A Quantitative Study of the Linear Pottery Culture Cemetery “Aiterhofen-Ödmühle”

This article emphasises on the results of the master´s thesis “Burials in Bytes. A Quantitative Study of Linear Pottery Cemeteries in Austria, Bohemia, Moravia and Southern Germany” and further elaborates on interpretations of identified patterns at Early Neolithic cemeteries. The focus will lie on the Lower Bavarian site “Aiterhofen-Ödmühle.” Although the cemetery was subject to different analyses and interdisciplinary research in the past, there are still unsolved issues regarding chronology, structure, meaning of the local mortuary rites and rules, and its significance in the superregional context. The study utilised data acquisition via the Montelius image database and quantitative methods performed through the softwares WinSerion and Google Mapper. These data consisted of various typologies and classifications, while several variations of correspondence analysis, seriation, Analysis N Next Neighbours, and the creation of distribution maps have been involved in the process of evaluation. The results of the evaluations of Aiterhofen-Ödmühle favour a chronological south–north progression. Inhumations and cremations differ in grave good equipment, potentially representing contrasts in gender distribution. Spatial groupings are distinguishable through their properties – open to various ways of interpretation and comparable to clusters of other cemeteries. Differences regarding age and sex were also highlighted. Overall, Aiterhofen-Ödmühle stands out among Early Neolithic cemeteries through region-specific grave goods and death gesture, local peculiarities, variation of burial types, and its site structure. Similarities to other sites include characteristic Linear Pottery traits, although less obvious connections can also be recognised through the quantitative evaluations. Instead of rigid funerary rules, dynamic and flexible rites are suggested.

Some Issues on the Protection of Employee Rights and Interests in Vietnamese Enterprises Today

Protecting employee rights and interests is the issue attracted attention of related parties in Vietnam. It includes a lot of contents. The article deals with some basic contents such as salary, working time and labor safety and hygiene. In the past years, besides the achievements, the protection of employee rights and interests in Vietnamese enterprises has some limitations. In some enterprises, the minimum wage has not met the demand, the real income of employees is low while working time is relatively high and labor safety and hygiene are not ensured. This is due to many reasons, such as: firstly, most Vietnamese enterprises are small and medium ones, their economic potential is not strong enough to be able to good equipment for employees; secondly, the employees themselves are not aware of their rights and interests as well as are also under pressure to survive; thirdly, it is the problem of profit. Therefore, it is necessary to adjust both the awareness and policies to make sure the harmony between employees, enterprises and society.

What Do Millennials Want in the Perfect Workplace Environment?

Twenty-two variables were identified and selected by millennial students as the most important factors contributing to the millennial employee’s ideal workplace environment. These students were attending a small, southern university School of Business in the United States. On a 5-point Ranking Scale, fifty-two college students responded to a student-designed survey ranking the importance of twenty-two workplace environment variables. It was determined that motivation by “being involved in the company’s decisions” and “working with positive-like-minded people” were the two most important factors. These were followed by “having modern equipment” and “liking the company I work for”. The most significant factors impacting job position selection are “great working conditions including good equipment, good work environment and low stress”.

The design of a simple water heater on eel (Anguilla marmorata) development in controlled pond

Eels (Anguilla marmorata) can adapt to the temperature of 12-31 ° C but require an optimum temperature to support growth due to their slow growth. Low water temperature could also influence their appetite and be susceptible to disease. The water heater is needed in the location where source water is abundant but low temperature, such as Tatelu Freshwater Aquaculture Center with 22-25°C. This activity was aimed to increase the the water temperature of eel enlargement treatment tank. The design began with making an easily operated-water heating working block system diagram and detailing low cost budget for good equipment production. This application gave a fairly good impact on the eel rearing, in which the eels were not susceptible to disease and had stable appetite. The temperature could be adjusted as desired by installing a microcontroller to save energy and prevent overheating the media. For 1 ton of water with initial temperature of 25°C takes about 2 hours to produce a water temperature of 28 ° C. To make a prototype water heater costs about IDR 3 million for 450 watts of power and water flow of 25 liters/min. Ikan sidat (Anguilla marmorata) membutuhkan suhu optimal dalam budidaya agar mendukung pertumbuhannya yang cenderung lambat. Suhu air rendah dapat juga mempengaruhi nafsu makan dan potensi munculnya penyakit. Pemanas air dibutuhkan pada lokasi yang sumber airnya melimpah tetapi bersuhu rendah, seperti BBAT Tatelu yang memiliki kisaran suhu air 22 - 25°C. Kegiatan ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan nilai suhu air pada bak treatment pembesaran ikan sidat. Perancangan dimulai dengan membuat diagram blok sistem kerja pemanas air dengan operasional yang mudah dan merinci anggaran agar didapatkan biaya yang murah dibandingkan peralatan sejenis produksi pabrikan. Hasil penerapan memberi dampak yang cukup baik dalam menunjang pemeliharaan ikan sidat. Selama masa pemeliharaan, benih sidat tidak mudah terserang penyakit dan nafsu makan stabil. Suhu yang dihasilkan dapat disesuaikan dengan keinginan dengan adanya penambahan alat mikrokontroller yang berfungsi memutus arus jika suhu mencapai batas yang diinginkan sehingga dapat menghemat energi dan mencegah terjadinya panas berlebih pada media pemeliharaan. Kisaran suhu yang dihasilkan untuk 1 ton air dengan suhu awal 25°C membutuhkan waktu sekitar 2 jam untuk menghasilkan suhu air 28°C. Untuk membuat prototipe pemanas air ini membutuhkan biaya sekitar 3 juta rupiah dengan daya 450 watt dan kecepatan aliran 25 liter /menit.

