John Matthews
Biographic Data
| ID | 3714447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Matthews |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Matthews |
| SIGNATURE | MATTHEWS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eastern Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3787-1443 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1918 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Volcanic Crisis of Persian Babylonia (426–424 b . c . e .)
Ice-core, dendrochronological, and climate-model evidence identifies an extraordinarily powerful volcanic eruption around 426 b.c.e. that produced severe multi-year cooling and increased precipitation through strong stratospheric aerosol forcing. Model results indicate sustained cooling and wetter conditions in Babylonia, incompatible with stable date cultivation and likely causing crop failure. Statistical analysis shows a sharp rise in land mor…
Children as playful artists
Children's agential behaviours in the archaeological record have often been overlooked. Despite efforts to centre children in the past through 'an archaeology of childhood', there remains a fundamental challenge of rigorously distinguishing children's behaviours from those of adults. In Upper Palaeolithic art, this has been addressed through the analysis of anatomical measurements of traces produced by hands and figures, demonstrating that childr…
Habit and the Potential for Actor Training with Immersive and Virtual Production Technology
The advance of immersive and virtual technologies draws into starker contrast the analogue modalities of dominant approaches to actor training and makes more visible certain of their dynamics, which are analysed here using a philosophical framework of habit and habitus as propositionally causative. This technology is disruptive to habit and habitus in actor training and signifies potential to experiment with these dynamics to address extant probl…
Designing diversified renewable energy systems to balance multisector performance
Renewable energy system development and improved operation can mitigate climate change. In many regions, hydropower is called to counterbalance the temporal variability of intermittent renewables like solar and wind. However, using hydropower to integrate these renewables can affect aquatic ecosystems and increase cross-sectoral water conflicts. We develop and apply an artificial intelligence-assisted multisector design framework in Ghana, which …
Beyond the image
Symbolic cognition-the ability to produce and use symbols, including (but not limited to) linguistic symbols-has often been considered a hallmark of human achievement. Given its importance, symbolic cognition has been a major topic of interest in many academic disciplines including anthropology, archeology, and the cognitive sciences.1-6 Paleolithic rock art holds vast potential for understanding the early roots of symbolically mediated behavior.…
Air Quality Dispersion Modelling to Evaluate Cipp Installation Styrene Emissions
Cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) is one of the most popular in situ rehabilitation techniques to repair sewer and water pipes. While there are multiple approaches to curing CIPP, steam-curing of styrene-based resins has been found to be associated with air-borne chemical emissions. Health officials, utilities and industry representatives have recognized the need to know more about these emissions, especially styrene. Such concern has led to multiple st…
Prosodic transfer in the receptive modality
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Using Technology to Enhance Qualitative Research with Hidden Populations
Advances in technology provide researchers with increased opportunities to locate and conduct research with populations that have historically been inaccessible. This manuscript de scribes the development of private, voluntary web-based groups, and the process for using web cameras to conduct individual web-based interviews as a method of data collection in qualitative research. Also contained within are detailed steps for utilizing each of these…
Environmental flows in the Anthropocence
From the Tetrarchs to the Theodosians
An integrated collection of essays examining the politics, social networks, law, historiography, and literature of the later Roman world. The volume treats three central themes: the first section looks at political and social developments across the period and argues that, in spite of the stress placed upon traditional social structures, many elements of Roman life remained only slightly changed. The second section focuses upon biographical texts…
Roman Perspectives
The Emperor and his Historians
