The history between cetaceans and humans is documented throughout time not only in reports, descriptions, and tales but also in legal documents, laws and regulations, and tithes. This wealth of information comes from the easy spotting and identification of individuals due to their large size, surface breathing, and conspicuous above water behaviour. This work is based on historical sources and ...

Abstract Languages can be divided into three types with respect to the encoding of comitatives and instrumentals: identity, differentiation mixed (Stolz, Stroh Urdze 2013). Diachronic data from Thai dating 13th 21st centuries ce suggests that these language correspond stages development relation between two categories in Thai, which progress as follows. Between mid-18th centuries, employed patt...

The precipitation variations of Longxi area, northeast margin of the Tibetan Plateau since AD 960 are reconstructed from Chinese historical documentary records. These records show that since AD 960, the precipitation of Longxi decreased and reached the lowest level at the end of the 17th and the 18th centuries. After this period, the precipitation gradually increased. The three short wet period...

Objectives This study tests, for the first time, applicability of a new method sex estimation utilizing enamel peptides on sample deciduous and permanent teeth at different stages mineralization, from nonadults unknown sex, including perinates. Materials methods A total 43 29 nonadult individuals aged 40 gestational weeks to 19 years old were analyzed. The included pairs fully mineralized just ...

The two main texts of Ayurveda viz. Charaka Samhita and Sushruta Samhita. which were said to be written around 1500 B.C. mentioned the use of iron. Iron powder pocessed along with herbs like Amalaki (Emb/ica officina/is), a rich source of ascorbic acid, is indicated in Pandu (anaemia). Vagbhata, a 4th Cent. A.D. author of Ashtangahridaya considered iron as the best among drugs used for Pandu (a...

We present a finite-state approach to the computational morphology of early Modern Greek that improves the efficiency of searching and accessing to the “Politimo” corpus, which consists of Greek documents printed during the 17th and 18th centuries. Computational morphologies provide users the ability to search documents using only a word root and locate all the corresponding inflected words. Ke...

Restoring vision in the blind by direct cortical stimulation has been a dream since the discovery of electricity in the 18th century. In the centuries since these optimistic beginnings, researchers have made important progress in several aspects of the problem, although in many ways the ultimate goal still seems as distant as ever. In this paper I will review the current state of the art of hum...

Too gloomy Events have shown, I think, that this prediction was rather too gloomy. It is true that the gambling "turnover" in Britain is now on a vaster scale than ever, and is at least ?1,000 m. per annum. Even so, the present state of affairs cannot compare with the situation in the second half of the 17th and the early 18th centuries when the reaction against Puritanism, coupled with potent ...

Descriptions of the flattening (platybasia) of the skull base and the upward displacement(impression) of the basilar and condylar portions of the occipitalbone by the upper cervical spine date to the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Anatomical measurements to display these abnormalities were begun in 1865, but the full clinical significance was not appreciated until Homen's work in 1901. Sub...

We describe a novel method for measuring affective language in historical texts by expanding an affective lexicon and jointly adapting it to prior language stages. We automatically construct a lexicon for word-emotion association of 18th and 19th century German which is then validated against expert ratings. Subsequently, this resource is used to identify distinct emotional patterns and trace l...