This article explores the Roman Inquisition’s interest in dietary practices of suspected heretics throughout Catholic Mediterranean. In an era marked by rampant religious nomadism and a deep uncertainty about assaying fixing confessional identity, were often used to determine belonging. For Inquisition, non-conforming diets served as clue potentially more serious spiritual infractions. early mo...

BACKGROUND Characterizing the movement patterns of animals is an important step in understanding their ecology. Various methods have been developed for classifying animal movement at both coarse (e.g., migratory vs. sedentary behavior) and fine (e.g., resting vs. foraging) scales. A popular approach for classifying movements at coarse resolutions involves fitting time series of net-squared disp...

BACKGROUND The movement patterns of many southern African waterfowl are typified by nomadism, which is thought to be a response to unpredictable changes in resource distributions. Nomadism and the related movement choices that waterfowl make in arid environments are, however, poorly understood. Tracking multiple individuals across wide spatiotemporal gradients offers one approach to elucidating...

Climate change and cultural exchange both influenced development along the continental Silk Road during late Holocene, but climate its influence on nomadic civilizations that time has yet to be systematically assessed. In this study, we analyzed records of covering key periods in based multiproxies from various archives including lake sediments, shorelines/beach ridges, peatlands, ice cores, tr...

the nomad communities played an important role in the socio-economic status of the iranian society from the beginning of the twentieth century. following the political events of reza shah such as settling strategy, the nomads lost their importance and marginalized. the present paper aims study the social and cultural transitions among the turkman tribe to find out how settling strategy led to t...

A full-term female newborn with neonatal asphyxia and severe anemia (Hb 2.5 g/dL) with normal heart developed a massive myocardial infarction. No examinations were performed during pregnancy for parental nomadism. The baby had immediate external cardiac massage, ventilatory assistance, and blood transfusion. Cardiomegaly was evident at chest X-ray and marked signs of ischemia-lesion at ECG. Ech...

The archaeological rescue excavation near Pecica resulted in the unearthing of nine graves with scant grave goods, which, on basis aspects funerary ritual and 14C analyses, could be dated to period between second part 6th century first 7th century. Taking into account fact that these were dispersed over a very large territory (cca 1.8 ha), at distance dozens meters from one another, without an ...