BACKGROUND When promoting active travel to school, it is important to consider school and district policies as well as attitudes of school and district administrators. METHODS School principals and district officials in South Carolina participated in the School Travel Survey. Frequency distributions and Chi-squared tests were used to analyze the data. RESULTS Three hundred fourteen persons ...

The oldest known written reference to fever exists in Akkadian cuneiform inscriptions from the 6th century BC, most likely derived from an ancient Sumerian pictogram of a flaming brazier used to symbolize both fever and the local warmth of inflammation. Theoretical constructs of the pathogenesis of fever did not emerge until several centuries later, when hippocratic physicians proposed that bod...

Literacy cannot be separated from peoples' sociocultural contexts and from their self-conceptualizations within those contexts. A person's literacy functioning will depend upon the role literacy plays in meeting one's goals and in the resulting construction of one's self-image. Within context, not only written language, but the interaction between written and oral language modes becomes importa...

Advances in digital technology for the graphic and textual representation of manuscripts have not, until recently, been applied to the worldʼs oldest manuscripts, cuneiform tablets. This is due in large part both to the three-dimensional nature of cuneiform tablets and to the complexity of the cuneiform script system. The Digital Hammurabi Project and the Initiative for Cuneiform Encoding annou...

From as far back as our sources allow, hymns were part of Near Eastern temple ritual, with their performers an essential component of the temple functionaries. 1 These sources include Sumerian, Akkadian, and Egyptian texts from as early as the third millennium BCE. From the second millennium BCE, we gain further examples of hymns from the Hittite realm, even if most (if not all) of the poems ar...

Abstract The article deals with a commentary on the Akkadian composition Marduk’s Address to Demons from city of Assur. first part discusses unique religious view found in and its commentary, which āšipu priest is identified god Marduk. second presents new philological edition commentary.