Richard Levy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3607581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Levy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Levy |
| SIGNATURE | LEVY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8783-0167 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 32 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Advancing Antarctic Sediment Chronology Through Combined Ramped Pyrolysis Oxidation and Pyrolysis-Gc-MS
Radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating of sediment deposition around Antarctica is often challenging due to heterogeneity in sources and ages of organic carbon in the sediment. Chemical and thermochemical techniques have been used to separate organic carbon when microfossils are not present. These techniques generally improve on bulk sediment dates, but they necessitate assumptions about the age spectra of specific molecules or compound classes and about the…
Toward a novel multi-century archive of tree mast using pollen from lake sediments
Mast seeding – the pronounced inter-annual variability and synchrony in seed production – can have profound local ecological impacts. We explore the potential for generating long (centuries to millennia) proxy records of tree mast seeding, from pollen deposited in lake sediments. This proxy record uses pollen recovered from annually-banded (varved) sediments from a core collected from Lake Ohau, South Island, New Zealand to reconstruct masting ev…
Thirty Days of Night
The extended periods of daylight and darkness that characterize Arctic and Antarctic regions make them unique places on earth. At a location 250km north of the Arctic Circle, for example, polar night can last for upwards of 30 days during the winter months. These periods of darkness become increasingly longer as one moves to higher latitudes. It is therefore surprising that comparatively little research has explored how historic Inuit societies a…
Ecocapture@home
Apathy, a common neuropsychiatric symptom associated with dementia, has a strong impact on patients' and caregivers' quality of life. However, it is still poorly understood and hard to define. The main objective of the ECOCAPTURE programme is to define a behavioural signature of apathy using an ecological approach. Within this program, ECOCAPTURE@HOME is an observational study which aims to validate a method based on new technologies for the remo…
Hybrid Space
In addition to the actual space and virtual space, there seems to be a third type that can be called hybrid space. Hybrid space borrows the power of information to empower the physical space around us using technologies such as augmented reality, virtual reality, and augmented virtuality. Hybrid space has been explored and conceptualized in the literature, but it has yet to reach its potential as an effective medium in museums. However, it seems …
Acute Frontal Lobe Dysfunction Following Prefrontal Low-Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in a Patient with Treatment-Resistant Depression
The potential of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) to treat numerous neurological and psychiatric disorders has been thoroughly studied for the last two decades. Here, we report for the first time, the case of a 65-year-old woman suffering from treatment-resistant depression who developed an acute frontal lobe syndrome following eight sessions of low-frequency rTMS (LF-rTMS) to the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex while also…
Agricultural Land Use Change and its Drivers in the Palestinian Landscape Under Political Instability, the Case of Tulkarm City
Agricultural land-use change is unavoidable with population growth and economic development. This study investigated the causes and the consequences of agricultural land-use change in Tulkarm city in the West Bank of Palestine after the construction of the Separation Wall. With the aid of GIS data, the study found that urban and built-up areas increased by 54% during the period 1999–2009. About 80% of the new urbanization occurred on agricultural…
Acesso aos serviços de atenção em álcool, crack e outras drogas – o caso do município do rio de Janeiro, Brasil
A reforma psiquiátrica enfatizou garantias individuais, restrições a internações involuntárias, desincentivo a internações psiquiátricas e formação de redes comunitárias de atenção. A diversificação de clientelas e as normativas do Ministério da Saúde se adaptaram às necessidades de suporte aos indivíduos e familiares e às demandas decorrentes crescentes da agenda de atenção aos usuários de drogas. A escassez de serviços públicos comunitários fav…
From Science to Survival
Many of Canada’s non-Indigenous polar heritage sites exist as memorials to the Heroic Age of arctic and Antarctic Exploration which is associated with such events as the First International Polar Year, the search for the Northwest Passage, and the race to the Poles. However, these and other key messages of significance are often challenging to communicate because the remote locations of such sites severely limit opportunities for visitor experien…
