In this article, we present a selection of previously unpublished metal jewellery (decorative pins, fibulae, bracelets, neck rings, and earrings) housed at Diyarbakır Museum, where they were acquired by requisition or purchase. The objective study is to evaluate these items with common characteristics as group provide chronological assessment based on comparative typological analysis in referen...

The mobility of the Blemmyes between Nile Valley and Red Sea coast, their skill in trading, are well attested literary sources archaeological record. While they operated mainly Eastern Desert, cemeteries, dated to mid-fourth century ce, were located strategic region Dodekaschoinos Lower Nubia. personal adornments composed beads, but glass imports have not yet been scientifically studied. This p...

A new burnetiamorph therapsid, Isengops luangwensis , gen. et sp. nov., is described on the basis of a partial skull from upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation Luangwa Basin northeastern Zambia. diagnosed by reduced palatal dentition, ridge-like palatine-pterygoid boss, exposure jugal that extends far anteriorly, tall trigonal pyramid-shaped supraorbital and recess along dorsal margin lateral tem...

Recent decades have witnessed growing popularity in embodied philanthropy, where participants undertake various types of publicly displayed bodily labour support their respective causes. The fundraising potential such efforts reached extraordinary heights during Sir Captain Thomas Moore's “Walk for the National Health Service,” wherein 99-year-old World War II veteran walked laps his garden to ...

COSMETIC surgery is not a new phenomenon. Facelifts, nose jobs, breast reduction and breast implants have been common among women for decades, and the profession and practice of cosmetic surgery is well established in many countries, including many developing countries. However, in the past 10–15 years, there has been a seismic shift in what is considered possible and desirable to change as reg...

The Carpenter’s Rule Theorem states that any chain linkage in the plane can be folded continuously between any two configurations while preserving the bar lengths and without the bars crossing. However, this theorem applies only to strictly simple configurations, where bars intersect only at their common endpoints. We generalize the theorem to self-touching configurations, where bars can touch ...

Numerical computations form an essential part of almost any real-world program. Clearly, in order for a termination analyser to be of practical use it should contain a mechanism for inferring termination of such computations. However, this topic attracted less attention of the research community. In works of Der-showitz et al. 5] and Ruggieri 9] such termination analysis techniques were present...

The potential for ornament evolution in response to sexual selection rests on the interaction between the permissiveness or selectivity of female preferences and the constraints on male development of signaling related traits. We investigate the former by determining how latent female preferences either exaggerate the magnitude of current traits (i.e. elaborations) or favor novel traits (i.e. i...