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Potential Applications of Nanotechnology for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer

Joshua eMcCarroll, Joshua eMcCarroll, Joann eTeo, Joann eTeo et al. • Frontiers in Physiology (2014)

Despite improvements in our understanding of pancreatic cancer and the emerging concept of personalized medicine for the treatment of this disease, it is still the fourth most common cause of cancer death in the western world. It is establi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00002

Roles of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) in the pathogenesis of diabetic kidney disease (DKD)

Zhi Zheng, Yunkuo Li, Yujie Pan • Cell Death Discovery (2026)

Abstract Diabetic kidney disease (DKD), a prevalent microvascular complication of diabetes, is a leading cause of chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease. Moreover, it plays a crucial role in the morbidity and mortality of diabet...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41420-026-03117-8

Palaeoenvironments and hominin evolutionary dynamics in southeast Asia

Anne-Marie Bacon, Nicolas Bourgon, Elise Dufour, Fabrice Demeter et al. • Scientific Reports (2023)

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...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-43011-2

The Archaeology of Animals

Simon Davis • Routledge eBooks (2012)

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203060131

The Archaeology of Rank

Paul K. Wason • Cambridge University Press eBooks (1994)

Social archaeology is concerned with how one might use the archaeological record of the present to elucidate how social interactions were ordered in a past society. This requires a meaningful model of society, considerable archaeological da...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511521195

Archaeology of Death

Robert Chapman, Ian Kinnes, Klavs Randsborg (1981)

List of contributors Preface 1. Approaches to the archaeology of death Robert Chapman and Klavs Randsborg 2. The search for rank in prehistoric burials James A. Brown 3. Social configurations and the archaeological study of mortuary practic...

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The Craft of Archaeology

Michael Shanks, Randall H. McGuire • American Antiquity (1996)

The idea of archaeology as craft challenges the separation of reasoning and execution that characterizes the field today. The Arts and Crafts Movement of the late nineteenth century established craftwork as an aesthetic of opposition. We es...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0002731600050046

The Archaeology of the Caribbean

Samuel M. Wilson • Cambridge University Press eBooks (2007)

A comprehensive synthesis of Caribbean prehistory from the earliest settlement by humans more than 4000 years BC, to the time of European conquest of the islands. The Caribbean was the last large area in the Americas to be populated, and it...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511816505

Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology

Hisao Mabuchi, Edward V. Sayre, Pamela B. Vandiver, James R. Druzik et al. • Studies in Conservation (1991)

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...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1506337

Principles of Archaeological Stratigraphy

A. J. B. Humphreys, Edward Cecil Harris • The South African Archaeological Bulletin (1981)

This book is the only text devoted entirely to archaeological stratigraphy, a subject of fundamental importance to most studies in archaeology. The first edition appeared in 1979 as a result of the invention, by the author, of the Harris Ma...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3888021

The archaeology of death and burial

• Choice Reviews Online (2000)

The archaeology of death and burial is central to our attempts to understand vanished societies. Through the remains of funerary rituals we learn not only about prehistoric people's attitudes toward death and the afterlife but also about th...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.37-6337

A Marxist Archaeology

Randall H. McGuire • Eliot Werner Publications eBooks (2002)

A brief history of Marxism archaeology and Marxism the dialectic - Marxism as a theory of internal relations the making of history history and evolution death and society in a Hohokam community critical archaeology - archaeology and the van...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2sx9gbs

Archaeology as Human Ecology

Karl W. Butzer • Cambridge University Press eBooks (1982)

Archaeology as Human Ecology is a new introduction to concepts and methods in archaeology. It deals not with artifacts, but with sites, settlements, and subsistence. Karl W. Butzer's goal is to interpret the ecosystem of which an archaeolog...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511558245

Handbook of Archaeological Sciences

A. Mark Pollard, Don R. Brothwell • University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (2001)

List of Contributors. Foreword: Martin Aitken FRS. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Archaeological Science: A current Perspective (D. Brothwell & A. Pollard). DATING.Overview -- Dating in Archaeology: Past, Present and Future (R. Hedges). Qu...

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Media Archaeology

Erkki Huhtamo, Jussi Parikka • University of California Press eBooks (2011)

This book introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media - one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media were written about, used, designed, preserved, and sometimes discarded. Edited by Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520948518

The archaeology of knowledge

Gary M. Gutting • Cambridge University Press eBooks (1989)

It would be too much to claim that the histories of thought Foucault wrote before the methodological reflections of AK were, from the beginning, part of a single coherent project. He himself remarks that it was only after finishing OT that ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139172141.008

Nomads in Archaeology

Roger Cribb • Cambridge University Press eBooks (1991)

Nomads in Archaeology addresses the problem of how to study mobile peoples using archaeological techniques. It therefore deals not only with the prehistory and archaeology of nomads but also with current issues in theory and methodology, pa...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511552205

ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE BODY

Rosemary A. Joyce • Annual Review of Anthropology (2005)

Under the influence of phenomenological approaches, a semiotic perspective on the body is being replaced in archaeology by analysis of the production and experience of lived bodies in the past through the juxtaposition of traces of body pra...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.anthro.33.070203.143729