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Disk M Dwarf Luminosity Function From HST Star Counts [PDF]
, 1995 We study a sample of 257 Galactic disk M dwarfs ...
Bahcall, John N. +2 more
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The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Volunteers have long played a significant role in hospice care. Much of the care volunteers provide consists of weekly hour‐long in‐home visits. Home‐visiting hospice volunteers are not professionals, nor are they strangers or intimates. Hospice volunteers will not typically face moral dilemmas, nor be called upon to make dramatic decisions ...
Michael B. Gill
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Current Swedish Archaeology, 2010 The paper compares the Bronze Age ship settings of Gotland with the vessels portrayed in rock carvings on the Scandinavian mainland. It also makes comparisons with the drawings of vessels on decorated metalwork of the same period.
Richard Bradley +2 more
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Mitra kuju Indias ja Mithra kuju Iraani usundites – uurimus võrdlevast mütoloogiast [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2016 This article is a systematic approach to the character of deity, who bears the name Mitra in India, but in Iran is called Mithra (later Mihr). The study aims to give answers to three questions: 1) What are the similarities between the Indian Mitra and ...
Martti Kalda, Jaan Lahe
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Genealogical Myth of the Buryats of the Hori Tribe: Calendar and Ritual
Научный диалог, 2021 The plot of the genealogical myth of the Buryats of the Khori tribe is studied in the article as a historical and cultural source reflecting ideological attitudes, which were also a historical fact.
N. B. Dashieva
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The Cult(ture) of the Second Sun: Remembering, Repeating, and Performing the Past Imperfect1 [PDF]
Recherches sémiotiques, 2014 This paper advances a pragmatic semiotic understanding of memory. By focusing on what is done with the real-time act of commemoration (or, the selective citation of memories), I analyze the multifunctional and multi-layered semiosis in society that presupposes and creates one’s experiential continuity between past, present, and future despite sudden ...
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Oikos, EarlyView.Animals gather information about their surroundings, including their social environment, using a wide range of sensory modalities. Variation in reception, processing and interpretation of information (cues or signals) can lead to differences in how individuals perceive their local environment. Yet, how individual differences in environmental perception
Ane Liv Berthelsen +13 more
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Un himno órfico al Sol (OF 538-545) en Macrobio
AitiaMacrobius quotes several verses from a poem in honour of the Sun, which he attributes to Orpheus and which, at least in one part, refers to a ceremony about the dressing of an image, corresponding to ancient news about a work attributed to the Thracian ...
Alberto Bernabé Pajares
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Alawi syncretism : beliefs and traditions in the shrine of Hüseyin Gazi [PDF]
, 2004 Religious Anthropology studies the origins, evolution and functions of religions. The discipline researching religious beliefs and rituals comparatively with cross-cultural perspectives tries to enlighten the belief world of the mankind.
Türk, Hüseyin
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Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Personal autonomous vehicles can sense their surrounding environment, plan their route, and drive with little or no involvement of human drivers. Despite the latest technological advancements and the hopeful announcements made by leading entrepreneurs, to date no personal vehicle is approved for road circulation in a “fully” or “semi ...
Xingshuai Dong +13 more
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