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A Friendly Guide to Exorcising Maxwell’s Demon

PRX Quantum
The birth, life, and death of Maxwell’s demon provoked a profound discussion about the interplay between thermodynamics, computation, and information. Even after its resolution, the demon continues to inspire a multidisciplinary field.
A. de Oliveira Junior, Jonatan Bohr Brask, Rafael Chaves   +2 more
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‘Vitamins’, shortcuts, and athletic citizenship in Ethiopia and Cameroon: considering sporting ethics beyond biomedicine « Vitamines », courts‐circuits et citoyenneté sportive en Éthiopie et au Cameroun : l’éthique du sport, au‐delà de la biomédecine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
wiley   +1 more source

"MY DEMON" IN RUSSIAN LYRIC POETRY: THE EXPERIENCE OF SELF KNOWLEDGE IN THE POETICAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE CLASSICAL PERIOD [PDF]

Проблемы исторической поэтики, 2008
The article investigates the topic of demon as a specific and typical for Russian poetry transformation of the image of the European culture. Yost van den Vondel, Milton, Byron, Belinsky, Chernyshevsky, Samarin, Pushkin, Lermontov, Glinka, Maykov ...
Koshemchuk T. A.
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The choice to submit: freedom, gender, and the figure of God in Pentecostal Nigeria Le choix de se soumettre : liberté, genre et figure divine chez les Pentecôtistes du Nigeria

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
wiley   +1 more source

Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
wiley   +1 more source

From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
wiley   +1 more source

Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais). Enceinte urbaine

Archéologie Médiévale, 2013
Angélique Demon
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Egzorcyzm w Apokryfie Księgi Rodzaju (1Q20ar) na tle demonologii Starego i Nowego Testamentu

The Biblical Annals
W Apokryfie Księgi Rodzaju (1Q20ar) pojawia się opowiadanie zawierające opis egzorcyzmu (kol. 20). Poproszono Abrahama, aby uwolnił faraona nękanego przez „ducha zarazy”. Tenże, stając się egzorcystą, sprawił, że demon został przegnany.
Wojciech Kardyś
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Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
wiley   +1 more source

Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais). Enceinte urbaine

Archéologie Médiévale, 2012
Angélique Demon
doaj   +1 more source