Maya and Spaniard in Yucatán, 1648-1812

Prices and Mortality in Vienna , 1648 - 1754

Class specific mortality in 17th and 18th Century Vienna shows a cyclical pattern which is related to grain price cycles in the 5-10 years range. This relationship is not stable over time. Applying spectral analysis based on time-varying VARs, it can be shown that at the beginning of the observation period, comovement of grain prices and mortality is considerably high in areas populated by lowe...

Op-brai140083 1799..1812

1 Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA 2 Department of Neurology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA 3 Primary Children’s Medical Centre, Salt Lake City, UT, USA 4 Department of Radiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA 5 Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA 6 Neuroscience Centre, Brigham Young University, P...

Dev105874 1638..1648

Normal heart development requires appropriate levels of retinoic acid (RA) signaling. RA levels in embryos are dampened by Cyp26 enzymes, which metabolize RA into easily degraded derivatives. Loss of Cyp26 function in humans is associated with numerous developmental syndromes that include cardiovascular defects. Although previous studies have shown that Cyp26-deficient vertebrate models also ha...

Illinois in the War of 1812

Visualizing Maya

Pervasive animation in games, animation, films, numerous websites and stand-alone information interfaces, means that software increasingly influences how we imagine fictions, display information and interact with a digitally mediated world. Given its centrality in creating image, how can a 3D software package be made visible beyond the images seen in cinema, in games, commercials and visualizat...