Broken Vessels Research Articles

“We are like broken vessels; we get thrown out”: the triple violence of injury among Jamaican migrant farm workers in Canada

“We are like broken vessels; we get thrown out”: the triple violence of injury among Jamaican migrant farm workers in Canada

“Words Are Things”: Translation, Materiality, and Mario Ortiz's Cuadernos de lengua y literatura

AbstractThis essay examines connections between the materiality of language and the impulse to translate through the hybrid series Cuadernos de lengua y literatura (2000– ; Language and Literature Notebooks) by the Argentine writer Mario Ortiz. These books confront historical trauma through a study of materials and processes that generate language in their author's domestic environment. I read Ortiz to argue that a task of translation consists of tracing how words function through ways in which their original meaning breaks down. Their function is revealed through the tasks the translator carries out to create the new linguistic object of the translated text. This essay revisits a key image from Walter Benjamin's “The Task of the Translator,” the broken vessel, through broken vessels in Ortiz's work, as well as recent materially focused translation scholarship. I conclude that the material specificity of language intervenes in the lives of readers, writers, and translators to respond to grief.

PAINTED AND DYED POTTERY OF THE LATE BRONZE AGE FROM THE SETTLEMENT OF HLYBOKE OZERO 2 ON THE SIVERSKYI DONETS RIVER

The paper is aimed at the publication of pottery with painted decoration and traces of paint manipulation discovered at the settlement of Hlyboke Ozero 2 in the middle reaches of the Siverskyi Donets. The finds are associated with stratigraphic layers II and III, marking the transition from the Late Zrubna culture to the so-called Post-Zrubna culture (12th—11th centuries BC).
 The settlement of Hlyboke Ozero 2 is located in the middle reaches of the Siverskyi Donets River and was explored by excavations in 1991 (Y. P. Gershkovych, Y. B. Polidovych, V. V. Tsymidanov, O. R. Dubovska, S. M. Degermendzhy). The area of the site is at least 3000 sq.m., of which 1685.5 m2 have been excavated.
 The scheme of cultural and stratigraphic division of the site includes four «layers» (I—IV), with layers II and III divided into two «horizons» each. Based on radiocarbon dates and traditional methods, the period of the settlement’s existence is determined to be the late 13th to 11th centuries BC. Based on analogies with the materials of the North-Western Black Sea coast, layers I and II are synchronized with the developed and late Sabatynivka culture; the following layers are attributed to the «post-Zrubna period».
 Two variants of paint application on pottery were identified.
 1) Painting before firing. Red paint (probably, ochre) was used to cover large areas of the outer surface of the vessels (or possibly the entire vessel). Often this technique is combined with a «pattern» made with black paint: the bottom parts of the vessels were covered rhythmically with vertical stripes, probably around the entire perimeter of the body.
 2) Application of paint to the surface after firing. This technique is likely to be associated with actions carried out, in particular, with already broken vessels. It is possible that pottery sherds served as available tools for the processing of raw materials for paint. Visually, the fragments with paint do not differ from the bulk of the ceramics at the settlement.
 The so-called ochre engobe characterises the materials of the Stepanivka type of the Berezhynivka-Maivka Zrubna culture, while red or polychrome engobe is mentioned as a method of painting vessels from some Late Bronze Age burials of the Dnipro—Donets and Don—Donets interfluve. It is likely that the production of painted vessels on the Hlyboke Ozero 2 was caried out by the bearers of the local or kindred cultural tradition.
 Looking for a probable external source for this decorative style, let’s consider the final stage of the Bronze Age in Eastern Europe as a period of interaction of cultural components of different origins and, probably, population movements on a wide Eurasian scale. One of the main directions of cultural influences on the Siverskyi Donets’ region is the «Eastern» one, associated with the cultures of the Volga region, the Urals and Northern Kazakhstan. It is this direction that was the main source of changes in the material culture of Hlyboke Ozero 2, which is reflected in pottery and bronze metal-working. In this context, we propose to consider the hypothesis of the appearance of painted decoration on Late / Post-Zrubna pottery of the western periphery of the culture under the impact of the traditions of the agricultural entities of Central Asia. This could have been carried out through the agency of the Post-Andronovo population.

