المميزات اللغوية للهجة الآرامية في فترة التلمود البابلي Linguistic features of the Aramaic Dialects in the Babylonian Talmud by Ala’abd aldayem م. علاء عبد الدايم

“…Aramaic word include linguistic group is rich and complex branching out to the sublime accents uttered by Aramaic groups scattered in various parts of the Fertile Crescent. They took in the use of their own language Aramaic their use expressions such as "Bo" section and "House." …”
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Survey and conservation of crop landraces in northwest Syria by Munzer Al Darvish, Anas Al Kaddour, Akram Bourgol, YASSER ALRAMADAN, Yousef Hallak, Shelagh Kell

“… Syria lies at the heart of the Fertile Crescent – one of the centres of diversity of staple crops such as wheat, barley, chickpea and lentil. …”
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Pastoral Societies of Mardin Province in Southeast Turkey –Some Anthrozoological Aspects by Abu Bakar Siddiq

“…Mardin region is located in the central point of northern Fertile Crescent. Archaeological settlements near and around this region provide the evidence of human-animal relationships in Early Neolithic societies which essentially promoted the early domestication process. …”
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The Importance of Being on Time: Regulatory Networks Controlling Photoperiodic Flowering in Cereals by Fabio Fornara, Vittoria Brambilla, Jorge Gomez-Ariza, Martina Cerise

“…Plants of tropical origin and adapted to short day lengths include rice, maize, and sorghum, whereas wheat and barley were originally domesticated in the Fertile Crescent and are considered long day species. In these and other crops, day length measurement mechanisms have been artificially modified during domestication and breeding to adapt plants to novel areas, to the extent that a wide diversity of responses exists within any given species. …”
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The Unstable Macroeconomic Factors and Bank Profitability in FCC Area: A Conceptual Framework by Salem, Salem Mohammad Abdelaziz, Abdul Rahman, Nora Azureen

“…The aim of this paper is to discuss at a conceptual level the relationships between the important macroeconomic factors and banks' profitability in the troublous Fertile Crescent Countries (FCC). The instability in the macroeconomic environment is dominating FCC area, especially in the last two decades affecting banking industry. …”
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Retrieving ascarid and taeniid eggs from the biological remains of a Neolithic dog from the late 9th millennium BC in Western Iran by Niloofar Paknezhad, Farbod Haji Mazdarani, Morteza Hessari, Iraj Mobedi, Faezeh Najafi, Negar Bizhani, Mahsasadat Makki, Gholamreza Hassanpour, Gholamreza Mowlavi

“…These ancient helminth eggs can also be used to track the oldest parasitic infections in the Iranian plateau and contribute to the paleoparasitological documentation of the Fertile Crescent.…”
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Celiac Disease: A Disorder Emerging from Antiquity, Its Evolving Classification and Risk, and Potential New Treatment Paradigms

“…Recent and intriguing archeological data, largely from the Gobleki Tepe region of the Fertile Crescent, indicate that celiac disease probably emerged as humans transitioned from hunter-gatherer groups to societies dependent on agriculture to secure a stable food supply. …”
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The Impact of Sowing Technology on Ponderal Features of Winter Wheat Seeds in Timişoara by Marcela Dragoș, Paul Pîrșan

“…Wheat is a grass, originally from the Fertile Crescent region of the Near East, but now cultivated worldwide. …”
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Strategies for transferring resistance into wheat: from wide crosses to GM cassettes by Brande B. H. Wulff, Matthew James Moscou

“…The domestication of wheat in the Fertile Crescent 10,000 years ago led to a genetic bottleneck. …”
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Beyond the Levant: first evidence of a pre-pottery Neolithic incursion into the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia. by Rémy Crassard, Michael D Petraglia, Adrian G Parker, Ash Parton, Richard G Roberts, Zenobia Jacobs, Abdullah Alsharekh, Abdulaziz Al-Omari, Paul Breeze, Nick A Drake, Huw S Groucutt, Richard Jennings, Emmanuelle Régagnon, Ceri Shipton