In a famous passage of Decline and Fall Edward Gibbon described the period of Roman history from the death of the emperor Domitian in 96 ce to the accession of Commodus in 180 as the time in which the human race enjoyed the greatest happiness and prosperity it had ever known. It may not be appreciated that Gibbon's words are an allusion to another great historian of his own day, William Robertson, who in his History of the Reign of Charles V publ…
The Journey of Theophanes
Hermopolis
Very Young Children's Development in Moviemaking
In this study, I gave a group of six to eight very young Chinese Singaporean children (between 2 and 4 years of age) three identical digital video cameras, plus tripods, and tracked their development in moviemaking over a 2-year period. The children were allowed to explore the cameras freely, though the investigators offered advice and support as and when necessary. Before this study, I had made detailed longitudinal studies of British and Asian …
When intake exceeds input
In this paper we argue that the prosodic well-formedness conditions of a learner's native language phonology interfere with accurate perception of non-native segmental sequences. This interference induces a perceptual illusion effect due to which learners perceive an illusory vowel that, in fact, does not exist in the acoustic signal. In this way, a learner's percept of the L2 input, or L2 intake, actually includes more segmental material than is…
Stratigraphy, fossils, and age of sediments at the upper pit of the Lost Chicken gold mine
The “upper pit” at the Lost Chicken placer gold mine in east central Alaska contains fossils that provide information on the flora and insect fauna of interior Alaska just before the onset of global cooling at 2.5 myr. Fossils come from sediments interbedded with the Lost Chicken tephra (dated at 2.9 ± 0.4 myr—early Late Pliocene) and portray the floodplain and valley of a small creek within a region dominated by a coniferous forest richer in gen…
Ethnicity and Culture in Late Antiquity
Laying Down the Law
The Theodosian Code—a collection of Roman imperial legislation of the period from Constantine the Great to Theodosius II—is a fundamental source for understanding the legal, social, economic, cultural, and religious history of the later Roman Empire. More than 2,700 of the 3,500 original texts of the Code survive, illuminating issues as wide-ranging as prison conditions and rural patronage, intestate succession, and the pork supply for the city o…
The Goths in the Fourth Century
This volume brings together many important historical texts, the majority of them (speeches of Themistius, the Passion of St Saba, and evidence relating to the life and work of Ulfila) not previously available in English translation. ...a compact and exciting do-it-yourself kit for the student of Gothic history... outstanding. Bryn Mawr Classical Review https://global.oup.com/academic/product/9780853234265?cc=us
The Roman Empire of Ammianus
The Roman Empire of Ammianus
The Governing Classes
To one visitor to Rome in the 380s, a gentleman officer and historian from Syrian Antioch, the tastes and behaviour of its upper-class residents presented a memorably unfavourable impression. In a pair of vivid satirical portraits, inserted as digressions into his history, Ammianus Marcellinus depicted the senators as totally unworthy of their traditions and social eminence as, sunk in leisure and frivolity, they devoted themselves to the pursuit…
The Governing Classes
In 369 Symmachus visited the court at Trier, as a member of the delegation which conveyed to the Emperor Valentinian the congratulations of the senate upon the achievement of his quinquennalia, and presented the aurumoblaticium, the ‘voluntary tax’ offered by the senate to commemorate the occasion.1 From the period of Symmachus’ stay ‘in the tents’, which kept him in the north for about a year, survive fragments of three panegyrics celebrating th…
Title Pages
Western Aristocracies and Imperial Court
The central theme of this book is the relationship between the `public' and `private' lives of the men who were involved in the politics of the western Roman Empire in the later fourth and early fifth centuries. A postscript updates the book with regard to the last fifteen years of related scholarly research
Laying Down the Law
The Theodosian Code—a collection of Roman imperial legislation of the period from Constantine the Great to Theodosius II—is a fundamental source for understanding the legal, social, economic, cultural, and religious history of the later Roman Empire. More than 2,700 of the 3,500 original texts of the Code survive, illuminating issues as wide-ranging as prison conditions and rural patronage, intestate succession, and the pork supply for the city o…
Using Technology to Enhance Qualitative Research with Hidden Populations
