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Penn Library\u27s LJS 470 - [Medical and magical compendium]. (Video Orientation)
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The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra: A Professional Orchestra or a Quixotic Quest for Peace?
Full text linkPenn Library\u27s Library\u27s LJS 489 - Nawaz letter with seal, 300s or 400s.(Video Orientation)
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Aspiring to Be a Buddha and Life Before Liberation: The Colophons of the Siamese Questions of King Milinda
Full text linkThis article presents the colophons of a Buddhist text, the Questions of King Milinda, as seen in manuscripts found mainly in Central Thailand. Through a survey of over seventy Pāli palm-leaf manuscripts and a Thai samut khoi (folding book), the colophons reveal information not only related to textual transmission, but also to the social and soteriological ambitions of the communities that created them. Inspired by the ideology of merit, which promises good karmic returns for presenting and preserving the Dharma in this world, donors and scribes produced various kinds of aspirations (Pāli: patthanā). These aspirations are recorded in colophons. In this group of manuscripts, it is not uncommon to find that the preferred path to Nirvana among stakeholders is to become a Buddha. This is somewhat contrary to the general assumption that the way of arhat is preferred for a community that upheld the Theravāda tradition. Moreover, the quest to be fully awakened and omniscient is shown not to be confined to kings or to the nobility, but shared by a wider layer of society. The colophon of the samut khoi was sponsored by the noble royal ladies (pavaranārī) from the court of Ayutthaya. It gives us a glimpse into what—in a past era—was considered good and righteous, both materially and spiritually, by the inner circle of the ruling establishment. Accordingly, colophons deserve special attention as they provide information not only about their respective manuscripts but also about the socio-cultural aspects of the community that preserved and transmitted them
Understanding Financial Vulnerability Among Asians, Blacks, and Hispanics in the United States
Full text linkThe COVID-19 crisis has brought to light the deeply rooted financial struggles that many people face in America, and it also exacerbated racial inequality. In particular, minority communities have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic in many ways, making them ideal targets for efforts to promote financial well-being. This paper examines the financial vulnerability of Asians, Blacks, and Hispanics in the United States, along with potential drivers, using data from the 2021 National Financial Capability Study and the 2022 TIAA Institute-GFLEC Personal Finance Index. We analyze indicators measuring financial vulnerability across three topics of personal finances: retirement planning, indebtedness, and financial resilience. We find that more Blacks and Hispanics reported being financially vulnerable, compared to Whites and Asians. The main contributing factors to the racial and ethnic gaps in financial vulnerability are single parenthood, youth, lack of savings and wealth, too much debt, income shocks, costly money management practices, and low financial literacy levels. The empirical analysis is complemented by roundtable discussions with experts and thought leaders from National CAPACD and UnidosUS. Our research findings and recommendations can be used to develop more inclusive and tailored financial education programs
Collaborative Legacy of the First Ceramics Laboratories at the Penn Museum: The WPA and Beyond
Full text linkFor decades, scientific approaches have acted as a cornerstone to the processes used by archaeologists to answer questions about past societies. However, just under a century ago, highly innovative research efforts first contributed to the integration of archaeological science into the wider discipline. One such series of research projects were those undertaken by the WPA ceramics laboratories, a joint effort between the Works Progress Administration and the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania (now called the Penn Museum), which employed federally funded workers and the burgeoning methods of ceramic technological analysis to reveal more information on the Museum’s various ceramic collections than previously possible. The present thesis project is the result of extensive archival research into the history and legacy of these original Museum laboratories as a catalyst for the subsequent proliferation and continued development of ceramic analysis techniques, especially that of ceramic petrography, and archaeological science as a whole. In other words, this project aims to tell the story of the WPA laboratories, with particular attention to their impacts on the development of archaeological science and the roles of the interdisciplinary and inter-institutional connections of the Penn Museum and its personnel in this development. Archival evidence proves that the scholarly networks formed by those involved in the WPA projects enabled the principles and methods of archaeological science to spread throughout the archaeological community, with the Museum laboratories serving as the nexus and exemplar of the great possibilities held by these new approaches
Bosnia through the Prism of Holocaust Memory: Holocaust Analogies During and After the Bosnian Civil War of 1992-1995
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Full text linkWritings of Nilus the Elder on the principles of asceticism and religious life; a sermon by John of Damascus about vices and virtues in religious life; three books from Ambrose\u27s De officiis, an ecclesiastical handbook about the ministers of the Church, with marginal annotations and Biblical cross-references; sermons expounding the beliefs of the Carthusian order about regulations, solitary living, and abstinence; and excerpts from the Distichs of Dionysius Cato, a collection of proverbial maxims about wisdom and morality, with marginal annotations.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1163/thumbnail.jp
Penn Library\u27s Library\u27s LJS 488 - Cose di geometria / estratte dal frate ... (Video Orientation)
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Americans Can’t Consent To Companies’ Use Of Their Data
Full text linkConsent has aways been a central part of Americans’ interactions with the commercial internet. Federal and state laws, as well as decisions from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), require either implicit (“opt out”) or explicit (“opt in”) permission from individuals for companies to take and use data about them. Genuine opt out and opt in consent requires that people have knowledge about commercial data-extraction practices as well as a belief they can do something about them. As we approach the 30th anniversary of the commercial internet, the latest Annenberg national survey finds that Americans have neither. High percentages of Americans don’t know, admit they don’t know, and believe they can’t do anything about basic practices and policies around companies’ use of people’s data. FACT: By law a travel site such as Expedia or Orbitz that compares prices on different airlines does not have to include the lowest airline prices. 72% don’t know that; 49% of Americans admit they don’t know. • FACT: The Federal Health Insurance and Portability Act (HIPAA) does not stop apps that provide information about health – such as exercise and fertility apps – from selling data collected about the app users to marketers. 82% of Americans don’t know; 45% admit they don’t know. • FACT: It is legal for an online store to charge people different prices depending on where they are located. 63% don’t know, and 38% of Americans admit they don’t know.
High levels of frustration, concern, and fear compound Americans’ confusion: 80% say they have little control over how marketers can learn about them online; 80% agree that what companies know about them from their online behaviors can harm them. These and related discoveries from our survey paint a picture of an unschooled and admittedly incapable society that rejects the internet industry’s insistence that people will accept tradeoffs for benefits and despairs of its inability to predictably control its digital life in the face of powerful corporate forces. At a time when individual consent lies at the core of key legal frameworks governing the collection and use of personal information, our findings describe an environment where genuine consent may not be possible. Our portrait of a society underprepared for the behind-the-screen pitfalls of internet commerce is drawn from a nationally representative multi-mode survey of 2,014 U.S. adults conducted during Fall 2022 for Penn’s Annenberg School by the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center. The aim of this report is to chart the particulars of Americans’ lack of knowledge about the commercial use of their data and their “dark resignation” in connection to it. Our goal is also to raise questions and suggest solutions about public policies that allow companies to gather, analyze, trade, and otherwise benefit from information they extract from large populations of people who are uninformed about how that information will be used and deeply concerned about the consequences of its use. In short, we find that informed consent at scale is a myth, and we urge policymakers to act with that in mind