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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
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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Clausura 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 textDel 6 al 8 de noviembre de 2018, se llevó a cabo el XXIII Simposio Román Piña Chan “Zonas arqueológicas en contextos urbanos”. Durante su desarrollo se contó con un amplio programa de trabajo que incluyó 31 ponencias, cinco conferencias magistrales y nueve sesiones de carteles. Se trató de un evento en el que participaron reconocidos académicos a nivel nacional e internacional en el ámbito de la arqueología; además de que se logró debatir y aportar ideas en un mismo foro acerca de la construcción de soluciones para la problemática de las zonas arqueológicas en contextos urbanos. El acto de clausura se efectuó con la presencia de diversas autoridades del INAH en compañía de investigadores, docentes, alumnos y público en general.</p
Judicial deference at work: Some reflections on Chan Kin Sum and Kong Yun Ming
No full text"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
Elevational range size and climatic variaiblity. Chan et al.
No full textData for reproducing the results published in Chan, W.-P., Chen, I.-C., Colwell, R.K., Liu, W.-C., Huang, C.-y. & Shen, S.-F. (2016) Seasonal and daily climate variation have opposite effects on species elevational range size. Science, 351, 1437-1439
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
Supporting data for Chan et al. (2021) "Heterogeneous nitrate production mechanisms in intense haze events in the North China Plain"
No full textThis dataset includes observational and modeling data in support of the findings in Chan, Y.C., M.J. Evans, P. He, C.D. Holmes, L. Jaegle, P. Kasibhatla, X.-Y. Liu, T. Sherwen, J.A. Thornton, X. Wang, Z. Xie, S. Zhai, and B. Alexander "Heterogeneous nitrate production mechanisms in intense haze events in North China" which was published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres in 2021. Scripts for reproducing the published figures and instructions for reproducing model experiments are also included. More details can be found in the data-and-analysis-script.readme.
Professor Becky Alexander ([email protected]) is the corresponding author
Principled Criminal Law Reform: Could Macaulay Survive the Age of Governing through Crime? Reflections from the Floor
No full textChan W.C.,Wright B. & Yeo S.</p
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