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STATE‐LED RURALIZATION AND ITS URBAN ENTANGLEMENTS: Agribusiness Land Transfers in Rural China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 50, Issue 2, Page 277-292, March 2026.
Abstract As urbanization takes on forms and spaces beyond the typical city, urban theorists have questioned how the field can comprehend the rural. Drawing on recent theories in rural geography, I propose the concept of ‘state‐led ruralization’, which I define as state agencies’ deliberate effort to reshape rural social space by regulating the ...
Ettore Santi
wiley   +1 more source

Toward a Mediating Understanding of Tongues: A Historical and Exegetical Examination of Early Literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Studies regarding pneumatology and charismata have maintained distinctions largely due to previously held presuppositions. Christians have debated Luke’s and Paul’s usage of specific words and have taken diametrically opposite positions on this issue ...
Kraeger, Shane M
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M.L.S. or ABC? : A Christian Critique of Professionalism

open access: yes, 2010
A dichotomy has developed between professionals and non-professionals. Either you are or you are not. This article argues that this dichotomy is not biblical and offers an alternative that rests on firm theological soil: vocationalism. When librarianship
Trott, Garrett
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2 Corinthians 11:22: Historical context, rhetoric, and ethnicity

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2008
In this article historical criticism, rhetorical criticism and ethnicity theory are combined to interpret Paul’s boasting about his ethnicity in 2 Corinthians 11:22.
Dennis Duling
doaj   +1 more source

“The Way They Speak of Masters and Johnson”: The Rise and Disappearance of Sex Therapy, 1960–2000

open access: yesJournal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 62, Issue 2, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT A keyword search of “sex therapy” in the New York Times shows a rapid rise for articles covering the discipline in the 1970s, an equally rapid reduction in the 1980s, and further decline in the 1990s and into the 2000s. This surprising inflection, given that sex as a marketable construction did not decline in the late 20th century, opens room ...
Hannie Smolyanitsky
wiley   +1 more source

Holocene climate oscillations, seismotectonic events and human–environmental interactions reconstructed from the Giannades palaeolake on Corfu (Eastern Mediterranean, Greece)

open access: yesJournal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 2, Page 316-332, February 2026.
ABSTRACT The Mediterranean is particularly sensitive to rapid climate changes (RCCs) during the Holocene. An increasing number of natural climate archives revealed that socio‐economic developments were influenced by such RCCs since the Palaeolithic. However, multi‐millennial and high‐resolution archives are still rare and often located in mountainous ...
Esra Reichert   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pros and Cons of Bernini's Design for the Louvre: Monumentality Without Dome, Pediment or Free‐Standing Column and Its Drawbacks

open access: yesJAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 9, Issue 1, January–December 2026.
ABSTRACT In the 17th‐century Louvre expansion project, many architects used free‐standing columns, domes and large pediments for its east elevation. These elements helped give the elevation, over 150 m wide, the monumentality the court wanted, while also providing the appropriate articulation. Bernini was probably the only architect who did not use any
Taro Endo
wiley   +1 more source

Social equality and Christian life in Paul's first letter to the Corinthians

open access: yesActa Theologica, 2016
This contribution seeks to clarify how the category of eschatological equality in 1 Corinthians is to be ascertained. Is equality, in this instance, to be understood as the annulment of status differences within the Christian congregation, or does it ...
M. Tilly
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Rights, respect, and the duty to obey the law

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Shruta Swarup
wiley   +1 more source

A Contrastive GAN‐Based Framework for Full‐Body Visual Privacy Protection in Open World Scenarios

open access: yesIET Communications, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/December 2026.
In this paper, we propose an end‐to‐end, contrastive GANs‐based framework, FBPPGAN, for image full‐body visual privacy protection. First, we introduce the architecture of FBPPGAN, which is tailored for full‐body visual privacy protection. Second, we propose a novel adversarial loss function aimed at mitigating mode collapse and instability ...
Haolong Fu, Xuan He
wiley   +1 more source

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