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Unusual Composition of the Sarezzano Reliquary Busts

Heritage
The interdisciplinary study of two reliquary busts from Sarezzano (Piedmont, Italy) is a perfect example of the necessity to provide for material characterisation as a recurring common practice in historical studies and a mandatory step in conservation ...
Maria Labate, Carmela Sirello, Maurizio Aceto, Fulvio Cervini, Simonetta Castronovo, Lorenza Operti, Angelo Agostino   +6 more
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Why Politicians Misbehave: A Systematic Review of How Attributes of Political Office Affect Moral Decision‐Making and Behavior

Public Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The moral decision‐making and behavior of politicians is influenced by the distinctive and characteristic attributes of political office. This literature review analyzes 80 articles from public administration, political science and related disciplines to systematically map these attributes and their underlying mechanisms. This study identifies
Manon Koopman, Koen Migchelbrink, Leonie Heres   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Family matters

, 2012
There are plenty of ways we can leave our money, but Australians remain remarkably conservative when they prepare their wills, write Michael Gilding and Christopher ...
Michael Gilding (18926413), Christopher Baker (18923914)   +1 more
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Narrative reconstruction of the self: Living funerals as rituals of trauma and transformation

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Living funerals mark a radical reconfiguration of contemporary engagements with mortality, transforming death from an imposed ending into an actively authored narrative. This study examines the practice in Hong Kong's hybrid sociocultural landscape, where traditional Chinese death rituals collide with neoliberal selfhood and globalised ...
Yuen‐Ki Tang
wiley   +1 more source

Practices and Rules of 16th Century Genoese Gilding: Exploring Gold Leaf Thickness and Caratage through X-ray and Ion Beam Techniques

Heritage
This study investigates the practices and rules of Genoese gilding, drawing insights from a 16th-century manuscript containing regulations for gold leaf production.
Letizia Ciarlo, Massimo Chiari, Maria Clelia Galassi, Maurizio Ferretti, Elias Sideras-Haddad, Alessandro Zucchiatti, Elena Castagnotto   +6 more
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The keys to the garden: Capital, class, and the repurposing of Persian mystical poetry in Los Angeles

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This article traces the social life of medieval Persian poetry as it is repurposed within Los Angeles's Iranian diaspora. Based on 5 years of immersive ethnography in private erfān classes and mystical assemblies, I argue these gatherings function as contemporary diasporic courts, mobilizing core texts within a spiritual marketplace structured
Zia Khoshsirat
wiley   +1 more source

Local‐Currency Sovereign Risk on South African Government Bonds: The Role of Sovereign and Exchange Rate Risk as Drivers of Changes in Nominal Bond Yields

South African Journal of Economics, Volume 94, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT While local‐currency bond markets have become a dominant source of emerging‐market financing and an integral component of the global financial system, market‐observed measures of sovereign default risk are still based on foreign‐currency denominated debt.
Mulalo Mamburu
wiley   +1 more source

E-Learning in Australian Law Schools [PDF]

Legal Education Review
The proliferation of law schools, partial deregulation of higher education and the introduction of a userpays system have compelled law schools to enter the market and compete with one another to attract and keep students.
Stephen Colbran, Anthony Gilding
doaj  

Polygraphice, or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, vernishing, japaning, gilding, &c. : in two volumes ... /

Statement of responsibility follows the edition statement on title-page.Signatures: A⁸ a⁸ B-P⁸ 2A-3R⁸.Plate count includes the frontispiece portrait and an added engraved title-page.Pages 225-300 lacking in pagination.(from title-page) I.
Salmon, William, 1644-1713., Fabre, Pierre-Jean, -approximately 1650., Nicholson, John, d. ca. 1717., A. and J. Churchill (Booksellers : London, England)   +3 more
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Microeukaryotic Diversity and Habitat Structuring in a Desiccating Alkaline Maar Lake (Central Mexico)

Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, Volume 73, Issue 6, November/December 2026.
ABSTRACT Microeukaryotes are important components of microbial food webs in saline and alkaline lakes, yet their diversity and distribution across distinct microhabitats remain poorly understood. We characterized microeukaryotic communities associated with microbialites, microbial mats, hypersaline waters, and sediments in the desiccating maar lake ...
Barbara Moguel, Mariano Cerca, Janet Sanchez‐Sanchez, Israel Muñoz‐Velasco, Marina Vega‐González, Gabriela Olmedo‐Álvarez   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source