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Metaphysics as a Fundamental Poise
Francisco Vicente Galán Vélez
Mar 16, 2022
Francisco Vicente Galán Vélez is a full-time professor in the philosophy department at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. He oversaw the translation of Insight: Estudio sobre la comprensión humana, trad. Francisco...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Metaphysics as a Fundamental Poise
Francisco Vicente Galán Vélez
Mar 16, 2022
Francisco Vicente Galán Vélez is a full-time professor in the philosophy department at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. He oversaw the translation of Insight: Estudio sobre la comprensión humana, trad. Francisco...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Human parasites in the Roman World
PD Mitchell
Sep 18, 2017
The archaeological evidence for parasites in the Roman era is presented in order to demonstrate the species present at that time, and highlight the health consequences for people living under Roman rule. Despite their large...
A Corpus Approach to Roman Law Based on Justinian’s Digest
Traditional philological methods in Roman legal scholarship such as close reading and strict juristic reasoning have analysed law in extraordinary detail. Such methods, however, have paid less attention to the empirical...
Analysis of mosaic mortars from the Roman, Byzantine and Early Islamic periods sourced from Gerasa’s Northwest Quarter
Richard Ball, M. P. Ansell, Tugce Busra Su, Vahiddin Alperen Baki, Philip J. Fletcher, Achim Lichtenberger, Rubina Raja, Will Wootton
Dec 31, 2024
This study analyses and compares around 650 years of mosaic mortar production spanning the Roman, late Roman and Umayyad periods, at Gerasa/Jerash in Jordan, offering a better understanding of composition, structural features...
Migrants, Citizens and Subjects: How People Moved and Became Citizens in the Roman World
David Rocha
Jan 01, 0001
This research paper studies migrations and citizenship in the Roman world. I explain some of the different migrating groups from throughout the Roman world. I also explain citizenship, and how people became citizens. I also...
Western Roman Legions migrants Migration citizenship European History History Military History Social History
Published by: Ursinus College
Dendrochronological evidence for long-distance timber trading in the Roman Empire.
An important question for our understanding of Roman history is how the Empire's economy was structured, and how long-distance trading within and between its provinces was organised and achieved. Moreover, it is still unclear...
Analysis of mosaic mortars from the Roman, Byzantine and Early Islamic periods sourced from Gerasa’s Northwest Quarter
Richard Ball, M. P. Ansell, Tugce Busra Su, Vahiddin Alperen Baki, Philip J. Fletcher, Achim Lichtenberger, Rubina Raja, Will Wootton
Dec 31, 2024
This study analyses and compares around 650 years of mosaic mortar production spanning the Roman, late Roman and Umayyad periods, at Gerasa/Jerash in Jordan, offering a better understanding of composition, structural features...
The Effect of Reciprocity on Mobile Wallet Intention
The authors build on the literature on reciprocity by exploring a prevalent social and economic phenomenon in the Philippines where individuals with positive mobile phone balances can SMS loads to acquaintances. This practice is...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
The potential of gypsum speleothems for paleoclimatology
Fernando Gázquez, Thomas K. Bauska, Laia Comas-Bru, Bassam Ghaleb, José-María Calaforra, David A. Hodell
Oct 08, 2020
Abstract: Carbonate cave deposits (speleothems) have been used widely for paleoclimate reconstructions; however, few studies have examined the utility of other speleothem-forming minerals for this purpose. Here we demonstrate...
Bioprospecting the thermal waters of the Roman Baths
The extensive diversity of microalgae provides an opportunity to undertake bioprospecting for species possessing features suited to commercial scale cultivation. The outdoor cultivation of microalgae is subject to extreme...
Bioprospecting the thermal waters of the Roman Baths
The extensive diversity of microalgae provides an opportunity to undertake bioprospecting for species possessing features suited to commercial scale cultivation. The outdoor cultivation of microalgae is subject to extreme...
Probabilistic Modelling for Incorporating Uncertainty in Least Cost Path Results
Abstract The movement of past peoples in the landscape has been studied extensively through the use of least cost path (LCP) analysis. Although methodological issues of applying LCP analysis in...