Advances in technology provide researchers with increased opportunities to locate and conduct research with populations that have historically been inaccessible. This manuscript de scribes the development of private, voluntary web-based groups, and the process for using web cameras to conduct individual web-based interviews as a method of data collection in qualitative research. Also contained within are detailed steps for utilizing each of these…
Environmental flows in the Anthropocence
Designing diversified renewable energy systems to balance multisector performance
Renewable energy system development and improved operation can mitigate climate change. In many regions, hydropower is called to counterbalance the temporal variability of intermittent renewables like solar and wind. However, using hydropower to integrate these renewables can affect aquatic ecosystems and increase cross-sectoral water conflicts. We develop and apply an artificial intelligence-assisted multisector design framework in Ghana, which …
Children as playful artists
Children's agential behaviours in the archaeological record have often been overlooked. Despite efforts to centre children in the past through 'an archaeology of childhood', there remains a fundamental challenge of rigorously distinguishing children's behaviours from those of adults. In Upper Palaeolithic art, this has been addressed through the analysis of anatomical measurements of traces produced by hands and figures, demonstrating that childr…
Beyond the image
Symbolic cognition-the ability to produce and use symbols, including (but not limited to) linguistic symbols-has often been considered a hallmark of human achievement. Given its importance, symbolic cognition has been a major topic of interest in many academic disciplines including anthropology, archeology, and the cognitive sciences.1-6 Paleolithic rock art holds vast potential for understanding the early roots of symbolically mediated behavior.…
The Restoration of Organs
The Silbermann Organs at Dresden
The Letters of Samuel Pepys and his Family Circle
A Theoretical Basis for Social Accounting
Journal Article A Theoretical Basis for Social Accounting Get access John Matthews John Matthews Hong Kong University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 70, Issue 277, 1 March 1960, Pages 157–160, https://doi.org/10.2307/2227504 Published: 01 March 1960
Accounting Theory and Method
Abraham Klein and the Problem of Synthesis
The Cape Deceit Fauna—Early Pleistocene Mammalian Assemblage from the Alaskan Arctic
Pleistocene exposures located near Cape Deceit on the south shore of Kotzebue Sound (Alaska) contain a complex sequence of organic sediments which have yielded fossil vertebrates of taxonomic, evolutionary, and zoogeographic significance. Cape Deceit Local Fauna from the Cape Deceit Formation, lowermost of three major stratigraphic units recognized at the site, contains representatives of the genera Canis, Rangifer, Cervus, Ochotona, Lemmus, Micr…
Resource based learning
"Whig History"
EVERY political ideology, however inchoate, entails some kind of attitude towards past-if only of reverence or rejection. In a new nation an aesthetically and emotionally satisfying myth of origins is not only a necessary ingredient of an evolving national identity but a prerequisite for a sense of future direction and development. In antebellum America, history became something of a national preoccupation as generation which had inherited new na…
Dated wood from Alaska and the Yukon
Postulations on the existence of forest refugia in parts of Beringia during the last glacial have been, in large part, based on ambiguous evidence. Existing data on radiocarbon-dated and identified fossil wood and macrofossils from Alaska and northwest Canada are synthesized here and are augmented by results of palynological studies in an effort to show the persistence of some, and total extinction of other, tree and large shrub species. Possible…
Upper Pleistocene Stratigraphy, Paleoecology, and Archaeology of the Northern Yukon Interior, Eastern Beringia. I. Bonnet Plume Basin
New stratigraphic and chronometric data show that Bonnet Plume Basin, in northeastern Yukon Territory, was glaciated in late Wisconsinan time rather than during an earlier advance of Laurentide ice. This conclusion has important ramifications not only for the interpretation of all-time glacial limits farther north along the Richardson Mountains but also for non-glaciated basins in the Porcupine drainage to the northwest. The late Wisconsinan glac…
Benjamin Disraeli Letters
The 334 letters in this volume cover the period from Disraeli's establishment in the Tory camp under the patronage of Lord Lyndhurst to his election to parliament in 1837. The most important issue to which they speak is the course of Disraeli's political ambitions
