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Hearts And Minds: Examining The Evolution Of The Egyptian Excerebration And Evisceration Traditions Through The Impact Mummy Database, Andrew D. Wade Apr 2012

Hearts And Minds: Examining The Evolution Of The Egyptian Excerebration And Evisceration Traditions Through The Impact Mummy Database, Andrew D. Wade

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Egyptian mummification and funerary rituals were a transformative process, making the deceased a pure being; free of disease, injury, and disfigurements, as well as ethical and moral impurities. Consequently, the features of mummification available to specific categories of individuals hold social and ideological significance. This study refutes long-held classical stereotypes, particularly dogmatic class associations; demonstrates the apocryphal nature of universal heart retention; and expands on the purposes of excerebration and evisceration implied by synthetic and radiological analyses.

Features of the embalming traditions, specifically the variable excerebration and evisceration traditions, represented the Egyptian view of death. Fine-grain analyses, through primary imaging …


Radiography And Image Processing, Stephen E. Mitchell Feb 2012

Radiography And Image Processing, Stephen E. Mitchell

NSTec UNLV Symposium

Outline

• Introduction
• What? Why? Etc.
• Pulsed Power
• Diode Physics
• Radiography ABC’s
• Challenges


Establishing A Center Of Excellence For Security Science And Engineering, Ke-Xun Sun Feb 2012

Establishing A Center Of Excellence For Security Science And Engineering, Ke-Xun Sun

NSTec UNLV Symposium

Outline

• Introduction
• Progress report
• NNSA proposal to establishCenter of Excellence for Security Science and Engineering
• Perspective on UNLV-NSTec collaboration