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Viola Chan, oral history interview, ca. 1980
No full textThis recording forms part of a collection of oral history interviews donated by Dr. Edward Chen to the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. It includes audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Asian Americans living in Houston.Viola Chan, interviewed by Daisy Chan Gee, ca. 198
Chan An Ancient Maya Farming Community
No full textThe farming community of Chan thrived for over twenty centuries, surpassing the longevity of many larger Maya urban centers. Between 800 BC and 1200 AD it was a major food production center, and this collection of essays reveals the important role played by Maya farmers in the development of ancient Maya society. Chan offers a synthesis of compelling and groundbreaking discoveries gathered over ten years of research at this one archaeological site in Belize. The contributors develop three central themes, which structure the book. They examine how sustainable farming practices maintained the surrounding forest, allowing the community to exist for two millennia. They trace the origins of elite Maya state religion to the complex religious belief system developed in small communities such as Chan. Finally, they describe how the group-focused political strategies employed by local leaders differed from the highly hierarchical strategies of the Classic Maya kings in their large cities. In breadth, methodology, and findings, this volume scales new heights in the study of Maya society and culture.Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introducing the Chan Site: Farmers in Complex Societies -- Part 1. Time, Space, and Landscapes -- 2. A Changing Cultural Landscape: Settlement Survey and GIS at Chan -- 3. Ceramics and Chronology at Chan -- 4. Agricultural Practices at Chan: Farming and Political Economy in an Ancient Maya Community -- 5. Agroforestry and Agricultural Production of the Ancient Maya at Chan -- Part 2. Life in a Farming Community Center -- 6. Ritual in a Farming Community -- 7. Nonroyal Governance at Chan's Community Center -- 8. "Empty" Spaces and Public Places: A Microscopic View of Chan's Late Classic West Plaza -- Part 3. Diversity across the Chan Community -- 9. Recognizing Difference in Small-Scale Settings: An Examination of Social Identity Formation at the Northeast Group, Chan -- 10. Organization of Chert Tool Economy during the Late and Terminal Classic Periods at Chan: Preliminary Thoughts Based upon Debitage Analyses -- 11. Limestone Quarrying and Household Organization at Chan -- Part 4. Bodies, Material Culture, and Meaning -- 12. The Chan Community: A Bioarchaeological Perspective -- 13. Creating Community with Shell -- 14. Obsidian Acquisition, Trade, and Regional Interaction at Chan -- 15. Contextualizing Ritual Behavior: Caches, Burials, and Problematical Deposits from Chan's Community Center -- Part 5. Conclusion -- 16. Learning from an Ancient Maya Farming Community -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- YThe farming community of Chan thrived for over twenty centuries, surpassing the longevity of many larger Maya urban centers. Between 800 BC and 1200 AD it was a major food production center, and this collection of essays reveals the important role played by Maya farmers in the development of ancient Maya society. Chan offers a synthesis of compelling and groundbreaking discoveries gathered over ten years of research at this one archaeological site in Belize. The contributors develop three central themes, which structure the book. They examine how sustainable farming practices maintained the surrounding forest, allowing the community to exist for two millennia. They trace the origins of elite Maya state religion to the complex religious belief system developed in small communities such as Chan. Finally, they describe how the group-focused political strategies employed by local leaders differed from the highly hierarchical strategies of the Classic Maya kings in their large cities. In breadth, methodology, and findings, this volume scales new heights in the study of Maya society and culture.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
An Overview of NLP in ALICE-chan
No full textAbstract: "The ALICE-chan project at CMU has developed a language-training environment for Japanese that uses natural-language processing (NLP) as a basis both for assisting instructors in preparing exercises and for evaluating student responses to exercises. This paper presentsan overview of the main components of ALICE-chan: the authoring and student interfaces and the natural language processing components.
Hombres trabajan en la reconstrucción de un edificio en Chan Chan
No full textSello al reverso: "COMITE CENTRAL CHAN CHAN Pizarro 620-Trujillo-Perú". Chan Chan se ubica en el valle de Moche, frente al mar, a mitad de camino entre el balneario de Huanchaco y la ciudad de Trujillo, capital del departamento de La Libertad en la costa norte del Perú. El sitio arqueológico cubre un área aproximada de 20 kilómetros cuadrados. La zona central esta formada por un conjunto de 10 recintos amurallados (llamados "ciudadelas") y otras pirámides solitarias. Este conjunto central, cubre un área de 6 kilómetros cuadrados, aproximadamente. El resto, está formado por una multitud de pequeñas estructuras mal conservadas, veredas, canales, murallas y cementerios. Referencia: http://www.arqueologiadelperu.com.ar/chanchan.htm, (última consulta 28/09/2010)
Vickers-Chan-7thGraders_Multiplex_Social .zip
No full textThe dataset representing the multiplex social network in a school in Victoria, Australia.
If you use this dataset in your work either for analysis or for visualization, you should acknowledge/cite the following papers:
Representing Classroom Social Structure. Melbourne: Victoria Institute of Secondary Education
M. Vickers and S. Chan, (1981)
The data were collected by Vickers from 29 seventh grade students in a school in Victoria, Australia. Students were asked to nominate their classmates on a number of relations including the following three (layers):
1. Who do you get on with in the class?
2. Who are your best friends in the class?
3. Who would you prefer to work with?
Students 1 through 12 are boys and 13 through 29 are girls.
There are 29 nodes in total, labelled with integer ID between 1 and 29, with 740 connections.
