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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
Naruse, T., Chan, T.-Y., Tan H.H., Ahyong, S.T. & Reimer, J.D. (2012) Scientific Results of the Marine Biodiversity Expedition-KUMEJIMA 2009. Zootaxa, 3367, 1-280.
No full textNARUSE, T., CHAN, T. Y., TAN, H. H., AHYONG, S. T., REIMER, J. D. (2012): Naruse, T., Chan, T.-Y., Tan H.H., Ahyong, S.T. & Reimer, J.D. (2012) Scientific Results of the Marine Biodiversity Expedition-KUMEJIMA 2009. Zootaxa, 3367, 1-280. Zootaxa 3390 (1): 68, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3390.1.7, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3390.1.
Judicial deference at work: Some reflections on Chan Kin Sum and Kong Yun Ming
Get PDF"Due deference" - the giving of appropriate weight to the government's judgment in the court's reasoning - is a tool that courts use to maintain the separation of powers in constitutional rights review. This note aims to provide a theoretical framework for understanding the issue of deference, and to analyse the Court of First Instance (CFI)'s approach to deference in two recent cases, Chan Kin Sum and Kong Yun Ming. The author argues that the CFI has adopted a spatial approach that failed to specify the contested issues that called for deference, inappropriately considered democratic legitimacy as a factor for deference and made broad presumptions about the democratic character of primary decisions. This approach may lead to an over-deferential attitude that threatens the separation of powers, and the malleability of the approach may be subject to courts' manipulation. The author argues for a more context-sensitive approach based purely on institutional factors.published_or_final_versio
Cyrtodactylus leegrismeri Chan & Norhayati 2010
No full textCyrtodactylus leegrismeri Chan & Norhayati, 2010 Distribution: Known from the type locality and the islands of Hon Khoai, Hon Chu, and Tho Chu, off the southern coast of Vietnam (Grismer & Grismer 2017).Published as part of Grismer, L. Lee & Quah, Evan S. H., 2019, An updated and annotated checklist of the lizards of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, and their adjacent archipelagos, pp. 230-248 in Zootaxa 4545 (2) on page 239, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4545.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/261880
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
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An 11b 60MS/s 2.1mW Two-Step Time-Interleaved SAR-ADC with Reused S&H
No full textCMOS is presented. The scheme shares the op-amp between channels for the residual generation and takes advantage of time interleaving for reusing the input S&H of the first stage. A reduction of the gain in the residual generator and sub-threshold operation enables the use of a power-effective, single-stage op-amp with 69dB-gain. The ADC achieves peak SNDR of 57.6dB while consuming 2.1mW from 1-V analog and 0.85-V digital supply, resulting in an FoM of 57fJ/step. I
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