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Robust Tests of Forecast Accuracy for Factor‐Augmented Regressions With an Application to the Novel EA‐MD‐QD Dataset

Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We present four novel tests of equal predictive accuracy and encompassing á Pitarakis (2023, 2025) for factor‐augmented regressions. Factors are estimated using cross‐section averages (CAs) of grouped series and our theoretical findings are empirically relevant: asymptotic normality, robustness to an overspecification of the number of factors,
Alessandro Morico, Ovidijus Stauskas
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Hearing the Calls: The Need for an Ecumenical Theology of Monasticism and Consecrated Life for the 21st Century

Religions
In the past sixty years the institutions of religious life (perhaps now more broadly and accurately named “consecrated life”) within the Roman Catholic world have experienced something of a crisis.
Evan Bradford Howard
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“Transforming Faith: The Impact of Digital Media and Technology on Community Engagement in Contemporary Pentecostalism" in Southern Africa [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology
This research explores the significant influence of digital media and technology on community involvement in modern Pentecostalism in Southern Africa, with particular emphasis on the United Family International Church (UFIC) and the Prophetic, Healing ...
Lindah Tsara, Tsitsi Mwapfaa
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Predicting Major Depression Among Diverse Online Gamers: The Role of Internet Addiction and Spirituality

Journal of Addictions &Offender Counseling, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyzed whether religious or spiritual affiliation and therapy enrollment protect against symptoms meeting Major Depressive Disorder criteria beyond demographic, Internet addiction, and described therapy enrollment. Findings illustrated one risk factor and one protective factor associated with experiencing symptoms that meet Major ...
Lindsay A. Lundeen, John R. McCall
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Issues in or with Genesis 22: An overview of exegetical issues related to one of the most problematic biblical chapters

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2013
The understanding of the Akedah (Genesis 22) has since its very inception been contentious. The psychologically disturbing and theologically challenging account renders a series of exegetical and interpretative problems.
Christo Lombaard
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Toward an inclusive model of relational spirituality: an exploration of spiritual type among Australian Anglicans

, 2010
This thesis investigates spiritual formation and expression in the context of the increasingly pluralized world of the twenty-first century. Using qualitative empirical methods, it examines where, how, and, indeed, if ultimate meaning and purpose are ...
Nicol, Alisoun
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The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Volunteers have long played a significant role in hospice care. Much of the care volunteers provide consists of weekly hour‐long in‐home visits. Home‐visiting hospice volunteers are not professionals, nor are they strangers or intimates. Hospice volunteers will not typically face moral dilemmas, nor be called upon to make dramatic decisions ...
Michael B. Gill
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Lactation, Childrearing, and Gender Justice

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, I discuss the significance of early infant feeding choices for the goal of gender justice. Focusing on human lactation practices, I identify Exclusive Gestational Nursing (EGN) as the norm in advanced industrial societies, which creates the expectation and permission for gestators, and only gestators, to nurse children, and ...
Jenny Brown
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The nature of Christian mysticism in the thought of Baron von Huegell and George Tyrrell [PDF]

, 1989
This thesis seeks to establish the place of Baron von aigel and George Tyrrell in the revival of interest in mysticism at the beginning of the present century.
Berry, John C., Berry, J.C
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African workplace spirituality in South African mines

, 2009
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 226-251).This research explores the role of spirituality in an African mining context with specific reference to spinal cord-injured mine workers.
Makgoba, Thabo Cecil
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