The multiplex is directed and unweighted, stored as edges list in the file
Vickers-Chan-7thGraders_multiplex.edges
with format
layerID nodeID nodeID weight
(Note: all weights are set to 1)
The IDs of all layers are stored in
Vickers-Chan-7thGraders_layers.txt
</p
Lawrence Chan oral history
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. This collection includes audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Asian Americans native to or living in Houston.Dr. Lawrence Chan was born in Hong Kong in 1942, a month within the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. The youngest of six children, Dr. Chan excelled in his studies and studied medicine at the University of Hong Kong. He then did an internship in London, Ontario Canada before completing his residency training in internal medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. From there, he decided to focus on academic medicine, thus starting the beginning of his path in endocrinology and diabetes research. During the interview, Dr. Chan recounts Tropical Storm Allison in 2001, which devastated his lab at Baylor College of Medicine, and the 5-year process of becoming a US citizen, which involved the passing of a bill in Congress. Dr. Chan retired in 2016 and hopes to travel more with his wife and pick up his hobbies of painting and playing ping pong
Frances Chan
No full textFrances arrived in Darwin, Northern Territory in 1973 from Hawaii and worked at the Darwin Public Library. She went to Sydney for academic studies and returned in 1977 to Darwin working at the Northern Territory Library Services and the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. In 1978 she transferred to the Northern Territory Public Service (NTPS) working for the Department of Education as their journalist and public relations officer. In 1981, Frances was promoted to executive level E1, as a public relations officer with the Department of Mines and Energy. In 1984 she was the first female in Australia to become marketing manager of an Australian capital city port when promoted to E2 level with the Darwin Port Authority.
Frances is a member of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (NT) and active in Baha'i faith and an assistant to the auxiliary board for the Northern Territory and Kimberley area. She has served as an elected member of the Baha'i Local Spiritual Assembly in Darwin. Frances is married to Rooney Chan they have three daughters and sons. She also writes under the pseudonym as Langford, Ana.Government AdministrationAutho
Christy Chan
No full textProjects in this collection: Inside Out, I Still Live Here, Everybody Eats Lunch
Christy Chan is an interdisciplinary artist based in Oakland and working primarily in video, installation, performance and oral storytelling. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Kala Art Institute, Southern Exposure, Root Division, SOMarts, the Los Angeles Film Festival, and in storytelling venues such as NPR. She has been awarded residencies and support from the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Montalvo Arts Center, Project 387, Kala Art Institute, Headlands Center for the Arts and Real Time and Space in Oakland. Chan holds an M.A. in Communication Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is working on the multimedia storytelling and film project Pen Pals which has been featured on NPR’s Snap Judgement and The New York Times and tells the story of Shelly, an 8-year-old girl who writes idealistic letters to the Ku Klux Klan after the Klan targets her family. Based on real-life events, Pen Pals draws on Chan\u27s experience growing up in a Southern town with a white nativism movement, an experience that continues to inform her ongoing explorations of race, power, and what it means to be an American.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/artandsocialpractice_creators/1013/thumbnail.jp
Primary Care Activity Level 2022 - Preliminary Report by the UMass Chan Analytics Group and MassHealth
No full textUMass Chan Medical School has worked with the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services (EOHHS) since 2014 to develop risk models for MassHealth to account for how social determinants of health (SDH) and medical complexity jointly predict total health care cost.i The Primary Care Activity Level (PCAL) framework was originally developed by Ash and Ellis in 2012 to calculate risk-adjusted bundled payments for comprehensive primary care in a commercially insured population.ii It was designed to recognize patient differences in the expected cost of all services that primary care practitioners (PCPs) should be providing. Payments based on PCAL are higher for medically and/or socially complex patients than for less complex ones.
In 2023 MassHealth is implementing a Primary Care Capitation program for Accountable Care Organization (ACO) primary care (PC) practices, which extends value-based payment to the provider level. Complex patients need more PC services to manage their needs than less complex patients do, yet such differences in patient complexity are not adequately reflected in fee-for-service reimbursements for primary care procedures. Here we present the development of a PCAL model that can be used to adjust primary care capitation payments based on the health status of each member; the model has been fit to MassHealth-specific data and in consideration of the state’s policy goals
Andy Chan oral history interview and transcript
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of oral history interviews conducted by the Chao Center for Asian Studies at Rice University. This collection includes audio recordings and transcripts of interviews with Asian Americans native to or living in Houston.Andy Chan was born in Queens, New York City in 1965. He moved to Houston in 1971 because of his father’s graphic artist career at Shell Oil Company. After studying environmental design at Texas A&M University for a year, Mr. Chan decided to go home to help his parents’ various businesses in the restaurant and graphics industries. He transferred to Texas Southern University and graduated while still working 40 hours a week in his father’s company. Eventually, Mr. Chan started his own business, Alpha Omega Graphics, which focused on the more cutting-edge side of desktop publishing.
After having children, Mr. Chan decided to sell his printing business and do more service within public education and the Houston School Districts. He served as PTO President for various elementary and middle schools, and currently serves on the District Advisory Committee. After a successful project renovating Fire Truck Park in Southside Place, Mr. Chan decided to run for City Council, and was also appointed Mayor Pro Tem in 2016 during Hurricane Harvey. This past May, he won the election for Mayor of the City of Southside Place. Mr. Chan is the first American Born Chinese to become Mayor in the state of Texas.
In this interview, Mr. Chan discusses his upbringing in New York City and Houston, his entrepreneurial endeavors throughout and after college, and his work in public education and service. He also discusses the importance of giving back to one’s community, his Asian-American identity, and his family
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