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Libraries In The Sand Reveal Africa's Academic Past, Nick Tattersall

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

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On The Transportation Of Material Goods By Enslaved Africans During The Middle Passage: Preliminary Findings From Documentary Sources, Jerome S. Handler

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

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Murder At Montpelier: Igbo Africans In Virginia, Douglas B. Chambers, Gloria Chuku

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

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Museum Developments In 2006

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

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Slave Routes In Western Tanzania: A Preliminary Report On Survey In Tabora And Ujiji, Sarah Croucher, Stephanie Wynne-Jones

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

The following report is a brief introduction to reconnaissance survey work carried out in Western Tanzania in July 2006 to investigate caravan routes that ran from the East African coast inland as far as the Congo during the 18th and 19th centuries. These routes were tied to the trading of captive Africans from inland areas to the Indian Ocean coast. When they reached the coast, enslaved individuals were either kept to work on local Arab-run plantations, or traded out into the Indian Ocean. Although it has proved difficult to quantify the number of slaves being traded from this region during …

Seventy Years Ago In Jamaica

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

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Society For Historical Archaeology 2007 Conference On Historical And Underwater Archaeology

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

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Women And Religion In The African Diaspora: Knowledge, Power, And Performance, R. Marie Griffith, Barbara Dianne Savage

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

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Strategic Consumption: Archaeological Evidence For Costly Signaling Among Enslaved Men And Women In The Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake, Jillian E. Galle

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

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Syracuse University Archaeological Field School Elmina, Ghana

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

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The Dynamics Of Industry As Seen From Van Winkle's Mill, Arkansas, Alicia B. Valentino

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

Van Winkle's mill in Benton County, Arkansas, was home to the most productive and powerful 19th-century mill in the Arkansas Ozarks. Today only machinery platforms and a flywheel trench remain. Archaeological investigation in Van Hollow, the locale of this mill, has taken place since 1997, yet the nature of industrial technology and the layout of the saw- and gristmill remain neglected. This study examines the industrial archaeology of this mill complex within the context of its social and cultural framework. The result illustrates that despite being on the frontier, daily operations were integrated with local, regional, and national institutions. The …

Tikettin Yat Familia/Once Upon A Family: Family Origins And Slave Histories In Southern Morocco, Madia Thomson

African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter

Dr. Thomson received her Ph.D. from the Department of History at Boston University in 2005. Her dissertation, entitled "The Historical Present: Modernization, Slavery, and the Transformation of Social Hierarchy in Southwestern Morocco, 1912-1956," addressed aspects of modernization and social change in twentieth-century Morocco through the lens of slavery. Her dissertation argues that the actions of slaves encouraged changes in the institution of slavery that, when combined with the forces of economic modernization, reshaped earlier social configurations. Patron-client relations in Moroccan society mirrored the power structures of the institution of slavery; changes in the institution therefore reflected changes in the political …

A Framework For New Generation Transportation Simulation, Daiheng Ni

Daiheng Ni

This paper discussed the evolution and future trend of simulation in general domain and in transportation. Some challenges facing transportation modeling and simulation were identified. As an effort to address these challenges, a framework of new generation transportation simulation was developed. The framework is envisioned to be multi- scale in resolution, parallel in execution, and driven by ob- jects. The paper further discussed strategies of transporta- tion simulation at a nanoscopic level which offers a level of modeling detail beyond the state-of-the-art.

Incongruence Between Genetic And Morphological Diversity In Microcebus Griseorufus On Beza Mahafaly, Laurie Godfrey, K. L. Heckman, E. Rasoazanabary, E. Machlin, A. D. Yoder

Laurie R. Godfrey

Background - The past decade has seen a remarkable increase in the number of recognized mouse lemur species (genus Microcebus). As recently as 1994, only two species of mouse lemur were recognized according to the rules of zoological nomenclature. That number has now climbed to as many as fifteen proposed species. Indeed, increases in recognized species diversity have also characterized other nocturnal primates – galagos, sportive lemurs, and tarsiers. Presumably, the movement relates more to a previous lack of information than it does to any recent proclivity for taxonomic splitting. Due to their nocturnal habits, one can hypothesize that mouse …

