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Drought-Induced Civil Conflict Among the Ancient Maya.
Douglas J Kennett, Marilyn Masson, Carlos Peraza Lope, Stanley Serafin, Richard J George, Tom C Spencer, Julie A Hoggarth, Brendan J Culleton, Thomas K Harper, Keith M Prufer, Susan Milbrath, Bradley W Russell, Eunice Uc González, Weston C McCool, Valorie V Aquino, Elizabeth H Paris, Jason H Curtis, Norbert Marwan, Mingua Zhang, Yemane Asmerom, Victor J Polyak, Stacy A Carolin, Daniel H James, Andrew J Mason, Gideon M Henderson, Mark Brenner, James UL Baldini, Sebastian FM Breitenbach, David Hodell
Jul 20, 2022
The influence of climate change on civil conflict and societal instability in the premodern world is a subject of much debate, in part because of the limited temporal or disciplinary scope of case studies. We present a...
Drought-Induced Civil Conflict Among the Ancient Maya.
Douglas J Kennett, Marilyn Masson, Carlos Peraza Lope, Stanley Serafin, Richard J George, Tom C Spencer, Julie A Hoggarth, Brendan J Culleton, Thomas K Harper, Keith M Prufer, Susan Milbrath, Bradley W Russell, Eunice Uc González, Weston C McCool, Valorie V Aquino, Elizabeth H Paris, Jason H Curtis, Norbert Marwan, Mingua Zhang, Yemane Asmerom, Victor J Polyak, Stacy A Carolin, Daniel H James, Andrew J Mason, Gideon M Henderson, Mark Brenner, James UL Baldini, Sebastian FM Breitenbach, David A Hodell
Aug 19, 2022
The influence of climate change on civil conflict and societal instability in the premodern world is a subject of much debate, in part because of the limited temporal or disciplinary scope of case studies. We present a...
Maya Pottery Production at Nakum, Guatemala, during the Protoclassic Period (100/50 BC – AD 300/350)
This study investigates the Protoclassic ceramic production at Nakum, Guatemala, using it as a proxy to explore the nature of the transition from the Preclassic to Classic period (100/50 BC – AD 300/350) in Central Maya...
Original Article Original Articles ceramic analysis petrography craft organisation Guatemala Maya archaeology Protoclassic period
Published by: Archaeometry
The Role of Language in Structuring Social Networks Following Market Integration in a Yucatec Maya Population.
Language is the human universal mode of communication, and is dynamic and constantly in flux accommodating user needs as individuals interface with a changing world. However, we know surprisingly little about how language...
Examining the Evolution of Interaction between Researchers and Indigenous Populations: An Investigation of Archaeologists and the Maya
Kaitlyn Clingenpeel
Jan 01, 0001
Interactions with Indigenous populations around the world have been, and continue to be, riddled with the remnants of colonialist and imperialist ideals. This can be especially true when considering archaeologists and the modern...
Published by: Winthrop University
International Perspective on Securing Cyberspace Against Terrorist Acts
Maya Khater
Jan 01, 2023
This research reviews the legal framework for protecting the security of cyberspace from terrorist acts, using the following approaches: the legal approach, the descriptive approach, and the analytical approach. This is achieved...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Consent in Conversation: Education of Sexual Violence in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Emily Benning
Jan 01, 0001
Maya Angelou's memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, is just one of many titles challenged and banned in public schools for "sexually explicit" content. On page 71 of her 281 page autobiography, Angelou discloses that she was...
Maya Angelou Censorship rape culture Racism white fragility Black women African American Studies English Language and Literature Other Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Women's Studies
Published by: Ursinus College
The Relationship Between Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Gaming Disorder
The relationship between the obsessive-compulsive disorder and the gaming disorder is investigated. A total of 345 undergraduates completed a survey that included demographic information, responses to the obsession-compulsive...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Mechanisms of Controlled Proteolysis during Drosophila Spermatogenesis: Coordinate Action of Apoptotic Caspases and the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System
Maya Bader
Jan 01, 0001
The regulation of apoptosis, or programmed cell death has been the subject of a vast body of research because of its implication in normal development, tissue homeostasis and a wide range of diseases. The major point of focus...
Drosophila spermatogenesis Apoptosis caspase activation ubiquitin-proteasome systems sperm differentiation dmPI31 F-Box regulatory complex Life Sciences
Published by: Rockefeller University
Selection of Important Features for Optimizing Crop Yield Prediction
In agriculture, crop yield prediction is critical. Crop yield depends on various features including geographic, climate and biological. This research article discusses five Feature Selection (FS) algorithms namely Sequential...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Pharmacological activation of a novel p53-dependent S-phase checkpoint involving CHK-1.
We have recently shown that induction of the p53 tumour suppressor protein by the small-molecule RITA (reactivation of p53 and induction of tumour cell apoptosis; 2,5-bis(5-hydroxymethyl-2-thienyl)furan) inhibits...
