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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Wari"”.
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Investigating 1500 Years of Dietary Change in the Lower Ica Valley, Peru Using an Isotopic Approach
… Nasca, the spread of influence by the highland Wari empire and the local development of the Ica-Chincha trading society. Yet very little is known about the daily life of the individuals who inhabited this area. By reconstructing their diets it has been possible to examine the economic and land …
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Memory, Identity, and the Role of Revival: Tracing Changes in Material Culture of the Ica Society on the Peruvian South Coast (c. 1000–1600 CE)
… such as the disintegration of the expansionist Wari polity (c. 1000 CE) and the collapse of the Inca Empire (c. 1532 CE). Changes in Ica material culture are analysed through multiple generations over a 600-year time span, allowing for the investigation of the relationships between social …
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Partially Observable Markov Process Decision Modeling for the Optimal Maintenance of Oil and Gas Pipelines
Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) frameworks are employed across various fields. This dissertation studies the applications of POMDP for maintaining oil and gas pipelines. Pipeline maintenance operations comprise several uncertain elements, especially when addressing …
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Infection and Complexity Embodied on Enamel: Oral Health and Dental Pathology at Ancón, Peru
… Middle Horizon research that understands Wari influence as variable throughout their sphere of influence rather than uniformly imposed; Andean foodways scholarship that treats dietary practices as socially meaningful technologies of community and political relationship-building; and …
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Medical consequences in endurance sports - Two Oceans Marathon longitudinal study : an evaluation of participation guidelines in runners presenting with symptoms of acute illness before competition
… non-participation and the potential effects of WARI (wheezing after respiratory tract infection). Evidence supporting the two aspects of the neck check is reviewed: the presumed safety of exercising with localised URT symptoms, and the perceived risk of exercising with lower respiratory tract or …