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Funeral traditions of Romans and barbarians of Gallia in I-III centuries AD

Studia Humanitatis, 2023
Death and funeral traditions in the pre-Christian era have been studied in different degree, thoroughly in the cultures of ancient Rome and ancient Greece, much less in detail in the cultures of pagans, who in Europe were commonly called barbarians.
Khrul Anastasiia
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Broadening the New Perspective on Paul: Paul and the Ethnographical Debate of His Time—The Criticism of Jewish and Pagan Ancestral Customs (1 Thess 2:13-16) [PDF]

, 2010
George H. van Kooten, “Broadening the New Perspective on Paul: Paul and the Ethnographical Debate of His Time—The Criticism of Jewish and Pagan Ancestral Customs (1 Thess 2:13-16),” in Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites: Jewish, Christian, and ...
Kooten, George H. van,
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The impacts of biological invasions

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock, Teun Everts, Neil Angelo S. Abreo, Jamie Bojko, Victor Deklerck, James W. E. Dickey, Ana Clara S. Franco, Emili García‐Berthou, Stelios Katsanevakis, Natalia I. Kirichenko, Stefano Mammola, Martin A. Nuñez, Ben Parker, Riccardo Scalera, Ismael Soto, Diederik Strubbe, Ali Serhan Tarkan, Lorenzo Vilizzi, Tim Adriaens, Paride Balzani, Dagmara Błońska, Elizabeta Briski, Rein Brys, Amy L. Burgess, James E. Byers, Carlos Cano‐Barbacil, Giuseppe Castaldelli, Jaimie T.A. Dick, Victoria Dominguez Almela, Romina D. Dimarco, Margarita Florencio, Antonín Kouba, Melina Kourantidou, Irmak Kurtul, Irene Martín‐Forés, Olivier Morissette, Julian D. Olden, Bruno E. Soares, Jakub Truszkowski, Hugo Verreycken, Marc Kenis, Ronaldo Sousa, J. Robert Britton   +42 more
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Mammalian RGS Proteins: Barbarians at the Gate*

Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1998
Hundreds or thousands of chemical and physical stimuli regulate the functions of eukaryotic cells by controlling the activities of a surprisingly small number of core signaling units that have been duplicated and adapted to achieve the necessary ...
D. M. Berman, A. Gilman
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Beyond mammals: the evolution of chewing and other forms of oropharyngeal food processing in vertebrates

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Oropharyngeal food processing exhibits a remarkable diversity among vertebrates, reflecting the evolution of specialised ‘processing centres’ associated with the mandibular, hyoid, and branchial arches. Although studies have detailed various food‐processing strategies and mechanisms across vertebrates, a coherent and comprehensive terminology ...
Daniel Schwarz, Maja Mielke, Stephan Handschuh, Anthony Herrel, Patrick Lemell, Léa Da Cunha, Nicolai Konow   +6 more
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LES ETHNONYMES DANS LES HISTOIRES D’AMMIEN MARCELLIN [PDF]

Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2013
This paper analyzes the role of ethnonyms in Ammianus Marcellinus’ Roman History . On the one hand, the different ways of naming ‘the other’ represent a literary device used by the historian in order to classify people from outside the Roman border ...
Elena Emilia ȘTEFAN
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The myth of the metabolic baseline: sleep–wake cycles undermine a foundational assumption in organismal biology

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Basal and standard metabolic rate (BMR and SMR) are cornerstones of physiological ecology and are assumed to be relatively fixed intrinsic properties of organisms that represent the minimum energy required to sustain life. However, this assumption is conceptually flawed. Many core maintenance processes underlying SMR are temporally partitioned
Helena Norman, Daphne Cortese, Amelia Munson, Jan Lindström, Shaun S. Killen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘On different levels ourselves went forward’ : pageantry, class politics and narrative form in Virginia Woolf’s late writing [PDF]

, 2011
This essay focuses on questions of class, politics and narrative form in Virginia Woolf’s late writing, in particular her posthumously published novel, Between the Acts.
Harker, B
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Recombining Knowledge for Climate Innovation: Evidence From US Energy Incumbents

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the climate crisis intensifies, energy incumbents must strategically transform their fossil‐fueled legacies to remain competitive and sustainable. Yet, little is known about how internal knowledge architectures and external industry positions jointly shape their capacity for climate innovation.
Kyung‐Baek Min, Kyzai Baikishieva, Young‐Choon Kim   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

E. S. Piccolomini et les Turcs : l’Europe face à son ennemi

Cahiers d’Études Italiennes, 2015
In the fifteenth century, the Ottoman advance is a reality that threatens the European continent. From the fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire in 1453, correspondence and several written of Enea Silvio Piccolomini analyze this expansionist ...
Serge Stolf
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