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Quasicrystal Tilings in Three Dimensions and Their Empires
Crystals, 2018 The projection method for constructing quasiperiodic tilings from a higher dimensional lattice provides a useful context for computing a quasicrystal’s vertex configurations, frequencies, and empires (forced tiles).
Dugan Hammock, Fang Fang, Klee Irwin
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Empire’s Past . . . Empire’s Future [PDF]
South Central Review, 2009 In February , as I was writing this paper, the Financial Times reported at length on an upcoming British Museum exhibition on 16 th -century Persia: “the third in a series on great world empires,” following a “hugely popular show” featuring the terra cotta soldiers of the great Ch’in emperor, a second exhibition on Hadrian, and to be followed in turn ...
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The myth of the nation-state: Theorizing society and polities in a global era [PDF]
, 2003 The analysis of globalization requires attention to the social and political units that are being variously undermined, restructured or facilitated by this process.
Walby, S.
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Non-Local Game of Life in 2D Quasicrystals
Crystals, 2018 On a two-dimensional quasicrystal, a Penrose tiling, we simulate for the first time a game of life dynamics governed by non-local rules. Quasicrystals have inherently non-local order since any local patch, the emperor, forces the existence of a large ...
Fang Fang +3 more
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Assessing Simulations of Imperial Dynamics and Conflict in the Ancient World [PDF]
, 2019 The development of models to capture large-scale dynamics in human history is one of the core contributions of cliodynamics. Most often, these models are assessed by their predictive capability on some macro-scale and aggregated measure and compared to ...
Colavizza, Giovanni +4 more
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Sacred Texts Produced under the Shadows of Empires
Old Testament Essays, 2023 The Hebrew Bible is a complex of sacred texts shaped and reshaped by Israelites, Judaeans and later Jews under the shadows of empires, which threatened, oppressed, dominated and at times provided protection to them.
Hulisani Ramantswana
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They Called It Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence
AthenaLauren Benton’s new book, They Called It Peace, offers a comprehensive view of the various forms of violence that European empires deployed overseas from the early modern period to the 19th century.
Martino Tognocchi
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Generation of two normal and tumour (cancerous) paired human cell lines using an established tissue culture technique and their characterisation is described. Cell lines were characterised at cellular, protein, chromosome and gene expression levels and for HPV status.
Simon Broad +12 more
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Book review: the rise and fall of an economic empire, with lessons for aspiring economies [PDF]
, 2010 Colin Read presents an engaging and informative portrait of four economic empires, as reviewed by Natacha Postel ...
Read, Colin
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Marketless trading in Hammurabi’s time: A re-appraisal [PDF]
, 2013 In this article I revisit Karl Polanyi’s writings on ancient Mesopotamia. I begin by situating them in the context of his general approach to trade, markets and money in the ancient world. Next, I reconstruct his major theses on Mesopotamia, drawing upon
Dale, G
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