ANALYZING SHELL STRUCTURE FROM BABYLONIAN AND MODERN TIMES

Analyzing Shell Structure from Babylonian and Modern Times

We investigate “shell structure” from Babylonian times: periodicities and beats in computer-simulated lunar data corresponding to those observed by Babylonian scribes some 2500 years ago. We discuss the mathematical similarity between the Babylonians’ recently reconstructed method of determining one of the periods of the moon with modern Fourier analysis and the interpretation of shell structur...

Recognizing and Analyzing Iranian – Islamic Identity of Shohada square in Mashhad from the path leading to the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (from the Beginning to modern times)

In today's cities, especially metropolises, the issue of identity and its transformation has become one of the most important issues among urban authorities and designers. Mean while, Mashhad as the second religious metropolises in the world has an identity- causing and effective role among Islamic cities of Iran In recent decades, the amount of urban construction, especially in central part of...

Melancholia and Depression: From Hippocratic Times to Modern Times (1986).

Modern Times

Analyzing Reaction Times

Reaction times (rts) are an important source of information in experimental psychology. Classical methodological considerations pertaining to the statistical analysis of rt data are optimized for analyses of aggregated data, based on subject or item means (c.f., Forster & Dickinson, 1976). Mixedeffects modeling (see, e.g., Baayen, Davidson, & Bates, 2008) does not require prior aggregation and ...