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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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, 2001 Aristotle's Parva Naturalia culminates in definitions of the stages of the life cycle, from the generation of a new living thing up to death. Aristotle thinks of living things as food burners: they nourish themselves, and so, in some cases, possess the ...
King, R.A.H., King, Richard
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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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Reproductive Challenges of the Ageing Female: A Comprehensive Narrative Review
BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Changes in societal norms over the last few decades have resulted in novel family planning trends, notably delayed childbearing and increased maternal age at the birth of the first child. Despite advances in reproductive medicine, ageing poses significant challenges.
Sofia Bitzika +6 more
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Unraveling authoritarian reform decision‐making: A metacognitive–subcognitive model
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Recent research indicates that state reforms in East and Southeast Asia have been predominantly top‐down and authoritarian‐led. However, this significant observation implicitly relies on important assumptions about authoritarian decision‐making behavior and psychology that remains understudied.
Eugene Yu Ji
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(Non)belonging and (un)freedom
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract This article centers on the concept of “belonging” to argue that belonging and freedom are fundamentally related, and that this relationship cannot be easily captured in formal terms alone. I contend that experiences of incomplete belonging among citizens deserve attention from political science because, in addition to their more obvious ...
Yuna Blajer de la Garza
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A theory of political divergence and gradual institutional change
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Why do some societies succeed in breaking away from historical traditions while others remain trapped? This paper proposes a formal theory to investigate the interaction between short‐run and long‐run political dynamics, highlighting a co‐evolution of political institutions and social structures.
Clair Yang
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Aristotle square of opposition in the light of Hilbert's espilon and tau quantifiers
, 2019 International audienceAristotle considered particular quantified sentences in his study of syllogisms and in his famous square of opposition. Clearly logical formulas in Aristotle work were not formulae of mathematical logic, but were sentences of ...
Retoré, Christian, Pasquali, Fabio
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Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.Abstract To identify, describe and critically appraise studies developing and/or validating models for predicting sight‐threatening retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) in preterm infants undergoing screening in neonatal intensive care units. PubMed, Embase via Ovid, trial registers, and grey literature were searched from inception to 21 October 2025 ...
Stella Moutzouri +7 more
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The Moral Consequences of the Arendtian Space of Freedom
Constellations, EarlyView.
Seung‐Hwan Hong
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