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[On the origin of the name Girifalco, an Italian town in a hotspot of the autumn migration of soaring raptors]

open access: yesNatural History Sciences
In this article, a hypothesis is suggested on the origin of the name Girifalco, a small town in the Calabrian Apennines (southern continental Italy), located along an important flyway of raptors migrating through the Central Mediterranean. In particular,
Nicolantonio Agostini   +2 more
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From Anaxagoras to Albert the Great: The Latency of Forms and the Active Power of Matter in the Middle Ages

open access: yesNoctua
This study explores the doctrine of the latency of forms in the Middle Ages, with a particular focus on Albert the Great’s elaboration through his theory of inchoatio formarum. The doctrine, whose origins date back to Anaxagoras and was further developed
Nadia Bray
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Espíritu e inmutación espiritual: desarrollos y problemas en Tomas de Aquino

open access: yesTópicos, 2013
The concepts of spirit and spiritual immutation, although widely neglected, is of great interest for the understanding of Aquinas' theory of perception.
Jörg Alejandro Tellkamp
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Aristotle vs Galen: Medieval Reception of Ancient Embryology - Medieval Medicine and the 13th Century Controversy over Plurality/Unicity of Substantial Form - [PDF]

open access: yesUisahak, 2019
In their embryology, Aristotle and Galen greatly disagreed on the role of human derived materials like menstrual blood and vaginal secretion (called by them female sperm or semen).
Hyun Sok CHUNG
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Albert Hofmann's Pioneering Work on Ergot Alkaloids and Its Impact on the Search of Novel Drugs at Sandoz, a Predecessor Company of Novartis: Dedicated to Dr. Albert Hofmann on the occasion of his 100th birthday

open access: yesCHIMIA, 2006
The scientific research on ergot alkaloids is fundamentally related to the work of Dr. Albert Hofmann, who was able to produce, from 1935 onwards, a number of novel and valuable drugs, some of which are still in use today.
Rudolf K.A. Giger, Günter Engel
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An Energy-Optimized Medical Oxygen Concentrator for Low-Resource Settings

open access: yesCurrent Directions in Biomedical Engineering
We present a novel approach to produce medical oxygen in low-resource settings at maximal energy efficiency. The oxygen concentration and the required flow can be configured independently by the user and are adjusted automatically by a multivariable ...
Schartner Katja   +4 more
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L’ironie dans les grands reportages d’Albert Londres : analyse d’une stratégie argumentative

open access: yesArgumentation et Analyse du Discours, 2016
Today regarded as one of the masters of the great French reporters, Albert Londres was immensely popular in the Twenties. Published in the daily newspapers of the industrial press then (for some), in book form, his great investigations allured millions ...
Sophie Desmoulin
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A Treatise in Disguise: Eschatological Themes in Aquinas’s Commentary on the Parables of Matthew’s Gospel

open access: yesReligions
This article argues that Thomas Aquinas’s exegesis of the parables in his commentary on the Gospel of Matthew contains—if only in skeletal form, with certain aspects more fully developed than others—the outline of a comprehensive treatise on Christian ...
Kenny Ang
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On the Waters: Economic and Political Drivers of Maritime Conflicts between Uganda and its Neighbors

open access: yesAfrican Studies Quarterly, 2021
The Great Lakes region has, in the recent past, been awash with numerous border conflicts/or threats to conflict among the member states. Whereas various studies have endeavored to explain the emergence of such conflicts, many of them lay the blame on ...
Robert Ojambo
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Prophetic Christianity in the Legacy of Albert Luthuli: Sources and Lessons for a Christo-Political Praxis for the South African Church

open access: yesDiaconia, 2015
One of the great characteristics of Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli was that he was a devout Christian. He attributed his political commitment to his Christian commitment by saying “I am in the congress simply because I am a Christian.” He is remembered
R. Simangaliso Kumalo
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