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Military Architecture and the Four-Spāhbed System for Defense of the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE) [PDF]

open access: yesHistoria i Świat, 2021
This article examines Sasanian military architecture with respect to its integration with the four-region Spāhbed system (Ādurbādagān-Spāhbed, Xwarāsān-Spāhbed, Xwarbārān-Spāhbed and Nēmrōz-Spāhbed) for defending the empire.
FARROKH, Kaveh   +5 more
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Petrographical and geochemical evidences for paragenetic sequence interpretation of diagenesis in mixed siliciclastic–carbonate sediments: Mozduran Formation (Upper Jurassic), south of Agh-Darband, NE Iran [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The Upper Jurassic Mozduran Formation with a thickness of 420 m at the type locality is the most important gas-bearing reservoir in NE Iran. It is mainly composed of limestone, dolostone with shale and gypsum interbeds that grade into coarser ...
A Mahboubi   +59 more
core   +2 more sources

Reforms of Sasanian king Khusro I and the northern bank of the Araxes – Arrān (Caucasus Albania) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The article considers the Sasanian king Khusro I Anushirwan’s reforms to improve the empire’s military and administrative architecture in the northwestern region of Ērānšahr, by creating the kust ī Ādurbādagān.
KHALIFA-ZADEH, Mahir   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Towards an understanding of the Assyrian Empire’s defence strategies in the east A case study from the Peshdar Plain (Dinka Settlement Complex and Gawr Miran) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The Assyrians actively engaged themselves in construction in the heartland and in the numerous provinces of the Empire. Textual sources (especially royal inscriptions and correspondence), as well as archaeological excavations, mention and sometimes ...
Hasegawa, Shuichi   +2 more
core   +7 more sources

Comparison of Two Versus Three Bilateral Botulinum Toxin Injections Prior to Abdominal Wall Reconstruction

open access: yesJournal of Abdominal Wall Surgery, 2023
Background: Intramuscular injection of botulinum toxin A (BTA) induces a temporary muscle paralysis. In patients with a ventral hernia, preoperative injection of BTA in the muscles of the lateral abdominal wall (LAW) leads to thinning and lengthening of ...
A. S. Timmer   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Case Report: Abdominal Wall Reconstruction in a High-Risk Patient With Incisional Hernia and Complications From Oncological Treatment

open access: yesJournal of Abdominal Wall Surgery, 2023
Introduction: A high risk patient with evisceration underwent to abdominal wall reconstruction without mesh or drains. We present a case of a 62 years-old female patient with a significant medical history of Wilson’s disease-related hepatopathy Child ...
Thiago Souza Silva   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Description of the Current Da Vinci® Training Pathway for Robotic Abdominal Wall Surgery by the European Hernia Society

open access: yesJournal of Abdominal Wall Surgery, 2022
Background: Robot assisted laparoscopic abdominal wall surgery (RAWS) has seen a rapid adoption in recent years. The safe introduction of the robot platform in the treatment of abdominal wall hernias is important to safeguard the patient from harm during
M. Vierstraete   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Of highland-lowland borderlands: local societies and foreign power in the Zagros-Mesopotamian interface [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Narratives of civilization are spun from the juxtaposition of a civilized self with that of a barbarous other. Such an opposition is never more easily constructed than from the distinctiveness of lowland and mountain topographies, environments, and life ...
Casana, Jesse, Glatz, Claudia
core   +1 more source

Risk Factor-Driven Prehabilitation Prior to Abdominal Wall Reconstruction to Improve Postoperative Outcome. A Narrative Review

open access: yesJournal of Abdominal Wall Surgery, 2022
All abdominal wall reconstructions find themselves on a scale, varying between simple to highly complex procedures. The level of complexity depends on many factors that are divided into patient comorbidities, hernia characteristics, and wound ...
A. S. Timmer   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Gorgan, Great Wall of [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The “Great Wall of Gorgan,” also, erroneously, known as “Alexander's Wall,” runs from the southeast corner of the Caspian Sea for at least 195 km eastward, into the Elburz ...
Sauer, Eberhard
core   +1 more source

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