Indirective

Indirective Rob Colgate (bio) After Frost, 1946 My wholeness is contingent on confusion.In this way I am like water. The humors of my bodymust occupy their broken vessel. Beyond a broken vessel is blood and its contusion. Next to my contusionis a series of thin white scars against the vast darknessof my forearm, for my arm is contingent on a past that cannot be saved. I drink again as I am told. I was toldby the doctor not to drink for the serum in my blood.But I have channeled that medicine into my phlegm. So I drink for play. I play with a boy in a brookof alcohol, let it run through me like a house.How the boy moves into me, belilacs me like a cellar. Yet cells of my brain keep blinking out.The force of cough sends fluid of my spinedribbling down my lips. I am sick. This is evident. An evincible imbalance of biles.Imbalance suggesting dizziness.Dizziness suggesting confusion. The brook boy is beyond confused, moves beyondour union. A cold sensation with no name rages.I name it delusion. This compels me to break another vessel. [End Page 146] This propels a shard of glass. This compels a bruise.This impels a railroad spike directly through my skull.I do not bleed but I do gush, the bile rushing by. I think confusion often falls for me between the selfand the other, the order and the disorder.Can I talk to you about it? Now that the boy is gone. I direct the good-self. Every standard cell as a watering place.The neural spring of sodium, calcium surging in lofty pumps.Biological belonging even amidst mass apoptosis. And then even pathogens exist beyond confusion.Just a bad-other, foreign groaner, your sad motherspooning you thin yogurt. The germ is not a part of you except for when it is. Good-other, microbiota, gut florablooming. In fact you are mostly foreigners.Look, how your body fluoresces, convinces itself of its own homeostasis, its own self-conscious cohesion,the thin lining of your stomach sieving the waters.But back to the rod through my head. What breaks me like a chalice is the bad-self.My sister recalls when that thing was trying to kill youas if madness is a virus. But confusion is a part of me, the contingency for my wholeness. Perhaps likean autoimmune disorder. Self mistaking self for enemyand attacking. Psoriasis. Eczema. The itchy schizy feeling. But no, too direct. Maybe madness is a cancer.Self mistaking bad-self for good-self, cheering itself on,keep going, keep growing, turn this former town [End Page 147] into a playhouse of unnecessary cells. Tumorigenic psychosis,you are a part of me, a swath of grey against my pink insides,pouring out with humor from the gauges of my trepanated head. And look, how a boy cannot learn to loveevery part of himself, impartial to his wholeness,the confused contusions, deluded detrusions. Now sleep. The self-multiplication continuesat its maddening pace, water forever streaming outof a cup that will not empty, from which no one will drink. [End Page 148] Rob Colgate Rob Colgate is a Filipino-American poet from Evanston, Illinois. He holds a degree in psychology from Yale University and an mfa in poetry from the New Writers Project at the University of Texas at Austin. A Pushcart Prize nominee, his work appears or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, Washington Square Review, Muzzle, the Margins, and Salt Hill, among others. He is the winner of the 2022 Andrew Julius Gutow Poetry Prize, selected by Oliver Baez Bendorf and sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. Currently, he is a Fulbright scholar conducting research and writing poetry at Toronto Metropolitan University's School of Disability Studies. Copyright © 2022 University of Nebraska Press

Relationship of operation manner and postoperative recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) owns the high morbidity and mortality rates. Surgical resection is still the major pathway for the longer survival of HCC patients. Postoperative recurrence and metastasis have become the key impairment of prognosis of HCC patients. The relationship between tumor recurrence and surgical manner underwent by HCC patients is complicated and multiple factors are included. When the liver tumor was pressured during operation, tumor cells could be squeezed into blood flow via the broken vessels, which resulted in tumor metastasis. Besides, ischemia-reperfusion injury induced by Pringle maneuver during the liver blood blockade resulted in the immune destruction of liver and induced tumor recurrence.The destruction of physical barriers consisted of interstitial cells and normal liver cells was also a key factor for tumor recurrence. This paper summarizes the possible relationship between postoperative recurrence and surgical manner in HCC patients to provide the preventive suggestions for the postoperative recurrence of HCC patients.

