<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>The field of ancient DNA is taxonomically dominated by studies focusing on mammals. This taxonomic bias limits our understanding of endogenous DNA preservation for vertebrate taxa with different bone physiology, such as teleost f...

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>It is said that the quality of a scientific publication is as good as the science it cites, but the properties of high-quality reference lists have never been numerically quantified. We examined seven numerical characteristics of...

Post-marital residence patterns are an important aspect of human social organization. However, identifying such patterns in prehistoric societies is challenging since they leave almost no direct traces in archaeological records. Cross-cultural researchers have attempted...

Existing approaches for automatically generating mathematical word problems are deprived of customizability and creativity due to the inherent nature of template-based mechanisms they employ. We present a solution to this problem with the use of deep neural language gen...

Microliths–small, retouched, often-backed stone tools–are often interpreted to be the product of composite tools, including projectile weapons, and efficient hunting strategies by modern humans. In Europe and Africa these lithic toolkits are linked to hunting of medium-...

Machine Translation (MT) is an area in natural language processing, which focus on translating from one language to another. Many approaches ranging from statistical methods to deep learning approaches are used in order to achieve MT. However, these methods either requi...

There are limited data on the impact of antiretroviral therapy (ART) on population-level adult mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. We analysed data for 2000–14 from the Rakai Community Cohort Study (RCCS) in Uganda, where free ART was scaled up after 2004. Using non-parame...

Nowadays, the study of lithics has gained a special status in prehistoric archaeology and even archaeology of later periods. Shahrake Firouzeh is one of the most important prehistoric settlements ever detected in Neyshabur Plain in Khorasan Razavi Province. In general, ...

s Crowdmap to examine a proof of concept on relevance assessment using a subset of this dataset based on a defined set of queries. The results determined that the thematic and geographic specificities of the queries were 0.44 and 0.67, respectively, which indicated the ...

The thesis investigates how the development of the Norwegian Troll gas field became an integral part of the Cold War, and how Norway coped with the domestic and foreign political issues brought about by Troll’s significance for Western energy security. In 1981, two year...