Application of 3D Laser Scanning to the Preservation of Fort Conger, a Historic Polar Research Base on Northern Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada
Fort Conger, located in Quttinirpaaq National Park, Ellesmere Island, is a historic landmark of national and international significance. The site is associated with many important Arctic expeditions, including the ill-fated Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of the First International Polar Year and Robert Peary’s attempts to claim the North Pole. Although situated in one of the most remote locations on earth, Fort Conger is currently at risk because o…
Breaking the fourth wall
Interactive 3-dimensional worlds and computer modeling can be used to excite interest in archaeology among indigenous groups such as the Inuit of the North American Arctic and Greenland. Using two case studies - a recently completed exhibition for the Virtual Museum of Canada on Thule Inuit whalebone houses and an interactive virtual world structured around the Siglit-Inuvialuit sod house - we explore how digital replicas might be used in the rep…
Using finite element methods to analyze ancient architecture
Simulating the behaviour of light inside Arctic dwellings
Visibility studies in archaeology have been criticized because they tend to emphasize the importance of vision over other senses. The burgeoning field of sensory anthropology argues that the relative significance of visual, olfactory, acoustic and haptic (touch) senses varies cross-culturally, and is a function of how human beings interact with their particular environments. The Canadian Arctic is a unique sensory environment because prolonged pe…
Using Computer Modelling and Virtual Reality to Explore the Ideological Dimensions of Thule Whalebone Architecture in Arctic Canada
Arctic archaeologists have long suspected that the whalebones used to construct semi-subterranean winter houses by Thule culture peoples were symbolically resonant. These assumptions are based on observations of the non-utilitarian use of jaw bones and crania in Thule house ruins, and ethnographic descriptions of architectural symbolism relating to the whale hunt in Historic Alaskan Inupiat houses. In this paper, we use a 3-dimensional computer r…
A Three-Dimensional Model of a Thule Inuit Whale Bone House
The semi-subterranean whale bone house is one of the most distinctive features of Thule Inuit culture in the Canadian Arctic (A.D. 1000–1600). An understanding of how these remarkable dwellings were designed and built has been hindered by measurement and recording techniques restricted to two dimensions. Determining how the unusual shapes and sizes of whale bone elements would have influenced the strength of the roof frame and the volume of the h…
Reconstructing traditional Inuit house forms using three-dimensional interactive computer modelling
Virtual heritage environments provide researchers and the general public with a tool for exploring archaeological data in a dynamic and interactive fashion. This paper discusses recent attempts by the authors to construct a prototype three-dimensional interactive computer model of an Inuvialuit sod house based on archaeological, ethnohistoric and ethnographic data from the outer Mackenzie Delta area in Arctic Canada. Such computer models have the…
The Village Self-Government Movement
This article analyzes recent developments in the village self-government movement (democratic elections, democratic decision making, democratic management, and democratic supervision) in Guangdong in 2002 as a lens through which to view the village self-government movement throughout China. In reviewing changes in both election practices and the anticorruption components of such elections, the article concludes that the new discourse and mechanis…
Patient adherence to HIV medication regimens
Did Ben-Gurion reverse his position on bombing Auschwitz
Cadres and Corruption
Did Ben-Gurion reverse his position on bombing Auschwitz
(2001). Did Ben-Gurion reverse his position on bombing Auschwitz? Journal of Genocide Research: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 89-96
The Politics of Corruption in Contemporary China
Corruption, Economic Crime and Social Transformation since the Reforms
Curriculum for Citizenship
Making Amnesty Work
Simulating the behaviour of light inside Arctic dwellings
Visibility studies in archaeology have been criticized because they tend to emphasize the importance of vision over other senses. The burgeoning field of sensory anthropology argues that the relative significance of visual, olfactory, acoustic and haptic (touch) senses varies cross-culturally, and is a function of how human beings interact with their particular environments. The Canadian Arctic is a unique sensory environment because prolonged pe…
Breaking the fourth wall
Interactive 3-dimensional worlds and computer modeling can be used to excite interest in archaeology among indigenous groups such as the Inuit of the North American Arctic and Greenland. Using two case studies - a recently completed exhibition for the Virtual Museum of Canada on Thule Inuit whalebone houses and an interactive virtual world structured around the Siglit-Inuvialuit sod house - we explore how digital replicas might be used in the rep…