J Lewis
Sep 03, 2021
The potential of gypsum speleothems for paleoclimatology
Fernando Gázquez, Thomas K Bauska, Laia Comas-Bru, Bassam Ghaleb, José-María Calaforra, David A Hodell
Nov 09, 2020
Carbonate cave deposits (speleothems) have been used widely for paleoclimate reconstructions; however, few studies have examined the utility of other speleothem-forming minerals for this purpose. Here we demonstrate for the...
The potential of gypsum speleothems for paleoclimatology
Fernando Gázquez, Thomas K. Bauska, Laia Comas-Bru, Bassam Ghaleb, José-María Calaforra, David A. Hodell
Oct 09, 2020
Abstract: Carbonate cave deposits (speleothems) have been used widely for paleoclimate reconstructions; however, few studies have examined the utility of other speleothem-forming minerals for this purpose. Here we demonstrate...
The potential of gypsum speleothems for paleoclimatology
Fernando Gázquez, Thomas K. Bauska, Laia Comas-Bru, Bassam Ghaleb, José-María Calaforra, David A. Hodell
Sep 09, 2020
Abstract: Carbonate cave deposits (speleothems) have been used widely for paleoclimate reconstructions; however, few studies have examined the utility of other speleothem-forming minerals for this purpose. Here we demonstrate...
Emergence of a floral colour polymorphism by pollinator-mediated overdominance.
Roman T Kellenberger, Kelsey JRP Byers, Rita M De Brito Francisco, Yannick M Staedler, Amy M LaFountain, Jürg Schönenberger, Florian P Schiestl, Philipp M Schlüter
Feb 08, 2019
Maintenance of polymorphism by overdominance (heterozygote advantage) is a fundamental concept in evolutionary biology. In most examples known in nature, overdominance is a result of homozygotes suffering from deleterious...
The potential of gypsum speleothems for paleoclimatology
Fernando Gázquez, Thomas K. Bauska, Laia Comas-Bru, Bassam Ghaleb, José-María Calaforra, David A. Hodell
Sep 09, 2021
Abstract: Carbonate cave deposits (speleothems) have been used widely for paleoclimate reconstructions; however, few studies have examined the utility of other speleothem-forming minerals for this purpose. Here we demonstrate...
Key New Evidence of the Late Iron Age and Early Roman North
Martin Millett
Apr 15, 2021
The two volumes reviewed here are the first of the three promised from NAA reporting on the archaeological work undertaken during the improvement of the A1 road from Leeming to Barton. Death, Burial and Identity (henceforth DBI)...
Geographies of commemoration
Memorialising lives, deaths and events in landscapes can be authorised, official and highly regulated, or spontaneous, unsanctioned and anti-authoritarian. Interpreting and connecting two sites spanning the Pacific Ocean, this...
Tage (Courts, Councils and Diets)
Duncan Hardy
Dec 23, 2020
Prevailing interpretations of the late medieval and early modern Holy Roman Empire conceptualize it in terms of discrete units: as a mosaic of territories or as the Reichsverfassung (imperial constitution), a term that is...
Pilgrimage and Visual Genre
As Roman Catholics gained confidence in twentieth-century Scotland, they revived pre-Reformation shrines and pilgrimages and created new shrines with transnational connections to the modern Catholic world. Three sites in this...
Structural equation model for estimating risk factors in type 2 diabetes mellitus in a Middle Eastern setting
Andres Roman-Urrestarazu, Faleh Mohamed Hussain Ali, Husein Reka, Matthew J Renwick, Gabriela D Roman, Elias Mossialos
Nov 05, 2018
AIMS: Understanding type 2 diabetes mellitus is critical for designing effective diabetes prevention policies in Qatar and the Middle East. METHODS: Using the Qatar 2012 WHO STEPwise approach to surveillance survey, a subsample...
Tragic Time in Ben Jonson's <i>Sejanus</i> and <i>Catiline</i>
This essay explores Ben Jonson's treatment of dramatic and historical time in his Roman tragedies, Sejanus His Fall (1603) and Catiline His Conspiracy (1611). Although the plays conspicuously fail to respect...
City of Dog
Sam Ottewill-Soulsby
Aug 11, 2021
To be fully human in the Greco-Roman world was to be a member of a city. This is unsurprising as cities were the building blocks of Greek and Roman culture and society. The urban landscape of post-Roman Western Europe looked...
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