Mothers’ experiences and perceptions about care provided during home deliveries in Alwa sub county, Kaberamaido district, Uganda– a qualitative study [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 IntroductionIn Uganda 27% of deliveries take place outside a health facility. The existing gaps in quality of maternal and newborn health care must be addressed for Uganda to attain its health targets and consequently its economic targets.
Benbella Dektar +4 more
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The prelude to industrial whaling: identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 Taxonomic identification of whale bones found during archaeological excavations is problematic due to their typically fragmented state. This difficulty limits understanding of both the past spatio-temporal distributions of whale populations and of ...
Youri van den Hurk +25 more
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Normans and Other Franks in 11th Century Byzantium: the Careers of the Adventurers before the Rule of Alexius I Comnenus [PDF]
Studia Ceranea, 2014 The paper examines the Frankish presence in Byzantium during 11th century. It was stressed that the mentioned period was the time of a great influx of westerners to the East. At first, most of them visited Constantinople as pilgrims during return journey
Szymon Wierzbiński
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Multi-proxy bioarchaeological analysis of skeletal remains shows genetic discontinuity in a Medieval Sicilian community [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceThe medieval period in Sicily was turbulent, involving successive regime changes, from Byzantine (Greek Christian), Aghlabid (Sunni Muslim), Fatimid (Shīʿa Muslim), to Normans and Swabians (Latin Christian). To shed new light on the local implications of
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Ortaçağ Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2021 Bu çalışma Normanlar tarafından yönetilen 12. yüzyıl Sicilya’sına odaklanacak, yazılı kaynakların yanında özellikle nümismatik bulgular vasıtasıyla buradaki çok-kültürlü yaşamı değerlendirecektir. Birkaç yüzyıl kadar Müslümanların kontrolünde olan bu çok-
Ali Mıynat
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Were weapons of the Normans and Rus' 'alive'?
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2021 Weapons, according to the Northern Germans, could directly influence the world. Many researchers interpret it as evidence that the Normans identified their weapons with living beings. This article shows that the Northern Germans’ beliefs in actor weapons
D.V. Puzanov
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The emergence of old English and its formation under the influence of various nations and traditions [PDF]
Univerzitetska Misao, 2017 History of the British Isles actually is a history of different invasions. Britain was first conquered and populated by Celts during the 5th century BC, then followed the conquests of the Roman empire, then of the Germanic, barbarian tribes Angles ...
Matić Zorica
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I Normanni in battaglia: fionde, granate, triboli, mazze e altri artifizi
Nuova Antologia Militare, 2022 Beyond the undoubted propensity to defend and consolidate acquired positions by force with the value of arms, the ‘Norman Conquest’ represents an extremely significant moment for the study of war strategies and the armaments adopted. Courage and audacity,
Giovanni Coppola
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The first records of Prince Vladimir in sources [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2021 The paper attempts to answer the question of the first records of Prince Vladimir in historical sources. Up to now it has been considered that he was first mentioned in the work "A Synopsis of Byzantine History" by John Skylitzes. However, Henri Grégoire
Đekić Đorđe N.
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Transport morski koni w trakcie działań wojennych Boemunda na Bałkanach w latach 1107-1108
Vox Patrum, 2015 The Bohemond of Tarentum Expedition of 1107-1108, directed against the Byzantine Empire, was one of the key steps in Normans relations with the Byzantine Empire in the twelfth century.
Marcin Böhm
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