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The article traces Johan David Åkerblad’s contributions to one of the 19th century’s most famous scientific triumphs, the decipherment of hieroglyphs. Egyptology often counts its birth from 1822 when hieroglyphs first could be read; the focus here are ...
Fredrik Thomasson
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Between Codification and Diversification: The Egyptian Clergy in the Greco-Roman Times and Its Supposed Identity Greek and Demotic evidence concerning the Egyptian clergy hardly makes it possible to consider it as cohesive corps, able to find a common ...
Silvia Bussi
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Thermoelectric cooling has a high quality of temperature control compared to Vapor Compression Cooling. This paper presents a numerical and experimental study on the effect of the cold-side heat sink design and the operating condition of its fan on the ...
Yasser Abdulrazak Alghanima +2 more
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Often regarded as “living fossils,” cycads are well known for retaining many ancestral traits, which makes them particularly fascinating to naturalists and scientists alike. Cycads provide insights into the functional and developmental processes underlying the origin and diversification of seed plants, and they may help clarify how they colonized the ...
José Said Gutiérrez‐Ortega
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The main elements of the solution to China’s demotic violence [PDF]
Domestic violence represents a complex and pervasive issue within China, deeply entrenched in historical norms and sociocultural attitudes. Even with legal reforms aimed at criminalizing domestic violence and establishing legal protections for victims ...
Yin Xuan
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Focalisation, Flight and flânerie: James Kelman’s How Late It Was, How Late and the crime novel
This paper analyses James Kelman’s 1994 novel How Late It Was, How Late through the prism of the crime novel and the figure of the flâneur. The novel revolves around Sammy, a Glaswegian criminal with a fondness for ‘wandering’, and who loses his sight ...
James Dalrymple
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Children and YouTubers: Navigating the Maze of Sponsored Content and Advertising for Merch
ABSTRACT Recent scholarly attention has focused on YouTubers' advertising practices and their influence on young followers' understanding of commercial content. Although previous studies primarily explore children's advertising literacy, they often treat YouTubers' influencer marketing as a unified phenomenon.
Fredrika Thelandersson +2 more
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Talking Lamb or Deified Sage? [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to find out possible roots of the legend about a prophecy made by a talking lamb in the Egyptian historical tradition. The stories told by Manetho, Chaeremon, and Lysimachus about predictions given to one of the Egyptian kings of
K.V. Kuzmin
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Stop in the Law of the Name! Nominative Lawmaking, Populism and Justice
Abstract Nominative laws—laws named after particular victims of violence or injustice such as Martyn's Law, Sarah's Law and Awaab's Law—have become increasingly prominent in the UK. In this article, we offer the first sustained attempt to explore this phenomenon and its social, political and legal significance. Two contributions are made.
Lee Jarvis, Michael Lister, Alex Powell
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Abstract Nativist populism is on the rise across many liberal democratic contexts, yet we know relatively less about how to challenge its negative impacts. This study investigates the effectiveness of a novel intervention designed to counter nativist populist rhetoric.
John Shayegh +2 more
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