This urupā tautaiao (natural burials) research is a Marsden funded project with decolonising agenda. It presents pragmatic opportunity for Māori to re-evaluate, reconnect, and adapt ancient customs practices the modern world. The design practice output focus restoration of existing graves located in (burial ground) Ngāti Moko, hapū (subtribe) Tapuika tribe that occupy ancestral land central Nor...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of various structural support configurations in preventing topical compression in skyscraper buildings. To conduct this investigation, the following four support configurations were tested: a single/double vertical support system, a single diagonal/single vertical system, a double cross diagonal, and a double diagonal/double vertical config...

The Northwest Coast stretches 1,800 km from Cape Mendocino, California, to Yakutat Bay, Alaska. It is usually divided into three or four subregions (Fig. 1), with the Oregon and northern California coasts the most ambiguous in their assignment to the Northwest Coast. In the nineteenth century, this was linguistically one of the most diverse regions of North America, with eight language families...

ASK you to consider these two scenarios: In the first, a small Hindu temple sits at the end of a narrow, winding road in the mountains of southwest India. The people outside gaze at the elaborate carvings in the white stone temple, waiting patiently for hours to work their way to the front of the line and enter into the temple’s heart. Inside, an image of Kali rests in the center, surrounded by...

1974 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 13, No. 12, December 2007 “O will have greater skill for getting the breath of life to spring from bronze more fl uidly .... But as for you, Roman, remember to impose your power upon nations. Your art is to decree the rules of peace, to spare the vanquished and subdue the vainglorious,” advised Virgil in the Aeneid, placing himself in t...

Modigliani was born in Livorno, Italy, where he grew up in a Jewish ghetto. He studied art in Florence, and in 1906 he moved to Paris, where he met Pablo Picasso and other leading artists of his era. In Paris, he was influenced by fauvism, the avant-garde art movement promoting a strong, emotional, and nonrealistic use of color, and by his friend the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi, known...

HISTORY OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL MEDICINE A new course on the History of Public Health and Social Medicine is now being offered at the School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, in the spring semester of 1966. The purpose of this course is to trace the genesis and the development of scientific fact and ideas, taking into account intellectual exchanges and influences of a...

Introduction. Numerous studies of domestic scientists testify to the sometimes significant, but multidirectional influence year and season calving birth on formation milk productivity other economically useful traits. In our previous studies, it was established that at population level, among mentioned environmental factors, most significant phenotypic variability first-calf heifers is caused b...