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Religious Healing in the Modern World: Faith, Culture, and Social Dynamics

Religions
Physical and mental health are fundamental human needs, yet modern medicine cannot always preserve them. At this point, alternative and complementary medical approaches sometimes offer significant contributions.
Figen Balamir, Selman Yılmaz
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Bringing artifacts (back) to life

American Ethnologist, EarlyView.
Abstract Museums’ ethnographic collections can be conceptualized as affective forces—relational intensities that emerge between human and more‐than‐human actors, unfold over time, and are embedded in and co‐shape sociomaterial environments. Drawing on debates in the anthropology of objects and political ontology, I develop this perspective through long‐
Hansjörg Dilger
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Killer’s Fashion: Transforming the Potential of Nias Saber’s Amulets into Indonesian Fashion Accessories

Humaniora, 2020
The research was conducted to discover the potential of Nias saber’s amulets into fashion accessories and to introduce the tradition of Nias saber’s amulets into society. Nias war costume had its unique way of distinguishing each other and gaining a
Kezia Clarissa Langi, Setiawan Sabana, Hafiz Aziz Ahmad, Dian Widiawati   +3 more
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Global mental health and trauma exposure: the current evidence for the relationship between traumatic experiences and spirit possession [PDF]

European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 2015
Background: We present a literature review on trauma exposure and spirit possession in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Despite the World Health Organization's objective of culturally appropriate mental health care in the Mental Health Action ...
Tobias Hecker, Lars Braitmayer, Marjolein van Duijl   +2 more
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Provenance Analysis Based on Cluster In‐Betweenness and Support Vector Machines: Identifying Migrant Candidates Using Multi‐Isotope Fingerprints

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Provenance reconstruction using strontium and lead stable isotopes can produce complex multidimensional fingerprints, challenging traditional methods. Identifying nonlocals, who migrated between sites, is a major task. Migrants are identifiable by divergent multi‐isotope fingerprints due to isotopic mixing between origin and destination sites.
Andrea Göhring, Daniyal Kazempour, Jan Robert Bensien, Sweety Mohanty, Claudius Zelenka, Matthias Renz, Peer Kröger, Gisela Grupe, Amei Lang   +8 more
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Incidence and Clinical Impact of Major Bleeding Following Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion: Insights from the Amplatzer™ Amulet™ LAA Occluder Observational Study.

EuroIntervention, 2021
BACKGROUND Major bleeding (MB) events are independent predictors of mortality after cardiac interventional procedures. The clinical relevance of MB following left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) remains unclear.
A. Aminian, O. de Backer, J. Nielsen-Kudsk, P. Mazzone, S. Berti, Sven Fischer, J. Lund, M. Montorfano, S. C. Lam, X. Freixa, Ryan Gage, H. Diener, B. Schmidt   +12 more
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An Archaeometric Approach to Reveal Organic Compounds via GC‐MS Analyses of Two Discovered Incense Burners at Daba Al‐Bayah

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study focuses on two terracotta incense burners discovered in the Daba Al‐Bayah necropolis in the Musandam Peninsula (Oman), associated with an Iron Age collective tomb (LCG‐2). Through gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC‐MS), the organic residues preserved within these artifacts were analyzed to investigate their use and ...
Francesco Genchi, Federica Spagnoli, Vittorio Vinciguerra, Stefania Garzoli   +3 more
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Clinical outcomes of patients undergoing percutaneous left atrial appendage occlusion in general anaesthesia or conscious sedation: data from the prospective global Amplatzer Amulet Occluder Observational Study

BMJ Open, 2021
Objective To evaluate the safety and efficacy of percutaneous left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) using conscious sedation (CS). Background Several percutaneous structural heart disease interventions are safely and efficiently performed using CS ...
Kerstin Piayda, K. Hellhammer, J. Nielsen-Kudsk, B. Schmidt, P. Mazzone, S. Berti, Sven Fischer, J. Lund, M. Montorfano, P. Della Bella, Ryan Gage, T. Zeus   +11 more
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Diyarbakır Arkeoloji Müzesinde Bulunan Hamailler (Muskalar)

Akademik İncelemeler Dergisi
Türk El Sanatları arasında önemli bir grup oluşturan madeni eserler; genel olarak yapıldığı dönemin malzeme, form, tür, teknik ve süsleme çeşitliliğini yansıtmaları bakımından dikkat çekmektedir.
Sahure Yariş
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A Unique Engraved Shale Pendant from the Site of Star Carr: the oldest Mesolithic art in Britain

Internet Archaeology, 2016
In 2015 an engraved shale pendant was found during excavations at the Early Mesolithic site of Star Carr, UK. Engraved motifs on Mesolithic pendants are extremely rare, with the exception of amber pendants from southern Scandinavia.
Nicky Milner, Michael Bamforth, Gareth Beale, Julian C. Carty, Konstantinos Chatzipanagis, Shannon Croft, Chantal Conneller, Ben Elliott, Laura C. Fitton, Becky Knight, Roland Kröger, Aimée Little, Andy Needham, Harry K. Robson, Charlotte C.A. Rowley, Barry Taylor   +15 more
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