A pollen-based reconstruction of summer temperature in central North America and implications for circulation patterns during medieval times" (2012). a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: medieval climate anomaly temperature reconstruction paleoclimate NAO Wisconsin pollen We present a reconstruction of mean summer temperature for the northern Midwest of the USA based on lacustrine po...

The period of eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is considered as modern period. During this period India passed from medieval to modern age. This period witnessed a remarkable beginning of intellectual activities in India. A number of books on Ayurveda were written. Many British officials and physicians studied the Indian medicine and published their works. A new branch of history of Avur ve ...

175 Further Reading Bulliet, Richward W. (1979) Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period, An Essay in Quantitative History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Hodgson, Marshall G. (1974) The Venture of Islam, Conscience and History in a World Civilization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Lapidus, Ira M. (1988) A History of Islamic Societies. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University P...

Although many of Spain's earliest poetic texts give expression to a female voice, 1 it is not until the fifteenth century that Spain's first female authors are documented.2 It is perhaps for this reason that gender-conscious studies of medieval Spain have been so scarce in relation to those concerning other parts of Europe. Researchers with a feminist perspective have had to limit their investi...

Huntington's disease (HD) is thought to be due to genetically-programmed degeneration of neurons in certain areas of the brain. This degeneration causes uncontrolled movements, loss of intellectual faculties, and emotional disturbances. It is along time since the disease started tormenting human beings, and to date, conventional medications have failed to slow down the progression of HD. ...

This study attempts to address the issue of relative living standards in Portuguese medieval and early 20th century periods. Since the growth of children provides a good measure of environmental quality for the overall population, the skeletal growth profiles of medieval Leiria and early 20th century Lisbon were compared. Results show that growth in femur length of medieval children did not dif...

The localization of motor and sensory activities, the “rete mirabile” and the localization of the mental processes – the seat of the soul – in the ventricles or “cells” of the brain were ancient Greek concepts which were handed down to the middle ages. Although this last concept had not fully matured during classical antiquity its basic elements can be traced to Galen’s works. Even though there...

6th century BCE, probably as part of the expansion into the region of the Persian Achaemenid Empire. Lying on one of the main branches of the ancient Silk Roads, which connected Europe and Africa to the Far East, a succession of cities flourished. By the early medieval period these encompassed over 1,000ha (Fig. 1). The great Islamic city of Sultan Kala, capital of the eastern Islamic world, wa...

The present study is focused on sediment core MD02–2521 in the Gulf of Tehuantepec (GT). This area, situated within Oxygen Minimum Zone (OMZ), rich marine resources due to seasonal upwelling caused by Tehuanos winds and a shallower thermocline representing an important economic sector region; however, has been focus little number studies. Benthic foraminifera (BF) are target proxy reconstruct b...