Bone Handles and Pottery

Feature Identities, Descriptors and Handles

introduction and classification of seljuq pottery

The Seljuq arts is one of the most brilliant and prominent periods in Iranian art history, and considerable progress has been made in all the arts, including the pottery. The possibility of producing white bodies (white clay) due to the lack of kaolin was one of the Iranian potter’s long-standing aspirations. Iranian Seljuq potteries used a new artificial body called stone paste (Bādānehaye Jes...

Pottery Sample Descriptions

Each pottery specimen analyzed was selected on the basis of its potential to reveal information about taxonomic relationships, in addition to providing samples for chemical and mineral analyses. Preference was given to larger sherds with distinct temper and surface treatment characteristics. Table A.1 describes the provenience of the 70 samples. Table A.2 includes the paste and temper character...

Contamination of laryngoscope handles.

Despite use of sterile or disposable laryngoscope blades for each patient, disinfection of laryngoscope handles does not routinely occur, and these devices present a potential route of transmission of pathogens between patients and staff. A total of 192 specimens from 64 laryngoscope handles deemed 'ready for patient use' in the anaesthetic rooms of 32 operating theatres were semiquantitatively...

Links, Two-handles, and Four-manifolds

We show that only finitely many links in a closed 3-manifold share the same complement, up to twists along discs and annuli. Using the same techniques, we prove that by adding 2-handles on the same link we get only finitely many smooth cobordisms between two given closed 3-manifolds. As a consequence, there are finitely many smooth closed 4-manifolds constructed from some Kirby diagram with bou...