Apoptosis Ataxia Telangiectasia Breast Neoplasms Cell Cycle Proteins Cell Line Tumor Checkpoint Kinase 1 Colorectal Neoplasms DNA Damage DNA Replication Female Furans Gene Knockdown Techniques Histones Humans Hypoxia Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1 alpha Subunit Osteosarcoma Phosphorylation Protein Kinase Inhibitors Protein Kinases Replication Origin S Phase Signal Transduction Transfection Tumor Suppressor Protein p53
Big Data Challenges and Opportunities in Agriculture
This article reviews various aspects of research concerning the background and state-of-the-art of big data in agriculture. This article focuses on data generation, storage, analysis and visualization in big data. In every...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Research, Application, and Innovation of LiDAR Technology in Spatial Archeology
Two universities, the University of Jaén, Spain and the University of San Carlos, Guatemala, in partnership with Quantum Systems GmbH, a German company, conducted an expedition to the Maya Tropical Forest in the...
Global Information Technology Computer Science and Information Technology Global Information Technology Physical Sciences and Engineering Business and Management
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Ethnocentrism, universalism, and refugees’ social rights
This article is a pilot study in which we analyzed interviews with 16 inhabitants of the Tel Aviv area. We show that Israeli adults’ views of refugees are shaped by the political discourse of threat and otherness. Yet the...
Anthropology Faculty Member Races to Save Historic Artifacts
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
HIGHLIGHTS The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded Woodfill, an assistant professor of anthropology, a $12,152 grant to salvage, map and excavate the remaining artifacts in the city of Coban, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. The...
Published by: Winthrop University
Resistance and refusal to algorithmic harms
Industrial, academic, activist, and policy research and advocacy movements formed around resisting ‘machine bias’, promoting ‘ethical AI’, and ‘fair ML’ have discursive implications for what constitutes harm, and what...
Changing language input following market integration in a Yucatec Mayan community
Like many indigenous populations worldwide, Yucatec Maya communities are rapidly undergoing change as they become more connected with urban centers and access to formal education, wage labour, and market goods became more...
Changing language input following market integration in a Yucatec Mayan community.
Like many indigenous populations worldwide, Yucatec Maya communities are rapidly undergoing change as they become more connected with urban centers and access to formal education, wage labour, and market goods became more...
Site-Directed Mutagenesis of the G4DFsc Protein
Maya Kyriakos
Jan 01, 0001
G4DFsc is a de novo protein designed to mimic the metal-binding active sites of natural non-heme diiron enzymes. Through site-directed mutagenesis, specific amino acids can be targeted to affect conformational changes in the...
G4DFsc DFsc bioinorganic chemistry Biochemistry Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology Life Sciences Molecular Biology
Published by: Ursinus College
Caused motion across child languages
Previous research on motion expression indicates that typological properties influence how speakers select and express information in discourse (Slobin, 2004; Talmy, 2000). The present study further addresses this question by...
The Grizzly, February 21, 2019
Courtney A DuChene, Madison Rodak, Johnny Myers, Rosalia Murphy, Linda McIntyre, Shelsea Deravil, Sienna Coleman, William Wehrs, Daniel Walker, David Mendelsohn, Lillian Vila Licht, Peter DeSimone
Jan 01, 0001
Ursinus Turns 150 U-Imagine Center Gives Entrepreneurial Inspiration Exploring the Body and Mind at Ursinus Parlee Center Highlights Brain Injuries in Sports How Sweet the Sound: Voices in Praise Gospel Choir "God of...
Ursinus College Collegeville Pennsylvania newspaper sesquicentennial U-Imagine Center walking club CTE Parlee Center for Science and the Common Good gospel choir theater Basketball Maya Kornfeld lacrosse gymnastics cultural history Higher Education Liberal Studies Social History United States History
Published by: Ursinus College
Accessing unexplored regions of sequence space in directed enzyme evolution via insertion/deletion mutagenesis
Stephane Emond, Maya Petek, Emily J. Kay, Brennen Heames, Sean R. A. Devenish, Nobuhiko Tokuriki, Florian Hollfelder
Jul 10, 2020
Abstract: Insertions and deletions (InDels) are frequently observed in natural protein evolution, yet their potential remains untapped in laboratory evolution. Here we introduce a transposon-based mutagenesis approach (TRIAD) to...
Ethnocentrism, universalism, and refugees’ social rights
This article is a pilot study in which we analyzed interviews with 16 inhabitants of the Tel Aviv area. We show that Israeli adults’ views of refugees are shaped by the political discourse of threat and otherness. Yet the...
Heparin-induced thrombocytopaenia presenting as acute aortic mural thrombosis.
Maya Joanne Bienz, Pawel Obrocki, James Russell, Rajesh Jena, Iosif Alexandru Mendichovszky
Jan 21, 2019
Heparin-induced thrombocytopaenia (HIT) is a life and limb-threatening acquired autoimmune complication of heparin-based treatment, characterised by thrombocytopaenia and thrombosis. We present a case of a 77-year-old female...
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