Chicha (a fermented beverage) was an essential element of the political economy for some prehistoric Andean societies. In this article we outline the archaeological correlates of chicha production for the Wari Empire (ca....
In his provacatively titled piece We're all behavioral economists now, Erik Angner (2019) argues that, far from being peripheral to economics, behavioral economics is now a central part of the field with the result that we...
The Canadian Cordillera hosts numerous Pleistocene and Holocene volcanoes and volcanic deposits, including a number of volcanoes that have erupted within the last several hundred years. The nature and composition of volcanic...
Agency and communion are core personality variables with relevance to narrative approaches to personality and well-being, in addition to having gendered connotations. Agency has long been associated with masculinity, and...
Cruciferous plants produce sulforaphane (SFN), an inhibitor of nuclear histone deacetylases (HDACs). In humans and other mammals, the consumption of SFN alters enzyme activities, DNA-histone binding, and gene expression within...
Although it is impossible to construct a regular heptagon and a regular nonagon using a compass and unmarked straightedge, it is possible to construct them with a compass and marked straightedge using the neusis technique. We...
Most conceptualizations of the state in archaeology remain rooted in Enlightenment ideas of interlocking institutions that existed external to individuals and their interactions. These static conceptualizations often run...
In the past 50 years, a voluminous literature estimating the value of schools through capitalization in home prices has emerged. Prior research has identified capitalization using a variety of approaches including...
The current study tested the effects of attentive versus distracted listening on both speakers and listeners in recall of an autobiographical memory. Participants included 128 pairs of friends who spoke with each other over a...
Introduction: Living with a chronic condition is a challenging experience, as it can disrupt your capacity to function and fulfill social roles such as being a father. Fatherhood constitutes an important component of...
In this article we have highlighted a few geometric versions of attractive numerical patterns, which could be used to brighten up the classroom and perhaps arouse students toward further investigation. These examples have been...
The world’s most populous democracy, India, has taken steps to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. However, injustices related to nascent large-scale renewable efforts in India provide early warning that...
This new translation brings to life Prudentius' Psychomachia, one of the most widely read poems in western Europe from Late Antiquity through the Renaissance. With accompanying notes and introduction, this volume provides a...
Operations research practitioners frequently need to enforce logical conditions, such as if-then implications, within a mixed-integer linear program (MILP). Unfortunately, it is not always clear how to represent such conditions...
Binary quadratic and higher-order polynomial programs are widely studied in the optimization literature by both theoreticians and practitioners alike. Despite boasting many diverse applications in a variety of settings, these...
Conventional farming utilizes tools such pesticides, synthetic chemical fertilizers, and herbicides, with the goal of producing large amounts of food on less land and with less labor. While these powerful mechanisms help to...
Volume 2 of the Cambridge History of Global Migrations conceptualizes and organizes major themes and dynamics concerning migration across global and local scales through articles by an international array of experts. This...
The Cambridge History of Global Migrations, Volume II: Migrations, 1800-Present, presents an authoritative overview of the various continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day....
German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared during a May 2018 speech that Europeans can no longer depend on the United States to protect Europe from conflict. She added that "Europe can no longer entrust its security to the United...
In 1998, I unintentionally created a racially biased artificial intelligence algorithm. There are lessons in that story that resonate even more strongly today., MacCormick, John. "I Unintentionally Created a Biased AI Algorithm...
Objective: Interdependence with family is considered a core element of collectivistic cultures, and it is routinely endorsed by people of ethnic/racial minority backgrounds in the United States. In contrast, a preference...
The Great Goa Land Grab charts how shifting state governments, politicians, and corporations have acquired large tracts of land in the Indian coastal state of Goa for a wide range of projects, including industrial enclaves,...
Early voting has been pitched as a way to help boost voter turnout in the United States. The evidence pointing to a positive association between the availability of early voting and electoral participation is decidedly mixed,...
This paper proposes that, in many cases, conversational norms permit gaslighting when socially subordinate speakers report systemic injustice. Section 1 introduces gaslighting and the kinds of cases on which I focus—namely,...
As the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, congestion is an important component in access to medical care. This study expands congestion-based accessibility research by imposing upper limits on demand levels and introducing minimum...
