History and archaeology topic list of research papers
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Risk sharing and risk shifting: An historical perspective
Abstract Islam prohibits risk shifting and encourages risk sharing. Consequently, Muslims have developed over the centuries a highly sophisticated know-how of risk sharing partnerships which was the envy of the world. When Europe borrowed this...
2014 / Murat Çizakça -
Stature estimation from footprint measurements in Indian Tamils by regression analysis2013 / T. Nataraja Moorthy, Ahmad Mustaqqim Bin Mostapa, R. Boominathan, N. Raman
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Tsunami vertical-evacuation planning in the U.S. Pacific Northwest as a geospatial, multi-criteria decision problem
Abstract Tsunami vertical-evacuation (TVE) refuges can be effective risk-reduction options for coastal communities with local tsunami threats but no accessible high ground for evacuations. Deciding where to locate TVE refuges is a complex...
2014 / Nathan Wood, Jeanne Jones, John Schelling, Mathew Schmidtlein -
Advances in Pediatric Reference Intervals for Biochemical Markers: Establishment of the Caliper Database in Healthy Children and Adolescents/Napredak U Oblasti Pedijatrijskih Referentnih Intervala Za Biohemijske Markere: Izrada Baze Podataka Caliper Kod Zdrave Dece I Adolescenata2014 / Kimiya Karbasy, Petra Ariadne, Stephanie Gaglione, Michelle Nieuwesteeg, Khosrow Adeli
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Die Alpen! Les Alpes! Zur europäischen Wahrnehmungsgeschichte seit der Renaissance/Pour une histoire de la perception européenne depuis la Renaissance2006 /
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Bleaching of the post-IR IRSL signal from individual grains of K-feldspar: Implications for single-grain dating
Abstract Post-IR IRSL (pIRIR) signals from K-feldspar grains measured at elevated temperatures are increasingly being used for dating sediments. Unfortunately the pIRIR signal from K-feldspars bleaches more slowly than other signals (e.g. OSL from...
2015 / R.K. Smedley, G.A.T. Duller, H.M. Roberts -
The modern human colonization of western Eurasia: when and where?
Abstract Dating the timing of the replacement of local Neandertal populations by modern humans in western Eurasia at the dawn of the Upper Palaeolithic remains challenging due to the scarcity of the palaeontological evidence and to the complexity of ...
2014 / Jean-Jacques Hublin -
Peter Watson: The Great Divide: History and Human Nature in the Old World and the New2014 / Jon Agar
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Impact of contamination and pre-treatment on stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of charred plant remains2014 / Petra Vaiglova, Christophe Snoeck, Erika Nitsch, Amy Bogaard, Julia Lee-Thorp
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Wildlife decline and social conflict2014 / J. S. Brashares, B. Abrahms, K. J. Fiorella, C. D. Golden, C. E. Hojnowski, et al.
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The Formation of Community-Based Organizations: An Analysis of a Quasi-Experiment in Zimbabwe
Summary Previous analyses of the formation and composition of community-based organizations (CBOs) have used cross section data. So, causal inference has been compromised. We obviate this problem by using data from a quasi-experiment in which...
2014 / Abigail Barr, Marleen Dekker, Marcel Fafchamps -
“We no longer live in the old days”: a qualitative study on the role of masculinity and religion for men’s views on violence within marriage in rural Java, Indonesia2014 / Elli N Hayati, Maria Emmelin, Malin Eriksson
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Visioning for secondary palliative care service hubs in rural communities: a qualitative case study from British Columbia's interior2009 / Valorie A Crooks, Heather Castleden, Nadine Schuurman, Neil Hanlon
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Our Global Civilization2010 / Amartya Kumar Sen
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The EADGENE Microarray Data Analysis Workshop (Open Access publication)2009 / Dirk-Jan de Koning, Florence Jaffrézic, Mogens Lund, Michael Watson, Caroline Channing, et al.
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The Legal and Ethical Dilemmas in Keeping Abreast with Innovations in Medical Sciences
Abstract Medical sciences have been advancing rapidly with the invention of various technologies such as xenotransplantation, ectogenesis and womb transplant. These technologies bring with them several ethical and moral issues that need to be...
2011 / Haniwarda Yaakob, Zul Hilmi Yaakob, Noor Eliza Hashim -
Constraints on the U–Pb systematics of metamorphic rutile from in situ LA-ICP-MS analysis
Abstract In situ laser ablation ICP-MS U–Pb dating of metamorphic rutile from granulite facies metapelitic rocks of the Archaean Pikwitonei granulite domain (Manitoba, Canada) provides constraints on Pb diffusion and characterizes the closure...
2010 / Ellen Kooijman, Klaus Mezger, Jasper Berndt -
Productive disciplinary engagement as a recursive process: Initial engagement in a scientific investigation as a resource for deeper engagement in the scientific discipline
Abstract Engle and Conant (2002) show how productive disciplinary engagement (PDE) for students can be attained through learning environments structured to support problematizing subject matter, give students authority to...
2013 / Xenia Meyer -
Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance
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2012 / R.V. Anand -
Inertial monitoring of style & accuracy at 10,000 feet
Abstract The “style” aspect of the parachuting sports of “style and accuracy” involves a parachutist diving earthward to gain maximum speed, tucking into a crouch position and performing a sequence of whole body rotations. The scoring of the...
2011 / Andrew Wixted, Daniel James