Ways and Means of Improving the Quality of Drill Pipe Connections

Continuous development of science and technology, the human ability to conquer nature and continuously improve, but also rapid growth in social demands, significantly reduced the amount of available resources. Earth-shallow layer drying up of resources of our human life, forcing people to the underground exploration of the deeper substance to meet human needs. This requires adaptation of deep drilling tool for drilling needs good equipment, deep-hole wireline coring drilling equipment in adapting to constantly update and be perfect with this demand.

Robotic Telescopes: A Link between Astronomically Developed and Astronomically Developing Countries

Astronomers in developing countries are often confronted with multiple problems of access to good equipment and access to good astronomical sites. While there is no subsititute for personal experience of using qood equipment at a good site, access to robotic telescopes can address these problems of access to some extent. This paper explores the possibilities for at least moderately experienced observational astronomers in developing countries to conduct observing programmes using remote robotic telescopes at good astronomical sites.

The future of ultrasonics in diagnostic medicine

Ultrasonics has been the poor relation of twentieth century physics and it is only recently that thought has been given to investigating the scientific basis of ultrasonic diagnostic methods. The physics of acoustic wave interactions with human tissues is complex but suggests the existence of a rich supply of diagnostically useful information. Static imaging technology may now be approaching a resolution limit imposed by variability of refractive index in overlying tissues, but advances are to be expected in the direction of quantification of the imaging process. Supplementary information on fine structure of tissues is also to be expected from the application of analytical techniques, of which frequency dependence of backscattering and diffraction pseudo-crystallography are two examples in which there is current research interest. Recent rapid advances in dynamic or ‘real time’ imaging reflect the potential of ultrasound for providing hitherto unobtainable information on patterns of tissue movement both in health and disease. Major advances in application will come, in many areas of medicine, simply as good equipment, experience and expertise become more generally available but particular impact from scientific advances may occur in the diagnosis and management of both cardiovascular disease and cancer, with effective early detection of breast cancer being one of a number of distant but compelling prospects.

‘He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage’ the horse in the Central Sudan II. Its use

Horses in themselves have little or no necessary military significance: in Part I of this article we saw how various quite unwarlike peoples possessed them. of fundamental significance, in transforming horses into war-horses, was good harness and equipment, and to carry this larger animals were preferable. Even against well-equipped cavalry, mainly infantry forces might prevail, if they were, like the Almoravids and the adherents of Usuman dan Fodio, sufficiently inspired. An important advantage of a horse, or better still several horses, was in providing a means of speedy escape. Horses were also valuable in slaving, a profitable occupation not only in the economic terms of human booty, some of whom might be sold for more horses, but also in demographic terms, a sort of compulsory immigration scheme. The use of horses in communications, as packanimals, in hunting, and for food, is discussed, though none was of outstanding significance in the Central Sudan. The employment of horses in agriculture seems to have been entirely lacking. Perhaps the most widespread use of horses was in festivals and celebrations; these displays of horsemanship, whether intentionally or not, helped train horses and riders. Good equipment was again vital, and sumptuary restrictions seem to have been directed more against overweening ostentation in this, than in the possession of horses. While horses were very widely esteemed, the most scrupulous among Muslims felt a certain hesitation about the propriety of riding a horse. Horses were found as a form of tribute, alms, bribes, and gifts of various kinds. In conclusion, the horseperse was more common, and less remarkable, in the Central Sudan than is sometimes suggested; it was the equipment of horses which made them effective weapons of war and statecraft.