Ancient asexual animal groups, such as bdelloid rotifers and darwinuloid ostracods, are excellent model organisms to study the effects of long-term asexuality. However, the absolute length of time that these groups have been fully asexual is mostly ignored. In the case of the darwinuloid ostracods, the fossil record shows that sexual reproduction disappeared almost completely after the end of P...

During the long time of development, Chinese language has evolved a great deal. Native speakers now have difficulty in reading sentences written in ancient Chinese. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised algorithm that constructs sentence-aligned ancient-contemporary pairs out of the abundant passage-aligned corpus. With this method, we build a large parallel corpus. We propose to apply the ...

The present article discusses and details the methodological approaches and the reconstruction strategies that have been employed to realize the 3D real-time virtual simulations of the populated ancient sites of Aspendos and Pompeii, respectively visualized using a virtual and an augmented reality setup. More specifically, the two case studies to which we refer concern the VR restitution of the...

Drinking or local application of human or animal urine for medicinal purposes has been practiced all over the world for millennia. Documented prescriptions in Europe originate from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome. While many of the advances of antique medicine were forgotten after the fall of the Roman Empire, the use of urine and other excrements enjoyed continued popularity in mediaeval times....

the history of persia (iran) dates back 10,000 years. iranian history prior to the introduction of islam in 637 ad is classified as ancient persia but unfortunately, very little written evidence remains from that period. furthermore, there is little current investigative research on this period of iranian history, so it remains largely unclear, particularly in the case of medical scientific tho...

Being aware of the usefulness of spell-checkers on the correction of modern works, and lacking this facility for ancient texts, we decided to build dictionaries for ancient Spanish. This decision led to new problems and new questions. We have built a time-aware system of dictionaries that takes into account the temporal dynamics of language, to help solve the problem of ancient Spanish spell-ch...