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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
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Genome-wide association study of traits in sacred lotus uncovers MITE-associated variants underlying stamen petaloid and petal number variations. [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2022 Gao Z +6 more
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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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Settlement, environment, and climate change in SW Anatolia: Dynamics of regional variation and the end of Antiquity. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Jacobson MJ +4 more
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the iconography of the Andromeda constellation as an intersex figure within medieval and early modern astrological traditions. It focuses on the origins of this imagery in the thirteenth‐century astrological writings of Scot and its reappearance nearly three centuries later in Ratdolt's illustrated 1482 edition of Hyginus'
Bar Leshem
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Investigation of Late Antique Peristyle Villae in Pannonia Landscape – Architecture – Artefacts
Hungarian ArchaeologyThe provinces along the Danube of the Roman Empire, including Pannonia, played a crucial role in Late Antique imperial politics. Their importance is attested at social, military, and economic levels, and the changes they underwent are also reflected in the Roman countryside.
Heinrich-Tamáska, Orsolya +2 more
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Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There are paradoxical and sociological questions surrounding migrants of certain ethno‐national backgrounds—particularly women—whose high levels of education do not consistently translate into employment commensurate with their skills, resulting in what is commonly termed “brain waste.” This study critically examines the role of employer ...
Homa Sadri
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Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum HungaricaeAbstractThe curious shape of the so-called early Christian mausoleum of Iovia, Pannonia has attracted much attention since its discovery in the 1980s. The main part of the building, a hexagon flanked by alternating semi-circular and rectangular rooms was complemented by a bi-apsidal vestibule and a rectangular peristyle courtyard.
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A Tribute to Dr. Freddie H. Fu: Remembering A "Good Friend". [PDF]
Acta Orthop Traumatol Turc, 2021 Demirhan M +3 more
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Evolutionary insights into bilin biosynthesis: Functional characterization of pre‐PcyA enzymes
Protein Science, Volume 35, Issue 9, September 2026.Abstract Biosynthesis of the linear tetrapyrrole phycocyanobilin (PCB) by the ferredoxin‐dependent bilin reductase (FDBR) PcyA is essential for light‐harvesting and regulatory processes in diverse photosynthetic organisms, yet its evolutionary origins are not fully understood. PcyA evolved from pre‐PcyA proteins found in diverse bacteria.
Federica Frascogna +3 more
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