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LIKE LISTENING TO A SEASHELL: A MIDDEN ANALYSIS FROM LA CONSENTIDA, OAXACA, MEXICO
Oaxaca is a state in Southern Mexico with a long history of human occupation. In fact, some of the earliest village sites in Mexico are found there, dating to the Early Formative period (2000 – 1000 BCE). These early settlements provide archaeologists an opportunity to study a time period which saw increasing development of social complexity in Mesoamerica. For this thesis, I examined shellfish remains recovered from middens during excavation at the coastal Oaxacan site of La Consentida conducted by Dr. Guy Hepp in 2012 as part of the La Consentida Archaeological Project. I examine this material for evidence of paleoenvironmental conditions and their change over time, archaic land use practices, and social practices including feasting and status differentiation.
This thesis will contribute to other regional studies through analysis of material collected from these middens. I examine this shell in numerous ways, including by speciation, measurement, contextual analysis, and archaeometric techniques documenting occurrences of feasting La Consentida. In the course of my analysis, I find that the inhabitants of La Consentida utilized the nearby estuaries and lagoons as sources of the shellfish found at the site, and the inhabitants consumed them as part of feasting behavior. They further utilized some of the remains in the production of shell tools and decorative items. I will discuss two shell beads, three shell pendants, and one shell cutting tool recovered during excavations for evidence of manufacturing practices and tool use at La Consentida
The effect of a font intervention for 4th and 5th graders with dyslexia
Dyslexie is a font developed by Christian Boer specifically to enhance reading fluency in students with dyslexia. The present study examined its potential impact on the performance of 36 4th and 5th grade students with SLD on story reading. We found that Dyslexie, when compared to other common fonts that have been adjusted to control for Dyslexie’s large size and spacing, appears to have no effect on readers’ ability to read text correctly, comprehend text, or read faster
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The emergence of 4-cycles in polynomial maps over the extended integers
Let ; for each integer it is interesting to
consider the number of iterates , if possible, needed to satisfy
. The sets generated by the iterates of are
called cycles. For it is known that cycles of length 1 and 2
occur, and no others. While much is known for extensions to number fields, we
concentrate on extending by adjoining reciprocals of primes. Let
denote extended by adding in
the reciprocals of the primes and all their products and
powers with each other and the elements of .
Interestingly, cycles of length 4, called 4-cycles, emerge for polynomials in
under the appropriate
conditions. The problem of finding criteria under which 4-cycles emerge is
equivalent to determining how often a sum of four terms is zero, where the
terms are times a product of elements from the list of primes. We
investigate conditions on sets of primes under which 4-cycles emerge. We
characterize when 4-cycles emerge if the set has one or two primes, and
(assuming a generalization of the ABC conjecture) find conditions on sets of
primes guaranteed not to cause 4-cycles to emerge.Comment: 14 pages, 1 figur
Scattering of electromagnetic waves in metamaterial superlattices
The authors study experimentally both transmission and reflection of microwave radiation from metamaterialsuperlattices created by layers of periodically arranged wires and split-ring resonators. The authors measure the dependence of the metamaterial resonance on the spatial period of the superlattice and demonstrate resonance broadening and splitting for the binary metamaterial structures.The authors acknowledge support from the Australian
Research Council and thank Ekmel Ozbay for providing additional
details of the experimental results published earlier
by his group
Ramsey Theory Problems over the Integers: Avoiding Generalized Progressions
Two well studied Ramsey-theoretic problems consider subsets of the natural
numbers which either contain no three elements in arithmetic progression, or in
geometric progression. We study generalizations of this problem, by varying the
kinds of progressions to be avoided and the metrics used to evaluate the
density of the resulting subsets. One can view a 3-term arithmetic progression
as a sequence , where , a nonzero
integer. Thus avoiding three-term arithmetic progressions is equivalent to
containing no three elements of the form with , the set of integer translations. One can similarly
construct related progressions using different families of functions. We
investigate several such families, including geometric progressions ( with a natural number) and exponential progressions ().
Progression-free sets are often constructed "greedily," including every
number so long as it is not in progression with any of the previous elements.
Rankin characterized the greedy geometric-progression-free set in terms of the
greedy arithmetic set. We characterize the greedy exponential set and prove
that it has asymptotic density 1, and then discuss how the optimality of the
greedy set depends on the family of functions used to define progressions.
Traditionally, the size of a progression-free set is measured using the (upper)
asymptotic density, however we consider several different notions of density,
including the uniform and exponential densities.Comment: Version 1.0, 13 page
The National Commission On Fiscal Responsibility And Reform: How Its Report Can Impact Marginal Tax Rates
The United States government has a serious budget problem. In 2010 President Barack Obama created the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform to deal with the problem by identifying policies to improve the fiscal situation. Among the Commission’s recommendations was a proposal to modify payments under Social Security. For most recipients, the modifications would decrease Social Security benefits although benefits would increase for the poorest quintile of recipients. The purpose of this paper is to construct a model for evaluating the proposed shift in Social Security payments. From the perspective of Social Security recipients, the model shows the cutbacks as the partial loss of an annuity stream, as the loss of a lump sum that is capable of generating the partial annuity stream, and as a tax increase for the remainder of the recipients’ working years as they deposit a special tax into a retirement account designed to replace the lost benefits. Â
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Signal Characteristics of Civil GPS Jammers
This paper surveys the signal properties of 18 commercially
available GPS jammers based on experimental
data. The paper is divided into two distinct tests.
The first characterizes the jamming signals, and the
second test determines the effective range of 4 of the
jammers. The first test uses power spectra from discrete
Fourier transforms (DFTs) of the time series data
to show that all the jammers employ approximately the same jamming method, i.e. linear frequency modulation
of a single tone. The spectra also show that
there are significant jammer-to-jammer variations, including
between jammers of the same model, and that
a given jammer’s signal may vary over time. The first
test also includes measurements of signal power within
frequency bands centered at the L1 and L2 frequencies,
along with the sweep periods and the sweep range at
both frequencies. The second test presents measurements
of the attenuation of the jamming signal necessary
to allow a commercially available GPS receiver to
acquire and track signals from a GPS simulator. From
the attenuation levels and some assumptions about the
antennas used, upper limits on the effective jamming
ranges are calculated for 4 of the jammers, with a resulting
maximum range of 6–9 km.Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanic
Institutional analysis of energy provision in housing : a preliminary exploration
This paper, one of a series resulting from institutional analysis
of photovoltaic (PV) acceptance, provides preliminary exploration of
the energy industry in relation to energy provision in the residential
sector. It is based on theoretical formulations and utilizes methods
of institutional analysis developed in an earlier paper in this series.
Seven institutional functions -- production, financing, regulation,
political, research, service and socialization -- are reviewed as to
the manner in which they are performed in the energy industry. The
structure of the energy industry is described, as is the regulatory
web within which its financial decisions are made and its operations
conducted. The persistent and increasing activity of all levels of
government in determining the practices of the energy industry is dis-
cussed. The research section identifies recent efforts to develop
alternative energy sources. The services section especially emphasizes
the delivery of energy to residences, while the discussion of the social-
ization function highlights the ways in which attitudes on energy
availability and use are developed.Prepared under Dept. of Energy Contract no. EX-76-A-01-2295, Task order no.37
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