Mediterania timur adalah pusat perdagangan selama berabad-abad, terletak di persimpangan yang sekarang menjadi Eropa, Asia, dan Afrika. Itu adalah tempat di mana produk dan produk eksotis dapat diperdagangkan atau ditukar dengan barang-barang yang asalnya mungkin ribuan mil jauhnya. Tetapi di mana pun perdagangan terjadi, pertukaran ide, teknologi, dan budaya yang serupa juga terjadi. Buku ini …
Ketika James Boswell terkenal menyesali irasionalitas perang pada tahun 1777, dia mencatat universalitas konflik di seluruh sejarah dan lintas ruang – bahkan mencapai apa yang dia gambarkan sebagai negara samudra selatan yang lembut dan ramah. Jilid ini membahas bukti arkeologis konflik dari lautan selatan tersebut, dari Palau dan Guam, hingga Australia, Vanuatu dan Tonga, Marquesas, Pulau Pa…
The chapter aims to develop a regionally disaggregated agricultural supply model for Tunisia in order to investigate the potential effects of increasing water scarcity on the performances of the agricultural sector in the country, and the structural adaptation strategies needed to face such a challenge. A set of scenarios combining future water availability, water use efficiency, and increasing…
Great Plains di Amerika Serikat telah memainkan peran yang berpengaruh dalam membentuk visi akademis dan populer tentang perang penduduk asli Amerika, sebagian besar karena kekerasan yang terdokumentasi dengan baik yang menjadi pusat perluasan pemukiman Euroamerika di sana. Namun, kekerasan memiliki akar yang dalam di Dataran, dan akar ini tidak pernah diteliti secara sistematis di seluruh wila…
Transport: general interest
The historical evolution of sandy beaches on the coast of Alicante (Spain) has been analysed from aerial images from 1956 to 2019. The beach nourishments carried out in the 1990s to avoid coastal damages and to improve the touristic offer were studied. Shoreline evolution and beach surface has been obtained using GIS. The change of the sediment composition, from gravel to sand, due to the fills…
Local delivery of neurotrophic factors is a pillar of neural repair strategies in the peripheral nervous system. The main disadvantage of the free growth factors is their short half‐life of few minutes. In previous studies, it was demonstrated that conjugation of various neurotrophic factors to iron oxide nanoparticles (IONP) led to stabilization of the growth factors and to the extension of …
Preisaufgabe, or «prize competitions» were implemented in Saxony in 1764 to promote industry after the Seven Years’ War. We investigated the purpose of them and by whom, by analysing primary historical texts to uncover four criteria: (1) the best quality prototypes; (2) equivalent quality to foreign products; (3) establishment of training facilities, and (4) manufacture of new products. The…
Divided into ten points, this paper aims to illustrate how fashion produced modernity, understood as valuing the present, especially its progressive and evolving elements. A process that focused on amplifying “personal visibility”, and in which the abilities of tailors played a crucial role.
Art & Design schools, coming into the 21 century realized the growing need to keep up with advancing technologies, the global consumer markets, and especially how people are learning. The global pandemic served an inevitable disruption across all industries. It was necessary to adapt and figure out ‘Hybrid’ learning methods