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Traditional Beliefs about Weretigers among the Garos of Meghalaya (India)

open access: yeseTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2017
The Garos, a tribal group who live in India (western highlands of Meghalaya and the southern foothills of Assam) and northern Bangladesh, are noted for their diverse beliefs on weretigers – that is, human beings with the ability of turning themselves, in
Francesco Brighenti
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Greek Gospels and Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls: Compositional, Conceptual, and Cultural Intersections

open access: yesOpen Theology, 2020
The Aramaic Dead Sea Scrolls expanded the scope of authoritative and parascriptural traditions that reimagine the lives and times of ancestral figures. In several cases, these Aramaic writings include birth notices or narratives.
Perrin Andrew B.
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Being-at-Home. Winnicott, Levinas, and Bachelard [PDF]

open access: yesPhainomena
The paper investigates the concept of being-at-home in both phenomenology and psychoanalysis. In order to accomplish this task, I draw on Donald Winnicott’s scattered psychoanalytical observations regarding the question what belonging to a home means ...
David-Augustin Mândruț
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Incorporating strawberry leaf extract from waste biomass in prototype topical gel and cream formulations

open access: yesTecnología en Marcha
Berry fruits are an important source of polyphenols with beneficial antioxidant properties for human health. However, higher bioactive phytochemical content has been reported in berry leaves, which are usually discarded or underutilized. In this study,
Karla Salas-Arias   +4 more
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Materialidades espectrales: resistencias sensibles a la desaparición forzada en Colombia

open access: yesRazón Crítica, 2020
En Colombia, la desaparición ha inscrito una violencia capaz de atacar no solo la vida, sino la existencia. Instaurando una lógica de terror fantástico, el lugar de las víctimas se desploma hacia un vacío de sentido que quiebra lo sensible y lo decible ...
Juan Ángel Agudelo Hernández   +2 more
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Dreaming Ourselves and Aspirations into Places of Higher Education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Dreams and aspirations are at the core of what higher education is about. Students and scholars alike, the world over, are engaged in the realization of dreams that bring forth new opportunities, new ways of seeing and being and of changing the world ...
Nikora, Linda Waimarie
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Connecting Dream Networks Across Cultures

open access: yes, 2014
Many species dream, yet there remain many open research questions in the study of dreams. The symbolism of dreams and their interpretation is present in cultures throughout history.
Menczer, Filippo, Varol, Onur
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Why human connection is the true metric of research success

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Human‐centred mentorship can be shaped by mentor attributes, actions, intrinsic drive and career ambition. Drawing on reflections across Singapore and France, as well as workshop insights from FEBS‐IUBMB ENABLE 2024, this article shows that human‐centred mentorship creates the conditions for sustainable growth, well‐being and retention in research ...
Timothy Lin Yun Tan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Communicative Tolerance as a Psychological Phenomenon

open access: yesПроблеми сучасної психології, 2023
The aim of our research is to show elements of communicative tolerance, to emphasize the actuality of this problem, to introduce communicative tolerance as a psychological phenomenon, which is especially interested in Psycholinguistics and ...
Наталія Михальчук   +1 more
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To sleep perchance to sing: the suspension of disbelief in the prologue to Francesco Cavalli's Gli Amori d'Apollo e di Dafne (1640) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
In the newly popularized genre of opera during the seventeenth century, the allegorical prologue was commonly used as a preface from about 1600 to 1670, with no fewer than 98 opera prologues composed throughout Venice during this period. These prologues,
Reba Wissner
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