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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...
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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...
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Sniff Invariant Odor Coding.
Sampling regulates stimulus intensity and temporal dynamics at the sense organ. Despite variations in sampling behavior, animals must make veridical perceptual judgments about external stimuli. In olfaction, odor sampling varies...
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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...
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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...
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The potential of gypsum speleothems for paleoclimatology
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...
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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...
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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...
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Probabilistic Modelling for Incorporating Uncertainty in Least Cost Path Results
J Lewis
Sep 03, 2021
AbstractThe 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...
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The potential of gypsum speleothems for paleoclimatology
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...
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The potential of gypsum speleothems for paleoclimatology
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...
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The potential of gypsum speleothems for paleoclimatology
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...
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The potential of gypsum speleothems for paleoclimatology
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...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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Structural equation model for estimating risk factors in type 2 diabetes mellitus in a Middle Eastern setting
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...
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Tragic Time in Ben Jonson's <i>Sejanus</i> and <i>Catiline</i>
Leon Grek, Aaron Kachuck
Sep 15, 2020
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...
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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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TEACHING LANGUAGE THROUGH VIRGIL IN LATE ANTIQUITY
Frances Foster
Feb 08, 2017
Romanmagistriandgrammaticitaught their students a wide range of subjects, primarily through the medium of Latin and Greek literary texts. A well-educated Roman in the...
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Designing the suburban church
Robert Proctor
Apr 01, 2017
The pioneering modern movement, liturgically centred, church architecture of the mid twentieth century has become increasingly well documented and understood. Yet, for a long time before the Second Vatican Council most...
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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...
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