Increasing rhino awareness in Yemen and a decline in the rhino horn trade by Lucy Vigne, Esmond Martin

“… In Yemen, the wholesale price for rhino horn for making dagger handles has remained at about USD 1,500/kg since 2006, unlike in eastern Asia where prices are over 10 times higher than in Yemen. …”
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Causes of death among the Ceasars (27 BC-AD 476) by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…Seven emperors abdicated before death brought an end to their rule — only 2 died of natural causes. 30 of the 33 murdered were killed by the sword or dagger (5 were beheaded), one was strangled, one was hanged and one was killed by stoning. …”
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Interpretation of Fiore dei Liberi’s Spear Plays by Jakob Dobi

“…As a conclusion, considering context and illustrations of spear fencing, I argue that the spear is only to be considered paired with other weapons, like dagger, or sword. In fact, following Fiore’s logic, we can assume he used the spear to close the distance to use a weapon he feels more in control with.…”
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Investigating the Early Bronze Age II settlement at Hacılar Büyük Höyük (Burdur, Türkiye) by Gülsün Umurtak

“…In addition to these, metal finds such as an iron dagger with a wooden handle and traces of cotton weaving on it, and a gold earplug provide valuable information and insights into the unique cultural, social and economic dimensions of the settlement. …”
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Buddhist Ritual Attributes and Symbols in Russian and Foreign Historiography by N. G. Alfonso

“…The author dwells on the analysis of historiography by separate groups of ritual attributes and symbols - altar decorations, the prayer wheel and the Phur-pa - Tibetan ritual dagger. It is proved that until now only certain aspects of ritual attributes - external form, function in ritual, symbolic load - were studied by scientists. …”
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Social-moral problems of modernity in autobiographical stories of Osman Korkmasov by Tamara Sh. Bittirova

“…The article introduces for the first time in scientific circulation creativity of Osman Korkmasov – author of three books prose - «And I had a home», «Timur», «Dagger», representative of Karachaevo-Balcarus near abroad, in which an attempt is made at artistic historical retrospective on several topics. …”
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Investigating the Early Bronze Age II settlement at Hacılar Büyük Höyük (Burdur, Türkiye) by Gülsün Umurtak

“…In addition to these, metal finds such as an iron dagger with a wooden handle and traces of cotton weaving on it, and a gold earplug provide valuable information and insights into the unique cultural, social and economic dimensions of the settlement. …”
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Planetary boundaries for recalcitrant materials and toxic chemical pollutants: specifications for sustainable safe operating zones by Oladele A. Ogunseitan

“…The USEPA administrator boasted further: “We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion to drive down cost of living for American families, unleash American energy, bring auto jobs back to the U.S. and more.” …”
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The Plot of Heroic Battle in Buryat Versions of Epic about Geser by Liudmila S. Dampilova, Evdokia E. Khabunova

“…The use of variants of the motive of traditional types of wrestling and archery and new variants of the motive: battle and group battles, fighting with the “force of the point”, that is, with a dagger, a spear is revealed in the article. A comparative typological analysis of the motive fund in one plot in different versions establishes the preservation and transformation of the epic text, a feature of the regional variants of the national epic. …”
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“Devil in Love” by J. Cazotte and “The Elemental Spirit” by E.T.A. Hoffmann: Symbolic and Psychological Interpretation of Motive of Temptation by N. M. Ilchenko, Yu. A. Marinina

“…It describes how the supernatural is introduced into everyday life with the help of symbolic images: a mirror, a dagger, a dream, a mother, etc. It is emphasized that the motive of temptation in conjunction with the motives of trial, fall, suffering, fate create a kind of “circle”. …”
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Jewelry Set Design Based on the Adaptation of the Keris Shape by Chairunnisa Rania Humaira, Edwin Buyung Syarif, Fajar Sadika

“…One form of culture that we have is the keris. Keris is a kind of dagger that functions as a weapon or spiritual object. …”
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Traditional Hunting Practices of the Bugun Tribe of Arunachal Pradesh by Ritter Basar

