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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Southwest Asia"”.
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Biosphere-atmosphere interactions over semi-arid regions : modeling the role of mineral aerosols and irrigation in the regional climate system
… in shaping semi-arid climates, namely those of Southwest Asia and Northwest Africa. The interactions between dust emissions, irrigation, and climate processes are studied and quantified using a regional climate model to perform a series of carefully designed numerical experiments. The …
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Neanderthal and Modern Human Adaptations to Climate Change in Southwest Asia: Climate Reconstruction of Marine Isotope Stage 5 to 3 based on small mammal records from Shanidar Cave (Iraqi Kurdistan)
… and the extinction of Neanderthals in Eurasia between 50,000 to 30,000 years BP (Higham et al. 2014). The exact causes of Neanderthal extinction are still widely debated, but one widely considered theory is that Neanderthals were less able to cope with rapid climate change in this period …
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Tests of purchasing power parity
… exchange rates and prices in ten countries in Southwest Asia, Africa, and the Pacific Rim for the post-Bretton Woods period. It uses cointegration tests to investigate the thesis that relative purchasing power parity exists as a long-run equilibrium condition between country-pairs. It expands …
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Investigation of the impact of desalination on the salinity of the Persian Gulf
… is a shallow marginal sea located in a region of Southwest Asia with arid climate. Because of this aridity, evaporation from the Gulf is extremely high (1.84 meters per year) and far exceeds the sum of freshwater inflow to the Gulf, mainly from precipitation and some from river flow. A residual …
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Islamist Radicals in Latin America
… of the War on Terror in the Middle East and Southwest Asia have proven successful at eliminating bases of terrorist organizations, financial structures, and operational capabilities. Perhaps, these efforts may lead terrorists to seek out other regions to begin rebuilding their organizations. …
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Znaczenie kulturowe upraw i komodyfikacji roślin w okresach chalkolitu oraz wczesnej epoki brązu w Azji Południowo-Zachodniej na przykładzie stanowisk Gurga Chiya z późnej fazy kultury Ubaid (Iracki Kurdystan), Kani Shaie z okresu wczesnej epoki brązu (Iracki Kurdystan) oraz Tel Qedesh z okresu wczesnej epoki brązu (Izrael)
… forms of distribution of goods and trade. In the Southwest Asia, the offset between the emergence of agriculture, organised form of the arable fields, and the first cities is significant, and amounts to ca. 5000 years. It is generally agreed that during this period perennial plants (such as olive, …
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Simulation and visualization of malaria transmission In West Africa
… publish and visualize temperature projections in Southwest Asia.
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From order to narrative: assembling eventfulness through Bayesian chronologies. A view from the Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) South Caucasus
… for the archaeology of the South Caucasus and Southwest Asia. In this dissertation, I challenge the notion of “events” as extraordinary happenings in favor of pervasive “eventfulness”, extended to the repeating events that maintain organic and inorganic temporal cycles. Within this framework, I …
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Water and the City: Roman Water Distribution and Use in the Transjordan Decapolis
… how this micro-region was situated within Southwest Asia.</p> <p>The research begins by identifying and documenting known water infrastructure, including channels, cisterns, reservoirs, fountains, and other distribution and storage features, and mapping them to reconstruct how these …
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Colonizing Bodies: a Feminist Science Studies Critique of Anti-Fgm Discourse
… practiced mainly in parts of Africa and Southwest Asia, have revolved around the dual issues of control of female bodies by a male-dominated social order and the health impacts surrounding the psychology of female sexuality and the functioning of female sex organs. As such, the …
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Daimonic Imagery and the Formation of Cultural Consensus in the Neo-Assyrian period (ca. 1000-609 BCE)
… of unprecedented imperial expansion in ancient Southwest Asia. Modern research to reconstruct its political and socio-cultural history has mainly focused on the royal family, the operations of state institutions, and the accumulation of cuneiform scholarship. Less examined is the influence of …
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Introducing Wireless Grids Technology to the Field of Telemedicine
… (TBI) is relatively new. The conflicts in the Southwest Asia over the last two decades have significantly increased the need for healthcare and support services for these returning warriors. Creative thinking and innovative technologies are needed to meet the growing and changing demand of …
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Origins of sedentism: possible roles of ideology and shamanism in the transition
… and political — integral to the transition among Southwest Asian societies who experienced the profound changes involved, identified a nexus between increasing intensity of shamanistically manipulated ideology and progressive decrease in mobility. Furthermore, it reinforced the pivotal role played …
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Origins of sedentism: possible roles of ideology and shamanism in the transition
… and political — integral to the transition among Southwest Asian societies who experienced the profound changes involved, identified a nexus between increasing intensity of shamanistically manipulated ideology and progressive decrease in mobility. Furthermore, it reinforced the pivotal role played …