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How digitisation of herbaria reveals the botanical legacy of the First World War

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Digitisation of herbarium collections is bringing greater understanding to bear on the complexity of narratives relating to the First World War and its aftermath – scientific and societal. Plant collecting during the First World War was more widespread than previously understood, contributed to the psychological well‐being of those involved and ...
Christopher Kreuzer, James A. Wearn
wiley   +1 more source

Opium trade and use during the Late Bronze Age: Organic residue analysis of ceramic vessels from the burials of Tel Yehud, Israel

Archaeometry, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Organic residue analysis was conducted on various vessels from burials at Tel Yehud, Israel. The analyses led to new reliable evidence for the presence of opioid alkaloids and their decomposition products. This research revitalizes a decades‐old discussion on the presence and function of the opium trade across a cultural region of utmost ...
Vanessa Linares, Eriola Jakoel, Ron Be’eri, Oded Lipschits, Ronny Neumann, Yuval Gadot   +5 more
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A comprehensive checklist of Mediterranean wild edible plants: Diversity, traditional uses, and knowledge gaps

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The use of wild edible plants and the traditional knowledge associated with them are rapidly disappearing across the Mediterranean, with serious consequences for biodiversity, cultural heritage, and regional food security. This study compiles and organizes fragmented information to create the first comprehensive catalogue of these plants across the ...
Benedetta Gori, Tiziana Cossu, Hicham El Zein, Udayangani Liu, Tiziana Ulian, Gianluigi Bacchetta   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assets of Cyprus Households: Lessons from the First Cyprus Survey of Consumer Finances [PDF]

This paper describes participation of Cyprus households in financial and real assets using new data from the 1999 Cyprus Survey of Consumer Finances, and compares Cyprus to the United States and four major European countries.
Alex Karagrigoriou, Christis Hassapis, George Kyriacou, George Syrichas, Michael Haliassos, Michalis C. Michael   +5 more
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The Cypriot banking crisis shows that Europeans have yet to work out the answer to the question, ‘who pays?’ [PDF]

, 2013
The past week has been a tumultuous one for Cyprus, with negotiations and renegotiations towards a bailout for the country’s embattled banks. While an agreement has finally been struck, Iain Begg writes that the crisis is a direct result of an over ...
Begg, Iain
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Ethnobotanical insights into the medicinal and food uses of Lamiaceae in the Mediterranean region: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
For generations, Mediterranean communities have used Lamiaceae or Labiatae plants like rosemary, thyme or mint to care for their health and to enrich their food. By bringing together dispersed knowledge from across the Mediterranean region, our review revealed the continuing relevance of Lamiaceae while also compiling past uses that may hold future ...
Fuencisla Cáceres, Joan Vallès, Teresa Garnatje, Airy Gras   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Sedative Drug Consumption in North Cyprus; Before and During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic

Cyprus Journal of Medical Sciences
BACKGROUND/AIMS: The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic resulted in the implementation of restrictions and caused lifestyles to change; the economy to decline; and psychiatric problems to arise.
Amber Eker, Nimet İlke Akçay, Ashour M. Farag Shallof, Ayçin Buse İzzettin, Dhergham Alshawawreh, Leyla Çiğdem, Mobina Hivehchi, Mourad Mohamed Ahmed Abousamaan, Mustafa Omar Hasan Abuhamra, Rukiye Tolgay, Soheil Foroughian   +10 more
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Ashwagandha: Is It Safe? Part 1: A Regulatory Review

Phytotherapy Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the last decade, ashwagandha (Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal, AS) has been brought under increasing scrutiny by EU regulators regarding its safety for the use in food supplements, culminating in a recent recommendation for an Article 8 procedure according to Regulation (EC) No. 1925/2006 in the European Union (EU).
T. Brendler, R. Al‐Mondhiry, L. Lang, R. Marles, M. Tallon, A. Raghu   +5 more
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Cyprus in British Parliamentary Debates in 1955: Violence, Negotiation and Colonial Narrative

İçtimaiyat
This article analyses the Cyprus debates in the British parliament in 1955 using methods of discourse analysis and shows the contradictions of colonial legitimation strategies.
Cemal Yorgancıoğlu
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The Northern Cypriot Dream - Turkish Immigration 1974-1980 [PDF]

, 2014
After the division of Cyprus in 1974 into a Greek Cypriot south and a Turkish Cypriot north, approximately 30,000 immigrants from Turkey moved to north Cyprus. The period between 1974 and 1980 is the time during which these immigrants arrived in northern
Jensehaugen, Helge
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