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Still the Tribo Electric Generator, History of Condensation Nuclei, Torrential Rain at Vaison la Romaine (1992), Inundation of the Vineyards and the Camping, The Old City and the Blocking Bridge, Water Jet produced by the Bridge eradicates the Housing Estate, Origins of the Forgotten Catastrophe, Surface Water Contamination, the Fish Killing Mechanism, White Water = Electrolysis of Water, An Electrostatic Generator cannot Deliver these Currents,
GCU Economic Journal
Gender Discrimination inf Demand for Child Schooling2005 •
This paper examines the different effects of child, head of household, parent’s and household’s characteristics on the acquisition of schooling by sons and daughters. Evidence is found that a strong preference for sons’ schooling exists in Pakistani households. We compared the demand for schooling for sons and daughters. Birth-order of the child has shown opposite effect on sons’ and daughters’ schooling while a number of explanatory variables have shown the effect in the same direction for sons and daughters, but a reasonably varying magnitude is observed.
The Marcos Regime is in deep political crisis with a constant barrage of demonstrations in the cities and guerilla war in the islands and the countryside. His opponents can now be found in the villages and in the office blocks of the cities as the economic policies imposed by the U.S. through the I.M.F. and the World Bank grind down the living standards of a growing number of Filipino workers and smaller capitalists. The days of the regime are numbered as the ailing Marcos clings to power while his army cronies brawl over his successor.
Archaeololgy and tourism have never been seen as complementary in India until recent times. Archaeological sites iiave been always considered as living places of worship and communion with the infinite and not as places protected and cordoned off from public access to be viewed for aesthetic enjoyment. Visits to such sites were not undertaken as entertainment junkets but as pilgrimages. Such pilgrimages were institutionalised in Buddhism for visits to places associated with the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment, despiration. Chinese travellers like Hiuen Tsang, Fa-hien, It-sing would undertake journeys to look at the signacula of Buddha’s presence or activities. A reverse movement of Indian Buddhist sages in the 5th-6th century A.D. to China resulted in a translation of Sanskrit texts into Chinese which came back to India via Tibetan retranslations. As early as the 2rid century B.C. Heliodorus came as an emissary of the Graeko Bactrian king to the court of Shunga king and built bonds by embracing the Vaishnava Bhagavata faith. Hundreds of inscriptions testify to the enormous number of Jaina pilgrims travelling together from places like Mandu to Saurashtra. Even the penultimate journey for self immolation or sallekhana yatra of Jainas was undertaken as part of a similar tradition of perigrination undertaken in a spirit of devotion. One reads in medieval inscriptions of many Shaiva sages with names who travelled the length and breadth of the country, established monasteries like the Goloki matha near Jabalpur or the madhumateya order near Gwalior, constructing temples, building agrahara villages to sustain such temples, imparting instruction to the king, the queen and their subjects. In the same way, the Buddhist and Jaina pilgrinages like those of Mahakatyayana, Ashoka or his children or of the Jaina goshthis and gachchas were accompanied by a surge of building activity.
Hortus Semioticus
A metaphor is a metaphor2010 •
Do animals think? What do ethologists or animal behavior scientists think they think? Because there is no consensus across time, culture and disciplines anthropomorphic "metaphorical" language is flawed. Pamela J. Asquith delves into historical ethology, cultural differences, and language to find how anthropomorphism came to its current state of existence and its state of incorrectness. These ideas take shape and trigger intrigue in her paper titled, "Why Anthropomorphism Is Not Metaphor: Crossing Concepts and Cultures in Animal Behavior Studies". Asquith makes the reader think twice about language and its overlooked grammatical significance in science.
Like many other locally produced ceramic objects, lamps were a ubiquitous part of Late Roman society, found associated with structures across the economic spectrum and in a wide range of contexts. When filled with oil, they illuminated rooms, shops, and other buildings, but beyond this quotidian function they could play other roles through the images and decorations they possessed or the alternative contexts in which they could be used. The analysis of these two facets assists in problematizing the ways in which an object could or could not designate religious persuasion, either paganism or Christianity. Between the fourth and sixth centuries, lamps take on a wide range motifs and images; some ornamental, such as vegetal or geometric motifs, with others far more illustrative, including those bearing mythological, Jewish, or Christian symbols or decoration. These range from the depiction of simple crosses and menorot within decorate patterns to full depictions of gods, cult figures (such as Mithras or Isis), or saints; and while the cross or the Chi-Rho does not become a popular decoration until the fourth century, mythological figures continue to be depicted on lamps into the sixth century, suggesting that as popular object lamps may have little religious value without contextual evidence. Beyond their decoration, lamps often found alternative uses, funerary, devotional, and apotropaic. In the city of Rome, they held magical defixiones; in Anatolia, they are frequently found in assemblages of late Roman Grave goods; in Egypt, they could be the vessels for holy oil. While some of these contexts point to social and cultural practices, they do not exclude lamps as representative of a certain devotional practice, but rather can reinforce their religious functions. By tying together these approaches with a range of examples from across the late antique Mediterranean, this chapter seeks to assess how everyday objects take on religious meanings and functions in the changing social and cultural contexts of Late Antiquity. Published in: Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire: New Evidence, New Approaches (4th-8th centuries), ed. M. Sághy, E. Schoolman (Budapest, 2017)
The essays in this book all spring, in one way or another, from a concern with the attitudes of Western thinkers and scholars towards Islam and those who call themselves Muslims, and more generally with the relations of Christians with those who profess other faiths. Some of the essays try to explain, directly or indirectly, the obstacles which confront the Western Christian who has tried to understand Islam, and (in a different form) the Muslim who has tried to understand Christianity: obstacles which have been created both by the nature of the two faiths and by the tangled history of the contacts between those who have professed them. In one of the essays I write of the look of uneasy recognition with which the two religions have always faced each other: neither of them is wholly alien to the other, but each finds it difficult to give an intelligible place within its system of thought to the other, as it has in fact developed and as its adherents interpret it.
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The Internet journal of health
Teraogenic Effect Of Beer And Palm Wine On Histology Of Fetal Cerbral Cortex Of Wistar Rats2009 •
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ArchéoSciences
Le mobilier en verre du site de la Grotta Piatta (Aregno, Haute-Corse) : composition chimique et chronotypologie2007 •
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Annales d'Endocrinologie
P119 - Concentrations d’hormone anti-müllérienne (AMH) et d’inhibine au sang du cordon des garcons nouveaux-nés avec ou sans cryptorchidie2005 •
Animal Behaviour
Repeatability of nesting preferences in the hawksbill sea turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, and their fitness consequences2005 •
Journal of The European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology
Merkel cell polyomavirus integration‐ PCR in bilateral metachronous Merkel cell carcinoma on the nose2018 •
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Macromolecules
Carbon dioxide conditioning effects on sorption and volume dilation behavior for bisphenol A-polycarbonate1990 •
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Authorea (Authorea)
Fiber Optic Laser Sensor of Grating Cavity using Mirrors2022 •
International Journal of Behavioral Development
What do Children Want? A Conceptualisation of Evolutionary Influences on Children's Motivation in the Peer Group1996 •
Hard X-Ray, Gamma-Ray, and Neutron Detector Physics XX
Characterization of Redlen CZT detectors for hard x-ray astronomyFood and Energy Security
New insights about cadmium impacts on tomato: Plant acclimation, nutritional changes, fruit quality and yield2018 •
Journal of Affective Disorders
Comorbidity of generalized social anxiety disorder and depression in a pediatric primary care sample2004 •