History and archaeology topic list of research papers
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A Shared Environment: German-German Relations along the Border, 1945-722015 / T. Grady
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Estimation of stature from handprint dimensions – Positional variations in real crime scene situations2015 / Kewal Krishan, Tanuj Kanchan, Magdy A. Kharoshah
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Concerns about the use of ecosystem services as a tool for nature conservation: From misleading concepts to providing a “price” for nature, but not a “value”2015 / Federico Morelli, Anders Pape Møller
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Gut microbiota and nutrition: Where are we now?2016 / N. Delzenne, P. Singer
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Fencing elephants: The hidden politics of wildlife fencing in Laikipia, Kenya
Abstract Conservation is a fundamentally spatial pursuit. Human–elephant conflict (HEC), in particular crop-raiding, is a significant and complex conservation problem wherever elephants and people occupy the same space. Conservationists and wildlife ...
2015 / Lauren A. Evans, William M. Adams -
A novel sputum transport solution eliminates cold chain and supports routine tuberculosis testing in Nepal
Abstract This preliminary study evaluated the transport reagent OMNIgene SPUTUM (OMS) in a real-world, resource-limited setting: a zonal hospital and national tuberculosis (TB) reference laboratory, Nepal. The objectives were to: (1) assess the...
2016 / Bhagwan Maharjan, Bhabana Shrestha, Alexandra Weirich, Andrew Stewart, Cassandra D. Kelly-Cirino -
The role of administrative data in the big data revolution in social science research
Abstract The term big data is currently a buzzword in social science, however its precise meaning is ambiguous. In this paper we focus on administrative data which is a distinctive form of big data. Exciting new opportunities for social science...
2016 / Roxanne Connelly, Christopher J. Playford, Vernon Gayle, Chris Dibben -
AMS 14C dating at Can Ferrerons, a Roman octagonal building in Premià de Mar, Barcelona
Abstract A singular Roman dwelling, octagonal in ground-plan, was excavated in the year 2000, in Premià de Mar. It is a freestanding pavilion within a larger settlement called Gran Via-Can Ferrerons. It was not possible to date it archaeologically...
2016 / Marta Prevosti, Alf Lindroos, Jan Heinemeier, Ramon Coll -
The Reed-Stanton press rig for the generation of reproducible fingermarks: Towards a standardised methodology for fingermark research
Abstract In the search for better or new methods/techniques to visualise fingermarks or to analyse them exploiting their chemical content, fingermarks inter-variability may hinder the assessment of the method effectiveness. Variability is due to...
2015 / H. Reed, A. Stanton, J. Wheat, J. Kelley, L. Davis, et al. -
The Sheep Project (2): The effects of plane of nutrition, castration and the timing of first breeding in ewes on dental eruption and wear in unimproved Shetland sheep
Abstract The skeletons of 356 unimproved Shetland sheep from flocks kept at two nutritional levels are used to investigate the effects of nutritional level on the timing of mandibular dental eruption, and of wear in the mandibular fourth premolar...
2015 / Fay Worley, Polydora Baker, Peter Popkin, Andy Hammon, Sebastian Payne -
Views of Biology Teacher Candidates about Context Based Approach
Abstract Biology is one of the courses that explain natural events. However, in literature there are some studies claiming that the association level of students between daily life events and biology subjects is very low. Contest-based approach is...
2015 / Cem Gercek, Ozgur Ozcan -
Flying-foxes in the Australian urban environment—community attitudes and opinions
Abstract The urban presence of flying-foxes (pteropid bats) in eastern Australia has increased in the last 20years, putatively reflecting broader landscape change. The influx of large numbers often precipitates community angst, typically stemming...
2015 / Nina Y. Kung, Hume E. Field, Amanda McLaughlin, Daniel Edson, Melanie Taylor -
River doctors: Learning from medicine to improve ecosystem management
Abstract Effective ecosystem management requires a robust methodology to analyse, remedy and avoid ecosystem damage. Here we propose that the overall conceptual framework and approaches developed over millennia in medical science and practice to...
2017 / Arturo Elosegi, Mark O. Gessner, Roger G. Young -
An updated age for the Xujiayao hominin from the Nihewan Basin, North China: Implications for Middle Pleistocene human evolution in East Asia
Abstract The Xujiayao site in the Nihewan Basin (North China) is one of the most important Paleolithic sites in East Asia. Twenty Homo fossils, which were previously assigned to an archaic Homo sapiens group, have been excavated along with more than ...
2017 / Hong Ao, Chun-Ru Liu, Andrew P. Roberts, Peng Zhang, Xinwen Xu -
Herbivore diets and the anthropogenic environment of early farming in southern Scandinavia2016 / Kurt J Gron, Peter Rowley-Conwy
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Locating the Destitute: Space and Identity in Caribbean Fiction, written by Stanka Radović2016 / Eric Prieto
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Identifying plant fibre textiles from Norwegian Merovingian Period and Viking Age graves: The Late Iron Age Collection of the University Museum of Bergen
Abstract The investigation of textiles and textile production can yield important information about the infrastructure and resource management in ancient societies. Before the 19th century textiles made of plant material in Scandinavia were mainly...
2017 / Hana Lukešová, Adrià Salvador Palau, Bodil Holst -
Understanding variability in crop response to fertilizer and amendments in sub-Saharan Africa
Abstract Improved understanding of soil fertility factors limiting crop productivity is important to develop appropriate soil and nutrient management recommendations in sub-Saharan Africa. Diagnostic trials were implemented in Kenya, Malawi, Mali,...
2016 / Job Kihara, Generose Nziguheba, Shamie Zingore, Adama Coulibaly, Anthony Esilaba, et al. -
Privatizing Water in the Chilean Andes: The Case of Las Vegas de Chiu-Chiu2015 / Manuel Prieto
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Scaling up: Material culture as scaffold for the social brain
Abstract Many other species besides Homo sapiens are tool-users and even tool-makers, but one aspect of material culture still sets modern humans apart: our emotional and social engagement with objects. Here I argue that this engagement acted as a...
2015 / Fiona Coward