New Light on the Silent Millennia: Mediterranean Africa, ca. 4000–900 BC

Two millennia of climate variability in the Central Mediterranean

This experimental work addresses the need for high-resolution, long and homogeneous climatic time series that facilitate the study of climate variability over time scales of decades to millennia. We present a high-resolution record of foraminiferal δ18O from a Central-Mediterranean sediment core that covers the last two millennia. The record was analyzed using advanced spectral methods and show...

Hippocrates (ca 460-370 BC) on nasal cancer.

The prevalence of cancer in antiquity is rather an unknown scientific field. Nevertheless, During the 5th century BC, Hippocrates and his followers, studied thoroughly this fatal disease and proposed surgical techniques and palliative drugs to confront and treat the malignant tumors caused by the black bile (the 4 humors theory). Inside Corpus Hippocraticum, nasal cancer was mentioned, alongsid...

discovery of a spectacle made in millennia bc

the europeans consider roger bacon as the inventor of spectacles, and the 13th century, as the beginning of using lenses as spectacles. it can truly be said that the lenses had not been born all of a sudden then. it may be concluded that the lenses had been available long before that time.   we are all familiar with quartz, a transparent volcanic stone that begins its journey in the rivers afte...

investigation of effective parameters on the rigidity of light composite diaphragms (psscb) by fem

در این رساله با معرفی سقف های psscb متشکل از ترکیب ورق های فولادی ذوزنقه ای و تخته های سیمانی الیافی به عنوان سقف های پیش ساخته (سازگار با سیستم سازه ای قاب های فولادی سبک) به بررسی پارامترهای موثر بر صلبیت سقف، پرداخته می شود. در تحقیق حاضر ابتدا به مدل سازی دو نمونه سقف آزمایش شده، به روش اجزاء محدود با استفاده از نرم افزار تحلیلی abaqus ver 6.10 پرداخته شده است. نمونه های ساخته شده تحت اعما...

The silent epidemic of COPD in Africa.