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Nanotechnologies for the Life Sciences

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Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

RETURN TO ISSUEPREVAdvertisementNEXTEncyclopedia of Nanoscience and NanotechnologyCite this: Chem. Eng. News 2013, 91, 36, 39Publication Date (Print):September 9, 2013Publication History Published online31 March 2014Published inissue 9 Sept...

Nanotechnologies for environmental cleanup

Excess protein enabled dog domestication during severe Ice Age winters

Abstract Dogs (Canis familiaris) are the first animals to be domesticated by humans and the only ones domesticated by mobile hunter-gatherers. Wolves and humans were both persistent, pack hunters of large prey. They were species competing o...

Characterization of Ancient Tripitaka

Tripitaka is the world’s most comprehensive version of Buddhist sutra. There are limited numbers of Tripitaka currently preserved, most of them present various patterns of degradation. As little is known about the materials and crafts used...

Adult Education and Globally Engaged Trainers: The Case of Vocational Training Institutes

Globalization provides access to people, services, goods, ideas, beliefs and values in a new way and poses fundamental challenges for all areas of education in every country. Education on global issues is a process of individual and collect...

On Some Rare Coins from the Khwarezm Hoard of 13th Century

Two silver dirhams of Khwarezm, dated to 670 AH/1271AD, with an unusual tamga are analyzed in the article. The coins come from a hoard located in the territory of Turkmenistan, the exact place of discovery being unknown. On both coins under...

Agricultural Transformations and Their Influential Factors Revealed by Archaeobotanical Evidence in Holocene Jiangsu Province, Eastern China

The development and adoption of agriculture has been investigated for decades, and remains a central topic within archaeology. However, most previous studies focus on the crop’s domestication centers, leading to gaps in knowledge, particula...

Palaeoenvironments and hominin evolutionary dynamics in southeast Asia

Abstract Secure environmental contexts are crucial for hominin interpretation and comparison. The discovery of a Denisovan individual and associated fauna at Tam Ngu Hao 2 (Cobra) Cave, Laos, dating back to 164–131 ka, allows for environmen...

New femoral evidence from the Afar reveal the early evolution of habitual squatting behaviors in the genus Theropithecus

IntroductionThe femoral anatomy of fossil Theropithecus is poorly known, although it provides critical data for inferring squatting behaviors, a characteristic trait of extant Theropithecus gelada.MethodsHere, we describe and provide functi...

To the question of agriculture in the Ananyino cultural and historical region

The issue of agriculture in the Ananyino cultural and historical region is one of the most acute in modern archaeology of the Volga region in the Early Iron Age. Since the end of the XIX century and up to the 80s of the XX century, it was c...

New Materials From Excavation «Orient» at Olbian Necropolis

At the excavation site in Olbia in 2010—2019 a new sector was investigated in wide areas, which was called the «Orient» after the name of the nearest benchmark. The specific features of this site were established, which was used for burials...

The archaeology of knowledge

The Archaeology of Animals

Ever since the discovery of fossil remains of extinct animals associated with flint implements, bones and other animal remains have been providing invaluable information to the archaeologist. In the last 20 years many archaeologists and zoo...

Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology

the purpose of this meeting is to present new and current research which: shares an empirical methodology of observation and measurement; concerns interdisciplinary studies of art, archaeology, architecture, ancient technology, and conserva...

Archaeological theory an introduction

Contents: Preface: The contradictions of theory; common sense is not enough; The 'new archaeology'; Archaeology as a science; Testing, middle-range theory and ethnoarchaeology; Culture as a system; Looking at thoughts; Postprocessual and in...

Archaeology of Ancient Australia

This book is an introduction to the archaeology of Australia from prehistoric times to the eighteenth century AD. It is the only up-to-date textbook on the subject and is designed for undergraduate courses, based on the author's considerabl...

Primate archaeology

Science-Based Dating in Archaeology

Archaeologists and archaeology students have long since needed an authoritative account of the techniques now available to them, designed to be understood by non-scientists. This book fills the gap and it offers a two-tier approach to the s...

Analysis of Chemical Composition of Non-Ferrous Metal Items from the Ananyino Burial Ground

The article presents results of an analysis conducted by the authors in order to study chemical composition of items from non-ferrous metals found on the Ananyino burial ground. A number of research methods, including OES, XRF and TXRF was ...