This volume focuses specifically on the applications, possibilities, and limitations of handheld X-ray fluorescence devices in art conservation and archaeology.

HEROM is a peer-reviewed online journal presenting innovative contributions to the study of material culture produced, exchanged, and consumed within the spheres of the Hellenistic kingdoms and the Roman world from the late fourth century BC to the seventh century AD. The journal publishes papers in the full range of the scholarly field and in all relevant academic disciplines within the arts, humanities, social sciences, and environmental sciences. HEROM creates a bridge between material culture specialists and the wider scientific community, with an interest in how humans interacted with and regarded artefacts. For a full table of contents, visit www.herom.be.

Provides an account of early explorations, early settlement, Indian occupancy, Indian history and traditions, territorial and state organization, a review of the political history, and a concise history of the growth and development of the state : also a compendium of biography of North Dakota, containing biographical sketches of hundreds of prominent old settlers and representative citizens of the state, with a review of their life work, their identity with the growth and development of the state, reminiscences of personal history and pioneer life and other interesting and valuable matter which should be preserved in history.--Amazon.com.

Su muerte fue el principio de su vida. Este relato tiene las claves que revelan la veracidad de un mensaje enviado desde los orígenes de la civilización. La humanidad ha heredado unas creencias con las cuales se han formado unos paradigmas que son como altísimos muros, aparentemente invencibles. Está en usted conocer el mensaje a través de este relato inspirado, en el que se unen las vidas humanas con lo trascendental, lo cual es y será siempre inalterable. El mensaje le revelará quién es usted en realidad.

Ellipsis is the non-expression of one or more sentence elements whose meaning can be reconstructed either from the context or from a person's knowledge of the world. In speech and writing, ellipsis is pervasive, contributing in various ways to the economy, speed, and style of communication. Resolving ellipsis is a particularly challenging issue in natural language processing, since not only must meaning be gleaned from missing elements but the fact that something meaningful is missing must be detected in the first place. Marjorie McShane presents a comprehensive theory of ellipsis that supports the formal, cross-linguistic description of elliptical phenomena taking into account the various factors that affect the use of ellipsis. A methodology is suggested for creating a parameter space describing and treating ellipsis in any language. Such "ellipsis profiles" of languages will serve a wide range of practical applications, including but not limited to natural language processing. In contrast to earlier work, this theory focuses not only on what can, in principle, be elided but in what circumstances a given category actually would or would not be elided--that is, what renders ellipsis mandatory or infelicitous. A theory of ellipsis has been elusive because to produce an adequate account of this ubiquitous phenomenon one needs to address and integrate data from a wide variety of linguistic research areas. Using data primarily from Russian, English, and Polish, McShane looks at the big picture of ellipsis, integrating the syntactic, semantic, morphological, and pragmatic heuristics and bridges work on ellipsis with the larger study of reference. This is groundbreaking linguistic scholarship that bridges the theoretical and the applied, and will interest scholars in the fields of computational, descriptive, and theoretical linguistics.