THE IMAGERY OF DEATH IN THE VISUAL DISCOURSE OF FRENCH ILLUMINATION OF THE 13TH-15TH CENTURIES: ICONOGRAPHIC TYPOLOGIES AND ARTISTIC PRACTICE

The Imagery of Death in the Visual Discourse of French Illumination of the 13th-15th Centuries: Iconographic Typologies and Artistic Practice

Classical historical and art studies in the context of the development of modern humanities are frequently synthesised with research on visual culture and social art history, forming a broad discourse on the study of the culture of a particular era, country, or community.This optics is taken as the basis for this study, wherein such a fundamental p

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Global Theme Issue: Poverty and Human Development The effect of poverty on access to oral health care in Nigeria

Nigeria is a country with a population of over 140 million people (1).Over 60% of Nigerians live in rural areas.Poverty is especially severe in rural areas where social services and infrastructure are limited or non existent.Africa is the continent where ZINC SPRAY the poorest people in the world live.Nigeria is the most populous black African coun

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Data-Driven Optimised XGBoost for Predicting the Performance of Axial Load Bearing Capacity of Fully Cementitious Grouted Rock Bolting Systems

This article investigates the application of eXtreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) and hybrid metaheuristics optimisation techniques to predict the axial load bearing capacity of fully grouted rock bolting systems.For this purpose, a comprehensive dataset of 72 pull-out tests was built, considering various influential parameters such as three water-t

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