Several studies have reported adverse consequences of the COVID-19 lockdowns on the utilization of healthcare services across Africa. However, little is known about the channels through which lockdowns impacted healthcare...
This essay explores two different approaches to disaster found in fiction following the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923: trauma and differential vulnerability., Alex Bates, "Fiction from Unstable Ground: The Imagination of...
Research suggests a U.S. political ideology gap for taking COVID-19 precautions, but we do not know the role of cognitive risk (assessed here as perceived risk) and affective risk (assessed here as worry) in explaining why...
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects operate transparently, providing excellent educational opportunities for computing students to acquire and practice both technical and softer skills that are in high demand....
Coherent personal narratives employed for self-understanding (self function) and social proximity (social function) are theorized to inform life and the sense of self with meaning. Yet, it has not been tested whether this...
We present detailed analytical and experimental results for a system of two comparator-based relaxation oscillators that are coupled via threshold modulation. Starting with the op-amp circuit equations, we derive parameter...
The present experiment examined the contribution of the β-adrenergic receptor system in mediating the unconditioned (i.e. pharmacological) and conditioned (i.e. learned) hyperactive effects of methamphetamine. To this end, mice...
A professor of philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh for more than 40 years, Robert Brandom has written extensively and insightfully on a wide range of topics, including language, mind, logic, norms, freedom, philosophical...
American Indians are among the most underrepresented, yet heavily regulated, groups in national politics. While Indian nations maintain statuses as sovereign nations, they, and their people, remain affected by national policies...
The voice of Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999), the “Queen of Fado” and Portugal's most celebrated diva, was extraordinary for its interpretive power, soul wrenching timbre, and international reach. Amalia à l'Olympia (1957) is...
The 3.11 triple disasters occurred at a moment of increased anti-immigrant sentiment in Japan exemplified by the activities of the Zaitokukai, a particularly anti-Korean right-wing group. This xenophobic sentiment provided...
Puerto Rico’s indeterminate status as a US territory has unquestionably left it vulnerable to political, economic, and environmental exploitation. Its status as neither country nor state has resulted in the small island of...
In the early days of the coronavirus quarantine, my Facebook feed was inundated with postings about the effects of both---Covid and the quarantine----on jobs, on health, on social connection. The fear was palpable. Amidst all...
The Contemporary Reader of Gender and Fat Studies is a key reference work in contemporary scholarship situated at the intersection between Gender and Fat Studies, charting the connections and tensions between these two...
Until very recently, literature in English of the late 1940s suffered from a strange critical underestimation. In contrast to the patent world-historical and geopolitical import of the years just after World War II, the...
Located in Carlisle, a small town in south central Pennsylvania, the Trout Gallery was created in 1983 to bring together in one location art objects and artifacts donated to Dickinson College. Today, the gallery's permanent...
Located in Carlisle, a small town in south central Pennsylvania, the Trout Gallery was created in 1983 to bring together in one location art objects and artifacts donated to Dickinson College. Today, the gallery's...
This book is a compilation of case studies and analyses that can be used as a resource guide for college and university professors of foreign language and academic museum educators collaborating to develop new pedagogical...
In 2019, the Pennsylvania Legislature eliminated the Straight-Ticket Voting Option
(STVO). This meant voters could no longer select a button that automatically cast a ballot for
“all Democrats” or “all Republicans.” Many in...
Leadership, especially that associated with collaborative endeavors, is important for addressing emerging, increasingly complex challenges. That development is relevant to liberal arts colleges that are dedicated to educating...
The abstract, platonic theory of numbers is typically taken to provide metaphysical justification for mathematical statements like “1+1=2”. For the anti-realist theory of mathematical fictionalism, a central task is finding...
In addition to its famous motto of “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” France is known for two things: its cuisine and its complicated history with religion. In contemporary France, these two ideas, food and religion, are linked...
This paper analyzes a specific genre of anime called “iyashikei,” whose aim is to explicitly provide a sense of relaxation and calm to the viewers. The historical context of “iyashi,” the Japanese notion of healing is briefly...
This research situates the origins of zine culture in early Black magazines from the 1800s
and 1900s that laid a foundation for contemporary zine culture, reinserting Black narratives into
the history of zine production....