer analyzed the data by adopting Matthew B. Miles and A. Michael Huberman's pattern. There were three steps; data reduction, data display, and conclusion. After that, the writer tabulated the gained data in making the description of the data. The result of this study shows; (1) Students are giving positive and good perception on the use of worksheet as helping tools in semantics class and (2) The advantage of using the worksheet as helping tools in teaching semantics are; it helped the students in understanding the question and answering the question easily, it also helped them in remembering the past material by using the worksheet and it gave them some motivation to learn English Semantics. So, it can be concluded that the use of worksheets as helping tools in semantics class got a positive response from the students and it also gave them some advantages. 

The Past in the Present? A Response to Stan's Cafe's Revival of ‘The Carrier Frequency’

2000 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-99
Author(s):  
Frances Babbage
Keyword(s):  
Carrier Frequency ◽  
The Past ◽  
Theatre Company ◽  
Theatre Studies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The University

The premiere of The Carrier Frequency took place in 1984, the result of a collaboration between Leeds-based Impact Theatre Cooperative and the novelist Russell Hoban. Impact was founded in 1978 by Claire MacDonald, Pete Brooks, Steve Schill, Graeme Miller, Tyrone Huggins, and Richard Hawley, with Nikki Johnson and Heather Ackroyd joining in subsequent years. Many companies since have cited Impact as a major inspiration, with The Carrier Frequency in particular achieving almost mythic status. Today, Impact has long since disbanded, and little documentation of their work remains to enable their legacy to be passed on. In April 1999, the theatre company Stan's Cafe (none of whom had seen the original show) decided to restage The Carrier Frequency as part of Birmingham's ‘Towards the Millennium’ festival; in association with this project, a symposium was held on the subject of ‘Archaeology, Repertory, and Theatre Inheritance’. What follows is a personal response to the experience of attending the symposium and performance, and records a variety of attitudes towards myth-making, re-creation, and the potential and problems of documentation. Frances Babbage lectures in Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds.

Spaces of Autonomy, Spaces of Hope: The place of the university in post-colonial Singapore

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 451-482
Author(s):  
PHILIP HOLDEN
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Past ◽  
Vice Chancellor ◽  
National University ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
Party State

AbstractThis article explores the background to and consequences of the resignation of B. R. Sreenivasan as the vice-chancellor of the University of Singapore in October 1963, after a public clash with the People's Action Party state government, led by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Sreenivasan's resignation has been the subject of radically different historical interpretations. It has been celebrated by some nationalist historians as part of a process of cultural decolonization, but criticized by others as precipitating a two-decades long erosion of academic freedom in Singapore. Careful attention to the event and its context, however, offers a powerful heuristic concerning the place of higher education in the process of decolonization, and the manner in which colonial universities came to be symbolic repositories of nationalism that enjoyed some degree of autonomy from the state. Debates on the role of the university that arose in Singapore after the resignation were plural, and diverse, and have much to teach us not only about the past, but also about a future in which international research universities such as the National University of Singapore embrace contradictory roles and yet still strive for new forms of academic autonomy.

VI.—Recent Discoveries in the Bodleian Library

Archaeologia ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
pp. 151-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. N. L. Myres
Keyword(s):  
Bodleian Library ◽  
The West ◽  
City Wall ◽  
External Appearance ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Divinity School ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

The group of medieval and seventeenth-century buildings which forms the subject of this paper lies in the centre of academic Oxford, between the site of the city wall on the north, Exeter College and its garden on the west and south, and the old Schools Quadrangle on the east. It constitutes indeed the heart of the medieval university. In writing to Humphrey, duke of Gloucester, on 14th July 1444 the authorities described the site as eminently suitable for a library because it was somewhat remote from secular noises. In spite of a marked increase in secular noises over the past 500 years in traffic-ridden Oxford, this description remains substantially true today. The buildings, erected then and later, remain in external appearance almost exactly as they are depicted in David Loggan's Oxonia Illustrate. of 1675 (pl. xxvii). They comprise the Divinity School, for which the university was already collecting money and laying the foundations in 1423 ; Duke Humphrey's Library, built over it in the forty-five years following the letter to Duke Humphrey of 1444; Arts End and the Proscholium added at right angles to the east by Sir Thomas Bodley in 1610–12; and Selden End with the Convocation House below, attached similarly to the west in 1637–40. The three upper rooms, Duke Humphrey, Selden End, Arts End, form the core of the ancient buildings of the Bodleian Library: they have been continuously in use for library purposes for between 320 and 360 years.

scholarly journals Leonard Hawkes, 6 August 1891 - 29 October 1981

1982 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 125-139
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
Early Years ◽  
World War ◽  
Igneous Petrology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Field Worker ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

Leonard Hawkes, during the past three decades one of the elder statesmen of British geology, was one of the few remaining leaders in the subject who received their training before World War I. A lifelong academic, he devoted his best years to the service of Bedford College in the University of London. A very active field-worker in early years, he became in his time a leading authority on the geology of Iceland, pursuing studies in volcanology, igneous petrology and glaciology. He served as a Secretary of the Geological Society of London for a long period at a critical stage in the history of that Society, and was later on its President. He will be remembered as one of the most amiable of characters in the post World War II scene.

