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A Historiographical Approach to the Qur’an and Shari’a in Late 19th Century India: the Case of Chiragh ‘Ali

História da Historiografia, 2015
Analysing the book The Proposed Political, Legal, and Social Reforms in the Ottoman Empire and Other Mohammadan States (1883) and undertaking a historical contextualization, this paper problematizes the epistemis and epistemological framework underlying ...
Carimo Mohomed
doaj   +1 more source

Flexible Memory: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Flexible memory technology is crucial for flexible electronics integration. This review covers its historical evolution, evaluates rigid systems, proposes a flexible memory framework based on multiple mechanisms, stresses material design's role, presents a coupling model for performance optimization, and points out future directions.
Ruizhi Yuan, Sen Chen, Minghui Guo, Ziliang Cui, Yujie Du, Jing Liu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Muslim mystic who fasted in his cradle – what does a 19th century MS tell of the 13th century saint?

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1999
In this paper, the author discusses the problem of interpreting literary sources, using one specific example, namely that of a Muslim saint of the 13th century, as depicted in a 19th century manuscript.
Helena Hallenberg
doaj   +1 more source

Reconciling reconstructed and simulated features of the winter Pacific/North American pattern in the early 19th century

, 2014
. Reconstructions of past climate behavior often describe prominent anomalous periods that are not necessarily captured in climate simulations. Here, we illustrate the contrast between an interdecadal strong positive phase of the winter Pacific/North ...
D. Zanchettin, O. Bothe, F. Lehner, P. Ortega, C. Raible, D. Swingedouw   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Past Influenza pandemics and their effect in Malta [PDF]

, 2005
The influenza virus type A has caused repeated pandemics throughout the 19th and 20 th century causing significant morbidity and mortality on a worldwide scale.
Savona-Ventura, Charles
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Grass functional traits reflect the long history of fire and grazers in the savannas of Texas

American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Understanding relationships among grass traits, fire, and herbivores may help improve conservation strategies for savannas that are threatened by novel disturbance regimes. Emerging theory, developed in Africa, emphasizes that functional traits of savanna grasses reflect the distinct ways that fire and grazers consume biomass ...
Ashish N. Nerlekar, Daniel Spalink, Joseph W. Veldman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Demographic, Residential, and Socioeconomic Effects on the Distribution of 19th Century African-American Body Mass Index Values [PDF]

Little research exists on the body mass index values of late 19th and early 20th century African-Americans. Using a new BMI data set and robust statistics, this paper demonstrates that late 19th and early 20th century black BMI variation by age increased
Scott A. Carson
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A Novel Pathogenic Variant in CRB1 as the Cause of Non‐Syndromic Retinitis Pigmentosa in a Geographical Isolate in Northern Italy

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Non‐syndromic Retinitis Pigmentosa (NsRP) was well known as one of the causes of visual impairment already in the 19th century. Giuseppe Albertotti, Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Modena (Italy) in 1893, described a high prevalence of NsRP in a geographic isolate, the small village of Colloro, in northwestern Italy.
Andrea Guala, Fabio Sirchia, Claudia Scotti, Elena Rossi, Roberta Falcioni, Silvano Ragozza, Antonella Casella, Enza Maria Valente, Cesare Danesino   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geography and Insolation in 19th Century US African-American and White Statures [PDF]

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in the economic literature. Moreover, while much is known about 19th century black legal and material conditions, less is known about how 19th century institutional ...
Scott A. Carson
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Ground Truth for training OCR engines on historical documents in German Fraktur and Early Modern Latin [PDF]

, 2018
In this paper we describe a dataset of German and Latin \textit{ground truth} (GT) for historical OCR in the form of printed text line images paired with their transcription.
Baiter, Johannes, Dipper, Stefanie, Reul, Christian, Springmann, Uwe   +3 more
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