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Energy Landscape in Iraq: Current Status, Research Review, and Policy Insights
Renewable energy currently contributes a small fraction to Iraq's electricity mix, with 3.39% from hydropower and 0.059% from solar, while thermal power dominates at 96.6%. Significant untapped potential exists across solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, wave, and blue energy, highlighting opportunities for a low‐carbon, technoeconomically viable energy ...
Ihab Jabbar Al‐Rikabi +5 more
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This work highlighted the potential of instant controlled pressure drop technology as a possible modulator of specific compounds within complex plant extracts such as essential oil. Both time and temperature had important effects on the yield of specific compounds, underscoring the importance of tailoring them to maximize metabolites of interest. Among
Giselle Dení Teresa‐Martínez +4 more
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Measuring Beyond the Standard: Informal Measurement Systems as Cognitive Technologies
Abstract This paper explores the role of measurement as a cognitive technology across human history, emphasizing the coexistence of formal and informal measurement systems. While standardized systems dominate contemporary culture and are well documented across large‐scale societies of the past, this manuscript highlights the less explored domain of ...
Roope O. Kaaronen +2 more
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Evolution of restorative dentistry from past to present
The history of operative dentistry dates back to the era when Babylonians, Assyrians, and Egyptians (4500–4000 BC) were familiar with gold, and Etruscans and Phoenicians (2700 BC) were practising gold crowns. Since then, there have been numerous advances,
Harpreet Singh +4 more
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Numbers on the Visigothic Slates: A Cognitive Approach
Abstract Numerical notation found on multiple slates from Early Medieval Visigothic Iberia remains undeciphered. Previous studies have proposed that they simply represent Roman numerals. However, the comparative study of the numbers on the written and numerical slates suggests that they do not in fact represent the same graphic code.
Nerea Fernández Cadenas
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Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia
The beginnings of the history of Mesopotamia date back to the mid second millennium before Christ. Various peoples settled down in that region and created more or less stable state organisms which, as the centauries passed, demonstrated and shared common
Jerzy Supady
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Levantine Hacksilber and the flow of silver in early Mediterranean commerce
Abstract This study presents a comprehensive approach to provenancing ancient silver artefacts, introducing a novel algorithm to correct for mass‐dependent isotope fractionation. Applied to a Pb isotope database of 281 Hacksilber samples from southern Levantine hoards (1700–600 BCE) and compared with approximately 7000 galena ores from Spain to Iran ...
Francis Albarede +4 more
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Strangers "par excellence". Arabs in the Neo-Assyrian Royal Inscriptions
The basic questions posed in the article were: what characteristics caused Arabs to be perceived by the elites of the Neo-Assyrian Empire as strangers, and whether such classification resulted in their treatment differently from other peoples?
Maciej Münnich
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Abstract The Israel‐Palestinian conflict is one of the most well‐known and polarizing issues that has impacts on societies, and institutions beyond Israel, and Palestine. This interview with prominent social scientist Daniel Bar‐Tal, Professor Emeritus, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, focused on the situation in Israel and Palestine following
Daniel Bar‐Tal
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Küüditamispoliitika kui muistne tava Uus-Assüüria impeeriumis 9.-7. sajandini eKr [PDF]
The current paper focuses on the complicated issue of a very widespread political method, deportation, in the Neo-Assyrian Empire since the middle of the 9th century up until 612 BC.
Vladimir Sazonov
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