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The environmental control of urban planning in the Syrian desert cities
Published 2019-01-01“…It was concluded defining planning principles for desert cities adapted to the harsh environment, by examining the impact of the environmental content on the planning concepts of the Syrian desert cities (Palmyra city as an example), defining principles and criteria for environmental control in the planning of these cities and evaluating the existing planning of the traditional communities in the Syrian desert and the degree of its interaction with the surrounding environment.…”
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Desert kites and stone circles of the Syrian Desert in satellite images
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Water, Communication, Sight, and the Location of Fortifications on the Strata Diocletiana (Syria) in Late Antiquity
Published 2023-10-01“…We compare the location of Late Roman fortifications along the Strata Diocletiana to the modern distribution of water in the Syrian Desert and the theoretical least-cost paths between Palmyra and Damascus, and Palmyra and the fortress of Sura on the Euphrates. …”
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Milieux et sociétés sur les marges arides du croissant fertile : la télédétection et les S.I.G. au service d'une recherche géo-archéologique
Published 2000-04-01“…The peripheral Syrian desert steppe is an ecologically sensitive region like all desert margins. …”
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The Matrons of the Church of Rome in Late Antiquity
Published 2018-10-01“…Moreover, these women were tutored by the monk Jerome of Stridon who can share the radical ascetic experience of the Syrian desert, the teaching of Christian Holy letters and Eastern languages.…”
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The Indian trade between the Gulf and the Red Sea
Published 2018-07-01“…Both continued on land along caravan tracks to the Nile valley or through the Syrian desert to Palmyra. The latter land route, longer and presumably more cost-consuming, was used only during the 1st to 3rd centuries AD. …”
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Sustainable tourism in nature reserves in the Syrian Badia"Talila model"
Published 2017-03-01“…From this perspective, research the topic of sustainable tourism treated in Talila protected by shedding light on the development of tourism projects, which is a basic need and economic engine of the state and society at the same time, especially in the Syrian desert, as well as the ability of tourism projects to secure a sustainable financial resources, through answer the following questions: - What positive effects of sustainable tourism in nature reserves? …”
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Three hundred years of Palmyrene history. Unlocking archaeological data for studying past societal transformations
Published 2021-01-01“…This paper presents such a large-scale baseline study and focuses on the presentation of the results emerging from the recently compiled corpus of more than 3700 funerary portraits stemming from one location in the ancient world, Roman Palmyra, an oasis city in the Syrian Desert. The analysis of the chronological development of the numerous portraits allows us to follow the fluctuations in the production of these portraits over approximately 300 years. …”
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Sustainable tourism in nature reserves in the Syrian Badia"Talila model"
Published 2017-03-01“…From this perspective, research the topic of sustainable tourism treated in Talila protected by shedding light on the development of tourism projects, which is a basic need and economic engine of the state and society at the same time, especially in the Syrian desert, as well as the ability of tourism projects to secure a sustainable financial resources, through answer the following questions: - What positive effects of sustainable tourism in nature reserves? …”
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Strange Meeting at Salihiyeh: Who Discovered (or Encountered, or Identified, or Invented) Dura-Europos, and When?
Published 2022-10-01“… <p> The centenary of the establishment of the Department of Classics at the University of Kraków coincides with that of the beginnings of the study of the ‘Pompeii of the Syrian Desert.’In spring 1920, British Indian soldiers digging in the ruins known as Salihiyeh overlooking the Euphrates accidentally revealed ancient paintings. …”
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Une « ceinture » d’espace étatique : le contrôle des Bédouins au début du Mandat Français en Syrie
Published 2016-03-01“…The imposition of this new state space, as conceptualised by French administrators, curbed the experience of traditional Bedouin space in the environmental regions of the Bâdiya (the desert’s steppe) and the ma’mura (the agricultural zone delimiting the Great Syrian Desert). This article examines contemporary archives to outline the structure and activity of the Contrôle Bedouin. …”
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Prevalence of Mannheimia haemolytica in Syrian Awassi sheep
Published 2019-12-01“…Geographical and seasonal distribution of M. haemolytica showed that the majority of the isolates originated from sheep reared in the Syrian Desert (30%) and Euphrates basin (26.7%), and a significant increase (P≤0.05) in the rate of positive isolates in summer and winter as compared to spring. …”
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Sources Tracking of Dust Storms in the Western of Iran (Case Study Kermanshah City)
Published 2023-02-01“…Overall, the findings showed that most of the routes come from the north and centre of Iraq and the Syrian Desert. Dust storms originate at the border and arid lands of northern and central Iraq and Syria.…”
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Tracking Dust Plumes and Identifying Source Areas Using Spatiotemporal Clustering of Remote Sensing Data
Published 2023“…To illustrate the effective-ness of our methodology, we conduct comprehensive case studies on several prominent dust-emitting regions: the Bodélé Depression, Southern Iraq, the Syrian Desert, and the Sistan basin. These case studies shed light on the complex effects of drought and the interplay between soil moisture and vegetation as well as their effects on plume properties. …”
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SATELLITE PERSPECTIVES ON HIGHLAND – LOWLAND HUMAN INTERACTION IN ANCIENT SYRIA
Published 2012-08-01“…Nowadays we can travel by GoogleEarth 3D to Syria (<a href="http://www.worldcountries.info/GoogleEarth/GoogleEarth-Syria.php"target="_blank">http://www.worldcountries.info/GoogleEarth/GoogleEarth-Syria.php</a>) and zoom in on the desert landscape of the mountainous region of Jebel Bishri between the Euphrates river and the Syrian Desert. This is the area, where the Finnish archaeological survey and mapping project SYGIS worked in 2000-2010 studying the relationship of humans with their environment from ancient times to the present. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Kermanshah Severe Dust Storm (Case Study: Dust Storm on November 26 - 28, 2018)
Published 2022-08-01“…The results of the simulation of PM10 particles for the studied days showed that the central and western deserts of Iraq, Syrian desert, Kuwait and northern Saudi Arabia are the main source of dust storm. …”
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Remote sensing, landscape and archaeology tracing ancient tracks and roads between Palmyra and the Euphrates in Syria
Published 2015-08-01“…The present paper concentrates on the use of remote sensing by satellite imagery for detecting ancient tracks and roads in the area between Palmyra and the Euphrates in Syria. The Syrian desert was traversed by caravans already in the Bronze Age, and during the Greco-Roman period the traffic increased with the Silk Road and trade as well as with military missions annexing the areas into empires. …”
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High-resolution provenance of desert dust deposited on Mt. Elbrus, Caucasus in 2009–2012 using snow pit and firn core records
Published 2013-09-01“…Thirteen events originated in the Middle East, in the Syrian Desert and northern Mesopotamia, from a mixture of natural and anthropogenic sources. …”
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" النمذجة الرياضية لخزان حراري متغير الطور للتخزين الحراري الكامن في الجليد لاستخدامه في أنظمة تكييف الهواء المركزي "...
Published 2017-11-01“…This research was done by using a mathematical modeling for a heat storage tank by the preparation a mathematical function using MATLAB software for charging and discharging phase of the storage tank . it was applied partial storage strategy on a default building located in the city of Palmyra in the Syrian desert. peak cooling load (420 kW) and storing (1420 kw-h) within a storage tank size of "30m3" So that the store of ice at night and melting using outer fusion technology (External Melt) in thermal and electrical peak hours in the next day . …”
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