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Early Christianity, Mission, and the Survival of the Poor in the Graeco-Roman World

Teologisk Tidsskrift, 2019
If the poor survived in the ancient world, it was primarily through networks of mutual support, in which kin, friends and neighbours helped each other through periods of crisis. Christians formed new, trustworthy networks, mostly among the poor, in which,
John M. G. Barclay
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Shared correlates of maternal and childhood overweight in Cameroon: a cross-sectional analysis of demographic and health survey data

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Overweight parents are likelier to bear overweight babies, who are likelier to grow into overweight adults. Understanding the shared risks of being overweight between the mother-child dyad is essential for targeted life course interventions ...
Lambed Tatah, Luchuo Engelbert Bain, Eugene Kongnyuy, Felix Assah, Jean Claude Mbanya   +4 more
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Serbian feminine names in the early 16th century (based on the 1516 census of the Smederevo Sanjak) [PDF]

Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2017
A large number of feminine names can be found in Ottoman census books (defters). These anthroponymic materials provide important sociological, ethnographic, linguistic and historical evidence of the population of Serbian areas included in the ...
Jovanović Gordana M., Katić Srđan D., Jakovljević Aleksandar M.   +2 more
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Looking Under the Religion–Family Nexus: Syrian Christian Articulations in India

Religions
What does one learn about religion through a study of Syrian Christian family cultures? How do religion and family—both as historically shaped ideological frames and social classifiers—inflect each other in Syrian Christian articulations about their past
Nidhin Donald
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Spiritual Communion in a Digital Age: A Roman Catholic Dilemma and Tradition

Religions, 2021
In the midst of this pandemic, most Christian Churches in the United States have been required to limit severely if not suspend face-to-face worship. The responses to this challenge when it comes to celebrating the Eucharist have been multiple.
Edward Foley
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Bone Mineral Density After Contemporary Treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia: A Matched Cross‐Sectional Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Reduced bone mineral density (BMD) has been reported in survivors of childhood and young adult acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL); however, data from cohorts treated with contemporary protocols and including matched controls remain limited.
Karen Schow Jensen, Mette Tiedemann Skipper, Niels Holtum Birkebæk, Kjeld Schmiegelow, Thomas Leth Frandsen, Bente Langdahl, Rikke Beck Jensen, Asger Roer Pedersen, Christian Mølgaard, Liv Andrés‐Jensen, Birgitte Klug Albertsen   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Privatisation of Request Infant Male Circumcision in Australia—An Equity-Focused Assessment of Impacts on Religious Communities in Greater Sydney

Société Internationale d’Urologie Journal
Background/Objectives: Infant male circumcision (IMC) is a long-established religious practice in Jewish, Muslim, and some Orthodox Christian communities.
Shravankrishna Ananthapadmanabhan, Eric Starra, Tazeen Majeed   +2 more
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Minimum acceptable diet and associated factors among children aged 6–23 months during fasting days of orthodox Christian mothers in Gondar city, North West Ethiopia

BMC Nutrition, 2022
Background Nutritional improvement through appropriate feeding practices is critical for young children's healthy growth and development. Even if children are exempted from fasting, their diets are influenced by the widespread fasting practices of their ...
Haregewoin Birhanu, Kedir Abdela Gonete, Melkamu Tamir Hunegnaw, Fantu Mamo Aragaw   +3 more
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Introduction: Christian revival and survival in Africa [PDF]

, 2023
[This issue of the Journal of African Christian Biography explores the witness of African Christians in situations of revival and survival. African Christian history is replete with instances of these two extremes of Christian faith—when God visits his ...
Sigg, Michèle
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Leucine‐rich glioma inactivated 1 (LGI1) is a ganglioside‐binding protein

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Neuronal hyperexcitability associated with a decrease/absence of the extracellular protein LGI1 has been suggested to be primarily due to the downregulation of Kv1 channel expression. The molecular mechanisms underlying this decrease have not yet been elucidated.
Kévin Debreux, Christian Lévêque, Fodil Azzaz, Marion Sangiardi, Sarosh R Irani, Michael Seagar, Jacques Fantini, Oussama El Far   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source