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Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, EarlyView.An interdisciplinary in situ study of jewelled reliquaries of the True Cross integrates gemmology and portable analytical techniques, revealing new evidence on the identification and symbolic role of peridots and other gemstones. ABSTRACT Jewelled crosses containing relics of the True Cross occupy a central position in the devotional, artistic and ...
Stefania Martiniello +2 more
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Hydrothermal‐Assisted In Situ Intercalation Synthesis of Ti3C2Tx MXene in 6 Hours
Small Methods, EarlyView.This work presents a rapid, scalable strategy for synthesizing Ti3C2Tx MXene through hydrothermal‐assisted etching with in situ intercalation, achieving complete synthesis and delamination within 6 h at 90°C. The process accelerates aluminum removal, promotes efficient delamination, and enables direct exfoliation under mild conditions, producing high ...
Muhammad Imran Rameel +7 more
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Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
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Amulet Featuring the Image a Holy Rider from the South-Western Crimea
Античная древность и средние века, 2022 The bronze pendant in question in the form of a fine shield was discovered in the south-western Crimea, in the vicinity of mediaeval Cherson. Its front side depicts a holy rider piercing a demon with a cross; the first words of Psalm 90 (according to ...
Elzara Aiderovna Khairedinova
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Sanctions, National Security, and Free Speech
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A fundamental, but largely overlooked, aspect of the New Washington Consensus is the use of national security arguments to restrict speech and punish disfavored speakers. Although the United States has a longer history of using sanctions to restrict speech in the terrorism context, it has recently applied sanctions to restrict political speech,
Joshua Andresen
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Superstitions and folk rites in the Samara, Saratov and Penza Governorates
Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2019 Often in everyday life we have to deal with various signs and superstitions that are quite tenacious, despite their incompatibility with Orthodoxy. Superstitions usually refer to the stories of the water spirit, bogie, puck, mermaids, healers, sorcerers,
S. A. Isaichev
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Imported and locally manufactured jewellery in the Cimmerian Bosporus in the late 6th— 5thCenturies BCE [PDF]
Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового ПричерноморьяThis article is devoted to the publication and analysis of gold, electrum and silver jewellery dating from the late 6thto the end of the 5thcenturies BCE, found in the territory of the Cimmerian Bosporus.
Treister, M.
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When mural art in indigenous communities is commissioned as a participatory project, several methodological, epistemological, and aesthetic questions arise. This text proposes a horizontal and investigative approach to what we can simply call ‘muralism in the A'i Cofán community context,’ not as significant works executed in communities, but ...
Daniel Alberto Restrepo Hernández +2 more
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A Newly Discovered “Bull Head Amulet” from Tell El-Farkha, Egypt
Studies in Ancient Art and CivilizationIn 2022, a new object fitting the so-called “bull head amulets” category was discovered at Tell el-Farkha in layers related to the late Predynastic period (Naqada IID2-IIIA, hereafter abbreviated as NIID2-NIIIA).
Joanna Dębowska-Ludwin
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