Sentences with phrase «on ancient models»

Iconic Chanel cuff based on ancient models and reinterpreted in the the late 1980's by Victoire de Castellane.

It was in Lorenzo's garden that Michelangelo made his first sculpture, a head of a faun based on an ancient model in Lorenzo's collection.

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His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

The younger Churches are likely to feel self - sufficient; the ancient ones are likely to want to impose on the younger Churches their cultural models.

[19] An ancient hymn used in the Divine Office even says that the face of Adam was actually modelled on the face of Christ.

They will also be expected to adapt or create new forms of ritualized expression from existing or emerging patterns» e.g., ancient rites of initiation, the current rites of Baptism, Bar Mitzvah» a new or adapted rite based on these models.

Using an interdisciplinary approach that combined evidence from climate modelling of large 20th - century eruptions, annual measurements of Nile summer flood heights from the Islamic Nilometer — the longest - known human record of environmental variability — between 622 and 1902, as well as descriptions of Nile flood quality in ancient papyri and inscriptions from the Ptolemaic era, the authors show how large volcanic eruptions impacted on Nile river flow, reducing the height of the agriculturally - critical summer flood.

The team looked at previously dated meteorites that had evidence of explosive heating and ancient argon, and they modeled the collision and its blowback on the asteroid belt to pinpoint the timing of the planetary crash.

The findings are based on analyses of ancient plant leaf wax found in the sediments of the Gulf of Guinea in combination with computer models of the climate system.

Hanqin Tian, an ecologist at Auburn University in Alabama who studies modern grasslands, is working on models to correlate ancient grass production with the tree - ring records of weather.

«Ancient ecosystem response to «big five» mass extinction: Ingenious modeling shows that the stability of ancient ecosystems depended on species with important, big - picture roles in food web.Ancient ecosystem response to «big five» mass extinction: Ingenious modeling shows that the stability of ancient ecosystems depended on species with important, big - picture roles in food web.ancient ecosystems depended on species with important, big - picture roles in food web.»

The new findings on Arctic Ocean salinity conditions in the Eocene were calculated in part by comparing ratios of oxygen isotopes locked in ancient shark teeth found in sediments on Banks Island in the Arctic Circle and incorporating the data into a salinity model.

A team of researchers has validated data and found a new model for paleontologists to use to track the diet of our ancient ancestors and animals by analyzing the wear on their teeth.

The new work, based on computer models, paints a picture of ancient Mars, more than 3.5 billion years ago, as looking somewhat like the deserts of the U.S. Southwest, sans cacti of course.

We use simulations to test whether the site frequency spectrum, conditioned on a derived Neanderthal and an ancestral Yoruba (African) nucleotide (the doubly conditioned site frequency spectrum [dcfs]-RRB-, can distinguish between models that assume recent admixture or ancient population structure.

He explains how he once thought that climate change theory was based solely on computer models, where in fact it's based on scientific measurements of both modern and ancient climates.

So GISS climate modeler Michael Way took a topographic map of Venus based on findings from another mission, filled in the lowlands with an ocean of water, and ran the global climate model to simulate the climate of ancient days on Venus.

To quantify the ancestry fractions, we fit the modern British samples with a mixture model of ancient components, by placing all the samples on a linear axis of relative Dutch allele sharing that integrates data from allele counts 1 — 5 (Fig. 2b, Supplementary Note 3).

A former model uses tales of sex, drugs and rock and roll in a book hitting stores on Monday to introduce the healing power of yoga sequences and demonstrate how the ancient practice of breath and meditation can fortify the mind as well as the body.

Mark Brooks: Wikipedia is modeled on the ancient campfire; the wise sharing information with the community around them.

The entire building is wrapped around a common area called the Agora — Greek for «gathering place» — which is modeled on the public courtyards at the heart of city life in ancient Greece.

Consequently, many independent schools model their curricula on and encourage students to study the classics — whether Latin or Greek language, classical philosophy, or the history of ancient Rome or Greece.

If you look around our school on a typical afternoon, you will see sixth graders studying botany and history by planting tomatoes in our garden and building models of ancient aqueduct systems, third graders using research to design proposals for more diverse books in our libraries, and kindergartners buzzing as they return from interviewing local business owners in downtown Durham.

The updated Mazda6 comes at the right time, for there's a couple of rivals knocking on the door with significant new models and a bid on closing the sales gap to Toyota's ancient Camry [Ed: which although significantly restyled in 2011 is essentially unchanged since 2006].

More often the flagship devices are the only ones to receive the latest Android updates, while the old models and low - end devices are left to rot on an ancient firmware.

The dual - core 1.5 GHz processor and 254 ppi screen on the older model aren't exactly ancient technology.

They're protecting an ancient business model, shored up by spreadsheets and databases but dependent on big - box book retailing.

Outdoor yoga sessions revitalise, and the lounger - lined pool is modelled on the area's ancient step wells

As the game kicks off he purchases a model boat that holds a secret scroll within, and thus he sets on a mission to find the other scrolls and discover some ancient treasure.

Henry Abercrombie described the exhibition's impact on Flanagan's thinking and approach to sculpture, where the sheer tactile physicality of the ancient modeled horses created an aura and majesty.

For his MATRIX project, Dion combines the museum's collection with his practice of investigating the intersection of art and the history of science, developing a hierarchical chain of living creatures to create a Wadsworth - specific version of «The Great Chain of Being» (based on Aristotle's ancient model) through details of paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts found in the museum's collection.

The identified atmospheric feedbacks including changes in planetary albedo, in water vapour distribution and in meridional latent heat transport are all poorly represented in zonal energy balance model as the one used in [7] whereas they appear to be of primary importance when focusing on ancient greenhouse climates.

1950s: Research on military applications of radar and infrared radiation promotes advances in radiative transfer theory and measurements = > Radiation math — Studies conducted largely for military applications give accurate values of infrared absorption by gases = > CO2 greenhouse — Nuclear physicists and chemists develop Carbon - 14 analysis, useful for dating ancient climate changes = > Carbon dates, for detecting carbon from fossil fuels in the atmosphere, and for measuring the rate of ocean turnover = > CO2 greenhouse — Development of digital computers affects many fields including the calculation of radiation transfer in the atmosphere = > Radiation math, and makes it possible to model weather processes = > Models (GCMs)-- Geological studies of polar wandering help provoke Ewing - Donn model of ice ages = > Simple models — Improvements in infrared instrumentation (mainly for industrial processes) allow very precise measurements of atmospheric CO2 = > CO2 greenModels (GCMs)-- Geological studies of polar wandering help provoke Ewing - Donn model of ice ages = > Simple models — Improvements in infrared instrumentation (mainly for industrial processes) allow very precise measurements of atmospheric CO2 = > CO2 greenmodels — Improvements in infrared instrumentation (mainly for industrial processes) allow very precise measurements of atmospheric CO2 = > CO2 greenhouse.

1848 Hungarian declaration of independence — though it did not actually lead to independence... 1861 H.S. Maine, Ancient Law 1881 French law on freedom of the press 1932 Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] AC 562 1945 Charter of the United Nations 1952 Completion of the Uniform Commercial Code 1957 Civil Rights Act of 1957 1963 Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 1963 Gideon v. Wainwright establishes a constitutional right to counsel 1971 John Rawls — A Theory of Justice 1982 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms 1996 International Court of Justice's Advisory Opinion on the Legality of the use of Nuclear Weapons 1996 UN Model Law on Electronic Commerce