: Rethinking Archaeology . K. C. Chang.

Rethinking the Archaeology of “Rebels, Backsliders, and Idolaters”

Spanish ship Santa María ground to a halt on a coral reef off the coast of an island known to its Taíno inhabitants as Ayiti. The loss of don Cristóbal Colón’s flagship forced him to leave a contingent of thirty-nine crewmembers behind to construct a fortified settlement they dubbed Villa de la Navidad, while the admiral and the rest of his fleet departed to report to their sovereign patrons in...

Rethinking adaptation for a 4°C world.

With weakening prospects of prompt mitigation, it is increasingly likely that the world will experience 4°C and more of global warming. In such a world, adaptation decisions that have long lead times or that have implications playing out over many decades become more uncertain and complex. Adapting to global warming of 4°C cannot be seen as a mere extrapolation of adaptation to 2°C; it will be ...

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Endothelial cells (ECs) and vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) have been shown to communicate with each other via cytokine signaling during neovascularization. In this study, we investigated the effect of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), a cytokine released from tumors and ECs, on vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression in human VSMCs and underlying signal transduction path...

Comparative Studies in Archaeology Edited by T C . Champion ONE

Chii Chang

Service composition enables customizable services to be provided to the service consumers. Since the capabilities and the performances of mobile devices (e.g., smart phone, PDA, handheld media player) have improved, a mobile device can be utilized to interact with external mobile service providers towards providing composite Web service to remote clients. Existing approaches on mobile-hosted se...