TRADITIONAL BURYAT BURIALS: CHANGES AND STEREOTYPES

Human Burials

Taphonomic factors significantly affect the preservation of bone specimens that are ultimately available for examination by the researcher. Burial practices can disturb previous interments, as does rodent burrowing. Soil pH can greatly alter or destroy many smaller bone or bone with less density. Flooding and erosional episodes, as discussed in the last paper, can severely disturb burials. Fina...

A Dependency Treebank for Buryat

There has been little research on natural-language processing of Buryat, in part due to the absence of language resources. In this article we present the first syntactic treebank for Buryat. It is an evolving project based on the Universal Dependencies (UD) annotation guidelines. We report on the procedure of constructing the treebank and explain some features of the labelling scheme with respe...

Burials: Dietary Sampling Methods

300: Cultural Stereotypes and War against Barbarism

During the era of Bush administration and post-September 11th anti-terrorism discourse, the movie 300 was one of the best exemplar of a close relationship between Hollywood pop culture products and the neo-conservatives’ political discourse of nationalism. From my point of view, 300 is not an example of outstanding artistic films, but a film that more than any other film contains an Iranophobic...

Metabolic changes in donor corneas during cold storage– challenging stereotypes

It has been recently shown that cold storage at 2-8°C is not neutral towards metabolic properties of the cornea. The aims of this study were to reveal: the kinetics of biochemical changes in human corneas during cold storage and the time of storage when the preserved corneas show the biggest biochemical similarities to in vivo ones. Twenty human corneas were obtained post-mortem from ten 60 to ...