NEW SARMATIAN BARROWS IN THE MIDDLE KHOPER BASIN

In 2018—2019, the Yelan archaeological expedition of the Voronezh State University excavated the barrows near Ivanovka village on the Yelan River in the Novokhopyorsky District, Voronezh Region. Sarmatian barrows had not been excavated in this area before. The barrows with the height of 0.5—5 m are situated on the slope of the headland on the right bank of the Yelan and the left bank of its tributary, the Tatarka River. Most of the barrow group had never been plowed and remained in the natural steppe landscape representing a fragment of fescue-feather grass steppe. The expedition excavated two Sarmatian barrows up to 0.5 m high and up to 20 m in diameter, being a part of the «long-running» barrow group Ivanovka 7 (about 40 mounds). The north-western sector of the Barrow 25 contained the only burial found under the mound top with the size of 2 Ч 2.1 m and the depth of 0.9—1 m from the native soil level. The buried lied diagonally with the head directed to the north-west. The skull had features of artificial deformation. In the southern corner there were some broken vessels — a large gray-clay dish with small ruminant bones, a large one-handle jar with the brown surface and a small gray-clay jar with a hollow handle. On the bottom there was an iron adze with wooden remains inside the plug. Between the shin-bone and wall there was an iron knife and 16 small iron three-bladed arrow heads. At the end of the right hand there was a piece of bone piercer. The barrow is dated to the Late Sarmatian period (middle of the 2nd century AD). Though this barrow group is now situated in the forest steppe the study of buried soil showed its clearly steppe nature. Therefore the studied burials do not differ from the bulk of late Sarmatian burials found in steppes of the Volga and Don interfluve area.

Un análisis empírico de la cerámica esmaltada del sitio de Mansurah.

Mansurah fue la primera ciudad árabe establecida en el subcontinente indio entre 712–1025 dC por el gobernador omeya Amr Thaqafi Construido en el Shahdadpur del distrito de Sanghar, Sindh. Durante este período, los gobernantes árabes extendieron el comercio nacional e internacional desde Sindh. La espectroscopia fue utilizada para examinar el material de cultivo excavado y para encontrar el origen de la cerámica esmaltada. Las evidencias empíricas extraídas del material cultural resaltan la composición de la pasta de color utilizada en estos vasos rotos y se preparan utilizando la arena de dos tipos diferentes de rocas como la volcánica y la metamórfica. Este estudio resalta las relaciones árabe-sindh y otros aspectos culturales de esta fase específica de la historia de Sindh, Pakistán.

The eneolithique settlement and burial site Vasilyevskiy Kordon 27: evidence of hunting and fishing (excavations 2016-2018, preliminary publication)

The settlement and grave fieldVasilyevskiy Kordon 27was discovered by A.A.Klukoit in 2008 and it was investigated from 2016 to 2018. In the excavation within the area of 195 sq. m. six ancient buildings and four burials were identified. A large number of Eneolithique ceramics of theSrednestogovskayaandVolosovskayaculture as well as Ksizovski type vessels were discovered.A huge number of finds testify to the hunting and fishing on the monument.The accompanying flint inventory is represented by tools related to both economic activity and hunting weapons, with the latter predominating. In the outbuildings, burials and cultural layer 68 stone arrowheads and darts were found. 2245 residues of animal origin were also revealed.There are 1386 mammalian bones, 595 birds, 61 reptile bones and 138 fragments of mollusk shells among them. It is interesting to note that there were ceramic fishing weights carved from the broken vessels. On the monument animal husbandry was noted for the Upper Don for the first time, while poultry farming was absent. Bones of wild species of mammals, birds, fish and turtles confirm the importance of hunting and fishing as the main (but not the only) source of food in the settlement. At the same time, only four hunting tools were made of bone: two edges and two fragments of harpoons. The archaeological collection of the settlement Vasilyevskiy Kordon 27 refers mainly to the late Eneolithic period and datesthe 32 quarter of the IV Millennium BC.

