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Mycobacterium leprae genomes from a British medieval leprosy hospital: towards understanding an ancient epidemic
Stewart Cole, Pushpendra Singh
Background: Leprosy has afflicted humankind throughout history leaving evidence in both early texts and the archaeological record. In Britain, leprosy was widespread throughout the Middle Ages until its gradual and unexplained decline between the 14th and ...
Biomed Central Ltd2014Learning from Vernacular, For a New Vernacular Architecture
The eleven case studies shown at the Munio Gitai Weinraub Architecture Museum present three specific themes that feature in the vernacular architecture of many regions in the bay of the Mediterranean Sea and the Middle East - water management, court dwelli ...
The Munio Gitai Weinraub Architecture Museum2013Detection and Strain Typing of Ancient Mycobacterium leprae from a Medieval Leprosy Hospital
Stewart Cole, Pushpendra Singh
Nine burials excavated from the Magdalen Hill Archaeological Research Project (MHARP) in Winchester, UK, showing skeletal signs of lepromatous leprosy (LL) have been studied using a multidisciplinary approach including osteological, geochemical and biomole ...
Public Library of Science2013Genome-wide comparison of medieval and modern Mycobacterium leprae
Stewart Cole, Andrej Benjak, Philippe Busso, Pushpendra Singh
Leprosy was endemic in Europe until the Middle Ages. Using DNA array capture, we have obtained genome sequences of Mycobacterium leprae from skeletons of five medieval leprosy cases from the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Denmark. In one case, the DNA was so ...
Amer Assoc Advancement Science2013The usability of green building rating systems in hot arid climates: A case study in Siwa, Egypt
In the last three years there has been a proliferation of regional building rating systems across the Middle East. Most those emerging rating systems and labels imitate the British and American rating systems BREEAM and LEED that emerge from an impact redu ...
2013NOMAD - Network of Optimization Modalities in Architectural Design
Marilyne Andersen, Boris Clément Karamata, Loïc Vivien Fumeaux, Dan-Alexis Bolomey
Two pairs of identical experimentation modules are being developed within the framework of a collaborative initiative named NOMAD – Network of Optimization Modalities in Architectural Design - between the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Performance-Integra ...
2011A round robin study of flexible large-area roll-to-roll processed polymer solar cell modules
A round robin for the performance of roll-to-roll coated flexible large-area polymer solar-cell modules involving 18 different laboratories in Northern America, Europe and Middle East is presented. The study involved the performance measurement of the devi ...
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