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Heritage ScienceSix corroded glazed pottery figurines, which excavated from the Qibi Ming Tomb of the Tang Dynasty in Xianyang, were selected to study the corrosion mechanism.
Yanli Li +5 more
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Business forms and business performance in UK manufacturing 1871–81
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We explore which business forms were predominant in the later Victorian economy and why some forms were more effective among large British manufacturing firms during this period. With a dataset of 483 manufacturing firms in 1881 that either employed at least 1000 or had done so a decade earlier, we find that the great majority were ...
James Foreman‐Peck, Leslie Hannah
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the gender wage gap and wage setting in the early cotton spinning factories of the industrial revolution, with a specific focus on Richard Arkwright's Lumford Mill in Bakewell, Derbyshire. The research links workers from the mill's wage books with parish baptism records to estimate ages and construct age–wage profiles in ...
Alexander Tertzakian
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Sustainable structural materials inspired by nature
Journal of the American Ceramic Society, EarlyView.Abstract A society's wealth relies on three pillars: human capital, nature, and the economy. Sustainable materials development must uphold all three. For load‐bearing materials, mechanical properties, namely, stiffness, strength, and toughness are crucial for human needs, while energy, water usage, and CO2 emissions reflect their ecological footprint ...
Mohammad Mirkhalaf
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An Experimental Approach to Studying the Technology of Pottery Decoration
EXARC Journal, 2014 The early Middle Chalcolithic pottery tradition of Seh Gabi Tepe in Iran is called Dalma tradition. Among the different types of Dalma pottery, I have focused on monochrome painted ceramics, to investigate, by means of experimental analysis, how their ...
Golnaz Hossein Mardi
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South African Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most rural households rely on farming for their livelihoods, but the nonfarm economy has gained prominence in complementing farm incomes. Using nationally representative data, this paper examines the implications of participation in nonfarm work (self‐employment and wage employment) for household welfare in rural Cameroon.
Ebenezer Lemven Wirba +2 more
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Chemical characterization via pXRF of Early Iron Age pottery from SW Iberia
UISPP Journal, 2019 The main aim of this paper is to present the results of archaeometric analyses of Tartessian pottery recently undertaken in the Lower Guadalquivir region (western Andalusia, Spain).
Michał Krueger, Dirk Brandherm
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