The administrative director of a Swedish symphony orchestra contacted the authors in their capacities as consultants to obtain professional help regarding various problems in the orchestra. The primary reason for this contact was that the working climate, which had been quite bad for a long time, had deteriorated even more. There were frequent conflicts between the chief conductor and members o...

In recent years there has been an avalanche of studies which have analyzed the way the New Testament writers cited and interpreted the Old Testament. This research has been augmented significantly by the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, where the sectarian authors at Qumran cited OT texts believing they were experiencing the fulfillment of prophetic texts in contemporary events. The methods e...

DEDICATION To Mom, Dad, and Lauren, for your incredible support, always. iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Producing a thesis bridging multiple sub-fields of anthropology involved careful negotiation of theory and method, and I am indebted to my committee for providing the necessary support. I would like to thank my advisor, Elizabeth Chilton, who consistently provided guidance, feedback and encouragement thr...

SEE (concerning “Dead Sea Scrolls” and related issues such as history, religion, philosophy, literature, etc.), is a very effective learning environment intended for a worldwide audience, of students from 12 to 19 years of age. A massive experimental-delivery phase during spring 2003 (involving more than 700 students and 40 teachers, from Italian and Israeli schools) has shown an impressive edu...

We estimate two essential sea ice parameters—namely, sea ice concentration (SIC) and sea ice thickness (SIT)—for the Bohai Sea using a combination of a thermodynamic sea ice model and Earth observation (EO) data from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and microwave radiometer. We compare the SIC and SIT estimation results with in-situ measurements conducted in the study area and estimates based on ...

The theme of apocalyptic war was widely developed in Qumran literature. The main source of information about the apocalyptic war can be found in lQM, whch Sukenrk named "The War of the Sons of Light against the Sons of Darkness."' According to Paolo Sacchi, "The word 'apocalyptic' is a modern invention, deriving from the wish to conceptualize the field of research on the affinities between the ...

A circulation model is coupled to a Lagrangian particle-tracking model to simulate the transport floating litter particles in the Aegean Sea, Greece (Eastern Mediterranean). Considering different source regions and release dates, simulations were carried out to explore the fate and distribution of floating litter over 1990–2009, taking into account the seasonal and interannual variability of su...

Eutrophication is a large problem in many marine and brackish-water areas. One of the consequences is algae-induced turbidity affecting visually feeding organisms, and behavioural changes of fish and other animals are common in turbid water. The aim of this study was to compare the performance of larval pike Esox lucius in turbid and clear water. We experimentally studied habitat choice, prey a...

[1] Our understanding of past sea-ice variability is limited by the short length of satellite and instrumental records. Proxy records can extend these observations but require further development and validation. We compare methanesulfonic acid (MSA) and chloride (Cl) concentrations from a new firn core from coastal West Antarctica with satellite-derived observations of regional sea-ice concentr...

Since the launch of ENVISAT satellite in 2002, the Radar Altimetry Mission provides systematic altimeter observations of the Earth surface. The ENVISAT Geophysical Data Records products contain, over all type of surfaces, altimeter ranges derived from four specialized retrackers: Ocean, Ice-1, Ice-2 and Sea-Ice retracker. Among the different goals of the ENVISAT Mission, one directly concerns l...