Allegories of life, death and immortality in the book of Ecclesiastes 12:5b–7

Analyzing the famous passage Eccl. 12:5b–7, the author of the article comes to the conclusion that the expression "the almond tree blossomed" (12:5bα) contains the allegory of man’s birth and his young years; the phrase "the locust/locust tree became loaded" (12:5bβ) can be interpreted as an indication of the mature, productive/fruitful years of human life activity; the allegory of the caper, falling to winter ("and the caper bush fell"; 12:5bγ), correlates with the metaphorical description of old age and the approach of death in Eccl. 12:1b–2. So, one can assume that the passage Eccl. 12:5bα–γ includes the allegories of man's earthly birth, making up of his personality, maturity and old age in the form of natural phenomena that take place in Judea throughout the year — approximately from the second half of January to December. The allegory of the breaking "silver cord" (Eccl. 12:6aα), symbolizing the earthly demise, can be understood as a break in the connection between the spirit and the flesh of man (cf.: Eccl. 12:7). In 12:6аβ–b, Ecclesiastes adduces the allegories of death, expressed through the broken vessels ("golden bowl", "jar", a certain "vessel"), symbolizing the human body. The context also suggests that an allusion to the human spirit implicitly present in these allegories as well, which is symbolized by olive oil (in the "golden bowl") and water (in the "jar" and in the "vessel"), – not directly called, but contextually implied – returning to their eternal Fountain (cf.: Jer. 2:13, 17:13, also: Ps. 36:10) when their temporary receptacles are broken. The "spring" and the "well" (Eccl. 12:6b) are veritable symbols of life, and in the light of Eccl. 12:7b – perhaps symbols of eternal life in the Book of Ecclesiastes. As for the allegory of "the golden bowl", it clearly goes back to Zech. 4:2–3. In the light of the allegorical picture attested in Zech., chap. 4, and the text of Eccl. 12:7b, the allegory of Eccl. 12:6aβ – "the golden bowl will crack" – can presuppose implicitly not only the death of the body/"the golden bowl", but also that its contents – "oil", symbolizing the spirit abided in the body – will merge with the "oil" of the Divine Luminary, scil., with the Spirit of God.

Method on continuous ice-breaking capability assessment of icebreaker

The opening of the Ice Silk Road is a great significant for the realization of the close connection with the European, and it is a promotion for China’s economic development. The icebreaker will play an important role in the Arctic strategy. More accurate ice load calculation and prediction of ice breaking capacity methods will provide important technical support for the design and construction of icebreaker. This paper aims to solve the above problems and carry out the following research work. The ice load in continuous icebreaking type is calculated in 3D numerical method. Then, the motion differential equation in time history is established to calculate the motion response. In addition, the structure strength under ice breaking condition is evaluated based on FEM. At last, the evaluation method of continuous ice breaking capacity is proposed in this paper. Compared with the results of literature, the accuracy of the ice load calculated by this method meets the requirements and could further guide the design and development of ice breaking vessels.

Late Caddo Titus Phase Ceramics from the McKay Site (41TT730), Titus County, Texas

The McKay site (41TT730) is a multi-component site on an upland landform about 100 m east of Hart Creek, a southward-flowing tributary of Big Cypress Creek. During house construction in 1990, archaeological deposits covering about 5 acres of the landform were exposed, and these deposits include occupations that date from as early as the Paleoindian and Archaic periods to as late as Early to Late Caddo period times (ca. A.D. 900-1680). The principal ancestral Caddo component at the McKay site belongs to the Late Caddo period Titus phase, dating generally from ca. A.D. 1430-1680. This component included both habitation deposits as well as burial features in the area of house pad construction; the habitation area is at least 50 m northwest of the cemetery. At least 17 burials were excavated there by local workers after the cemetery had been exposed by land leveling, and these burials included ceramic vessels as funerary offerings, along with Talco arrow points, two ground stone celts, and a ceramic elbow pipe. The workers removed an unknown number of exposed and complete vessels, although portions of a few of these vessels were documented. Broken vessels were scattered and mixed into the fill of the house pad.

