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Slavery and Manumission in the Pre-Constantine Church [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper looks at the church’s handling of the issue of slavery in the period before Constantine and the official recognition of Christianity. The time period is important because Christians had no political authority to end slavery, assuming they ...
Super, Joseph Francis
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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
wiley   +1 more source

601 TIPS AND TRICKS FOR REMOVAL OF TOT – TRANS-OBTURATOR TAPE

open access: yesContinence, 2022
R Tomashev, H Shi, A Shobeiri
doaj   +1 more source

Priests and politicians: Archbishop Michael Gonzi, Dom Mintoff, and the end of empire in Malta [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The political contest in Malta at the end of empire involved not merely the British colonial authorities and emerging nationalists, but also the powerful Catholic Church.
Smith, Simon C.
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Further Findings on the Intergenerational Transmission of Alcohol Consumption

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using 43,817 parent–child pairs from 23 waves of the HILDA Survey, I study the intergenerational transmission of alcohol use within a rational model of trait transmission. Transmission is predominantly same‐sex: the mother–daughter elasticity is 0.10 and the father–son elasticity is 0.09; there is no father–daughter effect.
Sergey Alexeev
wiley   +1 more source

Thoughts on the Importance of Attending Church

open access: yes, 2017
A short essay on the purpose and importance of church attendance. Excerpt: Today, many Christians have given up consistent attendance of worship services. This tendency is particularly pronounced among young adults.
Irish, Kerry
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Local Responses to Limits on U.S. Public Health Authority During the COVID‐19 Emergency

open access: yesThe International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public health has become politicized in the U.S. Though research shows that limiting public health authority during emergency response puts community wellbeing and health outcomes at risk, during the COVID‐19 emergency (2020–2021), some U.S. state policymakers limited the disease‐preventing actions local public health agencies could take. This
Genevive R. Meredith   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Many Faces of Talent Management: Organizational Perspectives on Talent and Talent Management Practices in Jordan

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Talent management involves the systematic planning, acquisition, development, performance management, engagement, and retention of employees identified as “talent.” Little is known about the relationship between organizations' talent perspectives and talent management practices.
Amro Aljbour, Erica French, Muhammad Ali
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of antifibrotics on the progression of pulmonary hypertension in patients with interstitial lung disease listed for lung transplantation

open access: yesBMC Pulmonary Medicine
Purpose Antifibrotics (AF) attenuate the progression of fibrotic interstitial lung disease (ILD), but it is unknown if these drugs affect the progression of pulmonary hypertension (PH) in patients with ILD.
Christopher Thomas   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Induced abortion in the world: 2. Present views on pregnancy termination

open access: yesInternational Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract Abortion was practiced in most cultures for millennia, but was often disapproved and banned. The 20th century witnessed a progressive conditional legalization, often with limitations for the duration of pregnancy. Legalizing abortion was driven by multiple factors, including a desire to limit population growth, the emergence of movements that ...
Giuseppe Benagiano   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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