The place of biology in modern education. Address by Sir Edward Salisbury, C. B. E. , D.Sc., LL.D., V. P. R. S., at the opening of the new Hatherly Biological Laboratories, Exeter, on 23 April 1953

1954 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-21
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Education ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
The Other ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
Direct Benefits ◽  
University College ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

It is my privilege today to declare open, for your use, these new laboratories that will provide the University College with a fitting environment in which the subject of biology can be effectively taught. It is one of the achievements of the modern advance in knowledge that the unity of all subjects is becoming more and more manifest and just as the context of biology has itself become so vastly augmented so its implications for the other branches of science have been proportionately enhanced. ‘If one member suffers all the other members suffer with it’ is fully applicable to the intellectual field, and the direct benefits that will follow from your own improved conditions will, I have no doubt, be indirectly no less beneficial to the University College as a whole. But if the maximum good is to accrue from your efforts and from the material improvement of your circumstances, biology must take its proper place not so much as a special discipline, but as part of that liberal education that constitutes an essential element in a cultured mind. Nevertheless to do this I venture to suggest that a new orientation in our approach to the study of botany and zoology is requisite. In the teaching of biology, and indeed of most subjects, in the curricula of schools and universities alike, there has, in the past, been far too great a tendency to mistake the imparting of mere information for the inculcation of knowledge. We devote far too much attention to the collection of bricks and far too little attention to the vision of the buildings into which they ought to be constructed. This tends to develop a community of the well informed rather than men and women of wisdom. The bricks are regarded as important in themselves and even brickbats, the half truths, which are often substitutes for the bricks, become the missiles of controversy instead of the elements of constructive achievemen t through which the superstructure of a richly ornamented life and useful citizenship can be built up. Many men and women, when they go out into the world of achievement, have a mental equipment that is comparable to a dump rather than to an edifice.

scholarly journals La apatía a las matemáticas en las carreras universitarias humanísticas

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julio César Silva Ruiz ◽  
Alex Hugo Ramos Mendoza ◽  
Francisco Isaac Verduga Vélez
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Mathematics Motivation ◽  
Mathematics Teaching Methods ◽  
The University ◽  
Los Grupos ◽  
Estudiantes Universitarios

Es frecuente escuchar en reuniones informales sobre la asignatura de matemáticas y el pasado estudiantil,  en algunos casos se suele tener respuestas que reflejan apatía a la asignatura, expresada en experiencias poco agradables, llegando hasta seleccionar carreras que no tengan que ver con números ni cálculos matemáticos. Este ha sido motivo de estudio para los autores de la investigación, quienes indagaron en estudiantes universitarios para  conocer en detalle,  si la apatía está relacionada con estudiar carreras que tengan en el currículo la menor cantidad de asignaturas que involucren las matemáticas. El objetivo de este trabajo es determinar las causas de la apatía a las matemáticas en las carreras universitarias humanísticas, para lo cual se utilizó como instrumento de investigación la encuesta a estudiantes de las universidades: Técnica de Manabí y San Gregorio de Portoviejo, en las carreras de Trabajo Social y Jurisprudencia, identificando la principal debilidad de los docentes de matemáticas el  homogenizar su metodología de trabajo, sin considerar que los grupos de estudios, y los estudiantes son distintos, añadiendo también  que realizan diagnósticos inadecuados, que los textos a pesar de traer lecturas motivadoras la actitud de los docentes no contribuyen a una verdadera motivación, generando indiferencia y rechazo a la asignatura, concluyendo que la apatía y poco entusiasmo por la asignatura de Matemática es responsabilidad metodológica de los docentes, los cuales muestran insuficiencias pedagógicas para impartir la cátedra objeto de estudio de esta investigación.  Palabras claves: Didáctica de las Matemáticas, métodos de enseñanza de Matemáticas, Motivación hacia las Matemáticas, Hábitos de estudios.   Summary Is often heard in informal meetings about the subject of mathematics and the past student, on some cases it is usually have answers that reflect apathy to the subject, express on unpleasant experiences, until you select careers that do not have to do with numbers or mathematical calculations. This has been reason of study for the authors of the investigation, who inquired about university students to know in detail, if the apathy is related with study careers that they have in the curriculum the least amount of subjects that involve the mathematics. The object of this work is determining the causes of the apathy to the mathematics in the university humanistic careers, for which the survey of university students was used as a research tool: Technical of Manabí and San Gregorio of Portoviejo, in the careers of Social Work and jurisprudence, identifying the main weakness of mathematics teachers to homogenize their work methodology, without considering that the group of studies, and the students are different, also adding that they make inadequate diagnoses, that the texts in spite of bringing motivational readings the attitude of the teachers do not contribute to a true motivation, generating indifference and rejection to the subject, concluding that apathy and little enthusiasm for the subject of mathematics is methodological responsibility of the teachers, which show pedagogical inadequacies to teach the lecture subject of study of this research. Keywords: Didactics of the Mathematics, teaching methods of Mathematics, Motivation towards Mathematics, Study Habits.

scholarly journals Osnovna terminologija za potrebe arheologije broda

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Radić Rossi Irena
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Nautical Archaeology ◽  
Ship Construction ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Scholarly Discussion ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University

Nautical archaeology is a scientific discipline that studies all types of ships from the past, based on material remains, and written, iconographic and ethnographic sources. Zdenko Brusić, the pioneer of Croatian underwater archaeology, started his intensive underwater research in the 1960s, and on several occasions explored the remains of old ships. In order to keep pace with modern methodology, it has recently become clear that a standardization of the terminology used in researching historical wooden shipbuilding is necessary to be able to systematically publish the results of research activities, and to promote scholarly discussion. At the time when the subject Wooden Shipbuilding was still taught at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture of the University of Zagreb, Teodor Bernardi wrote a textbook entitled Konstrukcija drvenih brodova (Wooden Ship Construction). His textbook served as the starting point for compiling an initial Croatian nautical archaeology glossary. This paper builds on his glossary, and is the result of intensive recent excavations of wooden ship remains in Croatian waters, which have necessarily involved the need to report and publish results in Croatian.

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