Broken Vessel Junction by Curve Fitting

Broken Vessel Junction by Curve Fitting

The effect of different training exercises on the performance outcome on the da Vinci Skills Simulator.

Increasing usage of robotic surgery presents surgeons with the question of how to acquire the special skills required. This study aimed to analyze the effect of different exercises on their performance outcomes. This prospective study was conducted on the da Vinci Skills Simulator from December 2014 till August 2015. Sixty robotic novices were included and randomized to three groups of 20 participants each. Each group performed three different exercises with comparable difficulty levels. The exercises were performed three times in a row within two training sessions, with an interval of 1week in between. On the final training day, two new exercises were added and a questionnaire was completed. Technical metrics of performance (overall score, time to complete, economy of motion, instrument collisions, excessive instrument force, instruments out of view, master work space range, drops, missed targets, misapplied energy time, blood loss and broken vessels) were recorded by the simulator software for further analysis. Training with different exercises led to comparable results in performance metrics for the final exercises among the three groups. A significant skills gain was recorded between the first and last exercises, with improved performance in overall score, time to complete and economy of motion for all exercises in all three groups. As training with different exercises led to comparable results in robotic training, the type of exercise seems to play a minor role in the outcome. For a robotic training curriculum, it might be important to choose exercises with comparable difficulty levels. In addition, it seems to be advantageous to limit the duration of the training to maintain the concentration throughout the entire session.

Influence of bow design on ice breaking resistance

One of the main contributions to the resistance in level ice is the breaking force which is mainly influenced by the bow shape, beside ice properties and the ship’s speed. Understanding the influence of the bow shape on the ice breaking resistance is essential for the assessment of the hull form in an early design stage. However, at a first glance the bow shapes of modern ice breaking vessels seem to be quite similar. Thus, a need exists to evaluate the contribution of the ice breaking force to the resistance in ice methodically for different bow shapes. Since model tests are still the most reliable resistance prediction method, they form the basis for the analysis of the ice breaking process at the bow. Specifically, breaking patterns and geometric bow parameters are investigated. The findings are compared with the selected semi-empirical method of Lindqvist. On this basis the Lindqvist approach is evaluated with further model test results and theoretical considerations. Finally, refinements of the Lindqvist formula are suggested where appropriate based on the analysis.

Technical Studies on the Bronze Age Metal Artefacts from the Graveyard of Deh Dumen, South-Western Iran (Third Millennium BC)

During the excavations of the graveyard at the site of Deh Dumen in south-western Iran, 15 graves from the Early/Middle Bronze Age were uncovered that contained a variety of metallic artefacts. This paper reports on the analysis of nine metal artefacts, including eight broken vessels and a decorative strip that covered the handle of a dagger. The ICP–MS results showed that the bodies of the vessels are made of tin bronze alloy with variable amounts of tin, while the internal piece of the base of one vessel is made from an arsenical copper alloy. Further, the metallic strip is a thin sheet manufactured with partially pure silver. Microanalytical and microstructural information yielded by SEM–EDS revealed elongated Cu–S inclusions and lead globules as various phases formed in bronze solid solution. This study presents some information about the transition from arsenical copper to bronze metallurgy in the third millennium bc in south-western Iran.

The Utility of an Apostle: On Philemon 11

ABSTRACTA recent round of scholarship has focused on Paul's language of utility in Philemon, his characterisation of the enslaved Onesimus as ἄχρηστος or εὔχρηστος. In this context, it is helpful to consider idiomatic connotations of both terms. Commonly associated with servility, the term ἄχρηστος idiomatically connotes expendability or disposability. The term εὔχρηστος has a particular place in Stoic thought, as the wise person understands the usefulness of all things. Remaining within the lexicon of utility, Paul's pairing of ἄχρηστος and εὔχρηστος in v. 11 thus shifts between two registers of connotation. Philemon is invited to see the enslaved member of his household whom he had written off as a broken vessel as instead useful, invited to construe unhappy circumstances of separation from that slave as a source of personal benefit. Onesimus, in turn, is seen to have his own sense of utility. Finally, it is noted that in improving his own precarious situation, the enslaved Onesimus seems to have found the apostle Paul to be most useful.

