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The torchbearers of dark ages
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The return to hill forts in the Dark Ages: what can this tell us about post-Roman Britain?
… and social changes in this archaeologically ‘dark’ period.
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Palaeoecology of human impact in northwest England during the early medieval period: investigating ‘cultural decline’ in the Dark Ages
… and the dismal state of affairs described by the Dark Age historians Gildas (c AD 540) and Bede (AD 731). Traditionally this period has been viewed as a time of chaos in which farmland was abandoned and the population declined, leading to woodland regeneration in many areas. In Northwest England, …
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Historic development of prime numbers
… major sections to this thesis, Ancient times, Dark Ages, and Modern times. The ancient time's section has topics on the `Ishango Bone', `Rhine Papyrus' with an investigation of Egyptian fractions, and Euclid's Elements where the proof of the existence of an infinite number of primes was first …
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Cultural and Intellectual Responses to the Black Death
… above the so-called cultural and intellectual "Dark Ages." That advancement was threatened with the arrival of the Black Death in 1347. Chapter one details the correlation between the spread of the plague and the location of the first universities. It also examines the expansion of the …
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Bastions of turf : frisians, terpen and the re-adoption of a "working" landscape
… During the great demographic decline of the "Dark Ages" the terpen were largely abandoned by their builders. New migrants, the Frisians, migrated into the area and readopted the terpen landscape. Because the older landscape pattern was compatible with the Frisian social economy and subsistence …
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A redefined feminine from paleolithic to twenty-first century through children's literature & film
… examples of the feminine survival through the Dark Ages in Lithuanian <em>Dainos</em> and folktales “Queen of the Serpents,” “Ashputtle,” and “The White Cat.” In the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, the feminine is redefined through female writers like Edgeworth, Potter, …
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Preliminary work for three-dimensional imaging of the epoch of reionization with interferometers
… well as the standard cosmological model in the Dark Ages and the Epoch of Reionization via both the power spectrum and direct imaging [4]. In order to get three-dimensional images from calibrated inteferometer data, we develop a mapping algorithm called Direct Inversion Matrix (DIM) (151, [6]) …
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Recreating Beowulf’s “Pregnant Moment of Poise”: Pagan Doom and Christian Eucatastrophe Made Incarnate in the Dark Age Setting of The Lord of the Rings
… a brief period of “fusion” which occurred in the Dark Ages as paganism was in decline and Christianity on the rise, when the dueling notions of Doom and salvation briefly coexisted in the hearts and minds of the Anglo-Saxon people. Derived from a careful study of Tolkien’s fiction, lectures, …
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Recreating Beowulf’s “Pregnant Moment of Poise”: Pagan Doom and Christian Eucatastrophe Made Incarnate in the Dark Age Setting of The Lord of the Rings
… a brief period of “fusion” which occurred in the Dark Ages as paganism was in decline and Christianity on the rise, when the dueling notions of Doom and salvation briefly coexisted in the hearts and minds of the Anglo-Saxon people. Derived from a careful study of Tolkien’s fiction, lectures, …
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EXCALIBRATE Bayesian calibration for data-intensive astrophysical experimentation
… targeting early time periods such as the Dark Ages, Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionisation. Included are the designs and practical considerations for a receiver unit housing numerous calibration standards, a compact microcontroller unit, portable vector network analyser and Peltier-based …
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21 cm cosmology with optimized instrumentation and algorithms
… during that period, it is called the cosmic "dark ages". 21 cm cosmology is the study of the high redshift universe using the hyperfine transition of neutral hydrogen, and it has the potential to probe that unchartered volume of our universe and the ensuing cosmic dawn, placing unprecedented …
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Sovranità Imperiale. Dal Simbolismo all'Espressione Architettonica nella Cultura di Corte Bizantina, Carolingia e Islamica (VIII-X secolo d.C.)
… theologians throughout Late Antiquity and the Dark Ages: these efforts brought the codification of King Solomon’s throne and throne hall as an ultimate, universal symbol of majesty. The basic interpretation of the throne liturgy as a ceremonial judgment was wrapped by a concretion of meanings …
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Aristotle’s journey to Europe: A synthetic history of the role played by the Islamic Empire in the transmission of Western educational philosophy sources from the fall of Rome through the medieval period
… generally in Western Europe during the so-called Dark Ages. In the eastern portion of the former Roman Empire, the attitude toward Greek philosophy was tempered by the imperial authority of Constantinople and eastern Christianity, and ranged from cautious acceptance to occasionally active …
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Conceptual design of HADES a CubeSat conducting radio astronomy in lunar orbit
The “HI Absorption in the Dark agES” (HADES) mission proposes a novel CubeSat architecture to address one of the most significant challenges in modern cosmology: the detection of the redshifted 21 cm neutral hydrogen signal from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization. Observations in the 1 to …
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Inoperative Poetics: Lyric And Anarchy In The Era Of Financialization
… Chapter III: Phenomenology of the Dark Ages………………………………………….……108 Chapter IV: Love in the Time of the Value-Form……………………………………….……166 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………….233 Works Cited…………………………………………………………………………………...239 v
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Climatic signals and frequencies in the Swedish Time Scale, River Ångermanälven, Central Sweden
… climate succession, i.e. the Roman Warm Period, Dark Ages Cold Period, Medieval Warm Period, Little Ice Age and Contemporary Warm Period. Non-stationary frequencies in the sub decadal, decadal and centennial bands have been detected in the 2000 year long geometric mean varve series. Sub decadal …
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Spectroscopic studies of star-forming galaxies and the intergalactic medium in the early Universe
… aiming to shed light on the early evolutionary stages of galaxies and their contribution to Cosmic Reionisation. Using cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, I consider the prospects of mapping the intergalactic medium (IGM) in the most prominent hydrogen emission line, Lyman-α. Turning to …
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The Development and evaaluation of photo-antimicrobial isoalloxazine dyes towards infection control
… of 0.25 mM/mL was achieved for S. aureus in darkness and in blue light without the polymer support. Additionally, when these compounds were linked to a polymer support (mimicking a bandage), antimicrobial activity was retained when irradiated using blue light at 1.0 mM/mL. These results show …
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