Core-Formed Glass From Dated Contexts (Classical, Mediterranean)

This work presents a new typology and chronology of core-formed glass perfume containers produced in the Mediterranean from the late sixth century B.C. to the end of the first century B.C. This study catalogues over two thousand vessels, separated into eighty-eight types, and represents a refinement of the studies of Poul Fossing and Donald Harden. The new chronology of core-formed glass vessels presented in this work is based on the dates supplied by the archaeological contexts of the examples of the various types. In most cases the types can be dated to a range of twenty-five to fifty years. A subsidiary goal of this work is the identification of the centers of production of core-formed glass vessels during the second half of the first millennium B.C. Through an analysis of the distribution patterns of vessels with a known provenance it would seem that the main center of production of core-formed vessels in the late sixth and fifth centuries B.C. was on Rhodes. It appears that core-formed glass was produced at a number of centers during the fourth through second centuries B.C. and that Cyprus was the main center during the final period of production in the first century B.C. The production of core-formed glass vessels ceased soon after the invention of glass-blowing

Ancient Glass Perfume Vases : The Collection of the Museum of Art and Archaeology

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The Relation Between Managed Care Market Share and the Treatment of Elderly Fee-For-Service Patients with Myocardial Infarction

Managed care may affect medical treatments for non-managed-care patients if it alters local market structure or physician behavior. We investigate whether higher levels of overall managed care market share are associated with greater use of recommended therapies for fee-for-service patients with acute myocardial infarction using data on 112,900 fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries residing in one of 320 metropolitan statistical areas, with age >= 65 years, and admitted with an acute myocardial infarction between February 1994 and July 1995 from the Cooperative Cardiovascular Project. After adjustment for patient characteristics, severity of illness, characteristics of the hospital of admission, specialty of treating physicians, and other area characteristics, patients treated in areas with high levels of managed care had greater relative use of beta-blockers during hospitalization and at discharge and aspirin during hospitalization and at discharge, consistent with more appropriate care. Patients in high HMO areas may be less likely to receive angiography when compared to areas with low levels of managed care, although this result was only marginally significant. In unadjusted comparisons, patients in high HMO market share areas had lower 30 day mortality, but there were no differences in 30 day mortality when all of the control variables were included in the model. We conclude that managed care can have widespread effects on the treatment of patients and the quality of care they receive, even for patients not enrolled in managed care organizations.

Identifying Target Markets for Landscape Plant Retail Outlets

Landscape plant retailers must identify target markets to maximize marketing effectiveness. A tobit process is used on a system of three equations with fourteen years of data identifies target markets for different retail outlets. Results, compared with a previous study, show effects of time on target markets.Crop Production/Industries,

Kalavasos - Kopetra : 1989-1990

"The annual patterns of farming and herding in the Vasilikos Valley were again joined by archaeological fieldwork in the summers of 1989 and 1990. Located in the lower valley between the village of Kalavasos and the south Cypriot coast, the broad Kopetra ridge was home to a small and still anonymous settlement in the Late Roman period. The existence of this site at Kopetra was first noted over twelve years ago during valleywide reconnaissance of the Vasilikos area. During previous work, sponsored in part by the Museum of Art and Archaeology, the settlement's location was confirmed and excavations were undertaken at one part of the site. In our third and fourth annual campaigns we expanded the topographic survey of the central habitation zone and continued excavations in different parts of the Kopetra area."--First paragraph.Includes bibliographical reference

Kalavasos - Kopetra : 1988

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Kalavasos - Kopetra : 1991

"Fresh out of the classroom and beckoned by the long mild days of early summer, we returned to Cyprus this year for our fifth season of work at the Late Roman settlement at Kopetra. In previous years our museum-sponsored project explored this small, previously unknown community by surface survey and selective excavation. Preliminary results revealed a settlement of perhaps five hectares that stood atop a high ridge overlooking the Vasilikos Valley, about halfway between the island's south coast and the present village of Kalavasos . Between 1987 and 1990 we traced the general outlines of this small Late Roman settlement and discovered two basilicas that served its residents in the sixth and early seventh centuries. This year we completed work at the second basilica and undertook trial excavations in three other parts of the inhabited site."--First paragraph.Includes bibliographical reference

Georgia's Brain Gain - Brief

This brief investigates trends in the interstate migration of young college graduates. FRC Brief 19

Investigations at KaIavasos-Kopetra

"The Mediterranean world of the fourth through seventh centuries saw one of the most momentous turning points of Western history. Fundamental changes occurred at all levels of Late Roman society and involved basic revaluations of the artistic, political, and religious traditions of classical antiquity. Edward Gibbon characterized this age as comprising an epochal "Fall of Rome," of which the repercussions continued to shape European history into the modern era. If the larger results of this cultural reorientation are not in doubt, its course and process remain less well understood. Historians of the period have focused their attention primarily on the large urban and religious centers of the late Roman empire, with relatively less attention paid to the more humdrum life of its provincial settlements. The Kalavasos-Kopetra Project was initiated in 1986 with the goal of providing a new and more representative perspective of this period on the level of a small and otherwise unknown east Mediterranean island community. The expedition is a collaborative undertaking of the authors on behalf of the Department of Art History and Archaeology and the Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, and the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania. Informal reconnaissance in the summer of 1986 led to a six-week field season in July and August 1987. The resultsof these preliminary investigations, which included an initial topographic and field survey of the site, are discussed in this report."--First paragraph.Includes bibliographical reference

Airborne Advanced Reconfigurable Computer System (ARCS)

A digital computer subsystem fault-tolerant concept was defined, and the potential benefits and costs of such a subsystem were assessed when used as the central element of a new transport's flight control system. The derived advanced reconfigurable computer system (ARCS) is a triple-redundant computer subsystem that automatically reconfigures, under multiple fault conditions, from triplex to duplex to simplex operation, with redundancy recovery if the fault condition is transient. The study included criteria development covering factors at the aircraft's operation level that would influence the design of a fault-tolerant system for commercial airline use. A new reliability analysis tool was developed for evaluating redundant, fault-tolerant system availability and survivability; and a stringent digital system software design methodology was used to achieve design/implementation visibility