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Cicero in the Ukrainian Rhetoric Manuductio (1736). Texts and Contexts
Studi Slavistici, 2020 The article explores Cicero’s reception in the Ukrainian handwritten manual of eloquence Manuductio (1736). Presumably, this school rhetoric manual was created by Tymofiy Aleksandrovyč, a graduate and later teacher of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
Olha Tsyhanok
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Natural law, natural philosophy, natural rights [PDF]
, 2008 Who or what is the creator (and how is that we can presume to read his mind and know his intentions) and how do we know there are inalienable rights? As will become clear in the pages below, the idea of the creator is a powerful concept that permeates ...
Stein, Joshua B.
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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
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Analysing the use of emissions scenarios in practice
npj Climate ActionEmissions scenarios generated by Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) are an important element in the IPCC’s relevance for climate action, but little attention has been given to how scenarios are used in practice.
Bård Lahn +2 more
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Ciceroniana On Line, 2020 CICERONIANA ON LINE A Journal of Roman Thought Peer-reviewed scientific review (ISSN 2532-5353) A Review of the Société internationale des Amis de Cicéron and Centro di Studi Ciceroniani New Series Volume IV, 2, 2020 Director Carlos LÉVY ...
Ermanno Malaspina
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A Distributed GUI-based Computer Control System for Atomic Physics Experiments
, 2012 Atomic physics experiments often require a complex sequence of precisely timed computer controlled events. A distributed GUI-based control system designed with such experiments in mind, The Cicero Word Generator, is described.
Keshet, Aviv, Ketterle, Wolfgang
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Family Matters: Exploring the Link Between Parental and Executive Financial Misconduct
Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a novel data set of misconduct records for Finnish CEOs and directors and their parents, we explore whether corporate executives’ financial misconduct is associated with similar behavior by their parents. Controlling for various other factors of executive financial misconduct, we find that executives are significantly more likely to ...
JENNI KALLUNKI +4 more
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Sulla, a Republican Tyrant? [PDF]
Античный мир и археология, 2019 The article is devoted to some episodes of Sulla’s rule, namely the beginning of proscriptions, his triumph over Mithridates VI Eupator, alleged Sulla’s self-representation as second Romulus and the criticism of the dictator by Cicero in his ...
Korolenkov, Anton Viktorovich
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson.
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
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Consistent responses to black carbon and carbon dioxide at global and 100 m model resolutions
Communications Earth & EnvironmentClimate responses to external forcings involve processes across a wide range of scales. While the ability of climate models to accurately simulate these responses remains uncertain, the computational cost of high-resolution models limits their use for ...
Camilla W. Stjern +2 more
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