The Zooarchaeology of ancient whaling practices in Portugal: A review and a new Roman Republican contribution at Castelo Velho de Safara. [PDF]
Nabais M, Soares R, Hurk YVD.
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From protests to polls: A study on voting intentions in Lebanon
Abstract This study examines collective action intentions in Lebanon, a country characterized by fragmented demographics and recent sociopolitical turmoil. Through a nationally representative survey of 1200 Lebanese individuals conducted just before national elections, we explore the impact of sociopolitical orientations, emotions, and social cohesion ...
Charles Harb
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Unveiling the female experience through adult mortality and survivorship in Milan over the last 2000 years. [PDF]
Biehler-Gomez L+8 more
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The final plague outbreak in Scotland 1644-1649: Historical, archaeological, and genetic evidence. [PDF]
Dittmar J+8 more
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Biopolitical Borders and the Political Economy of Migration Flows to and From Türkiye
ABSTRACT This study examines the biopolitical borders of Türkiye. On the one hand, Türkiye deserves attention as a destination country that received millions of Syrian asylum seekers after the outbreak of the war in Syria and hundreds of thousands of migrants from other surrounding countries since the early 2010s.
Mehmet Özyürek
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Historiography of Scientific Publishing across Cultures and Disciplines. [PDF]
Hosur B+4 more
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A common measure: Hobbes on the epistemic functions of public reason
Abstract Thomas Hobbes claims that the sovereign of a commonwealth provides a “common measure,” determining what counts as right reason for its subjects. As a form of public reason, this is often taken to be a purely political notion. I maintain that Hobbes holds that the public reason of the sovereign also provides a number of epistemic benefits both ...
Amy M. Schmitter
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Cultivating Environmental Ignorance: Non-Circulation of Ethnomedicinal Knowledge about Culén (Otholobium glandulosum) in the Atlantic World (1646-1810). [PDF]
Sartori M, Prakofjewa J.
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Where Mathematical Symbols Come From
Abstract There is a sense in which the symbols used in mathematical expressions and formulas are arbitrary. After all, arithmetic would be no different if we would replace the symbols ‘+$+$’ or ‘8’ by different symbols. Nevertheless, the shape of many mathematical symbols is in fact well motivated in practice.
Dirk Schlimm
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