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Development of a settlement on the northeastern promontory at 'Marea' [PDF]

Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2020
The ancient topography of the settlement on the northeastern promontory at ‘Marea’ (North Hawariya) was the subject of investigations carried out at the site in 2018 within the frame of a broader excavation project. Fieldwork established the date of some
Tomasz Derda, Mariusz Gwiazda, Aleksandra Pawlikowska-Gwiazda   +2 more
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“The Gates of Eternal Life”: Metamorphosis and Performativity in Middle to Late Byzantine Sculpted Church Doors (with a Case Study of a Wallachian Wooden Door)

Religions
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in analyzing the manufacturing techniques of Byzantine church doors in laboratory settings. However, the connection between the iconography and significance of the décor of church doors and their ...
Elisabeta Negrău
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“Something Is Rotten in the State of Denmark” – Diseases of Emperors and Prominent Persons in Byzantine Historical Narratives as an Expression of Turmoil in the Empire

Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения
The Byzantine emperors and officials suffered from the diseases. Information about them was employed in Byzantine historical texts as a literary motif in order to express corruption of the ruling class in the Empire and criticism of imperial policy.
Bojana Pavlović
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Reconstructing post‐crisis recovery in the hinterlands of Constantinople: A high‐resolution first‐millennium CE pollen record from Lake Yeniçağa (NW Türkiye)

Journal of Quaternary Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Facing a novel plague pandemic, military invasions, and political–economic transformations, societies of the eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire had to adapt to a variety of pressures and new ways of exploiting their natural environments during the mid‐1st millennium CE.
Cristiano Vignola, Mustafa Doğan, Warren Eastwood, John Haldon, Alessia Masi, Neil Roberts, Çetin Şenkul, Adam Izdebski   +7 more
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Theories and cures of the rheumatic diseases during the byzantine period (330-1453 a.D.)

Reumatismo, 2011
Most Byzantine medical texts described the rheumatic diseases. The Byzantine physicians, based on the ancient Greek texts, explained the causes of rheumatic diseases, described their symptoms and proposed certain treatments. The Byzantine medical sources
E. Poulakou-Rebelakou, N.T. Economou, C. Tsiamis   +2 more
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Data privacy model using blockchain reinforcement federated learning approach for scalable internet of medical things

CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has typical advancements in the healthcare sector with rapid potential proof for decentralised communication systems that have been applied for collecting and monitoring COVID‐19 patient data. Machine Learning algorithms typically use the risk score of each patient based on risk factors, which could help ...
Chandramohan Dhasaratha, Mohammad Kamrul Hasan, Shayla Islam, Shailesh Khapre, Salwani Abdullah, Taher M. Ghazal, Ahmed Ibrahim Alzahrani, Nasser Alalwan, Nguyen Vo, Md Akhtaruzzaman   +9 more
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DECOLONIZING CREATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF ART BIENNIALS: A Study of Istanbul's Yeditepe Biennial through the Cultural Politics of Turkish Islamic Nationalism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
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Fortification Architecture in Argolis, Greece: Documentation, Analysis and Restoration Proposal of the Princess Tower

Heritage
This paper presents the typology of a freestanding Late/Post-Byzantine tower in the Peloponnese, a rare architectural type, as most comparable examples in the region have been lost due to abandonment, climatic degradation, and the absence of systematic ...
Konstantinos Dimitroulias, Styliani Papatzani   +1 more
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Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
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La transition lychnologique byzantino-arabe en Egypte et au Proche-Orient: lampes coptes et musulmanes de la collection Bouvier [PDF]

Peuce, 2013
The analytical study of 63 unpublished clay lamps allowed us to review all the existing typologies of a crucial period for the Egyptian lamp workshops, i.e.
Laurent CHRZANOVSKI
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