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Empires in Autumn Limitations of Imperial Overstretch in the Ottoman and British Empires
, 2012 This thesis, an examination of the autumns of the Ottoman and British Empires examines the social, political, and economic factors leading to the decline and dissolution of the Ottoman and British Empires.
Smith, Andrew Louis
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Embodied emotions in ancient Neo-Assyrian texts revealed by bodily mapping of emotional semantics
iScienceSummary: Emotions are associated with subjective emotion-specific bodily sensations. Here, we utilized this relationship and computational linguistic methods to map a representation of emotions in ancient texts.
Juha M. Lahnakoski +5 more
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract The Pleistocene is a key period for understanding the evolutionary history and palaeobiogeography of the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). The species was first documented in southeastern Iberia at the beginning of the Middle Pleistocene and appears to have rapidly spread throughout Southwestern Europe, where it was found in numerous ...
Maxime Pelletier
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Post-Empire Imaginaries? Anglophone Literature, History, and the Demise of Empires
, 2015 Empires as political entities may be a thing of the past, but as a concept, empire is alive and kicking. From heritage tourism and costume dramas to theories of the imperial idea(l): empire sells. Post-Empire Imaginaries?
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The detection of buried or obscured archaeological features remains a central challenge in landscape archaeology, particularly in the irrigated floodplains of Mesopotamia where levees and canals formed the basis of complex agrarian systems. This study presents a deep learning–based approach for the large‐scale, automated detection of ancient ...
Nazarij Buławka +4 more
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigated the Písečný vrch (Czech Republic), a site exploited for quartz mining in both prehistoric times and the 20th century. Due to their morphological similarity across all mining periods, the differentiation between pits with archaeological potential and recent ones is challenging.
Jan Fišer +5 more
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Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract Mixed reality (MR) using head‐mounted displays provides three‐dimensional visualizations that have been suggested to enhance learning when used alongside conventional anatomy teaching in medical education. This study explored student perceptions of the integration of MR and traditional cadaveric learning, and their optimal delivery to support ...
Harpreet Kasbia +12 more
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, 2013 The Indian Ocean became the meeting point of two emerging empires in the early 16th century: the Mughal and the Portuguese empires, both different in their nature and objectives.
Souza, Teotónio R. de
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Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
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The Inka Khipu and Yupana: A Reply to Zen Vasconcellos and Rojas Gamarra (2026)
Astronomische Nachrichten, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A new analysis by Zen Vasconcellos and Rojas Gamarra offers a novel interpretation of the Inka devices used for calculating (yupana) and recording (khipu) numbers. They claim the Inka devices represented numbers neither positionally, with place value, as most researchers have assumed, nor additively, without place value, a possibility uniquely
Cinzia Florio, Karenleigh A. Overmann
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