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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
Inauguración del XXIII Simposio Román Piña Chan. Zonas Arqueológicas en Contextos Urbanos. <p>XXIII Simposio Román Piña Chan.Zonas Arqueológicas en Contextos Urbanos<p>
No full textEl acto inaugural del XXIII Simposio Román Piña Chan “Zonas arqueológicas en contextos urbanos”, tuvo lugar el 6 de noviembre de 2018, en la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH). El Simposio fue inaugurado por el Antrop. Diego Prieto Hernández, Director General del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, en compañía de otras autoridades del INAH así como investigadores, docentes, alumnos y público en general.</p
Kai Chan : In Search of Paradise
No full textQuinton weaves quotes from conversations with the artist into her perceptions of his work, which lie somewhere between the tangible and the ineffable. For her, Chan’s use of materials, toothpicks clustered along thread nailed to the wall, creates an unstable plane that renders the familiar inexpressible and reinvents common practices and tasks, like collecting or weaving. Carpenter, like Quinton, finds Chan’s work to be deceptively simple. In his notes, Chan avers to the transformation of the energy of daily life into creativity, based on a notion of paradise that is uncertain but necessary. Biographical notes. 12 bibl. ref
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
Coulter, Chan, November 6, 1992 [Interview]
No full textChan Coulter was interviewed on November 6, 1992 by Scott Algeier about his start as a professor at Gettysburg College in 1958. He discussed the cultures and traditions at Gettysburg college in the 1950's.Richardson, Norman E.
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Chan Ky-Yut
No full textWhile Till briefly situates the paintings of the Hong-Kong-born artist at the junction between Eastern traditions and Western modernism, Chan contributes a brief essay on "intoxication" and crosscultural artistic production. Biographical notes
Helical structure of the waves propagating in a spinning Timoshenko beam
No full textThe aim of the paper is to study the cause of a frequency-splitting phenomenon that occurs in a spinning Timoshenko beam. The associated changes in the structure of the progressive waves are investigated to shed light on the relationship between the wave motion in a spinning beam and the whirling of a shaft. The main result is that travelling bending waves in a beam spinning about its central axis have the topological structure of a revolving helix traced by the centroidal axis with right-handed or left-handed chirality. Each beam element behaves like a gyroscopic disc in precession being rotated at the wave frequency with anticlockwise or clockwise helicity. The gyroscopic effect is identified as the cause of the frequency splitting and is shown to induce a coupling between two interacting travelling waves lying in mutually orthogonal planes. Two revolving waves travelling in the same direction in space appear, one at a higher and one at a lower frequency compared with the pre-split frequency value. With reference to a given spinning speed, taken as clockwise, the higher one revolves clockwise and the lower one has anticlockwise helicity, each wave being represented by a characteristic four-component vector wavefunction.Two factors are identified as important, the shear-deformation factor q and the gyroscopic-coupling phase factor ?. The q-factor is related to the wavenumber and the geometric shape of the helical wave. The ?-factor is related to the wave helicity and has two values, +?/2 and ??/2 corresponding to the anticlockwise and clockwise helicity, respectively. The frequency-splitting phenomenon is addressed by analogy with other physical phenomena such as the Jeffcott whirling shaft and the property of the local energy equality of a travelling wave. The relationship between Euler's formula and the present result relating to the helical properties of the waves is also explored
ESQUINA MULTIMEDIA – MUSEUM EXHIBITION FOR THE VISUALIZATION OF CHAN CHAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE
No full text[EN] Chan Chan, an archaeological site located at Trujillo, Peru, is a huge historical settlement very large and difficult to visit
and some well-conserved architecture, like Huaca Arco Iris, is very far from the core centre of the site. Furthermore many
other heavy factors, as illegal excavations, marine salt transported by the wind and the sometime devastating
phenomenon of the Niño, are the reasons of the lost of many decorative elements, which are covered due to
conservation issues. To overcome the aforesaid problems, we designed, developed and realized the museum exhibition
called “Esquina Multimedia”, providing the tourists with interactive and enjoyable applications. An Augmented Reality
application has been developed in order to discover ancient artefacts that are invisible because covered by the earth (or
by protection structures). A web-browser has been specifically designed to show bas-relieves, with HD visualization and
with anaglyph stereoscopic view. Herewith, a wall-mounted panel representing a metric 3D reconstruction by an accurate
survey of the building helps the user to find the artefact position.Pierdicca, R.; Malinverni, ES.; Frontoni, E.; Colosi, F.; Orazi, R. (2016). ESQUINA MULTIMEDIA – MUSEUM EXHIBITION FOR THE VISUALIZATION OF CHAN CHAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE. En 8th International congress on archaeology, computer graphics, cultural heritage and innovation. Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València. 274-276. https://doi.org/10.4995/arqueologica8.2016.3191OCS27427
Totto Chan External Conflict in The Novel Tetsuko Kuroyanagi Totto Chan The Little Girl at The Window
No full textThis research is motivated by the existence of Totto-chan\u27s external conflict which is realized by the author in the work of Totto Chan the Little Girl at the Window by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. The purpose of this study is to identify the external conflict experienced by Totto-chan, as well as the causes of the conflict in the novel Totto Chan the Little Girl at the Window by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. In this research the researcher used Structural Analysis theory by Tzvetan Todorov. The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative. The data in this novel are quotes from words, sentences related to the external conflict experienced by the character Totto-Chan. Data collection techniques in this study were reading, marking data and recording data related to external conflicts in the novel Totto Chan the Little Girl at the Window by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. The results of this study indicate that in the novel Totto Chan the Little Girl at the Window by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, the external conflict experienced by Totto-chan is caused by Totto-chan\u27s hyperactive nature which often causes a lot of problems because Totto can\u27t stop moving, causing a lot of stress people are annoyed by it and also Totto\u27s imagination is too high which makes it difficult for Totto to understand the circumstances around her and she always does the things she likes without thinking about the consequences of her actions
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