Malthi in Media: Peopling an Ancient Village in Virtual Space

Digital applications have increased the possibilities for the visualization of archaeological material. This paper presents two reconstructions of the Bronze Age settlement Malthi, created using Minecraft and Twine, both readily accessible programs. These recreations draw on data from archaeological work at the site and are intended to depict alternative interpretations of the settlement, allowing for the uncertainty inherent in archaeology. They are likewise intended to invite interaction with the site beyond physically visiting, with the goal of increasing participation in the formation of knowledge about Malthi. The approach advocated here is applicable to other projects struggling with ambiguous data

Discontinuous Settlement Structures and Social Organization in Late Early Helladic and Middle Helladic Greece

This dissertation examines the replacement of domestic architecture in the Peloponnese from Early Helladic III (ca. 2200-2000 BC) to the early Mycenaean period (ca. 1700-1400 BC). Based on Tringham’s “continuous house” model and subsequent scholarship, I argue that many of these houses were cyclically destroyed and rebuilt, and explore methods for investigating this phenomenon in context using cross-cultural comparanda. I suggest a wide-spread experience of the house as a physical manifestation of the cycles of the living household—the house is rebuilt on the occasion of the death of the household head. This phenomenon is particularly visible in the Argolid. Elsewhere in the Peloponnese, the replacement of the house is very often divorced from natural generational cycles and instead works to create a link with older abandoned architecture and presumably the lineages represented by these material remains. The destruction/rebuilding cycle—regardless of whether it marked real familial patterns or fictive claims of descent—was often (if inconsistently) marked by other ritual action, including feasting/termination rites. Occasionally these rites included the burial or caching of feasting debris or offerings with the destroyed house architecture itself, parallel to the common practice of intramural burial in these settlements, itself acting further to create and maintain “place” for a kinship group within the community. House-rebuilding, however, functioned beyond place-creation in the renewal and definition of the household itself. It is in this way both continuous with the past and actively breaking from it in order to (re)create a new social group. This idea corresponds to previous assessments of the treatment of settlements especially at the end of the period. At this time, settlements were abandoned, transformed into cemeteries, or totally reorganized, and new settlements were founded. These changes are likely to represent efforts to create more cohesive regional communities, capable of more effective interaction with other communities within an increasingly “global” Mediterranean network. I argue that the mechanism for creating these new communities was derived in part from the understanding of built space and the house in particular as an identifier of and actual means of defining a social group.Doctor of Philosoph

Before Mycenae: Middle Helladic Domestic Architecture and the Foundations of Mycenaean Culture

The domestic architecture of the Middle Bronze Age on the Greek mainland has been frequently overlooked in scholarship; where it is acknowledged, it is all too often dismissed because of its absence of monumentality and poor state of preservation, seen as a product of the turbulence that is presumed to have rocked much of Greece in the wake of the fall of the relatively prosperous culture of the Early Bronze Age. However, a close examination of the houses of two important Middle Helladic sites - Lerna and Eutresis - reveals a previously unacknowledged degree of social complexity for the time period. Indeed, the houses seem to have served as the primary means of expressing social identity within the settlements of this era, serving as arenas for articulating kinship affiliation, wealth, and power. In many ways, then, the humble dwellings of the Middle Helladic predict the palaces of later Mycenaean culture

Here Comes the Future: Embedding Library Leaders of Tomorrow

Additional contributions to the administrative documents were made by Emma Marshall, Elizabeth Nicholson, Anthony Strand, Ashley Nelson, Jodi Millard, Shannon Western Mawhiney, Kristy Farrington, and John Henry Muhrer.Through an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant the University of Missouri has provided 20 masters students with the opportunity to be embedded within university libraries under the guidance of library leaders

PKA-Rap1A Dependent Regulation of Age-Rage Signaling in Type II Diabetes Mellitus

Type II diabetes mellitus is associated with many detrimental health situations including heart complications. The purpose of this study was to identify a role for PKA-dependent Rap1a signaling in the AGE-RAGE cascade. My hypothesis was Rap1a GTPase increased the downstream effects of AGE-RAGE signaling in diabetes via a PKA-dependent pathway leading to elevated ECM remodeling in the heart. Cardiac fibroblasts were isolated from heterozygous (Het) and diabetic (db/db) mice. To test the hypothesis, gain-ofunction and loss-ofunction treatments were used. PKC-Zeta is known as a major signaling hub that potentially links PKA-dependent and AGE-RAGE signaling cascades so PKC-Zeta inhibition to downregulate PKA-dependent cascade at PKC-Zeta was also used. Results showed a downregulation of signaling markers in the AGE-RAGE cascade when disrupting Rap1a crosstalk at PKC-Zeta. By understanding where the PKA-dependent and AGE-RAGE signaling cascades crosstalk, a new molecular mechanism is understood possibly leading to decreasing remodeling in a diabetic heart

Malthi in Media: Peopling an Ancient Village in Virtual Space

STRIDE Project A Digital Archaeology of Malthi, Greece Digital applications have increased the possibilities for the visualization of archaeological material. Here are presented two reconstructions of the Bronze Age settlement Malthi, created using Minecraft and Twine, both readily accessible programs. These recreations draw on data from archaeological work at the site and are intended to depict alternative interpretations of the settlement, allowing for the uncertainty inherent in archaeology. They are likewise intended to invite interaction with the site beyond physically visiting, with the goal of increasing participation in the formation of knowledge about Malthi. The approach advocated here is applicable to other projects struggling with ambiguous data. Additional files: File name: MalthiTwine_Edited_Final_4Sept23.html Title: Malthi in Twine Author: Nora Sullivan, Annika Lof File names: Instructions for Opening Zipped Java MC World; Java MC Malthi 1m_2blocks clean.zip Title: Malthi in Minecraft, Unpopulated (Java) Author: Sarah Kam File names: Instructions for Opening MC Windows Populated Malthi; Populated Malthi.mcworld Title: Malthi in Minecraft, Populated (Windows/Bedrock) Author: Sarah Kam, Aurora Bagle

Novel copolymers of vinyl acetate. 4. Halogen ring-substituted ethyl 2-cyano-3-phenyl-2-propenoates

Novel copolymers of vinyl acetate and halogen ring-substituted ethyl 2-cyano-3-phenyl-2-propenoates, RPhCH=C(CN)CO2C2H5 (where R is 2-Br, 3-Br, 4-Br, 2-Cl, 3-Cl, 4-Cl, 2-F, 3-F, 4-F, 2,3-dichloro, 2,4-dichloro, 2,6-dichloro, 3,4-dichloro, 2,4-difluoro, 2-bromo-3,4-dimethoxy) were prepared in solution with radical initiation at 70C. The propenoates were synthesized by the piperidine catalyzed Knoevenagel condensation of halogen ring-substituted benzaldehydes and ethyl cyanoacetate, and characterized by CHN analysis, IR, 1H and 13C-NMR. The compositions of the copolymers were calculated from nitrogen analysis and the structures were analyzed by IR, 1H and 13C-NMR. Thermal behavior of the copolymers was studied by DSC (Tg) and TGA. Decomposition of the copolymers in nitrogen occurred in two steps, first in the 159-500ºC range with residue (8.8-15.2 wt%), which then decomposed in the 500-650ºC range