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- The collapse of complex human societies remains poorly understood and current theories fail to model important features of historical examples of collapse. Relationships among resources, capital, waste, and production form the basis for an ecological model of collapse in which production fails to meet maintenance requirements for existing capital. Societies facing such crises after having depleted essential resources risk catabolic collapse, a self-reinforcing cycle of contraction converting most capital to waste. This model allows key features of historical examples of collapse to be accounted for, and suggests parallels between successional processes in nonhuman ecosystems and collapse phenomena in human societies.
- This quote from Charity Majors is probably the best summary of the current state of observability in the tech industry - a total, mass confusion. Everyone is confused. What is a trace? What is a span? Is log line a span? Do I need traces if I have logs? Why I need traces if I have great metrics?
- The Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database was created to collect, organize, and display historical representations of medieval monuments and cities in southern Italy for the purposes of study and research.
- CHARTA se concibe como un proyecto global para la edición y análisis lingüístico de textos archivísticos en español de los siglos XII al XIX.
- Conventions of presentation are required to enable you accurately to represent a manuscript text, either for your own record, or when you quote from a manuscript source in scholarly work.
- "Secretary hand" is the name for the dominant form of handwriting used by writers of the English language from the late 15th through the mid-17th century.
- Sine, one of the fundamental trigonometric functions, plays a crucial role in various fields, including mathematics, physics, engineering, and computer science. Its calculation is not trivial, especially when it comes to implementing it in electronic calculators, where efficiency and accuracy are paramount.
- The Atlas of Early Printing is an interactive site designed to be used as a tool for teaching the early history of printing in Europe during the second half of the fifteenth century. While printing in Asia pre-dates European activity by several hundred years, the rapid expansion of the trade following the discovery of printing in Mainz, Germany around the middle of the fifteenth century is a topic of great importance to the global history of communications, technology, and the dissemination of knowledge.
- The project ‘The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages’ will show the importance of medieval reading culture as a European movement by bringing together (digitised) manuscripts produced between c. 500 and c. 1550 from across Europe, unlocking their educational potential by curational and editorial enrichment, using innovative ways for displaying and handling digital objects in an educational context.
- A web app that works out how many seconds ago something happened. How hard can coding that be? Tom Scott explains how time twists and turns like a twisty-turny thing. It's not to be trifled with!
- The word “manuscript” from the Latin words manus (hand) and scriptus (writing) literally means “written by hand.” Before the invention of printing, copies of books had to be handwritten. A scribe would obtain a book to copy and painstakingly write out every word, in ink with a quill pen.
- A destination for discovery, shared exploration, and sheer joy, Oculi Mundi is the online home of The Sunderland Collection of antique maps and atlases.
- The Parvum lexicon stemmatologicum (PLS) is a scholarly digital resource providing explanations for technical terms related to stemmatology, a discipline of classical and mediaeval philology aiming at understanding the historical evolution of textual traditions.
- The Patrologia Latina covers the works of the Latin Fathers from Tertullian around 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. In 221 volumes, it covers most major and minor Latin authors, and contains the most influential works of late ancient and early medieval theology, philosophy, history, and literature.
- A digital archive of the Byzantine monuments located in Istanbul as documented and seen from the eyes of five different photographers The Byzantine Monuments Photographs Archive is an ongoing project by Koç University Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (GABAM) to create a digital photographic archive of Byzantine monuments in Istanbul.
- Hidden data hinders book evaluation. Analysing ISBNs in the Global Register of Publishers gains a powerful tool for bibliometrics, policy development, and nuanced book metrics.
- Ce dictionnaire rassemble tous les périodiques de langue française publiés de 1600 à 1789, c'est-à-dire des origines de la presse au début de la Révolution, fixé au 14 juillet 1789. Par périodique, on entendra tout ouvrage imprimé qui prétend, grâce à une publication échelonnée dans le temps, rendre compte de l'actualité.
- e carnet Liturgica se propose d’informer la communauté scientifique de mes découvertes et de mes travaux relatifs à l’étude des manuscrits liturgiques, un domaine de recherche très peu connu, malgré le nombre de manuscrits...
- As a prototype, eCodicesNL provides free online access to 180 medieval (ca 500 – ca 1600) manuscripts from three public collections. It provides a digital infrastructure, enabling research on these manuscripts. eCodicesNL collaborated with e-codices Switzerland (Prof Dr Christoph Flüeler, University of Fribourg) and Fragmentarium (Dr William Duba, University of Fribourg) to structure the metadata in XML-TEI P5.
- By Michael North This post is the second in a series exploring the National Library of Medicine’s rich and varied collection of “herbals,” which are books devoted to the description of medicinal plants (and sometimes other natural substances) with instructions on how to use them to treat illness. The Library’s herbals are some of the…
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- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120 (33): e2302491120 (2023)
- Journal of Machine Learning Research, 24 (43): 1--48 (2023)
- Papers in Palaeontology, 7 (4): 2245-2253 (2021)
- (2021)cite arxiv:2109.00445Comment: Extended paper with additional supporting material.
- Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 49 (1): 1-28 (2011)
- (2021)cite arxiv:2109.01530Comment: 24 pages, 20 figures.
- (2022)cite arxiv:2212.04737Comment: Accepted for publication in the topical issue "Quantum Optics of Light and Matter" of EPJD, Edts. D. Clément, P. Grangier and J. Thywissen.
- Tectonophysics, (2013)
- Nature Geoscience, 4 (11): 735--736 (2011)
- Nature Communications, (2017)
- (2022)cite arxiv:2206.01271Comment: 49 pages, 17 figures, 4 videos.
- (2022)cite arxiv:2212.09196Comment: Published at Nature Human Behaviour (2023) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01659-w.
- The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 945 (2): L31 (March 2023)
- Communications Earth & Environment volume, (June 2023)
- (2023)cite arxiv:2302.13972Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures. SI: 21 pages, 10 figures.
- (2023)cite arxiv:2306.08143Comment: 10 pages, 12 figures.
- (2023)cite arxiv:2306.00287Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, submitted to MNRAS.
- Protein Sci, 13 (7): 1787–1801 (July 2004)
- PeerJ, (2017)
- (2023)cite arxiv:2305.14699.
