599 research outputs found
The Inscriptions of Assurnasirpal II and His Son
The existence of written records at a site is viewed with great joy because texts impart information that cannot be gleaned from other material remains. When no such texts are found, the archaeologists and other associated scholars must work that much harder to understand what happened at the site. One way this is done is by analyzing the remains of the site in light of other contemporary information, as has been done for Hasanlu in this issue. Contemporary sites of Assyria have produced historical texts recounting the activities of the Assryian kings that not only shed light on the period in general but on the area of Hasanlu in particular. It is only with an understanding of the nature of these texts and their inherent problems that they can be useful for this purpose
Through Assyria\u27s Eyes: Israel\u27s Relationship with Judah
The goal of the Bible was not to record history, and the text does not shy away from theological explanations for events. Given this problematic relationship between sacred interpretation and historical accuracy, historians welcomed the discovery of ancient Assyrian cuneiform documents that refer to people and places mentioned in the Bible. Discovered in the 19th century, these historical records are now being used by scholars to corroborate and augment the biblical text, especially the Bible’s “historical books” of Kings. This field for comparison complements the recent trend among biblical scholars of using new interpretative methodologies and archaeology to question some of the Bible’s historical claims
Nippur Bibliography
The Nippur Bibliography which follows is divided into two parts. The first part, Text Publications and Interpretations, includes all primary publications of Nippur tablets and all studies that make significant use of tablets from Nippur. The secondary studies are included in order to highlight the contribution of the Nippur tablets to the reconstruction and interpretation of ancient Near Eastern literature, history, mythology, economy, law, and lexicography. The second part of the bibliography, Excavation Reports and Secondary Archaeological Publications, includes all publications relating to the Nippur excavations, as well as studies of major archaeological finds. At the end of the section is a list of the Nippur field seasons, 1889-1990
Simultaneous spectra and radio properties of BL Lac's
We present the results of nine years of the blazar observing programme at the
RATAN-600 radio telescope (2005-2014). The data were obtained at six frequency
bands (1.1, 2.3, 4.8, 7.7, 11.2, 21.7 GHz) for 290 blazars, mostly BL Lacs. In
addition, we used data at 37 GHz obtained quasi-simultaneously with the
Metsahovi radio observatory for some sources. The sample includes blazars of
three types: high-synchrotron peaked (HSP), low-synchrotron peaked (LSP), and
intermediate-synchrotron peaked (ISP). We present several epochs of flux
density measurements, simultaneous radio spectra, spectral indices and
properties of their variability. The analysis of the radio properties of
different classes of blazars showed that LSP and HSP BL Lac blazars are quite
different objects on average. LSPs have higher flux densities, flatter spectra
and their variability increases as higher frequencies are considered. On the
other hand, HSPs are very faint in radio domain, tend to have steep low
frequency spectra, and they are less variable than LSPs at all frequencies.
Another result is spectral flattening above 7.7 GHz detected in HSPs, while an
average LSP spectrum typically remains flat at both the low and high frequency
ranges we considered.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomische
Nachrichte
The Impact of Stress Management on Nurse Productivity and Retention
Throughout the history of nursing there is a seeming legacy of personnel shortage, lack of funds, and, based on the nature of the role and related services, heightened levels of stress involved in patient care.The future of the profession and more imminently, patient care and the health of nurses, may be significantly impacted by repeated challenges where current levels of stress and burnout are contributing to organizational problems, burnout, and attrition.Employee stress and burn out commonly lead to myriad health-related problems that result in significant organizational consequences.There are many methods of stress management, and sometimes the best and most effective begin with simple recognition, validation, and visible and committed efforts by the nurse executive.Regardless of the technique or approach, what is clear is that there is a need for nurse executives to include the development and enhancement of comprehensive stress-management programming for employees as a priority item to avoid burnout and attrition
A Pixel Vertex Tracker for the TESLA Detector
In order to fully exploit the physics potential of a e+e- linear collider,
such as TESLA, a Vertex Tracker providing high resolution track reconstruction
is required. Hybrid Silicon pixel sensors are an attractive sensor technology
option due to their read-out speed and radiation hardness, favoured in the high
rate TESLA environment, but have been so far limited by the achievable single
point space resolution. A novel layout of pixel detectors with interleaved
cells to improve their spatial resolution is introduced and the results of the
characterisation of a first set of test structures are discussed. In this note,
a conceptual design of the TESLA Vertex Tracker, based on hybrid pixel sensors
is presentedComment: 20 pages, 11 figure
Synchrotron flaring behaviour of CygnusX-3 during the February-March 1994 and September 2001 outbursts
Aims: In this paper we study whether the shock-in-jet model, widely used to
explain the outbursting behaviour of quasars, can be used to explain the radio
flaring behaviour of the microquasar Cygnus X-3.
Method: We have used a method developed to model the synchrotron outbursts of
quasar jets, which decomposes multifrequency lightcurves into a series of
outbursts. The method is based on the Marscher & Gear (1985) shock model, but
we have implemented the modifications to the model suggested by Bjornsson &
Aslaksen (2000), which make the flux density increase in the initial phase less
abrupt. We study the average outburst evolution as well as specific
characteristics of individual outbursts and physical jet properties of Cyg X-3.
Results: We find that the lightcurves of the February-March 1994 and
September 2001 outbursts can be described with the modified shock model. The
average evolution shows that instead of the expected synchrotron plateau, the
flux density is still increasing during the synchrotron stage. We also find
that high frequency peaking outbursts are shorter in duration than the ones
peaking at lower frequencies. Finally, we show that the method can be used,
complementary to radio interferometric jet imaging, for deriving the physical
parameters such as the magnetic field strength and the energy density of
relativistic electrons in the jet of Cyg X-3.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and
Astrophysic
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