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    In Roman architecture, an insula (Latin for "island", pl.: insulae) was one of two things: either a kind of apartment building, or a city block. This article...
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    Insular cortex (redirect from Insula cortex)
    The insular cortex (also insula and insular lobe) is a portion of the cerebral cortex folded deep within the lateral sulcus (the fissure separating the...
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    The Latin word insula (lit. 'island'; pl.: insulae) was used in Roman cities to mean either a city block in a city plan, i.e. a building area surrounded...
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  • Ínsula (Spanish: Isle) is a magazine which features articles on literary work and literary criticism. Its subtitle is Revista de Letras y Ciencias Humanas...
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    large area of about 1,800 square metres (19,000 sq ft) occupying most of its insula. Its quality means the owner must have been an aristocrat involved...
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    Island (Ukrainian: острів Змії́ний, romanized: ostriv Zmiinyi; Romanian: Insula Șerpilor), is a Ukrainian island located in the Black Sea, near the Danube...
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    relayed from the body into specific subregions—like the brainstem, thalamus, insula, somatosensory, and anterior cingulate cortex—allowing for a nuanced representation...
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    The Insula dell'Ara Coeli is one of the few surviving examples of an insula, the kind of apartment blocks where many Roman city dwellers resided. It was...
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    minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia, "A truly golden little book, not less beneficial than enjoyable...
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    The Greeks named several islands within the gulf, including Stratonis Insula, although it is no longer clear which existing islands had which Greek names...
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    Vinland Map (redirect from Vinlanda Insula)
    landmass south-west of Greenland in the Atlantic labelled as Vinland (Vinlanda Insula). The map describes this region as having been visited by Europeans in the...
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    Disgust (section Insula)
    avoiding contamination. The insula (or insular cortex), is the main neural structure involved in the emotion of disgust. The insula has been shown by several...
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    and the orbitofrontal cortex (i.e., the centers of the reward circuitry), insula, and anterior cingulum (Blood & Zatorre, 2001). It is possible that the...
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    Koper (redirect from Insula Capritana)
    southeastern part of the Gulf of Koper in the northern Adriatic. Called Insula Caprea (Goat Island) or Capro by Roman settlers, it developed into the city...
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    Second Life (redirect from Melita Insula)
    character. It is based on their decisions on how to express themselves. Most avatars are human, but they can choose to be vampires or animals. Sometimes...
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  • Conquest of Insula II is a closed-ended, computer moderated, play-by-mail (PBM) fantasy wargame. Conquest of Insula II was a computer moderated play-by-mail...
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    place Insula Avallonis, meaning the "Isle of Avallon" in Latin. In his later Vita Merlini ("The Life of Merlin", c. 1150), he calls it Insula Pomorum...
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    Archipelago off the northern coast of Russia.[citation needed] Buyan Insula, an insula (island) within Ligeia Mare on Saturn's moon Titan.[citation needed]...
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    portion of the novel. Don Quixote promises Sancho the governance of an ínsula, or island. However, Sancho has never heard of this word before and does...
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    which can also be seen in many of his other late 1930s paintings, such as Insula dulcamara (1938) and Heroische Rosen (1938). As of 2014[update], it is on...
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    City as a sovereign city-state to be called the Free City of Tri-Insula (Tri-Insula meaning "three islands" in Latin), and incorporating Manhattan, Long...
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    archaeologists "insula" (Latin for island) - a block of homes around a courtyard. One such compound was called by them the sacra insula or "holy insula", which...
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    as 'peninsula'. Paeninsula itself was derived from paene 'almost', and insula 'island', or together, 'almost an island'. The word entered English in the...
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    developed, each insula would eventually be filled with buildings of various shapes and sizes and crisscrossed with back roads and alleys. Most insulae were...
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  • anterior insula is actuated in mirror touch synesthetes, but it is not activated in non-synesthetes, when observing touch. The anterior insula is believed...
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  • anterior insula (AI) have been observed when thinking about both ingroup and outgroup members. For example, greater activity in the anterior insula has been...
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    while healthy controls showed greater differences than BPD patients in the insula, middle temporal gyrus and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. Ayduk O, Zayas...
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    (pronounced [lâstɔv̞ɔ]; Italian: Lagosta, German: Augusta, Latin: Augusta Insula, Greek: Ladestanos, Illyrian: Ladest) is an island municipality in the Dubrovnik-Neretva...
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    anterior insula and the smaller posterior insula in which more than a dozen field areas have been identified. The cortical area overlying the insula toward...
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    Perspectives.Routledge. Penfield, Wilder; Faulk Jr, Marshall (1955). "The insula. Further observations on its function', Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery"...
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