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Functional models from limited data: A parametric and multimodal approach to anatomy and 3D kinematics of feeding in basking sharks (Cetorhinus maximus)

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Basking sharks, Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, Brugden [Squalus maximus], Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs Skrifter, 1765, vol. 3, pp. 33–49), feed by gaping their mouths and gill slits, greatly reorienting their cranial skeletons to filter food from water.
Tairan Li   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Brève incursion dans l’art de la représentation médiévale du martyre / A Brief Introduction into the Art of Medieval Representation of Martyrdom [PDF]

open access: yesAnastasis: Research in Medieval Culture and Art, 2015
From the first Christian centuries, martyrdom represented the most acute expression of suffering for the defence of faith in Jesus Christ. The violent death suffered by those who kept a firm faith in the sacred values they confessed marked the whole ...
Adrian Stoleriu, Andreea-Irina Stoleriu
doaj  

Saint Francis and the Sultan

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2012
In August or September 1219 at the height of the Fifth Crusade, Francis of Assisi audaciously set out to meet Sultan Malik al-Kâmil of Egypt. In Saint Francis and the Sultan: The Curious History of a Christian–Muslim Encounter, historian John Tolan has ...
Matthew A. MacDonald
doaj   +1 more source

Apocatastasis and Predestination ontological assumptions of Origen’s and Augustine’s soteriologies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
As Augustine himself testifies, he did not know Origen’s work so well. However, this does not mean that he was not acquainted with his key soteriological hypotheses, especially his teachings on apocatastasis.
Djakovac, Aleksandar
core   +1 more source

Revisiting a long‐overlooked skull: Implications for the distribution of Dinodontosaurus brevirostris (Kannemeyeriiformes) in the Brazilian Triassic

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Dicynodonts (Anomodontia: Dicynodontia) were one of the main groups of terrestrial tetrapods in Permian and Triassic faunas. In Brazil, the genus Dinodontosaurus is one of the most common tetrapod taxon in the Triassic Santa Maria Supersequence. This genus has a complex taxonomic history and is represented in the Triassic of both Argentina and
Julia Lara Rodrigues de Souza   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mythology in the Middle Ages: Heroic Tales of Monsters, Magic, and Might

open access: yes, 2011
Myths of gods, legends of battles, and folktales of magic abound in the heroic narratives of the Middle Ages. Mythology in the Middle Ages: Heroic Tales of Monsters, Magic, and Might describes how Medieval heroes were developed from a variety of source ...
Fee, Christopher R.
core  

Religious institutions and authoritarian states : Church-state relations in the Middle East [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The churches in the Middle East are generally perceived to be supportive of the authoritarian states in the region. The motivations for this strategy and its successes and limitations in the context of the authoritarian environment and the religious ...
McCallum, Fiona
core   +1 more source

Broadening the semiaquatic scene: Quantification of long bone microanatomy across pinnipeds

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Investigations of bone microanatomy are commonly used to explore lifestyle strategies in vertebrates. While distinct microanatomical limb bone features have been established for exclusively aquatic and terrestrial lifestyles, identifying clear patterns for the semiaquatic lifestyle remains more challenging.
Apolline Alfsen   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hardy space of Clausen's and Goursat's hypergeometric functions [PDF]

open access: yesSurveys in Mathematics and its Applications
Let ℛ denote the class of analytic functions defined in the open unit disc Δ=\z∈ ℂ: |z|
Jocelyn Johnson, S. Sunil Varma
doaj  

EARLY CHRISTIAN SACRAL OBJECTS ON HERZEGOVINIAN SPACE [PDF]

open access: yesHum, 2013
The article is a review of archaeological localities on Herzegovinian space containing early Christian sacral objects. At the same time this serves as the only witness of Christian presence in this area before the seventh century.
Ana Noković
doaj  

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