“…The stone tool assemblage contains lithic types, including El-Khiam and Helwan projectile points, which are similar to those recorded in Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and Pre-Pottery Neolithic B assemblages in the Fertile Crescent. Jebel Qattar lies ∼500 kilometres outside the previously identified geographic range of Pre-Pottery Neolithic cultures. …”
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Architecture, sinon repression: a journey through the narrow layer where the State meets the land by Oropallo, Gabriele

“…One of the oldest continuously anthropised territories on the planet, the Fertile Crescent has undergone a radical process of redefinition of boundaries since the end of the First World War and the dismantlement of the Ottoman Empire. …”
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The effect of bank-specific factors and unstable macroeconomic environment on bank efficiency: evidence from FCC by Salem, Salem Mohammad Abdelaziz, Abdul Rahman, Nora Azureen

“…The banking industry in the area of Fertile Crescent Countries (FCC) was faced by instability in their political and economic conditions in the last decade, especially during the Arab spring revolutions.The current study investigates empirically the efficiency of banking sector in the troublous areas in developing countries such as FCC. …”
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Prangos platychlaena: State of the Art from Ethnopharmacology, Phytochemical, Toxicological and Pharmacological Perspective by Jwan K. Rahman, Dara M. Jaff, Javed Ahamad, Faiq H.S. Hussain

“…The use of wild plants possibly emerged in the Neolithic period in the Fertile Crescent and migrated westwards through the Mediterranean area. …”
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Should we consider ditch enclosures as an element of the Neolithic package? by Nikolina Nikolova

“…It appears that the ditch-digging practice existed since the time of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) in the Fertile Crescent. There, single ditches were combined with stone walls. …”
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Genetic characterisation of 19 autosomal STR loci in a population sample from the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey by Nazli Bozman, Cemal Gurkan, Huseyin Sevay, Damla Kanliada Demirdov, Filiz Ozbas-Gerceker

“…Situated in the Upper Mesopotamia, Southeastern Anatolia was also the northernmost extension of the Fertile Crescent, which is often considered as the earliest cradle of civilisation. …”
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Barley systematics and taxonomy foreseen by seed morphometric variation. by Angèle Jeanty, Laurent Bouby, Vincent Bonhomme, François Balfourier, Clément Debiton, Camille Dham, Sarah Ivorra, Jérôme Ros, Allowen Evin

“…Since its Neolithic domestication in the Fertile Crescent, barley has spread to all continents and represents a major cereal in many modern agrarian systems. …”
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Paleopathology of Human Tuberculosis and the Potential Role of Climate by Andreas G. Nerlich, Sandra Lösch

“…These results contraindicates the theory that M. tuberculosis evolved from M. bovis during early domestication in the region of the “Fertile Crescent,” but supports the scenario that M. tuberculosis probably derived from an ancestral progenitor strain. …”
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Palaeogenomic insights into the origins of early settlers on the island of Cyprus by Heraclides, A, Aristodemou, A, Georgiou, AN, Antoniou, M, Ilgner, E, Davranoglou, L

“…By systematically analysing all available genomes from the late Pleistocene to early Holocene Near East (c. 14,000–7000 cal BCE), we provide a comprehensive overview of the genetic landscape of the early Neolithic Fertile Crescent and Anatolia and infer the likely origins of three recently published genomes from Kissonerga-Mylouthkia (Cypriot Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, c. 7600–6800 cal BCE). …”

Court cultures in the Muslim world : seventh to nineteenth centuries / by Fuess, Albrecht, Hartung, Jan-Peter

<i>Chorta</i> (Wild Greens) in Central Crete: The Bio-Cultural Heritage of a Hidden and Resilient Ingredient of the Mediterranean Diet by Andrea Pieroni, Naji Sulaiman, Renata Sõukand

“…We discussed the cognitive categories linked to <i>Chorta</i>, as well as the possible origin of an original “bulk” of post-Neolithic food weeds that could have spread from the Fertile Crescent westwards across the Mediterranean basin over a few millennia. …”
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