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Genetics of infertility and “assisted fertilization” in the Bible: The case of Abraham and his family

open access: yesAndrology, EarlyView.
Abstract Couple infertility is a very ancient medical condition. One of the first descriptions of familial infertility/subfertility is contained in the first book of the Bible, Genesis, written in the 10th century BC and reporting tales from the oral tradition even occurred about 800 years earlier.
Manuela Simoni   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Композиційні особливості німецьких казок про тварин (COMPOSITE FEATURES OF GERMAN FAIRY TALES ABOUT ANIMALS) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
«Звіриний епос» складає характерний цикл у казковому епосі Німеччини, адже саме в ньому знаходить своє широке відображення життя людини, різноманіття людських почуттів, емоцій і характерів.
Шрамко, Д. (D. Shramko)
core  

The control over personal data: True remedy or fairy tale ? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This research report undertakes an interdisciplinary review of the concept of "control" (i.e. the idea that people should have greater "control" over their data), proposing an analysis of this con-cept in the field of law and computer science.
Lazaro, Christphe, Métayer, Daniel Le
core   +4 more sources

Oral fairy tale or literary fake? Investigating the origins of Little Red Riding Hood using phylogenetic network analysis

open access: yesDigital Scholarship in the Humanities, 2016
The evolution of fairy tales often involves complex interactions between oral and literary traditions, which can be difficult to tease apart when investigating their origins. Here, we show how computer-assisted stemmatology can be productively applied to
J. Tehrani, Quan Nguyen, Teemu Roos
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Affective Infrastructure: Capitalism's Specters in the Ecovillage Findhorn Community

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Ecovillage Findhorn Community (EFC) in Northeast Scotland seeks to live in harmony with nature. How the community has done this over its 60‐plus years has changed from social communalism, where residents lived in cheap caravans, to now mostly privately‐owned expensive ‘eco’ houses with green technology.
Kelsey D. Grubbs
wiley   +1 more source

The Category of Time in Fairy Tales: Searching for Folk Calendar Time in the Estonian Fairy Tale Corpus

open access: yesJournal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 2011
The article examines how folk calendar holidays are represented in Estonian fairy tales. It introduces some views presented in folklore studies about the concept of time in fairy tales and finds parallels with them in the Estonian context.
Mairi Kaasik
doaj  

Stained glass : representing fairy tale themes with glass : an honors thesis (HONRS 499) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
For my honors creative project I have created a stained glass window depicting a familiar fairy tale. In order to create this window, I had to complete a six week course in stained glass at Merry-Go-Round Stained Glass in Castleton, Indiana.
Woods, Jillian L.
core  

Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Merchant’s Tale, Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Tale of the Enchanted Pear-Tree, and Sir Orfeo Viewed as Eroticized Versions of the Folktales about Supernatural Wives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Two of the tales mentioned in the title are in many ways typical of the great collections of stories (The Canterbury Tales and Il Decamerone) to which they belong.
Wicher, Andrzej
core   +1 more source

The Use of Magic and Fairy Tale Dice to Improve Students' Ability in Writing Narrative Text

open access: yes, 2018
This research done at first semester students of English Department Widya Gama Mahakam Samarinda aimed at finding out whether or not magic and fairy tale dice can game improve students’ ability in producing a better narrative text.
Arbain Arbain, Dedi Rahman Nur
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Parents' experiences in accessing services for their autistic children in the United Kingdom: A meta‐synthesis

open access: yesBritish Journal of Clinical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Parents of autistic children support their children through additional challenges, often experiencing adversity as a result. Such parents report high support needs, yet service provision is often limited. Services often support children through providing various psychological interventions to parents.
John Kerr   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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