History and archaeology topic list of research papers
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Magnetic enhancement of Baltic Sea sapropels by greigite magnetofossils
Abstract Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) are known to biosynthesise single-domain magnetite (Fe3O4) for geomagnetic navigation and their relict magnetosomes (called magnetofossils) can control the magnetic properties of lake and marine sediments....
2013 / M. Reinholdsson, I. Snowball, L. Zillén, C. Lenz, D.J. Conley -
New models of North West European Holocene palaeogeography and inundation
Abstract This paper presents new 500 year interval palaeogeographic models for Britain, Ireland and the North West French coast from 11000 cal. BP to present. These models are used to calculate the varying rates of inundation for different...
2013 / Fraser Sturt, Duncan Garrow, Sarah Bradley -
Progress on including CCS projects in the CDM: Insights on increased awareness, market potential and baseline methodologies
Abstract The inclusion of CO2 capture and storage (CCS) in the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is still subject to controversy and discussion. Although the debate seems to proceed in a direction of more open information exchange...
2009 / Stefan Bakker, Heleen de Coninck, Heleen Groenenberg -
New Horizons in Tourism: Strange Experiences and Stranger Practices T.V. Singh . Wallingford, United Kingdom. CABI Publishing. 2004. xv +. 221 US$90. ISBN: 0-85199-863-1.2007 / Tomas Nilsson
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"Words of mass destruction": British newspaper coverage of the genetically modified food debate, expert and non-expert reactions2005 / G. Cook
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Workshop on evaluating personal search2012 / Liadh Kelly, Jinyoung Kim, David Elsweiler
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Hash-based carving: Searching media for complete files and file fragments with sector hashing and hashdb
Abstract Hash-based carving is a technique for detecting the presence of specific “target files” on digital media by evaluating the hashes of individual data blocks, rather than the hashes of entire files. Unlike whole-file hashing, hash-based...
2015 / Simson L. Garfinkel, Michael McCarrin -
A Late Glacial family at Trollesgave, Denmark
Abstract Microwear analysis is applied to reconstruct the function and social organisation at the Late Glacial site of Trollesgave, Denmark. As with Bromme Culture sites in general, the lithic assemblage consists of primarily three types of tools....
2015 / Randolph E. Donahue, Anders Fischer -
Tradition and indigeneity in Mughal architectural glazed tiles
Abstract Glazed tiles were employed by the Mughals for the decoration of their monuments in northern India over the sixteenth and seventeenth century. The character and composition of thirty tile samples from Mughal buildings at Delhi, in northern...
2014 / M.S. Gill, Th. Rehren, I. Freestone -
Oral Tradition as the Principal Mean for the Cross-generational Transferor of Knowledge to Illuminate Semai People's Beliefs
Abstract This study explored the oral tradition practice among the local aborigine particularly the Semai people who live in Southeastern Perak of Peninsular Malaysia. Oral tradition is considered as a way of the aborigines to deliver lessons of...
2013 / Samsiah Bidin, Sharina Saad, Nurazila Abdul Aziz, Azlan Abdul Rahman -
Marine resources in Māori oral tradition: He kai moana, he kai mā te hinengaro
Abstract Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ) was one of the last land masses settled by humans, with the arrival of Māori ca. 1280 AD. This relatively recent human history allows unprecedented opportunity to investigate traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) ...
2013 / Priscilla Wehi, Murray Cox, Tom Roa, Hemi Whaanga -
The Atapuerca sites and the ibeas hominids2006 / E. Aguirre, J. L. Arsuaga, J. M. Bermúdez de Castro, E. Carbonell, M. Ceballos, et al.
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The use of citizens' juries in health policy decision-making: A systematic review
Abstract Deliberative inclusive approaches, such as citizen juries, have been used to engage citizens on a range of issues in health care and public health. Researchers engaging with the public to inform policy and practice have adapted the citizen...
2014 / Jackie Street, Katherine Duszynski, Stephanie Krawczyk, Annette Braunack-Mayer -
Actual Issues of Research and Teaching of Hun's History
Abstract This paper is devoted to the research and teaching of Hun's history, as part of the Turkic world which has a great theoretical and practical significance. Huns belonged to the Turkic-speaking tribes. In 375 they crushed Ermanarih power in...
2013 / Zhumagulov Kalkaman Tursynovich, Raikhan Onalbayevna Sadykova -
Un-burnable oil: An examination of oil resource utilisation in a decarbonised energy system
Abstract This paper examines the volumes of oil that can and cannot be used up to 2035 during the transition to a low-carbon global energy system using the global energy systems model, TIAM-UCL and the ‘Bottom up Economic and Geological Oil field...
2013 / Christophe McGlade, Paul Ekins -
The Southern Frontier of the Meroitic State: The View from Jebel Moya2014 / Michael Brass
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Methodology of a dynamic test bench to test ultra-high-frequency transponder ear tags in motion
Abstract The electronic identification of sheep and goats has been obligatory in the European Union since 2010 by means of low-frequency radio-frequency identification systems. The identification of pigs and cattle is currently based on a visual ear ...
2015 / Nora Hammer, Felix Adrion, Dagmar Jezierny, Eva Gallmann, Thomas Jungbluth -
Reorienting land degradation towards sustainable land management: Linking sustainable livelihoods with ecosystem services in rangeland systems
Abstract This paper identifies new ways of moving from land degradation towards sustainable land management through the development of economic mechanisms. It identifies new mechanisms to tackle land degradation based on retaining critical levels of ...
2015 / M.S. Reed, L.C. Stringer, A.J. Dougill, J.S. Perkins, J.R. Atlhopheng, et al. -
Reconstructing regional population fluctuations in the European Neolithic using radiocarbon dates: a new case-study using an improved method
Abstract In a previous study we presented a new method that used summed probability distributions (SPD) of radiocarbon dates as a proxy for population levels, and Monte-Carlo simulation to test the significance of the observed fluctuations in the...
2014 / Adrian Timpson, Sue Colledge, Enrico Crema, Kevan Edinborough, Tim Kerig, et al. -
Pliocene environmental change in West Africa and the onset of strong NE trade winds (ODP Sites 659 and 658)
Abstract Pliocene vegetation dynamics and climate variability in West Africa have been investigated through pollen and XRF-scanning records obtained from sediment cores of ODP Site 659 (18°N, 21°W). The comparison between total pollen accumulation...
2014 / Francesca Vallé, Lydie M. Dupont, Suzanne A.G. Leroy, Enno Schefuß, Gerold Wefer