An Exploratory Study of Mayoral Transition Work
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A new mayor's transition period is widely regarded as important to their overall success, yet mayoral transitions have received little research attention. This exploratory, mixed‐method study of 15 newly elected U.S. mayors combines primary survey data of time use with two waves of mayoral interviews to illuminate the nature and purposes of ...
Matthew Lee +2 more
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Book review: A. Sartre-Fauriat, Des Tombeaux et des morts. Monuments funéraires, société et culture en Syrie du sud du Ier s. av. J-C. au VIIe s. apr. J-C. Volume I: Catalogue des monuments funéraires, des sarcophages et des bustes; Volume II: Synthèse [PDF]
, 2004 Davies, Glenys
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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New Funerary Inscriptions from Lydia in the Kütahya Museum
Gephyra, 2008 This article presents two grave steles and four cinerary chests (three of which are inscribed). The steles were found in Yassıeynehan, a village of Simav in northern Lydia/western Phrygia (Maionia/Mysia Abbaïtis).
N. Eda Akyürek Şahin, Fatih Onur
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The polymorphism and tradition of funerary practices of medieval Turks in light of new findings from Tuva Republic. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Chan A +4 more
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Professionals and the Ethics of Workplace Surveillance
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Steve Clarke +2 more
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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Isotopic evidence for human mobility in late antique Bulla Regia (Tunisia). [PDF]
J Archaeol Sci Rep, 2023 Nikita E +6 more
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‘I'm Dead!’: Action, Homicide and Denied Catharsis in Early Modern Spanish Drama
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In early modern Spanish drama, the expression ‘¡Muerto soy!’ (‘I'm dead!’) is commonly used to indicate a literal death or to figuratively express a character's extreme fear or passion. Recent studies, even one collection published under the title of ‘¡Muerto soy!’, have paid scant attention to the phrase in context, a serious omission when ...
Ted Bergman
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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