From Science to Survival
Many of Canada’s non-Indigenous polar heritage sites exist as memorials to the Heroic Age of arctic and Antarctic Exploration which is associated with such events as the First International Polar Year, the search for the Northwest Passage, and the race to the Poles. However, these and other key messages of significance are often challenging to communicate because the remote locations of such sites severely limit opportunities for visitor experien…
Using finite element methods to analyze ancient architecture
A Three-Dimensional Model of a Thule Inuit Whale Bone House
The semi-subterranean whale bone house is one of the most distinctive features of Thule Inuit culture in the Canadian Arctic (A.D. 1000–1600). An understanding of how these remarkable dwellings were designed and built has been hindered by measurement and recording techniques restricted to two dimensions. Determining how the unusual shapes and sizes of whale bone elements would have influenced the strength of the roof frame and the volume of the h…
The Village Self-Government Movement
This article analyzes recent developments in the village self-government movement (democratic elections, democratic decision making, democratic management, and democratic supervision) in Guangdong in 2002 as a lens through which to view the village self-government movement throughout China. In reviewing changes in both election practices and the anticorruption components of such elections, the article concludes that the new discourse and mechanis…
Advancing Antarctic Sediment Chronology Through Combined Ramped Pyrolysis Oxidation and Pyrolysis-Gc-MS
Radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating of sediment deposition around Antarctica is often challenging due to heterogeneity in sources and ages of organic carbon in the sediment. Chemical and thermochemical techniques have been used to separate organic carbon when microfossils are not present. These techniques generally improve on bulk sediment dates, but they necessitate assumptions about the age spectra of specific molecules or compound classes and about the…
Using Computer Modelling and Virtual Reality to Explore the Ideological Dimensions of Thule Whalebone Architecture in Arctic Canada
Arctic archaeologists have long suspected that the whalebones used to construct semi-subterranean winter houses by Thule culture peoples were symbolically resonant. These assumptions are based on observations of the non-utilitarian use of jaw bones and crania in Thule house ruins, and ethnographic descriptions of architectural symbolism relating to the whale hunt in Historic Alaskan Inupiat houses. In this paper, we use a 3-dimensional computer r…
Analyzing China's socialist revolution
Recent trends in “China scholarship” include two dominant sets of goals and foci in examining China's socialist revolution. Exponents of the more traditional view, represented here by Lucian Pye's Mao Tse-tung, seek to explain it away as a pathological deviation from “normality” in social development. The extremism of Pye's book makes it almost a caricature of the worst in the first trend. By the same token this extremism makes the prejudices and…
General and Theoretical
American AnthropologistVolume 81, Issue 4 p. 958-960 Free Access General and Theoretical: Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism. George L. Mosse Richard Levy, Richard Levy University of Illinois, Chicago CircleSearch for more papers by this author Richard Levy, Richard Levy University of Illinois, Chicago CircleSearch for more papers by this author First published: December 1979 https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1979.81.4.02a00610About…
Wählerbewegung in der deutschen Geschichte
Engineers at the Golden Gate
Mao, Maoism and China
In the years since Mao's death, his thought has been undergoing a constant reappraisal both inside and outside of China. Both Womack and Martin's works can be seen as part of this re-evaluation, although their foci and standpoints are quite different. In tracing the evolution of Mao's thought from 1917 to 1935, Womack attempts to demonstrate how and why Mao's thought cannot be understood out of context while Martin, on the other hand, attempts to…
The Chinese Student Demonstrations
The recent student demonstrations in China must make observers question both the theoretical and class bases and the goals of these demonstrations.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Curriculum for Citizenship
Making Amnesty Work
Let's Make a Deal
Arising out of the need to help students in adult education understand and take action about the and service cuts afflicting Massachusetts, Let's Make a Deal provides a valuable resource for adult basic education (ABE), ESL, SLIAG, and Citizenship teachers. The guide helps students understand taxes, their role in society, and the concept of participatory citizenship, while simultaneously helping them to strengthen their basic math, language, and …
Corruption, Economic Crime and Social Transformation since the Reforms
The Politics of Corruption in Contemporary China
Did Ben-Gurion reverse his position on bombing Auschwitz
Cadres and Corruption