Thickness Measure and Characteristic Length for Effective Young's Modulus of Model Ice Plate in the Ice Basin

Abstract The model ice is created at KRISO (Korea Research Institute for Ships and Ocean Engineering) ice basin where model ship is tested to obtain the necessary data in order to design the ice breaking vessels and ocean structures operating in the northern pole sea area. Through the model ship test, ice breaking, clearing, ice-ship and ice-propeller interaction behavior can be obtained. Since mechanical properties of ice plate are required for the model test, some tests are performed to obtain the properties in this paper. First, ultrasonic devide is used to measure the thickness of the model ice plate and the results show the possibility of using ultrasonic method, yet more sophisticated device or special sensors are required to measure the ice thickness completely. And the defection of ice plate is measured using LVDT to compute the characteristic length of ice plate on the fluid, which is used to get the effective Young's modulus of model ice. Keywords :ice basin(tank), model ice effective elastic modulus, plate characteristic length. LVDT(Linear Variable Differential Transformer), ultrasonic

A novel method for identifying a graph-based representation of 3-D microvascular networks from fluorescence microscopy image stacks.

A novel approach to determine the global topological structure of a microvasculature network from noisy and low-resolution fluorescence microscopy data that does not require the detailed segmentation of the vessel structure is proposed here. The method is most appropriate for problems where the tortuosity of the network is relatively low and proceeds by directly computing a piecewise linear approximation to the vasculature skeleton through the construction of a graph in three dimensions whose edges represent the skeletal approximation and vertices are located at Critical Points (CPs) on the microvasculature. The CPs are defined as vessel junctions or locations of relatively large curvature along the centerline of a vessel. Our method consists of two phases. First, we provide a CP detection technique that, for junctions in particular, does not require any a priori geometric information such as direction or degree. Second, connectivity between detected nodes is determined via the solution of a Binary Integer Program (BIP) whose variables determine whether a potential edge between nodes is or is not included in the final graph. The utility function in this problem reflects both intensity-based and structural information along the path connecting the two nodes. Qualitative and quantitative results confirm the usefulness and accuracy of this method. This approach provides a mean of correctly capturing the connectivity patterns in vessels that are missed by more traditional segmentation and binarization schemes because of imperfections in the images which manifest as dim or broken vessels.

Preparation of Fusion-Cast Chromium-Spinelid Refractories Using Vessel Scrap

Results are provided for preparation of fusion-cast chromium-spinelid refractories using lumps of baddeleyite-corundum refractory waste after service in glass melting furnaces. It is shown that fusion-cast chromium-spinelid refractories, containing 31.2 and 50.4% Cr2O3 and prepared from a charge using broken vessel refractory, has improved corrosion resistance in molten mineral wool compared with fusion-cast baddeleyite-corundum and chromium-aluminum-zirconium refractories of commercial grades ER 1711, KhATs-30, and KhTs-45.

Late Bronze Age Pottery Production: Evidence from a 12th–11th century calbcSettlement at Tinney's Lane, Sherborne, Dorset

Excavations at Tinney's Lane, Sherborne in 2002 uncovered extensive evidence for Late Bronze Age settlement and pottery production, dating from a short time period probably within the 12th or 11th century calbc. Well-preserved deposits of burnt stone, broken vessels, and burnt sherds, together with resulting debris redeposited in associated pits, were accompanied by a series of post-hole structures interpreted as round-houses and four-post settings. Environmental evidence in the form of charcoal, charred plant remains, and molluscs has provided important information concerning sources of fuel and water for pottery production as well as allowing a reconstruction of the local vegetation. Finds of fired clay, metal, stone, shale, flint, and bone include items from distant sources, informing topics such as site status and exchange, and include many categories of tools and equipment that would have been used within the pottery-making processes. Analysis of the spatial distribution of these finds amongst the structures and surviving layers of burning has allowed the definition of a series of industrial activity areas, each comprising one or more round-houses, a four-post structure, bonfire bases or pits used for firing, and other pits with specific related functions. Altogether the site has provided some of the best evidence for pottery production within prehistoric Britain.