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Crucifixion and median neuropathy. [PDF]
Brain Behav, 2013 Crucifixion as a means of torture and execution was first developed in the 6th century B.C. and remained popular for over 1000 years. Details of the practice, which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, have intrigued scholars as historical records and
Regan JM, Shahlaie K, Watson JC.
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Genetics of infertility and "assisted fertilization" in the Bible: The case of Abraham and his family. [PDF]
AndrologyAbstract Couple infertility is a very ancient medical condition. One of the first descriptions of familial infertility/subfertility is contained in the first book of the Bible, Genesis, written in the 10th century BC and reporting tales from the oral tradition even occurred about 800 years earlier.
Simoni M, Tüttelmann F, Casarini L.
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Before Mnemosyne: Wilhelmine Cultural History Exhibitions and the Genesis of Warburg's Picture Atlas. [PDF]
Ber WissAbstract Aby Warburg's Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, left unfinished in 1929, has attracted significant interest in recent decades. This essay offers a new interpretation of Warburg's “picture atlas,” not in relation to modernist collage and photomontage, but as an heir to scientific pedagogical exhibitions of the late Wilhelmine period.
Vollgraff M.
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Syllabic quantity patterns as rhythmic features for Latin authorship attribution
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 74, Issue 1, Page 128-141, January 2023., 2023 Abstract It is well known that, within the Latin production of written text, peculiar metric schemes were followed not only in poetic compositions, but also in many prose works. Such metric patterns were based on so‐called syllabic quantity, that is, on the length of the involved syllables, and there is substantial evidence suggesting that certain ...
Silvia Corbara +2 more
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The Medicinal Mushroom Agaricus blazei Murrill: Review of Literature and Pharmaco-Toxicological Problems. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2008 Agaricus blazei Murrill (ABM) popularly known as ‘Cogumelo do Sol’ in Brazil, or ‘Himematsutake’ in Japan, is a mushroom native to Brazil, and widely cultivated in Japan for its medicinal uses, so it is now considered as one of the most important edible and culinary‐medicinal biotechnological species.
Firenzuoli F, Gori L, Lombardo G.
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Recent scholarship on classical literature and the eighteenth century
Literature Compass, Volume 19, Issue 10, October 2022., 2022 Abstract This article provides a survey of the scholarship on classical literature and eighteenth‐century British literary culture that has appeared since 2010. Drawing on general overviews of the period, as well as more specific work on translation and classical reception, it focuses on the following five subject‐areas: non‐elite readers of classical ...
Ian Calvert
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The Scandal of M. Alphonse Legros
Art History, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 78-107, February 2021., 2021 This essay asks why the art of Alphonse Legros (1837–1911) remained inconspicuous in the art history of the past generation, when the study of the nineteenth century played such a prominent role in the discipline. Legros's realist and politically committed practice is eminently suited to the art‐historical methods that dominated that period.
Elizabeth Prettejohn
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Cured Meats in Ancient and Byzantine Sources: Ham, Bacon and Tuccetum [PDF]
, 2014 The present study discusses the role of salt-cured meat in dietetics, medicine and gastronomy demonstrated mainly in ancient and Byzantine medical (Galen, Oribasius, Aetius of Amida, Anthimus, Alexander of Tralles and Paul of Aegina) and agronomic ...
Jagusiak, Krzysztof +2 more
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A crowd of Gods: atheism and superstition in Juvenal Satire 13 [PDF]
, 2019 Accepted ...
Uden, James
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The Refiguration of Body and Soul: Time and Narrative in C.S. Lewis's Retelling of the Cupid and Psyche Myth [PDF]
, 2012 This paper presents a reading of C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold in light of Mikhail Bakhtin and Paul Ricoeur’s analysis of time’s role in transformation.
Lukens, Matthew
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