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Le cens, l’autel et la ville chef-lieu : Auguste et l’urbanisation des Trois Gaules

open access: yesGallia, 2015
This essay proposes to trace and understand the fundamental process of urbanization of the Three Gauls – it marks the advent of municipal civilization in these areas – by looking at the textual sources in the light of the results of recent urban ...
William Van Andringa
doaj   +1 more source

Politics, Deception, and Being Self-Deceived [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
A review of Anna Elisabeth Galeotti's "Political Self ...
Dentith, M. R. X.
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Multimodal Locomotion in Insect‐Inspired Microrobots: A Review of Strategies for Aerial, Surface, Aquatic, and Interfacial Motion

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review identifies key design considerations for insect‐inspired microrobots capable of multimodal locomotion. To draw inspiration, biological and robotic strategies for moving in air, on water surfaces, and underwater are examined, along with approaches for crossing the air–water interface.
Mija Jovchevska   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Déconvenues diplomatiques et philologiques de Fabricius. Les rapports de Rome avec les peuples et cités d'Italie entre 285 et 280 av. J.-C. à la lumière d'un fragment de Dion Cassius

open access: yesDialogues d'Histoire Ancienne, 2007
Ghislaine Stouder, Fabricius' diplomatie and philological disappointment. Rome's relationship with the peoples and cities of Italy between 285 and 280 B.C., in the light of a fragment of Cassius Dio, DHA 33/1, 2007, 47-70.
Ghislaine Stouder
doaj   +1 more source

Language Change at the Crossroads: What Celtic, What Venetic, and What Else in the Personal Names of Emona? [PDF]

open access: yesВопросы ономастики, 2019
This work deals with a number of arguably misinterpreted names found on inscriptions from Emona in Central Slovenia. While many of them have been recently attributed to an Indo-European, otherwise unknown dialect (associated with onomastic data referred ...
Blanca María Prósper
doaj   +1 more source

Moving Beyond Gender Stereotypes: Reinterpreting Female Celtic Statues from Entremont, France [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In the field of archaeology, male bias has been prevalent in both theory and practice. Female Celtic statues from Entremont, France are an example of how this bias can negatively affect the study of past peoples. Male archaeologists who have excavated or
McGurty, Kathleen A.
core   +1 more source

Berber genealogy and the politics of prehistoric archaeology and craniology in French Algeria (1860s–1880s) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Following the conquest of Algiers and its surrounding territory by the French army in 1830, officers noted an abundance of standing stones in this region of North Africa.
Effros, Bonnie
core   +1 more source

Origami‐Inspired Structural Design for Aquatic‐Terrestrial Amphibious Robots

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This work presents a lightweight amphibious origami robot actuated by a single shape memory alloy wire. A rigid foldable origami structure with displacement amplification enables efficient terrestrial crawling and aquatic swimming. The addition of fan‐shaped units allows controllable turning in both environments.
Weiqi Liu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Restoring Lost Liberty: Francois Hotman and the Nationalist Origins of Constitutional Self-Government [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The rise of constitutional self-government in early modern Europe, I argue, owes much to a nationalist liberation narrative pioneered by French Huguenot François Hotman in Francogallia (1573). In response to appeals by absolutist thinkers to Ro- man law,
Alexander-Davey, Ethan
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Functional Analysis of Ligand‐Gated Chloride Channels in a Cnidarian Sheds Light on the Evolution of Inhibitory Signaling

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
We uncover a large variety of putative inhibitory ligand‐gated ion channels (LGICs) in the phylum Cnidaria, the sister group to all bilaterian animals. Phylogenetic analysis suggests a complex evolutionary history of inhibitory LGICs with diverse neurotransmitter ligands.
Abhilasha Ojha   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

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