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Sheepskins, hair shirts and tunics of palm leaves

Temenos, 2018
The theme is how authority is expressed in monastic clothes in late antiquity. The hypothesis is that different types of monastic garments speak to different types of authority, and that garments especially associated with charismatic authority came ...
Ingvild Sælid Gilhus
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Leveraging machine learning and citizen science data to describe flowering phenology across South Africa

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Recent shifts in flowering times are an index of, and a response to, human driven climate change. However, most information on these flowering changes is heavily skewed to the northern hemisphere. This imbalance limits our understanding of how climate change is affecting ecosystems, including the mismatches of flowering times between species, increased
Ross D. Stewart, Nicholas W. Bard, Michelle van der Bank, T. Jonathan Davies   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Learning leadership from Barack Obama: A short case study. [PDF]

, 2008
In a recent case study I asked if America would vote for a Messiah Leader (Management Online REview, Feb 2008), well the answer has been a huge yes. In that case study I argued that it wasn’t enough to be a Messiah leader, that promising hope, being ...
Western, Simon
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Linking the Five-Factors of personality to charismatic and transactional leadership; Perceived dynamic work environment as a moderator [PDF]

, 2005
In this multi-source study we investigated the relationships between the Big Five personality traits and both charismatic and transactional leadership behavior, and whether dynamism (the degree that the work environment is deemed dynamic) moderates these
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The effects of flower supplementation on pollinators and pollination along an urbanisation gradient

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Enhancing urban greenspaces for pollinator communities by planting flower patches is increasingly common, but their efficacy for different groups of insects (bees, hoverflies and moths) is unclear. Our city‐scale experiment demonstrated that the effect of flower patches on pollinators is complex, and direct benefits to specific insects are difficult to
Emilie E. Ellis, Jill L. Edmondson, Stuart A. Campbell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Animal Charisma: A Sociological Approach to Charismatic Species

Conservation & Society
Sociologists have been debating the nature of charisma since the discipline's inception. Recent debates in the sociology of charisma concern the role of social interaction and the place of organisations in the generation of charisma.
Clayton Fordahl
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Transitions from Charismatic Rule: Theories of Leadership Change and Cuba’s Post-Fidel Succession [PDF]

For theories of political succession and charismatic authority, the almost half-century long rule of Fidel Castro presents an extraordinary test case since Fidel in July 2006 handed over power ‘temporarily’ to his deputy and brother Raúl.
Bert Hoffmann
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Tracing change in the public perception of plants: insights from archives and social media in China

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
As urbanization accelerates, historic gardens serve as vital cultural treasures that offer spiritual and cultural support to the public. This study proposes an innovative approach that merges historical records from the Qing Dynasty with contemporary social media data to explore changes in public perceptions of these gardens.
Dong Xu, Pei‐yan Wang, Ya‐nan Li, Nan Hu, Yun‐yuan Li   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Charismatic Community

American Journal of Islam and Society, 2008
A revised and expanded version of a dissertation completed at Princeton University in 2000, this book describes the emergence of a distinct Shi`ite communal identity within the larger Islamic community in the period between the First CivilWar (656-61 ...
Devin Stewart
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Do charismatic species groups generate more cultural ecosystem service benefits? [PDF]

, 2017
The relationship between nature and cultural ecosystem service (CES) benefits is well accepted but poorly understood, as is the potential role of biodiversity in the relationship.
Bradbury, Richard B., Bullock, James M., Graves, Anil, Hubatova, Marie, McGinlay, James, Morris, Joe, Parsons, David J.   +6 more
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