Simulations and Outputs

Radiocarbon ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 871-876 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seren Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Data Selection ◽  
Multiple Model ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Specific Data ◽  
Cultural Traits ◽  
Site Chronology ◽  
A Site ◽  
Regional Analyses

Bayesian analysis is now routinely applied for the construction of site-specific stratigraphic chronological models. Other approaches have analyzed the chronology of phases of archaeological activity across regions. The available radiocarbon results—the nature of the samples and their associations—provide the basis for what chronological questions it is possible to address for any site or region. In dealing with regional analyses, due consideration must be made of data selection. While data selection might be a relatively self-evident consideration in the analysis of a site chronology, working with data from a larger region poses a number of specific data selection issues. Robust association between dated samples and a particular type of diagnostic material culture or site may provide one means of producing regional chronologies. However, if the activity under investigation includes a number of different cultural traits, which are related but with each having a slightly different chronological currency, defining the temporal end of data selection becomes more problematic. This article presents one approach, using a case study from the British Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, with 880 simulation OxCal models used to investigate the effect of variously defining the end of a regional archaeological phase. The results emphasize that for a regional case study, sensitivity analysis may provide a useful tool to ensure representative models; the study also highlights the importance of comparing multiple model posteriors.

Simulations and Outputs

Radiocarbon ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 56 (02) ◽  
pp. 871-876
Author(s):  
Seren Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Data Selection ◽  
Multiple Model ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Specific Data ◽  
Cultural Traits ◽  
Site Chronology ◽  
A Site ◽  
Regional Analyses

Bayesian analysis is now routinely applied for the construction of site-specific stratigraphic chronological models. Other approaches have analyzed the chronology of phases of archaeological activity across regions. The available radiocarbon results—the nature of the samples and their associations—provide the basis for what chronological questions it is possible to address for any site or region. In dealing with regional analyses, due consideration must be made of data selection. While data selection might be a relatively self-evident consideration in the analysis of a site chronology, working with data from a larger region poses a number of specific data selection issues. Robust association between dated samples and a particular type of diagnostic material culture or site may provide one means of producing regional chronologies. However, if the activity under investigation includes a number of different cultural traits, which are related but with each having a slightly different chronological currency, defining the temporal end of data selection becomes more problematic. This article presents one approach, using a case study from the British Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, with 880 simulation OxCal models used to investigate the effect of variously defining the end of a regional archaeological phase. The results emphasize that for a regional case study, sensitivity analysis may provide a useful tool to ensure representative models; the study also highlights the importance of comparing multiple model posteriors.

From Ajanta to Sydenham: ‘Indian’ art at the Sydenham Palace

After 1851 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Victoria Turner
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
The South ◽  
Crystal Palace ◽  
A Site ◽  
Victoria And Albert Museum ◽  
Great Exhibition ◽  
Indian Art

Discussions about the display of Indian art and material culture in the Victorian imperial metropolis have largely focused on the Great Exhibition of 1851 and its progeny, the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum). However, the Crystal Palace at Sydenham Hill was an important, but much overlooked, location of imperial and colonial display well into the twentieth century. This essay begins by examining the Sydenham Palace at a site of imperial spectacle from its opening in 1854 and well into the twentieth century. Relevant events included the African Exhibition of 1895, the opening of the Victoria Cross Gallery in the same year and the Colonial Exhibition of 1905, and the display of Major Robert Gill’s copies of the frescoes from the Buddhist rock-cut temples at Ajanta in India (until they were destroyed by fire in 1866). The crowning occasion in the Sydenham series of imperial events was the Festival of Empire in 1911 which celebrated the ascension of George V as ‘King-Emperor’. Taking the 1911 Festival as a case study, this essay explores the complex and often conflicting narratives of empire that were communicated through the courts and grounds at Sydenham.

