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The concept of the Augustan City in Hispania Citerior (2020)
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Investigating the ancient Roman cities, we start out looking for the ideal type matching the predefined concept of the city. This ideal type is the result of a dialectic between Augustan sources, archaeological focus and nineteenth century concepts.... Read More about The concept of the Augustan City in Hispania Citerior.

From chairman to leader: the selection of Labour leaders by the Parliamentary Labour Party, 1906–80 (2020)
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Migrant urbanism in gulf citie: S a reality without vision? (2020)
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To a large extent recent urbanization in the Gulf region has been shaped by the distinctive roles of local governance and extensive international migration. New models of governance, such as urban entrepreneurialism and various forms of public-privat... Read More about Migrant urbanism in gulf citie: S a reality without vision?.

State of the art in logics for verification of resource-bounded multi-agent systems (2020)
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Approaches to the verification of multi-agent systems are typically based on games or transition systems defined in terms of states and actions. However such approaches often ignore a key aspect of multi-agent systems, namely that the agents’ actions... Read More about State of the art in logics for verification of resource-bounded multi-agent systems.

Sermons and Preaching (2020)
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Preaching has always been central to the dissenting Protestant tradition. The fact that sermons were a crucial means of mass communication ensured that ‘hotter Protestants’ would be locked in a perpetual struggle with the ecclesiastical and political... Read More about Sermons and Preaching.

The Function of Seven Transmembrane Receptors in the Cardiovascular System and Their Role in the Development of Cardiomyopathy (2020)
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The G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs, also called seven-transmembrane receptor, 7TMRs, or heptahelical receptor) are a conserved family of seven transmembrane receptors which are essential not only in the healthy heart and blood vessels but also in... Read More about The Function of Seven Transmembrane Receptors in the Cardiovascular System and Their Role in the Development of Cardiomyopathy.

The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement Response to the West African Ebola Outbreak 2014 (2020)
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Adrian Zuckerman's New Evidence Scholarship (2020)
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Poverty and Children’s Rights (2020)
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This chapter addresses the ever-deepening relationship between child poverty and child rights. In doing so, it takes as its central focus the best known and most important child rights instrument, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). T... Read More about Poverty and Children’s Rights.

Chronology and Time: Northern European Coastal Settlements and Societies, c. 500-1050 (2020)
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This contribution uses material culture, textual sources and associated social practices to explore how cycles of time and memory influenced the development of coastal societies and their expressions of identity in northwest Europe, between c. 500 an... Read More about Chronology and Time: Northern European Coastal Settlements and Societies, c. 500-1050.

Investigation into Whether Proximal Suspensory Desmitis of the Hindlimb Could Predispose Horses to Sacroiliac Disease (2020)
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Musical Portraits of St Guthlac (2020)
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The Three Ages of Utmost Good Faith (2020)
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Support Vector Regression for Multi-objective Parameter Estimation of Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Systems (2020)
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© 2020, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. This paper presents a support vector regression-based multi-objective parameter estimation method for interval type-2 fuzzy systems, which deals with prediction interval rather than its crisp output value. S... Read More about Support Vector Regression for Multi-objective Parameter Estimation of Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Systems.

One child policy, China (2020)
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China’s one-child policy is renowned as the most aggressive and comprehensive population policy in the world. Introduced in China in 1979 at a time of high labour surplus, unemployment, and poverty, the policy sought to minimise the negative effects... Read More about One child policy, China.

Early Mamlūk Ashʿarism against Ibn Taymiyya on the Nonliteral Reinterpretation (taʾwīl) of God’s Attributes (2020)
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Modern research on theological production in the early Mamlūk sultanate of Egypt and Syria has focused primarily on the prolific Ḥanbalī theologians Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 751/1350).2 This does not mean, however, th... Read More about Early Mamlūk Ashʿarism against Ibn Taymiyya on the Nonliteral Reinterpretation (taʾwīl) of God’s Attributes.

The afterlives of Bede’s tribal names in English place-names (2020)
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Bede famously traced the origins of the Anglo-Saxons back to three of the strongest Germanic “tribes”: They came from three very powerful Germanic tribes [de tribus Germaniae populis fortioribus], the Saxons [Saxonibus], Angles [Anglis], and Jute... Read More about The afterlives of Bede’s tribal names in English place-names.

Youth inclusion and cultural diversity (2020)
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This chapter discusses a range of theoretical and practical issues concerning processes of inclusion of young people from “culturally diverse” backgrounds. It first presents some of the main available indicators of young people’s exclusion and review... Read More about Youth inclusion and cultural diversity.

Roots or Flowers? Take a Guess (2020)
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Phosphorus is a growth-limiting nutrient for plants. The use of phosphate (Pi) fertiliser is unsustainable because its stocks are non-renew-able and the run-off of surplus fertiliser damages the environment.

Regulation of Public Private-Partnership in China: the search for Coherence, Consistence and Certainty (2020)
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