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The random subgraph model for the analysis of an ecclesiastical network in Merovingian Gaul [PDF]
, 2014 In the last two decades many random graph models have been proposed to extract knowledge from networks. Most of them look for communities or, more generally, clusters of vertices with homogeneous connection profiles.
Bouveyron, Charles +5 more
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Life after herbarium digitisation: Physical and digital collections, curation and use
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Societal Impact Statement Collections of dried plant specimens (herbaria) provide an invaluable resource for the study of many areas of scientific interest and conservation globally. Digitisation increases access to specimens and metadata, enabling efficient use across a broad spectrum of research.
Alan James Paton +39 more
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The Cinderella tree, Quillaja saponaria – A soap story
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Our current understanding of plants has been shaped by the entwining of different cultures. The Chilean soapbark tree, traditionally valued as a source of natural soap, was shown by serendipitous research in France in the 1900s to produce compounds that can boost the immune response to vaccines.
Anne Osbourn
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Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2015 John Jewel, regarded as the principal apologist and theologian for the Elizabethan Church, was also esteemed as one of England’s most important (if not the most important) authority on the subject of usury, and therefore was cited frequently by opponents
Gazal André A.
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Prisoners' Perceptions and Their Agency on Sustainability Transformation in Finland
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability transformation is essential for our time, requiring the involvement of all citizens. Several prisons worldwide have developed various sustainable development (SD) programs for prisoners. However, it remains unclear how prisoners perceive SD, which can be a significant obstacle to their agency. This study explores the perceptions
Sirpa M. Manninen, Teija Makkonen
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017 This article will investigate why Mission Councils continued to exist for so long after the so-called autonomous churches were established in South Africa following the upsurge ofEthiopian and other types of African initiated churches at the close of the
Graham A. Duncan
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Technology, Theology, Thinking, and the Church [PDF]
, 2008 From the midst of what sometimes seems a brave new world of communication—Web 2.0, blogs, mobile phone service from almost anywhere, video by mobile phone—we should not forget that the Church and humanity have lived through it all before.
Soukup, Paul A.
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Compassed about with so great a cloud: the witnesses of Scottish episcopal acta before ca 1250 [PDF]
, 2007 This article is the result of examining the witnesses to some 600 episcopal acta. Despite the unequal incidence of survival from one diocese to another and the difficulty of identifying those men who had no surname, it is possible to draw some ...
Bateson, Cosmo Innes, Norman F. Shead
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
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Волинський благовісник, 2016 XVI century is marked by major challenges of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which affected the life of the Kyiv Metropolis, as well as the decline of spirituality and numeral assignments from church.
archipriest Volodymyr Vakin
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