“…The indigenous hunting implements used by the Buguns were bow Rag or Rakht, an arrow Met or Mat, Spears Jheong, dagger Sharong, and dao Mudhua. Hunting implements were regarded very sacred as it was accustomed with various rituals and sacrifices which were meant for acquiring food for the family and community. …”
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Wood identification in objects of Bambuti people from the Congo in the collection of the Slovene ethnographic museum by Katarina Čufar, Hans Beeckman, Marko Frelih, Luka Krže, Wannes Hubau, Maks Merela

“…The investigated musical instrument, a wooden zither, was made of wood of Musanga cecropioides, the handle of the shield of Alstonia sp., the dagger and sheath of Autranella congolensis or another high density species of Sapotaceae, and the crossbow of Nauclea diderichii (bow) and Xylopia sp. …”
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Bursa Keles Kemaliye Village Mosque and Its Wall Paintings by Şeyda Algaç

“…In addition to the bouquets that can be seen in many religious and civil buildings on the sheets, the city of Mecca with the Kaaba in the center, the descriptions of the cities with large gates, a baldachin tomb with sarcophagus and destard coin-style tombstone in which a Mevlevi crown is used as a heading, were sarcophagus on which flags and battle-axe are placed diagonally, cypress, fruit trees, bunches of spikes, sliced watermelon with the cap cut off and dagger were placed. In the paper, it was attempted to introduce the wall paintings and writing program of the Kemaliye village mosque by considering the mystic environment in the village and examining its possible symbolic meanings. …”
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Tin isotope ratios in Early and Middle Bronze Age bronzes from central and southeastern Europe by Bianka Nessel, Gerhard Brügmann, Ernst Pernicka

“…In addition, the tin isotopic compositions of a dagger and an axe from Crete were examined. Considering the large geographical distance between the finds a major research question was, whether the tin isotope composition of central and southeastern European bronzes differ, and whether the isotopic compositions of the Aegean bronzes differ from those of the Carpathian Basin. …”

Implementing semiclassical Szegedy walks in classical-quantum circuits for homomorphic encryption by Sergio A Ortega, Pablo Fernández, Miguel A Martin-Delgado

“…We also investigate the $T/T^{\dagger}$ -gate complexity associated with various quantum walks, particularly Szegedy quantum and semiclassical algorithms, demonstrating efficient homomorphic implementations across different graph structures. …”
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Technology: Negotiating Tomorrow’s Armed Conflict and Terrorism in West Africa by Bukola Adeyemi OYENIYI

“…Those activities include tactical efforts like mobilizing crowds, disseminating ideologies, recruiting strategic assets, and sharing technical know-how, and have facilitated the transformation of Boko Haram from a dagger-wielding, arrow-shooting group into a deployer of mobile-phone-triggered IEDs, coordinating simultaneous attacks on multiple targets. …”
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Artistic Horizons of Zhagafar Tokumayev's Creativity by Alena М. Sarbasheva

“…The article focuses on the trilogy of J. Tokumaeva's "Dagger of Revenge", recognized as the first experience of artistic cyclization in Balkar novelistics. …”
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GeoDGP: One‐Hour Ahead Global Probabilistic Geomagnetic Perturbation Forecasting Using Deep Gaussian Process by Hongfan Chen, Gabor Toth, Yang Chen, Shasha Zou, Zhenguang Huang, Xun Huan

“…Comparisons with the first‐principles Michigan Geospace model and the data‐driven DAGGER model revealed that GeoDGP significantly outperforms both across multiple performance metrics.…”
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A Study on Outdoor Thermal Comfort During Military Training for College Freshmen: A Survey in a Cold Region of China by Hongchi Zhang, Liangshan You, Bingru Chen, Yuqiu Wang, Fei Guo, Peisheng Zhu

“…Questionnaires and microclimate measurements were conducted during summer military training in cold regions, including the Protective and Rescue Training and Assessment (PRTA), Formation Training (FT), the Shooting and Tactical Training and Assessment (STTA), the Route March (RM), and Dagger Practice (DP). The results indicated that (1) there was no significant correlation between the intensity of the activity and votes on thermal perception. …”
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