A Short Note on the Knossos Statuette Inscription

Heritage ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 3186-3192
Author(s):  
Len Gleeson

For the inscription of the Egyptian statuette in the Heraklion Archaeological Museum, the dedicator’s second title has long been open to question. New and detailed physical evidence, based on optical profilometry, is presented here. The results show errors/omissions in the previously accepted reading and open the way to a much more plausible translation.

2015 ◽  
Vol 1090 ◽  
pp. 18-21
Author(s):  
Yuan Tao ◽  
Wei Dong Yu

As high polymer materials, textile materials are easily to be carbonized and then disappear, so it is almost impossible to study the origin of it from physical evidence. Based on the objective historical facts, through analysis and inference, the paper believed that textile materials, as soft materials, are better than stone tools in the aspects of obtaining, making, functions and uses. Two hypotheses about the origin of textile materials are proposed. The first is that textile materials originate from tools, and the origin time of it is not later than stone tools. The second is that signs and clothing application of textile materials both evolve from its usage as tools, so the origin sequence of textile materials is tools, signs, and clothing.


2018 ◽  
pp. 57-77
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Rutherford

This chapter examines the medical challenges posed by the increased number of gunshot wounds during the civil wars, and sets out the changes in the way these wounds were treated. The treatment of battlefield wounds expounded in surgeons’ manuals, is placed in context with what we now understand about the biology, pathology and effective treatment methods for wounds. The techniques used by the civil-war surgeon are compared with those of later periods. Despite a lack of understanding of microbiology, physiology and, in many cases, anatomy, many methods employed by civil-war military surgeons reflect good contemporary surgical practice. Despite the lack of antibiotics, anaesthetics, hygienic environments and high-quality surgical implements, survival rates from injuries on the field arrear to have been considerable, if treated. In developing treatments for the problems posed by gunshot wounds, some civil-war surgeons used an evidence-based approach, and laid the foundations for much modern surgical practice.


2018 ◽  
pp. 67-81
Author(s):  
Mary Jo Kreitzer ◽  
Louise Delagran ◽  
Andrea Uptmor

Wellbeing goes beyond the management of disease or illness; it is a larger concept that is characterized by a general contentment in life and the way things are. This chapter uses the framework of the University of Minnesota Wellbeing Model to explore the evidence-based factors that influence wellbeing, including health, relationships, security, purpose, environment, and community. Mindfulness, a way of being that provides another core component of wellbeing, is defined and its evidence based discussed. Exemplars of wellbeing at the individual, organizational, and society level are described. Some applications of similar models in towns such as Albert Lea, Minnesota, Austin, Texas, and Santa Monica, California, are discussed, as well as initiatives in Canada and the UK.


Author(s):  
Daniel M. Doleys ◽  
Nicholas D. Doleys

The pendulum has swung; in this case, it may be a double pendulum. The double pendulum is a pendulum hanging from a pendulum. It is a simple physical system used in physics to demonstrate mathematical chaos. When the motion of its tip is monitored, it appears very predictable at the outset, but soon reveals a very chaotic and unpredictable pattern. It is very difficult to know where the tip of the double pendulum will be at any given time in the future. This seems to describe the course of the use of opioids, especially for the treatment of chronic pain. Once, all but ignored, then heralded, and then demonized. At every step of the way, pundits will argue the incompleteness, absence, or misinterpretation of existing data. It is important to understand the psychological environment is which the opioid tapering movement occurs and to carefully consider the process in the context of the individual patient. Simply instituting another set of presumptive evidence-based guidelines could have unforeseen, and potentially tragic, consequences for the patient.


2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 367-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Courtenay Botterill ◽  
Andrew Hindmoor

2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 303-307
Author(s):  
Tjitze Baarda

The usual interpretation of the verb ‘...τρέχοντος...’ assumes that the idea of ‘running’ is derived from the Hellenistic metaphor of foot-races in the stadium, as found elsewhere in the Pauline Letters. It is, of course, quite possible that the original addressees would have understood it this way, but one might ask whether Paul himself was thinking here of runners on the racetrack. One of the issues in the Letter to the Romans is the meaning of the Law in Christian life. It struck me that the poet of the Ode to the Law wrote, ‘I will run in the way of your commandments’ (Ps. 119:32). My intention in this short note is to offer the reader the opportunity to consider whether Paul could have in mind the expression ‘to run’ from this Psalm.


2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marty Cangany ◽  
Dawn Back ◽  
Tori Hamilton-Kelly ◽  
Marian Altman ◽  
Susan Lacey

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