7. Yin Dynasty Jades

A Iv Dynasty Portrait Head

At the turn of the century scholars of Egyptian art were startled by the appearance of life-size portrait heads in excavations at Gizeh, the site of a large necropolis of the Old Kingdom. Until their discovery it was considered an almost invariable rule that private sculpture of the period represented types, not individuals. The Sheikh el Beled and several other representations of individuals w...

The Meckel Dynasty in Medical Education *

Archaeogenomic evidence reveals prehistoric matrilineal dynasty

For societies with writing systems, hereditary leadership is documented as one of the hallmarks of early political complexity and governance. In contrast, it is unknown whether hereditary succession played a role in the early formation of prehistoric complex societies that lacked writing. Here we use an archaeogenomic approach to identify an elite matriline that persisted between 800 and 1130 C...

Yin Sun

In modern computer systems, long-running jobs are divided into a large number of short tasks and executed in parallel. As the system size and complexity scales up, the task service times become highly random and the job service time is constrained by the slowest straggling tasks. An efficient solution is to replicate a task on multiple servers and wait for one task copy to finish early. However...

Yin yang

oxidative Medicine and celluar Longevity 227 Derived from classical Chinese philosophy and with frequent applications in Chinese medicine, " yin yang " has grown into an interesting concept that may have a number of applications. The term is usually used to depict the existence of polarizing or opposing forces in nature. Yet, the concept of " yin yang " can be much more involved, especially in ...