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Ancient China and its Eurasian Neighbors: Artifacts, Identity, and Death in the Frontier, 3000-700 BCE
This volume examines the role of objects in the region north of early dynastic state centers, at the intersection of Ancient China and Eurasia, a large area that stretches from Xinjiang to the China Sea, from c.3000 BCE to the mid-eighth century BCE. This area was a frontier, an ambiguous space that lay at the margins of direct political control by the metropolitan states, where local and colonial ideas and practices were reconstructed transculturally. These identities were often merged and displayed in material culture. Types of objects, styles, and iconography were often hybrids or new to the region, as were the tomb assemblages in which they were deposited and found. Patrons commissioned objects that marked a symbolic vision of place and person and that could mobilize support, legitimize rule, and bind people together. Through close examination of key artifacts, this book untangles the considerable changes in political structure and cultural makeup of ancient Chinese states and their northern neighbors.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/books/1138/thumbnail.jp
Cost-based Decision Aids for Custom Feed Millers
Methods for use by custom feed millers in pricing their services to recover short-run and long-run costs of operation are developed in this study. Descriptive information from the 1977 Custom Feed Milling Survey and multiple enterprise cost and pricing theory are employed in deriving the cost~based decision aids.Agricultural Economic
Custom feed milling operations
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Container Resource Allocation versus Performance of Data-intensive Applications on Different Cloud Servers
In recent years, data-intensive applications have been increasingly deployed
on cloud systems. Such applications utilize significant compute, memory, and
I/O resources to process large volumes of data. Optimizing the performance and
cost-efficiency for such applications is a non-trivial problem. The problem
becomes even more challenging with the increasing use of containers, which are
popular due to their lower operational overheads and faster boot speed at the
cost of weaker resource assurances for the hosted applications. In this paper,
two containerized data-intensive applications with very different performance
objectives and resource needs were studied on cloud servers with Docker
containers running on Intel Xeon E5 and AMD EPYC Rome multi-core processors
with a range of CPU, memory, and I/O configurations. Primary findings from our
experiments include: 1) Allocating multiple cores to a compute-intensive
application can improve performance, but only if the cores do not contend for
the same caches, and the optimal core counts depend on the specific workload;
2) allocating more memory to a memory-intensive application than its
deterministic data workload does not further improve performance; however, 3)
having multiple such memory-intensive containers on the same server can lead to
cache and memory bus contention leading to significant and volatile performance
degradation. The comparative observations on Intel and AMD servers provided
insights into trade-offs between larger numbers of distributed chiplets
interconnected with higher speed buses (AMD) and larger numbers of centrally
integrated cores and caches with lesser speed buses (Intel). For the two types
of applications studied, the more distributed caches and faster data buses have
benefited the deployment of larger numbers of containers
Roderick Whitfield (ed.), The Problem of Meaning in Early Chinese Ritual Bronzes. Colloquies and Art et Archaeology in Asia, No. 15, Held June 1990
Linduff Katheryn M. Roderick Whitfield (ed.), The Problem of Meaning in Early Chinese Ritual Bronzes. Colloquies and Art et Archaeology in Asia, No. 15, Held June 1990. In: Arts asiatiques, tome 49, 1994. pp. 139-140
Roderick Whitfield (ed.), The Problem of Meaning in Early Chinese Ritual Bronzes. Colloquies and Art et Archaeology in Asia, No. 15, Held June 1990
Linduff Katheryn M. Roderick Whitfield (ed.), The Problem of Meaning in Early Chinese Ritual Bronzes. Colloquies and Art et Archaeology in Asia, No. 15, Held June 1990. In: Arts asiatiques, tome 49, 1994. pp. 139-140
Deer or Horses with Antlers? Wooden Figures Adorning Herders in the Altai
Among the burials of horse herders who lived in the 4th–3rd centuries BCE Altai Mountains of South Siberia were some that contained small wooden figures of four-legged hoofed animals that represent horses, deer, or hybrid creatures. They decorated headgear buried with select commoners of the Pazyryk Culture. Although the people, material possessions, and horses of the elites were frequently ornamented with imagery often associated with the so-called Scytho-Siberian animal style, these figurines are generally more realistic and less stylized representations of natural creatures, either cervids or horses. There is, however, ambiguity in these representations; in some cases, figures that are horses have inset recesses on the tops of their heads, in addition to holes for ear inserts. This recalls the elaborate headdresses on some horses outfitted with large displays of antlers or horns made of wood, leather, and felt buried with the Pazyryk leaders. The implication of this ambiguity is explored here. Horses were “cultural capital and tokens of clout” (see Andreeva Introduction, this volume) in the Pazyryk Culture, as well as the base of the economy. Deer were foundational to older belief systems in Siberia. The commingling of horse, mountain goat/ibex, and deer features in Pazyryk Culture imagery has inspired this study
The T. L. Yuan Bibliography of Western Writings on Chinese Art and Archaeology. Edited By Harrie A. Vanderstappen London: Mansell Information Publishing, 1975. xlvii, 606 pp. Indexes. £35.00; $80.00
Review of The Archaeology of Ancient China, by Kwang-chih Chang; Two Sons of Heaven: Studies in Sung-Liao Relations, by Jing-shen Tao.
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