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Chemical Warfare Through the Ages: A Systematic Review From Antiquity to the Present [PDF]
Journal of Toxicology, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.Chemical warfare means the use of chemical agents that have direct toxic effects on animals, plants and humans, as weapons. The first documented use of a chemical agent for warfare purposes occurred in ancient times around 10,000 BCE in South Africa when weapons were dipped in chemicals and then used to attack and defend from enemies.
Damian Alexander Honeyman +4 more
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Blueprint for a Universal Theory of Learning to Read: The Combinatorial Model
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 2, April/May/June 2025.The Reading Tree. Abstract In this essay, I outline some of the essential ingredients of a universal theory of reading acquisition, one that seeks to highlight commonalities while embracing the global diversity of languages, writing systems, and cultures.
David L. Share
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 3, March 2025.This study used predation survey techniques (citizen science) in order to quantify prey return rates across the UK, along with potential influencing factors. Although between 37 and 140 million prey were estimated to be returned home by cats, it is important to recognise that this does not indicate impact on prey populations.
H. L. Lockwood, M. Bulling, M. Huck
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‘A Pageant Apart from Politics’: The Opening of the South African Parliament, 1910–2020*
Parliamentary History, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 163-180, February 2025.Abstract In Westminster‐model institutions of which the South African parliament is one, an opening ceremony takes place annually at the start of a parliamentary session. In the South African context in the early 20th century, it involved a speech by the governor general on behalf of the British monarch, but it is now known as the ‘State of the Nation ...
Rachel Johnson
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International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 94-125, January 2025.Abstract According to plural person theory, a group of close friends can act together not just distributively, as separate individuals all at once, but also corporately, as a nonmetaphorical plural person supervening on the friends. This article proposes that the Spirit is a plural person in precisely this sense.
Olivia Bustion
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Homo Poeta: Rowan Williams and Poetic Anthropology
Modern Theology, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 96-119, January 2025.Abstract Rowan Williams's trinitarian ontology rests on the affirmation of eros within God and the ‘irreducible otherness’ of the divine persons to one another. The divine persons are accordingly conceived in ek‐static terms as ‘giving more than they are’.
Patrick John McGlinchey
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Spartan Daily, May 7, 1954 [PDF]
, 1954 Volume 42, Issue 136https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/12030/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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Benchmark ages for the Gaia benchmark stars
, 2018 In the era of large-scale surveys of stars in the Milky Way, stellar ages are crucial for studying the evolution of the Galaxy. But determining ages of field stars is notoriously difficult; therefore, we attempt to determine benchmark ages for the ...
Church, Ross P., +4 more
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The celestial city brought down to earth : Dmitrij Cernákov's interpretation of Rimskij-Korsakov's opera the invisible city of Kitež and the Maiden Fevronia [PDF]
, 2017 Rimsky-Korsakov's penultimate opera is tied to the symbolist movement in fin de siècle Russia. Although the composer did not intend it as a mystical work in the wake of Wagner's Parsifal, his symbolist collaborators invested much symbolist thinking in ...
Maes, Francis
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