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Science, 2021 Plastics have become an essential material of the modern global consumer economy, yet many of the properties that make them useful in so many applications also make them a serious environmental threat. As for much new technology, their development and proliferation occurred with little consideration for their impacts, but now it is impossible to deny ...
Jesse, Smith, Sacha, Vignieri
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Inbreeding depression in one of the last DFTD-free wild populations of Tasmanian devils [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Background Vulnerable species experiencing inbreeding depression are prone to localised extinctions because of their reduced fitness. For Tasmanian devils, the rapid spread of devil facial tumour disease (DFTD) has led to population declines and ...
Rebecca M. Gooley +5 more
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Was sagt uns das Deutsche über den Teufel? Axiolinguistische Überlegungen in Anlehnung an repräsentative Redewendungen [PDF]
Linguistische Treffen in Wrocław, 2023 This aim of this article was to describe the representations of the devil in German phraseology based on an analysis of representative phraseological units.
Tomasz Żurawlew
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Diabeł straszniejszy niż go malują. Lęk przed diabłem w XIII-wiecznym zbiorze Vie des peres
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis: Folia Litteraria Romanica, 2022 The article analyses the vision of the devil in the selected tales of the Vie des peres, a collection of pious tales from the thirteenth century, freely inspired by patristic literature and medieval exempla. The period in which the collection was written,
Joanna Gorecka-Kalita
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Satan's Temptation and Ways of its Prevention from the Perspective of Quran [PDF]
پژوهش نامه معارف قرآنی, 2016 Animosity in the form of friendship and trickery in the form of benevolence ensure more success for enemies at no financial and human cost. The devil was the first creature that used this method.
Abdolali Shokr
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the devil is in the detail [PDF]
BMJ, 2004 Okuonzi argues that the introduction of market reforms, into the Ugandan health system has been a failure.1 However, health systems are extremely complex and, as the debate about the British internal market shows, attribution of cause and effect is far from easy. The situation in Uganda is equally complex, with reforms taking place against a background
McKee, Martin, McPake, Barbara
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İyi ile Kötü Arasında İnsan: Gazâlî’de Hayvan, Melek ve Şeytan
Trabzon İlahiyat Dergisi, 2023 Gazâlî’de canlılar hayvanlar, melekler ve insanlar olmak üzere üç sınıftan meydana gelmektedir. Yaratıklar içinde işgal edilen konum açısından hayvanlar ve melekler karşıt kutupları oluşturmakta, insanlar ise diğer ikisiyle farklı ve ortak bazı ...
Ali Karakoyunluoğlu
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Journal for Religion, Film and Media, 2023 “The devil is a catchy lyric.” This quote comes from the movie American Satan (AshAvildsen, US 2017), when Mr. Capricorn (the devil) promises international success to ayoung heavy-metal band in Los Angeles and its singer, Johnny Faust.
Treiber, Fritz
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Treasure Hunt—Roman Inquisition and Magical Practices Ad Inveniendos Thesauros in Southern Tuscany
Religions, 2019 Resorting to the supernatural to find something lost is a practice that can be observed over a very large range of times and places. With the affirmation of Christianity, these kinds of habits and beliefs were considered superstitious by the Church ...
Vincenzo Tedesco
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Amantul colivăresei – rătăcirea într-o lume desacralizată (Amantul colivăresei (The Widow’s Lover) - Wandering in a Desacralized World) [PDF]
Incursiuni în imaginar, 2015 Having a dialogue with yourself and with others, putting face to face what is known to you, identical, with what is foreign, different, is the equivalent of surpassing what Pierre Bourdieu called „own cultural field”.
Aritina Micu
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