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Just war theory and scapegoat mechanism: An analysis of missio Dei and social order

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
This article examined Augustine’s just war theory through René Girard’s scapegoat mechanism, as posited in his theory of mimetic desire. Augustine, in his development of just war theory, adopted a realist approach to justify the ethical criteria for ...
Godfrey T. Baleng
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Assessing the accuracy of field‐based versus laboratory methods for determining the age of roe deer

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Accurate age determination in roe deer Capreolus capreolus is essential for selective harvesting and informed population management, yet field‐based methods widely used by hunters remain imprecise. This study compared field‐based and laboratory age determination methods in 204 harvested roe deer, categorized by sex and habitat type (forest versus open ...
Michael Manton +4 more
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Interactions between prairie dogs and arthropods in grassland ecosystems: a review and research gaps

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Prairie dogs (Cynomys spp.) are an important component of grassland ecosystems of North America where they can alter vegetation composition/structure and physical attributes of grassland habitats through their feeding and burrowing behavior. Impacts of prairie dog presence on many wildlife and plant taxa have been widely studied but research on prairie
Joshua W. Campbell +3 more
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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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The Obligations of Exempt Monasteries: The Practice in England

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This note draws on the extensive sources surviving from the fourteenth century to examine, in the light of debates about the medieval papacy, the observance by English houses of papal obligations imposed on exempt monasteries. It concludes that these arrangements, reflecting the complex history of exemption, were more fluid, negotiable and ...
Peter McDonald
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“Women of the Happy Life”: Prostitution, Public Morality, and Venereal Disease in US‐Occupied Nicaragua, 1912–33

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarked on a long struggle to apprehend, quarantine, and segregate female prostitutes nationwide.
Eimeel Castillo
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Navigating Technoscientific Internationalism: Hungarian Engineers, International Associations and the Global Cold War (1950s–80s)

History, EarlyView.
Abstract From the mid‐1950s onward, Hungarian engineers became deeply involved in the rapidly expanding technoscientific internationalism of the period, notably through their participation in several international scholarly associations devoted to both scientific and technical disciplines.
Jules Siran
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Modelling the Semantic Landscape of Angels in Augustine of Hippo

Open Theology
This contribution explores the application of computationally assisted modelling to analyse angelology in the works of Augustine. We provide a concise outlining and discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of these models.
Vrangbæk Eva, Vrangbæk Christian
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Polygenic prediction of cannabis‐related outcomes: Evidence from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children longitudinal cohort and the European gene–environment interaction case–control study

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) for cannabis use disorder (CUD), major depressive disorder (MDD), insomnia and chronic pain, and early age at cannabis initiation might be linked to problematic cannabis use. We tested whether: (1) higher PRS for CUD, MDD, insomnia and chronic pain are associated with earlier initiation and ...
Edoardo Spinazzola +17 more
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Delivery and adherence of biomarker‐guided antibiotic treatment protocols in the ADAPT‐Sepsis clinical trial: an in‐trial descriptive process evaluation of daily procalcitonin‐ and C‐reactive protein‐guided protocols

Anaesthesia, EarlyView.
Summary Introduction Biomarker‐guided antibiotic protocols using daily procalcitonin or C‐reactive protein have been proposed to optimise antibiotic duration in sepsis. This pre‐planned process evaluation of the ADAPT‐Sepsis trial examined delivery and clinician adherence to procalcitonin‐ and C‐reactive protein‐guided protocols.
Ranjit Lall +536 more
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