Bmc Infectious Diseases, Frances Cirino, Wilmore C. Webley, Corrie West, Nancy L. Croteau, Chester Andrzejewski Jr, Elizabeth S. Stuart

Wilmore C Webley

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Criticality For The Gehring Link Problem, Jason Cantarella, Joseph H.G. Fu, Robert Kusner, John M. Sullivan, Nancy C. Wrinkle

Robert Kusner

In 1974, Gehring posed the problem of minimizing the length of two linked curves separated by unit distance. This constraint can be viewed as a measure of thickness for links, and the ratio of length over thickness as the ropelength. In this paper we refine Gehring’s problem to deal with links in a fixed link-homotopy class: we prove ropelength minimizers exist and introduce a theory of ropelength criticality.

Our balance criterion is a set of necessary and sufficient conditions for criticality, based on a strengthened, infinite-dimensional version of the Kuhn–Tucker theorem. We use this to prove that every critical link …

Enacting Technology In Networked Governance: Developmental Processes Of Cross-Agency Arrangements, Jane E. Fountain

National Center for Digital Government

This paper discusses the technology enactment framework, an analytical framework to guide exploration and examination of information-based change in governments.1 The original technology enactment framework is extended in this paper to delineate the distinctive roles played by key actors in technology enactment. I then examine institutional change in government by drawing from current initiatives in the U.S. federal government to build cross-agency relationships and systems. The U.S. government is one of the first central states to undertake not only back office integration within the government but also integration of systems and processes across agencies. For this reason its experience during …

A Genomic Approach To Identify Regulatory Nodes In The Transcriptional Network Of Systemic Acquired Resistance In Plants, Dong Wang, Nita Amornsiripanitch, Xinnian Dong

Dong Wang

Many biological processes are controlled by intricate networks of transcriptional regulators. With the development of microarray technology, transcriptional changes can be examined at the whole-genome level. However, such analysis often lacks information on the hierarchical relationship between components of a given system. Systemic acquired resistance (SAR) is an inducible plant defense response involving a cascade of transcriptional events induced by salicylic acid through the transcription cofactor NPR1. To identify additional regulatory nodes in the SAR network, we performed microarray analysis on Arabidopsis plants expressing the NPR1-GR (glucocorticoid receptor) fusion protein. Since nuclear translocation of NPR1-GR requires dexamethasone, we were able …

Vortex Matter, Effective Magnetic Charges, And Generalizations Of Dipolar Superfluidity Concept In Layered Systems, Egor Babaev

Egor Babaev

In the first part of this letter we discuss electrodynamics of an excitonic condensate in a bilayer. We show that under certain conditions the system has a dominant energy scale and is described by the effective electrodynamics with "planar magnetic charges". In the second part of the paper we point out that a vortex liquid state in bilayer superconductors also possesses dipolar superfluid modes and establish equivalence mapping between this state and a dipolar excitonic condensate. We point out that a vortex liquid state in an N-layer superconductor possesses multiple topologically coupled dipolar superfluid modes and therefore represents a generalization …

Marriage: The Good, The Bad, And The Greedy, Naomi R. Gerstel, Natalia Sarkisian

Naomi R. Gerstel

Even good marriages can have some bad side effects, taking people away from other social connections.

Concordance To The Decameron (Maladetta-Messegli), Michael Papio

Concordance to the Decameron

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Concordance To The Decameron (Lasciar-Mala) , Michael Papio

Concordance to the Decameron

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Concordance To The Decameron (Messer-Mostratore), Michael Papio

Concordance to the Decameron

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Concordance To The Decameron (Giudaica-Impedito), Michael Papio

Concordance to the Decameron

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Concordance To The Decameron (Parole-Piacevano), Michael Papio

Concordance to the Decameron

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Concordance To The Decameron (Quante-Quindi), Michael Papio

Concordance to the Decameron

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Concordance To The Decameron (Faenza-Ferrara), Michael Papio

Concordance to the Decameron

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Concordance To The Decameron (Quindici-Rifermati), Michael Papio

Concordance to the Decameron

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Concordance To The Decameron (Prodezza-Quanta), Michael Papio

Concordance to the Decameron

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Concordance To The Decameron (Portatovi-Proda), Michael Papio

Concordance to the Decameron

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