The Mechanical Farm of 2030
After introducing influences which will affect mechanization of agriculture over the next 50 years, the review deals separately with three aspects of equipment on farms. These are machinery for arable farming, equipment used in livestock husbandry, and the hardware and software likely to assist farm management. The bulk of crop production is predicted to be carried out by a system of field gantries which will replace today's tractor and implement…
Arctic Arthropods
The Governing Classes
To one visitor to Rome in the 380s, a gentleman officer and historian from Syrian Antioch, the tastes and behaviour of its upper-class residents presented a memorably unfavourable impression. In a pair of vivid satirical portraits, inserted as digressions into his history, Ammianus Marcellinus depicted the senators as totally unworthy of their traditions and social eminence as, sunk in leisure and frivolity, they devoted themselves to the pursuit…
The Governing Classes
In 369 Symmachus visited the court at Trier, as a member of the delegation which conveyed to the Emperor Valentinian the congratulations of the senate upon the achievement of his quinquennalia, and presented the aurumoblaticium, the ‘voluntary tax’ offered by the senate to commemorate the occasion.1 From the period of Symmachus’ stay ‘in the tents’, which kept him in the north for about a year, survive fragments of three panegyrics celebrating th…
Title Pages
East and West
In January 420 Fl. Constantius had entered office as consul for the third time. His second consulship, in 417, had been distinguished by his marriage to Galla Placidia; and now, close upon the completion of his third, came his elevation, on 8 February 421, to the rank of Augustus. At the same moment, his wife received the title Augusta, and their little son, Valentinian, became at under two years of age, ‘nobilissimus’. For the moment, the politi…
Alaric, Rome, Ravenna
Among the immediate consequences of the fall of Stilicho, the most violent was the massacre by the soldiers in north Italy of the wives and families of the barbarian federates quartered in the region (of whom besides, 30,000 were said to have found refuge with the camp of Alaric); perhaps the most interesting sidelight, early in the year 409, was the arrival of a letter from Augustine requesting the continued enforcement by the government of legi…
‘Ordo Renascendi’
In returning to his native province at a critical moment of its history, Rutilius Namatianus was about to offer his contribution to the preservation of Roman life in a region battered by invasion, where the political experience of the upper classes had suffered the profound effects of disruption and uncertainty. For Italy also, which had suffered much less than Gaul, his journey offers an approach to the same central question of the continuity of…
The Ascendancy of Ausonius
The prosecutions of senators, for which the later years of Valcntinian’s government at Rome won their reputation as years of terror, and the emperor’s agents their name for congenital brutality, arose from trivial and accidental origins.1 A complaint laid by a certain Chilo before the prefect of Rome, Q. Clodius Hermogenianus Olybrius (368−70), claimed that he and his wife, Maxima, had been attacked by a conspiracy involving sorcery. The charges …
‘Ordo Renascendi’
From 418 a Roman government now permanently situated at Arles was confronted by a Visigothic kingdom in Aquitania, bound to it by the terms of its settlement there to provide military assistance to the Romans, but at the same time a constant source of uncertainty. For a time, the alliance was preserved by common apprehension of the more unruly barbarian peoples in the lands over the Pyrenees, who were engaged in carving out their territories, dis…
The Usurpation of Maximus
News of the invasion of Gaul by Maximus will have reached Gratian in north Italy in the early summer of 383. In May the court had moved from Milan to Patavium, on its way to Raetia for a campaign against the Alamanni; by 16 June it was at Verona. Dropping the campaign, the emperor must very soon have left for Gaul, to face instead the threat from Maximus. For five days, the armies faced each other, somewhere near Paris; but they never joined batt…
Note On Sources
Subject Ancient Roman History Ancient History (Non-Classical, to 500 CE) Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Abbreviations
History (31 works) · Political science (19 works) · Ancient history (18 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (16 works) · Geography (14 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Art (13 works) · Archaeology (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works)