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ABSTRACT High‐resolution remote sensing, magnetometry, and trench stratigraphy identify a significant flood event at Lagash (modern Tell al‐Hiba) during the late Early Dynastic period (ca. 2400–2350 BC). Satellite imagery and magnetometry reveal a 90‐meter‐wide meander belt—3–15 times broader than documented canals—adjacent to primary temple districts.
Reed Goodman +8 more
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Letters, gifts and messengers. The epistolary strategies of St Radegund
This article studies the ways the sixth‐century queen and monastic founder Radegund (c.520–87) managed the non‐textual elements of communication by letter. While Radegund’s role as a writer and commissioner of letters has been well studied, her efforts as an orchestrator of letter deliveries, gift exchanges and other associated acts of public ...
Robert Flierman, Hope Williard
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Abstract Several species of Lepidoptera with caterpillars bearing urticating hairs are increasing their range in metropolitan France from year to year, such as the pine processionary (Thaumetopoea pityocampa Denis et Schiffermüller 1775) whose presence was historically limited to the south of France, and which is gradually being observed in the north ...
Nicolas Desneux +105 more
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Ten practical guidelines for microclimate research in terrestrial ecosystems
Abstract Most biodiversity dynamics and ecosystem processes on land take place in microclimates that are decoupled from the climate as measured by standardised weather stations in open, unshaded locations. As a result, microclimate monitoring is increasingly being integrated in many studies in ecology and evolution.
Pieter De Frenne +25 more
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[Surgery of old people-Thoracic surgery]. [PDF]
Ehrsam JP, Aigner C.
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Dauerbaustelle Sozialstaat: Chronologie gesetzlicher Neuregelungen in der Sozialpolitik 1998-2015
In der Veröffentlichung werden umfassend die gesetzlichen Neuregelungen seit 1998 aufgelistet und in ihren zentralen Inhalten dargestellt. Erfasst sind die Bereiche Arbeitsförderung/SGB III Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende/SGB II & Sozialhilfe /SGB XII Rentenversicherung & Alterssicherung Krankenversicherung & Gesundheitswesen Pflegeversicherung ...
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ABSTRACT This paper examines some of the ways in which Indigenous and Western archaeological chronologies are being negotiated and entwined in Oceania. Indigenous pasts are often known through oral traditions, genealogies and ancestral landscapes; these are vital pasts populated by the ancestors.
Chris Urwin +2 more
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‘Punitive’ Expeditions in German Colonial Contexts in Africa
Abstract The debate on the restitution of African cultural heritage has brought greater attention to the history of colonial violence, especially to the dispatch of so‐called ‘punitive’ expeditions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
YANN LeGALL
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Are milk quota prices a rational investment? Modeling quotas as financial assets
Abstract Our objective in this paper is to examine the growth of the price of farm milk quotas in Canada, to shed light on their patterns of growth within the last 15 years. Our quota price model is based on the Gordon growth model, supplemented by some important characteristics of the milk quota market.
Richard R. Barichello +2 more
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PAINTING HISTORY: PICTURE, WITNESS, AND ANCIENT HISTORIOGRAPHY
ABSTRACT This article treats an analogy that is used persistently in the history of historiography: the equation of historiography with painting and the identification of the historiographer with the painter. In examining the conceptual stakes of this (auto)identification, the article mobilizes the analogy in order to explore larger issues of ...
LUUK DE BOER
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