Sherds as archaeobotanical assemblages: Gua Sireh reconsidered

Automatic Classification of Ceramic Sherds

The ARCADIA project focuses on methods to facilitate the interpretation and the evaluation of an archaeological ceramic heritage. It consists in developing a digitalization chain of the ceramic sherds to automatically extract and classify the patterns imprinted by potters using a carved wood wheel. In this paper, we present a pattern extraction and classification method that aims to solve these...

Sherds from an Arabic Treebanking Mosaic

This paper would like to introduce the reader into those aspects of the Arabic language which require some special treatment compared to languages Europeans are more familiar with. In spite of having fresh experience in building the Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank, the authors try to take a broader view of the problems encountered under way. The topics discussed include linguistic data retrie...

Multicollinearity Reconsidered

In this paper we intend to improve the explanatory power of regressions when the deletion method is used for the remedy of Multicolinearity. If one deletes the variable (s) that is (are) responsible for Multicolinearity, he loses some information that is not common between the deleted variable (s) and the other remaining variables in the regression. To improve this method, we run the deleted va...

Gua Sha: A Clinical Overview

Gua Sha is a traditional healing technique widely used in Asia, in Asian immigrant communities, and by acupuncturists and practitioners of traditional East Asian medicine worldwide. With Gua sha, a smooth-edged instrument is used to apply unidirectional surface pressure that raises transitory petechiae and ecchymosis, similar to the petechiae raised by cupping but typically over a larger area. ...

Archaeobotanical Perspectives on the Rural-Urban Connection