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Neurosurgery during the Bronze Age: a skull trepanation in 1900 BC Greece.

open access: yes, 2013
OBJECTIVE: Paleoneurosurgery represents a comparatively new developing direction of neurosurgery dealing with archaeological skull and spine finds and studying their neurosurgical aspects.
Orfanidis, George   +6 more
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Autism‐friendly modern foreign language teaching in a university setting: Towards a toolkit for teaching second languages to autistic students

open access: yesBritish Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper summarises the findings of a research project at a British university exploring autistic students studying modern foreign languages (MFL). The project investigates the experiences, motivations, learning strategies and preferences of autistic MFL learners in a Higher Education context to better understand how MFL classroom pedagogy ...
Caroline de Saint‐Seine   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling and optimization of non-isothermal convective drying process of Lavandula × allardii

open access: yesInformation Processing in Agriculture
Non-isothermal convective drying schemes were examined for Lavandula × allardii leaves and inflorescences. Drying process parameters were optimized using response surface methodology (RSM) to ensure the peak operational performance.
Vasileios Chasiotis   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Skepticism in ancient Greece [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This bachelor's thesis deals with the topic of skepticism in ancient Greece. By the skepticism is not only meant one of the schools in the Hellenistic period, but also thought attitude based on skeptical relation to the world.
Dědič, Ondřej
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William E. Walling and the Pragmatist Foundations of Proto‐Western Marxism: A Re‐Evaluation and Critique

open access: yesConstellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reevaluates Walling as a neglected precursor to American Western Marxism, arguing that his 1912–1914 trilogy synthesized Marxist theory of his time and Deweyan pragmatism into a distinct “pragmatist conception of history.” Born into “aristocracy” yet radicalized, Walling's unique trajectory—as a co‐founder of the NAACP and critic ...
Paulo Antunes
wiley   +1 more source

Morality, institutions and economic growth: Lessons from ancient Greece

open access: yes
We show that the character and the morality of citizens are important ingredients of economic growth because they go hand in hand with the great institutions of private property, democ-racy, and free markets.
Karayiannis, Anastassios, Bitros, George
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From ancient Greece to the present day: how the development of the modern mind distanced us from genuine dialogue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper explores the development of the modern mind from ancient Greece to the present day, aiming to show how a shift to rationally-devised ways of knowing has contributed to an inability for people in the modern West to see themselves in dynamic ...
Livingstone, L.
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Engineering of Ancient Greece [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
STEP Category: Education AbroadMy STEP project will be a two-week education abroad trip to Greece with a one-week class on campus in May 2019. The education abroad program, “Engineering of Ancient Greece” is through the Office of International Affairs at
Richmond, Jonathan
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The birth of an earth being: ‘Rights of nature’ in Brazilian Amazonia and elsewhere Naissance d'un être de la terre : « droits de la nature » en Amazonie brésilienne et ailleurs

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
wiley   +1 more source

Woman's Songs in Ancient Greece

open access: yes
By considering women's voices in performance, Anne Klinck provides a new perspective on women's "writing." She shows that our understanding of femininity in ancient Greece can be expanded by going beyond poetry composed by women poets like Sappho to ...
Klinck, Anne L.
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