The Cost of a Commute: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Osteoarthritis in New Kingdom Egypt

Austin, Anne

doi:10.1002/oa.2575

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“…Weiss and Jurmain (2007) also suggested that a missing element in any study of biomechanical changes, especially those associated with OA, is subadult risk, with an interest in establishing juvenile age of onset, injury, and activity intensity. Thus, most recent research on OA, entheseal changes, and CSG was careful to use population-oriented approaches, factor in age at death and sex, and note if subadults were affected (Austin, 2017;Becker, 2017;Becker and Goldstein, 2017;Cheverko and Bartelink, 2017;Domett et al, 2017;Palmer et al, 2016;Schrader and Buzon, 2017).…”

Section: Prior Uses Of Oa Entheses and Csgmentioning

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Osteoarthritis, entheses, and long bone cross-sectional geometry in the Andes: Usage, history, and future directions

Becker

2020

International Journal of Paleopathology

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Akin to approaches encouraged by Verano (1997) in the Andes, and Ortner (2011, 2012) for general paleopathological studies, this article focuses on accurate descriptions and definitions of osteoarthritis, entheses, and long bone cross-sectional geometry. By evaluating these conditions as part of biological responses to abnormal skeletal changes and biomechanical stress, this research discusses each condition's pathogenesis. Further, this article emphasizes a "small data" approach to evaluating these conditions in ancient culturally and biologically related human populations, where the study samples must have good skeletal preservation, where estimates of age and sex need to be included as major factors, and where abnormalities need to be described and evaluated. This article also discusses global clinical and osteological research on ways scholars are currently trying to establish industry-wide methods to evaluate osteoarthritis, entheses, and long bone cross-sectional geometry. Recent studies have focused on rigorous evaluation of methodological techniques, recording protocols, and interand intra-observer error problems. Additionally, scholars have focused on physical intensity of movement using biomechanics, evaluated burials of known occupation, and used complex statistical methods to help interpret skeletal changes associated with these conditions. This article also narrows to focus on these conditions within thematic "small data" areas throughout the Andes. This research concludes with describing future directions to understand skeletal changes, such as more multidisciplinary studies between osteologists and pathologists, collaborations with living people to collect CT, x-rays, or computer-aided motion capture, and a stronger focus on how these conditions correlate with intense biomechanical changes in younger individuals. Andean lifeways in terms of power, labor, economic activities, and identity. Early research correlated OA, entheses, and CSG as indicators of past activities, or used them to reconstruct movements associated with things like canoe paddling or spear throwing (e.g., Hawkey and Merbs, 1995; Kennedy, 1989; Merbs, 1983). Jurmain et al. (1999; 2012) have critiqued these approaches as "activity-only myopia," or a "Holy Grail" quest, identifying problems and concerns in description and interpretation with these methods. This has led to a reassessment of OA, entheses, and CSG, and an interrogation of if activity reconstruction in archaeological samples is even possible. Recent research on OA, entheses, and CSG has reevaluated methodological techniques, statistical assessments, recording protocols, inter-and intra-observer error problems, movement and biomechanics, and pathological changes on burials of known occupation, with no one solution (

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Section: Prior Uses Of Oa Entheses and Csgmentioning

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Osteoarthritis, entheses, and long bone cross-sectional geometry in the Andes: Usage, history, and future directions

Becker

2020

International Journal of Paleopathology

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“…Creating and carrying a shaft or pole representing the rulers of El Palmar for a long time and distance can undoubtedly create physiological stress in the joints. The DJD in the knees and ankles could be related to normal weight-bearing and aging (Zampetti et al 2016), as well as activities that placed significantly more force on the knee by requiring frequent bending from ascending and descending stairs, crossing varied terrain, and hiking (Austin 2017; Jensen 2008; Komistek et al 2005). If he was an ambassador or banner-bearer and therefore involved in a tributary role as part of the standard-bearers, it is likely that he frequently went up and down stairs and often walked shorter and longer distances over a wide range of terrains.…”

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The Life Course of a Standard-Bearer: A Nonroyal Elite Burial at the Maya Archaeological Site of El Palmar, Mexico

Cerezo-Román

Tsukamoto²

2021

Latin Am. antiq.

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Inspired by life course and osteobiography approaches, this article explores the life and death of an individual associated with the lakam title (“banner” in Colonial Yukatek Maya; thus, a “standard-bearer”), a nonroyal elite of Late Classic period Maya society (AD 600–850). Although these elites are depicted on polychrome vessels and carved monuments, little is known about their life experiences and mortuary practices. The present analysis centers on an individual found at Structure GZ1, a temple with a hieroglyphic stairway, at the Maya archaeological site of El Palmar, Mexico. Using osteological, archaeological, and epigraphic data as different lines of evidence, we examine the relationship of the individual to his affiliated group. At the time of interment, there were a wide array of social, cultural, and political events both shaping and reshaping the body and identities of the individual during a period of political turbulence.

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“…The commute of people from home to work is a phenomenon that has shaped society and cities throughout the ages, from ancient Egypt to modern New York City (Bram and McKay 2005;Austin 2017). These daily recurrent movements form a complex network that is highly correlated with the socioeconomic factors of cities (Simini et al 2012;Spadon et al 2019).…”

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Learning Geo-Contextual Embeddings for Commuting Flow Prediction

Liu¹,

Miranda

Xiong³

et al. 2020

AAAI

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Predicting commuting flows based on infrastructure and land-use information is critical for urban planning and public policy development. However, it is a challenging task given the complex patterns of commuting flows. Conventional models, such as gravity model, are mainly derived from physics principles and limited by their predictive power in real-world scenarios where many factors need to be considered. Meanwhile, most existing machine learning-based methods ignore the spatial correlations and fail to model the influence of nearby regions. To address these issues, we propose Geo-contextual Multitask Embedding Learner (GMEL), a model that captures the spatial correlations from geographic contextual information for commuting flow prediction. Specifically, we first construct a geo-adjacency network containing the geographic contextual information. Then, an attention mechanism is proposed based on the framework of graph attention network (GAT) to capture the spatial correlations and encode geographic contextual information to embedding space. Two separate GATs are used to model supply and demand characteristics. To enhance the effectiveness of the embedding representation, a multitask learning framework is used to introduce stronger restrictions, forcing the embeddings to encapsulate effective representation for flow prediction. Finally, a gradient boosting machine is trained based on the learned embeddings to predict commuting flows. We evaluate our model using real-world dataset from New York City and the experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method against the state of the art.

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The Cost of a Commute: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Osteoarthritis in New Kingdom Egypt

Cited by 20 publications

References 36 publications

Osteoarthritis, entheses, and long bone cross-sectional geometry in the Andes: Usage, history, and future directions

Osteoarthritis, entheses, and long bone cross-sectional geometry in the Andes: Usage, history, and future directions

The Life Course of a Standard-Bearer: A Nonroyal Elite Burial at the Maya Archaeological Site of El Palmar, Mexico

Learning Geo-Contextual Embeddings for Commuting Flow Prediction

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