A case, in a 66 year old man, of a florid granulomatous reaction to gold dental alloy presenting about 20 years after accidental implantation in the oral mucosa of the lip is reported. Subsequent energy dispersive analysis confirmed the presence of a high nobility gold dental alloy. Florid granulomatosis has only rarely been reported in association with gold. Possible explanations for the delay...

The subject of the article is locations in Nowogródek (Novgorodok) poviat (district) where noble gatherings were held. This an important issue as it highlights role and place dietinies (sejmiks) political system Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Even Sejm, which was most organ Commonwealth, did not have its own meeting building, all more evident organization local assemblies. So we are dealing wi...

The advancement in technologies has created threats to content nobility and copyright protection. So, digital watermarking is possibly good technique in empowering the content protection. Different techniques have been proposed by the researchers till now for the security of the host image by embedding watermark in it. But, still the algorithms are not that much secure. To increase the security...

By the early seventeenth century, petitioners at royal court in Madrid who claimed descent from Inca rulers of Peru, Aztec Mexico, and Nasrid emirs Granada found ways to acquire noble status secure rights their ancestral lands form entailed estates. Their success securing title mayorazgos (entailed estates) rested on strategies, used over course several generations, that included marriages with...

We have identified a Y-chromosomal lineage that is unusually frequent in northeastern China and Mongolia, in which a haplotype cluster defined by 15 Y short tandem repeats was carried by approximately 3.3% of the males sampled from East Asia. The most recent common ancestor of this lineage lived 590 +/- 340 years ago (mean +/- SD), and it was detected in Mongolians and six Chinese minority popu...

This study was preceded by one that brought together old and yet unpublished new information about the life and work of Ivan Daubachy (1766-1848), General Surgeon from Zagreb and his family that has left a distinguished mark in Croatian cultural history. German by origin, Dr Ivan Nepomuk Daubach (orig. Johann Christoph Nepomuk Daubach- Daubachy de Dolje), served in Zagreb as a military doctor o...

In this two part analysis I attempt to answer questions with reference to historical land use and tenurial systems in Bhutan. The first part throws light on the popularly held view that land tenure in Bhutan was feudal prior to the advent of moderisation. By looking at the lived experiences of peasants in Bhutan, as human agents at the nexus of social, political, economic, and ecological forces...