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In the Ahlen-Falkenberger Moor, District of Cuxhaven beneath layers of peat lays a conserved prehistoric landscapes. For a long time it was assumed that due to its boggy environment the terrain was uninhabited. The ongoing severe peat shrinkage initially caused by the cultivation in the early 20th century revealed megalithic tombs in the bog. Numerous sites of the Funnel Beaker Culture such as megalithic tombs as well as settlements and flat graves can be documented in the surrounding areas. It is the aim of the authors thesis as part of the project “Preserved in the bog” at the Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research to reconstruct the Neolithic landscape based on a combination of archaeological, botanical and geological methods. The sediment descriptions of 215 auger corings provided the groundwork for the reconstruction of the prehistoric landscape. This data set was created as part of the drilling work for the author's master thesis.

How did and does the fate of refugees unfold in internment camps? The contributors to this book facilitate an extensive engagement with the organized, state led, and forced placement of refugees in the past and present. They show the parallels and differences between the practices and types of internment in different countries - while considering the specific historical contexts. Moreover, they highlight the nexus of relationships and agencies which constitute the camps in question as transitory spaces. The contributions consist of analyses of local phenomena or case studies as well as comparative engagements from an international and/or historical perspective.

The museum and heritage sector has been shaken by debates over how to address colonialism, migration, Islamophobia, LGBTI+ and multiple other forms of difference. This major multi-researcher ethnography of museums and heritage in Berlin provides new insight into how ›diversity‹ is understood and put into action in museums and heritage. Exploring new initiatives and approaches, the book shows how these work - or do not - in practice. By doing so, it highlights ways forward - for research and action - for the future. The fieldwork locations on which this book is based include the Humboldt Forum, the Museum of Islamic Art, the Museum für Naturkunde, and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, as well as Berlin streets and protests.

Esta guía de anotación tiene como propósito la identificación, anotación y normalización a SNOMED-CT de información relevante para la caracterización de la severidad de los pacientes con insuficiencia cardíaca, que suele encontrarse en los informes de alta hospitalaria, de hospitales de agudos, en formato de nota clínica redactada en lenguaje natural. El propósito de esta anotación es poder validar un algoritmo propio de procesamiento del lenguaje natural en este tipo de documentos médico-administrativos para un conjunto de entidades clínicas de referencia relacionadas con la caracterización de la severidad de la enfermedad cardíaca. Esta guía se ha elaborado a partir de la identificación, anotación, normalización y extracción de la información clínica relevante de un conjunto de 300 informes de alta de episodios agudos de hospitalización debido a insuficiencia cardíaca en hospitales de agudos, públicamente financiados, en la comunidad autónoma de Aragón. Estos informes fueron extraídos después de solicitud y aprobación del proyecto por el CEIC de Aragón (C.P. - C.I. PI22/244, 3 de mayo de 2022), con la colaboración con la Unidad de Biocomputación del IACS, a partir de BIGAN. Los informes fueron anonimizados durante la extracción y validados para su anotación por el personal de la Unidad de Biocomputación luego de comprobación de la efectividad de la anonimización. El alcance de la guía es la identificación, desambiguación, anotación y extracción de un conjunto de entidades clínicas referentes a hallazgos (i.e., hallazgos ecográficos u otras pruebas clínicas como el cálculo de la fracción de eyección mediante ecocardiografía) y escalas (i.e., Barthel, EVAA, ACC/AHA, ASCVD, etc.), siendo la fracción de eyección la entidad más relevante en la caracterización de la severidad de la enfermedad.

Black Londoners have lived in the city for centuries. This collection brings 10 Black London lives together in an accessible volume to share the diversity of their experiences in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries with new readers. Drawing on the records of the Old Bailey criminal courthouse, these ten carefully selected trials have been chosen to show some of the breadth of Black experience in London during the age of enslavement (c. 1720-1840). The volume includes Black victims, witnesses, and defendants; men, women, and children; sailors, servants, and entertainers; locals, immigrants, and visitors. Some were treated well by the justice system, and others were met with cruelty. Each had their own experience. While the volume contains details of crime and conflict, crime is not the sole focus. The sources also give us glimpses into the daily lives of these Black individuals as they interacted with the city and its inhabitants. We learn where these Black people spent their time, with whom, doing what, and sometimes even what they had in their pockets. Each of the ten cases has been accessibly formatted for classroom use or personal study, and features illustrations by Manon Wright. The sources are arranged like plays, making them easy to read aloud as a means of better understanding the theatre of the courtroom and the power dynamics at play. Dr Crymble offers notes and reflections on tricky or foreign concepts in each case, as well as issues that he has noted through experience that students often misinterpret by making modern assumptions about the past. John Humphreys, 1727 John Cross, 1749 Elizabeth Gift, 1755 Esther Allingham, 1782 John Thomas, 1786 James Wallis, 1801 Dolby Jackson, 1808 Thomas Johnson, 1818 'The Busker' 1831 Louis James Grant, 1840 For serious scholars of Black experience in 18th/19th century London criminal records, the author also recommends the following works: Tim Hitchcock, Robert Shoemaker, Clive Emsley, Sharon Howard, Jamie McLaughlin, et al, the Old Bailey Proceedings Online, 1674-1913 (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8, 2018. Adam Crymble and Emma Azid, 'Black Lives, British Justice: Black People in London Criminal Justice Records, 1720-1841' Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation vol. 2, no 2. (2021): 1-11. Kathleen Chater. Untold Histories: Black People in England and Wales during the Period of the British Slave Trade, c. 1660-1807 (Manchester, 2011). Norma Myers, Reconstructing the Black Past (Frank Cass, 1996). Marika Sherwood. ‘Blacks in the Gordon Riots’, History Today, vol. 47 (1997), 24-28.

The firn core array of the North Greenland Traverse (NGT) provides unique climatic information for North Greenland until the mid 1990ies. In order to extend this climate record into more recent time, some of the drill sites were revisited and extension cores were drilled. The record is a composite of snow liners (from the surface to 1.29 m depth) and a consecutive firn core from 1.47 m depth to 30.00 m depth with a diameter of 75 cm. Density was measured by weighing the 55 cm long bags. Stable oxygen isotopes (δ18O) were measured at the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark. Using raw, un-calibrated dielectrical profiling (DEP) data from the field (NEEM Set-up), volcanic tie points were derived. Together with the smoothed density data and the isotopic composition the record was dated by layer counting. The annual mean values of δ18O were obtained based on this dating. Based on the density measurements and the dating, the annual accumulation rate in water equivalent depth was derived.