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UNIMUSEUM

UNIMUSEUM is an international, scientific, open access periodical published in accordance with independent, un- biased, and double-blinded peer-review principles. The journal is the official publication of NikArt and International University Museums Association and it is published twice a year. The publication languages of the journal are English and Turkish.

Volume 1 - Issue 1 - Jul 2018

1. The Role of University Museums
   Pages 1 - 4 Fethiye ERBAY
2. Türk Yazı Tarihi Müzesi / Astana Kazakistan
   Pages 5 - 10 Salih Doğan
3. Comparison Between Kandilli Observatory Museum and Galileo Museum
   Pages 11 - 17 Mutlu ERBAY
4. METU SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COLLECTION: DETAILS FROM ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXHIBITIONS
   Pages 18 - 26 İlker KOÇ
5. Museums of Latvia University
   Pages 27 - 30 Nuri Özer ERBAY
6. Architectural Design of the Architectural Design of the Complex of Sultan Bayezid II – Health Museum
   Pages 31 - 37
   Hakan AKINCI

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Editor's note: We are pleased to be able to host the The Scholars in Press series, originally started back in 2015, here at Koine-Greek.com. In time, we hope that we'll be able to continue the series with new interviews with more scholars working on Greek and Hebrew linguistics. We look forward to continuing the tradition. And some of you, readers, can expect to hear from us asking to participate, we're sure.

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RITTO, JAPAN—The Asahi Shimbunreports that circular roof tiles decorated with flowers and pieces of ornamental ridges have been unearthed at what may have been the site of a late seventh-century Buddhist temple at the Hachiya archaeological site in Shiga Prefecture. The ornaments are similar to those found in the Horyuji temple compound, and the Chuguji temple ruins, which are both located to the south, in Nara Prefecture. The tiles from all of the sites are thought to have been made with the same wooden mold. The area surrounding the Hachiya ruins was once ruled by the Mononobe clan, who were opposed to the spread of Buddhism and were pushed out of power by the Soga clan in the late sixth century. Shotoku Taishi, who lived from A.D. 574 to 622, fought on the side of the Soga clan. He built the famed Buddhist Horyuji temple in 607. The tiles suggest he may have also built a temple on the Mononobe lands, which had been awarded to him. “The discovery (in Ritto) is physical evidence that the temple was founded under the strong influence of the Horyuji temple,” explained Hiromichi Hayashi of the University of Shiga Prefecture. To read about another recent discovery in Japan, go to “Samurai Nest Egg.”

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vicus (m. pl. vici)

A civil settlement outside a fort. CIL XI, 4748; XIII, 7335. [Johnson 1983]

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vigil (m. pl. vigiles)

1. A guard or sentry (Caes., BG 8.35; Livy 44.33.8); 2. a member of the military watch and fire brigade in Rome, which was formed into seven cohorts under the Principate (Suet., Aug. 30.1). [Goldsworthy 2003]

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vigilium (n. pl. vigilia)

A night watch, each night being divided into four (the length of which depended upon the time of year and was monitored using a clepsydra or horologium). Veg., DRM 3.8; Livy 5.44.7. [Goldsworthy 2003]

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Remember, "Somewher else", it is now 15 years of this:

Bagdhad Post December 2017 Head of US occupation in Iraq Paul Bremer announces capture of Saddam Hussein (13th Dec 2003)

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Astronomers have cataloged nearly 4,000 exoplanets in orbit around distant stars. Though the discovery of these newfound worlds has taught us much, there is still a great deal we do not know about the birth of planets and the precise cosmic recipes that spawn the wide array of planetary bodies we have already uncovered, including so-called hot Jupiters, massive rocky worlds, icy dwarf planets, and -- hopefully someday soon -- distant...

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Permafrost thaw slumps in the western Canadian Arctic are releasing record amounts of mercury into waterways, according to new research by University of Alberta ecologists. Methyl mercury is being released into environments such as this one, on the Peel Plateau in the Northwest Territories, Canada [Credit: Scott Zolkos]Mercury is a naturally occuring contaminant that is toxic to humans and other animals in large quantities as it...

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Modern meat chickens are a defining feature of the Anthropocene according to new research by Dr Carys Bennett and colleagues from the University of Leicester in conjunction with Nottingham Trent University, the University of Nottingham and North West University, South Africa. Consumption of chickens signals new geological epoch according to new research [Credit: University of Leicester]The Anthropocene is the proposed new geological...

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For nearly 100 years biologists have argued about how exactly natural selection can possibly work. If nature selects the individuals with the best genes then why aren't all organisms the same? What maintains the genetic variation that natural selection acts upon, the genetic variation that has ultimately led to the spectacular diversity of life on Earth today? Recent findings made at Uppsala University suggest that the answer could be...

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Thyalacoleo carnifex, the "marsupial lion" of Pleistocene Australia, was an adept hunter that got around with the help of a strong tail, according to a study in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Roderick T. Wells of Flinders University and Aaron B. Camens of the South Australia Museum, Adelaide. These insights come after newly-discovered remains, including one nearly complete fossil specimen, allowed these researchers to reconstruct...

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In the beginning, life was small. For billions of years, all life on Earth was microscopic, consisting mostly of single cells. Then suddenly, about 570 million years ago, complex organisms including animals with soft, sponge-like bodies up to a meter long sprang to life. And for 15 million years, life at this size and complexity existed only in deep water. More than 570 million years ago, in the Ediacaran period, complex organisms...

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Studying fossil tooth enamel, German researchers from the Senckenberg research institutes and Goethe University Frankfurt discovered that the early hominins Homo rudolfensis and the so-called Nutcracker Man, Paranthropus boisei, who both lived around 2.4 million years ago in Malawi, were surprisingly adaptable and changed their diet according to the availability of regional resources. Being this versatile contributed to their ability...

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Fishermen would be puzzled if they netted only big and little fish, but few medium-sized fish. Astronomers likewise have been perplexed in conducting a census of star-hugging extrasolar planets. They have found hot Jupiter-sized planets and hot super-Earths (planets no more than 1.5 times Earth's diameter). These planets are scorching hot because they orbit very close to their star. But so-called "hot Neptunes," whose atmospheres are...

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December 13, 2018, 2:51 am

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A new study by researchers at the University of Salford has shown that fossils are likely to be key to fulfilling a prediction made by Charles Darwin more than 160 years ago. The first evolutionary tree Charles Darwin ever drew, and a composite image of mammal diversity [Credit: WikiCommons]In an 1857 letter to Thomas Huxley, Darwin wrote "The time will come I believe when we shall have very fairly true genealogical trees of each...

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Our understanding of when the very first animals started living on land is helped by identifying trace fossils -- the tracks and trails left by ancient animals -- in sedimentary rocks that were deposited on the continents. Trackways [Credit: Anthony Shillito]Geoscientists Anthony P. Shillito and Neil S. Davies of the University of Cambridge studied the site of what has widely been accepted as the earliest set of non-marine trackways,...

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Smithsonian scientists and collaborators are revising the history of one of the world's most important crops. Drawing on genetic and archaeological evidence, researchers have found that a predecessor of today's corn plants still bearing many features of its wild ancestor was likely brought to South America from Mexico more than 6,500 years ago. Farmers in Mexico and the southwestern Amazon continued to improve the crop over thousands...

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New laboratory techniques can identify which of our genes are influenced by DNA snippets that are left behind in our genetic code by viruses, a new study finds. Credit: KTSimage/iStockphotoViruses have long been known to reproduce by using the genetic machinery of the cells they invade. As part of that process over time, these microorganisms have left behind thousands of DNA sequences, called transposons, throughout the genetic...

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