The Caverzano Collection of The Arizona State Museum: Questions of Identity in the Iron Age Veneto

This thesis will consider the identity and ethnicity of the Veneto region in the Iron Age (800-400 BCE), an area historically understudied. Ethnicity, as an agglomerative concept of self-identification, is an especially intriguing consideration for a people who had to identify, erect, and maintain both fluid and fixed forms of identity in an area so thoroughly inundated with material and ideological trade. Examination of the Veneto region’s topography, organization, and role within the ancient world is of primary importance in discussing how identity and affiliation were expressed in the archaeological record without surviving written accounts. A case study of artifacts from the Caverzano necropolis will assist in providing funerary data from the Piave River valley and Belluno area.The inclusion of the Dana Estes collection from Caverzano in the Arizona State Museum prompts a discussion of why funerary data is both helpful and unhelpful for considerations of identity. While funerary contexts provide a space in which tradition and ancestor worship are paramount (thus displaying long-standing conceptions of identity), it is also the place where the display of new knowledge and wealth is first palpably discerned in archaeological contexts (thus displaying the fluid nature of identity). The purpose of this research, therefore, is to discuss how the Iron Age Veneto likely contextualized itself within the larger southeastern Alpine region and in what aspects the northern part of this region may have differed from the southern part. This project also seeks to contribute to the more localized discussion of the Caverzano necropolis, especially to the 1884 excavation in the locality of Font and the artifacts previously thought to be lost

Radial slit maps of bounded multiply connected regions

In this paper we present a boundary integral equation method for the numerical conformal mapping of a bounded multiply connected region onto a radial slit region. The method is based on some uniquely solvable boundary integral equations with adjoint classical, adjoint generalized and modified Neumann kernels. These boundary integral equations are constructed from a boundary relationship satisfied by a function analytic on a multiply connected region. Some numerical examples are presented to illustrate the efficiency of the presented method

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Effects of sample medications on the prescribing practices of family physicians

The purpose of this study was to determine if there were differences in prescribing practices between physicians who dispense free samples and those physicians who do not dispense free samples. Prescribing practices of physicians in three similar clinic locations, one of which permitted dispensing samples, were compared by physician and by group. The log containing information about dispensed samples was analyzed to determine the top 25 free samples dispensed, and these became the study drugs. Detailed pharmacy data including the name of the medication, number of prescriptions, number of day 's supply, and cost to patient was available for each prescribing physician's health plan patients. The majority of unique patients seen in each clinic were health plan members. Statistically significant differences were identified among the clinics. The clinic dispensing samples demonstrated higher average costs per 30 day prescription, higher number of prescriptions for study drugs, higher patient costs for study drugs and higher number of prescriptions for study drugs that were non-listed formulary drugs than the other clinics. Individual physician prescribing differences were also identified