‘This Islande is Inhabited with all Sortes’: The Archaeology of Creolisation in Speightstown, Barbados, and Beyond, AD 1650–1900

2013 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 319-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Niall Finneran
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Cultural Traits ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
English Culture ◽  
North Western

Studies of creole material cultures in historical archaeological frameworks in the Americas and Caribbean from the sixteenth century onwards emphasise the diversity and dynamism of cultural traits that are rooted in a range of different backgrounds: indigenous, African and European. Using a case study based upon recent historical and multidisciplinary archaeological research in north-western Barbados, this paper seeks to chart the development of a distinct vernacular Barbadian creole material culture over the period 1650–1900. It is argued here that the evolution of a strong and characteristic local cultural identity, as evidenced by recent archaeological research, counters the usual perception, common among historians of the period, that the plantocracy and its associated agents merely sought to reproduce English culture in the tropics. In fact the cultural picture as presented here is far more nuanced, and has implications for wider historical archaeological studies in the region.

scholarly journals A Case Study to Identify the Drug Conjugation Site of a Site-Specific Antibody-Drug-Conjugate Using Middle-Down Mass Spectrometry

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (11) ◽  
pp. 2419-2429 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar Hernandez-Alba ◽  
Stéphane Houel ◽  
Steve Hessmann ◽  
Stéphane Erb ◽  
David Rabuka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Specific Antibody ◽  
Antibody Drug Conjugate ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Drug Conjugate ◽  
Drug Conjugation ◽  
A Site ◽  
Antibody Drug

Visualizing Play: A Case Study of a Camera Phone Game for Playful Re-imaginings of Place

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 336-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larissa Hjorth
Keyword(s):  
Camera Phone ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Mobile Game ◽  
Critical Cartography ◽  
Mobile Water ◽  
A Site ◽  
Fukushima Disaster

This article explores the unofficial role of camera phone practices in visualizing everyday forms of play as part of emergent urban cartographies. I argue that camera phone practices—especially in an age of timestamping—are creating their own cartographies of place that overlay the visual with the ambient, social with the geographic, emotional with the electronic, in new ways. By focusing upon the playful qualities of camera phone practices, we can begin to understand places as sites for ambient meandering and co-presence. Having outlined the notion of performative cartography as part of what has been defined as “critical cartography,” I consider how camera phone practices can be understood through ambient, co-present play. I turn to a site-specific mobile game, keitai mizu (mobile water), made for a post-Tokyo tsunami and Fukushima disaster context (known as 3/11), to explore the ways in which cartography can be performed.

Probabilistic Red Limit Study for Mobile Offshore Drilling Units

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Gjerde ◽  
Haibo Chen
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Critical Distance ◽  
Dynamic Positioning ◽  
Marine Riser ◽  
Offshore Drilling ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Specific Parameter ◽  
A Site

More and more mobile offshore drilling units (MODUs) are equipped with dynamic positioning (DP) system to maintain vessel position during drilling and well operations. A failure in the DP system might in worst case lead to position loss in terms of drive-off or drift-off. In a position loss scenario, the operator needs to activate the emergency disconnect sequence (EDS) of the marine riser at the time when the vessel reaches a site specific critical distance, denoted the red limit. The red limit distance takes into account the time it takes for the EDS sequence to complete, in addition to the vessel position loss speed and the physical excursion limit for the marine riser, BOP and wellhead system. The red limit is a site-specific parameter, which is dependent on many factors. This paper presents an alternative probabilistic methodology to determine the red limit based on probabilistic modeling of position loss scenarios, using a case study of DP class 3 drilling vessels at specific well sites and environmental conditions.

scholarly journals Contemporary Curatorial Practice: A Case Study of Curation on Site-Specific Consideration—Research and Practice Based on Birmingham City, UK

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Jing Li
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Practice Theory ◽  
Concept Development ◽  
Art Exhibitions ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Curatorial Practice ◽  
A Site

This evaluation relates to the “...publication as a site” and contemporary art exhibitions for artists held on website and portfolios. I will discuss the concept development in the project within my role, through to the management of artists and the publication of design. This will also give consideration to “site-specific” curatorial practice theory and obtain comments from artists and audience. Moreover, the commissioning process is the significant considerable elements.

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