Did Ben-Gurion reverse his position on bombing Auschwitz
(2001). Did Ben-Gurion reverse his position on bombing Auschwitz? Journal of Genocide Research: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 89-96
Patient adherence to HIV medication regimens
The Village Self-Government Movement
This article analyzes recent developments in the village self-government movement (democratic elections, democratic decision making, democratic management, and democratic supervision) in Guangdong in 2002 as a lens through which to view the village self-government movement throughout China. In reviewing changes in both election practices and the anticorruption components of such elections, the article concludes that the new discourse and mechanis…
Reconstructing traditional Inuit house forms using three-dimensional interactive computer modelling
Virtual heritage environments provide researchers and the general public with a tool for exploring archaeological data in a dynamic and interactive fashion. This paper discusses recent attempts by the authors to construct a prototype three-dimensional interactive computer model of an Inuvialuit sod house based on archaeological, ethnohistoric and ethnographic data from the outer Mackenzie Delta area in Arctic Canada. Such computer models have the…
Using Computer Modelling and Virtual Reality to Explore the Ideological Dimensions of Thule Whalebone Architecture in Arctic Canada
Arctic archaeologists have long suspected that the whalebones used to construct semi-subterranean winter houses by Thule culture peoples were symbolically resonant. These assumptions are based on observations of the non-utilitarian use of jaw bones and crania in Thule house ruins, and ethnographic descriptions of architectural symbolism relating to the whale hunt in Historic Alaskan Inupiat houses. In this paper, we use a 3-dimensional computer r…
A Three-Dimensional Model of a Thule Inuit Whale Bone House
The semi-subterranean whale bone house is one of the most distinctive features of Thule Inuit culture in the Canadian Arctic (A.D. 1000–1600). An understanding of how these remarkable dwellings were designed and built has been hindered by measurement and recording techniques restricted to two dimensions. Determining how the unusual shapes and sizes of whale bone elements would have influenced the strength of the roof frame and the volume of the h…
Simulating the behaviour of light inside Arctic dwellings
Visibility studies in archaeology have been criticized because they tend to emphasize the importance of vision over other senses. The burgeoning field of sensory anthropology argues that the relative significance of visual, olfactory, acoustic and haptic (touch) senses varies cross-culturally, and is a function of how human beings interact with their particular environments. The Canadian Arctic is a unique sensory environment because prolonged pe…
Using finite element methods to analyze ancient architecture
Breaking the fourth wall
Interactive 3-dimensional worlds and computer modeling can be used to excite interest in archaeology among indigenous groups such as the Inuit of the North American Arctic and Greenland. Using two case studies - a recently completed exhibition for the Virtual Museum of Canada on Thule Inuit whalebone houses and an interactive virtual world structured around the Siglit-Inuvialuit sod house - we explore how digital replicas might be used in the rep…
Application of 3D Laser Scanning to the Preservation of Fort Conger, a Historic Polar Research Base on Northern Ellesmere Island, Arctic Canada
Fort Conger, located in Quttinirpaaq National Park, Ellesmere Island, is a historic landmark of national and international significance. The site is associated with many important Arctic expeditions, including the ill-fated Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of the First International Polar Year and Robert Peary’s attempts to claim the North Pole. Although situated in one of the most remote locations on earth, Fort Conger is currently at risk because o…
Acesso aos serviços de atenção em álcool, crack e outras drogas – o caso do município do rio de Janeiro, Brasil
A reforma psiquiátrica enfatizou garantias individuais, restrições a internações involuntárias, desincentivo a internações psiquiátricas e formação de redes comunitárias de atenção. A diversificação de clientelas e as normativas do Ministério da Saúde se adaptaram às necessidades de suporte aos indivíduos e familiares e às demandas decorrentes crescentes da agenda de atenção aos usuários de drogas. A escassez de serviços públicos comunitários fav…
From Science to Survival
Many of Canada’s non-Indigenous polar heritage sites exist as memorials to the Heroic Age of arctic and Antarctic Exploration which is associated with such events as the First International Polar Year, the search for the Northwest Passage, and the race to the Poles. However, these and other key messages of significance are often challenging to communicate because the remote locations of such sites severely limit opportunities for visitor experien…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Geology (9 works) · Arctic (8 works) · History (8 works) · China (7 works)