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Subterranean environments contribute to three‐quarters of classified ecosystem services
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Beneath the Earth's surface lies a network of interconnected caves, voids, and systems of fissures forming in rocks of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic origin. Although largely inaccessible to humans, this hidden realm supports and regulates services critical to ecological health and human well‐being.
Stefano Mammola +30 more
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ПОХОРОННО-ПОГРЕБАЛЬНАЯ ОБРЯДНОСТЬ У КАЛМЫКОВ: ПОДГОТОВКА ПОКОЙНОГО К ЗАХОРОНЕНИЮ
Oriental Studies, 2018 This article is devoted to funeral rites of the Кalmyks conducted in the period of preparation of the deceased for burial which are based on traditional worldview and Buddhist practice.
Tatyana Isaevna Sharaeva
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Археология евразийских степейThe article presents a comparative analysis of the burial rite of the medieval population of the Kama region: bearers of the Lomovatovo and Nevolino cultures.
Artem Al. Nazarov
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Pallas, 2014 In the Early Iron Age, the southern part of the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) features a group of cemeteries which show very special burial rites and clearly differ from the usual habits in the Central Balkan area.
Daniela Heilmann
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Last rites and human rights: funeral pyres and religious freedom in the United Kingdom [PDF]
, 2010 This article considers the litigation in Ghai v Newcastle City Council in which the legality of open air funeral pyres under the Cremation Act 1902, and under the right to freedom of religion and belief in article 9 of the European Convention on Human ...
Cumper, P, Lewis, T
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Current Trends and Future Research in Management Control for Sustainability in Retail
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The growing emphasis on sustainability in the retail sector, driven by regulatory frameworks, market trends and consumer demand, has placed management control at the forefront of facilitating sustainability practices. Despite increasing academic interest in this area, the literature is fragmented and provides limited sector‐specific insight ...
Miguel Gil, Mart Ots, Timur Uman
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Whose body? A study of attitudes towards the dead body in early modern Paris [PDF]
, 2000 This chapter examines attitudes towards the dead body, as exemplified by arrangements for funerals and burials, in Paris between around 1550 and 1670.
Harding, Vanessa
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Things of the ground: Children's medicine, motherhood and memory in the Cameroon grassfields [PDF]
, 2011 Copyright @ 2011 Cambridge University PressSoon after birth, infants in the Cameroon Grassfields chiefdom of Oku are submitted by their parents to rites known generically as ‘children's medicine’ (k∂fu ∂bwan). Ostensibly performed to protect infants from
Argenti +34 more
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Service Work as Lived Experience: A Problematizing Review
Human Resource Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between employee burnout and growing recruitment challenges, a systemic crisis confronts the service industry. One reason lies in the scope of received human resource management (HRM) approaches, which often emphasize organizational performance metrics at the expense of the emotional, social, and material experiences of doing frontline service
Kushagra Bhatnagar +2 more
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Нижневолжский археологический вестник, 2019 This article presents characteristics of special rituals, rites and customs identified in Sarmatian cultures of Eastern Europe. For example, a group of prone burials of the Late Sarmatian time was distinguished in the course of the research.
Mariya A. Balabanova, Evgeniy V. Pererva
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