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What does it mean? Translating anatomical language to engage public audiences

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract The language of anatomy, with its roots in Ancient Greek and Roman languages, is complex and unfamiliar to many. Its complexity creates a significant barrier to public knowledge and understanding of anatomy—many members of the public find themselves asking “what does it mean?”, and this can manifest as poor health literacy and outcomes.
Kat A. Sanders, Adam M. Taylor
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The importance of science communication and public engagement to professional associations

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Scientists have gathered in professional associations to promote science to the public. The American Association for Anatomy (AAA) has invested resources in programs to promote anatomical sciences to the public (high school level via the Anato‐Bee; all levels via Anatomy nights) and train scientists how to talk to the public (SciComm Bootcamp ...
Martine Dunnwald, Valerie B. DeLeon, Anne M. Burrows   +2 more
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Otthonosság és idegenség között: 17–18. századi habán közösségek reprezentációi korabeli emlékiratokban

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Theologia Reformata Transylvanica
Between hospitality and Foreignness: Representations of 17th–18th-Century Haban Communities in Contemporary Memoirs. The structure, beliefs, and history of the Habanic communities can be understood from the perspective of theology and history.
Noémi GUDOR
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Time goes by ... so slowly: Zyklische Zeitmodelle zu Beginn der Kunstgeschichte

Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2007
The article studies models of time and history in the historiography of art and cuture since the 16th century on the basis of theoretical comments made by a large number of authors from the 17th and 18th century in particular.
Eva Kernbauer
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Late Pleistocene to Holocene sedimentation in the Great Blue Hole (Lighthouse Reef, Belize): Results from a 30 m long core

The Depositional Record, EarlyView.
A 30 m long sedimentary succession at the bottom of the Belize Blue Hole represents terrestrial cenote (12.5–7.2 ka BP), restricted marine swamp (7.2–5.7 ka BP) and fully marine lagoonal phases (5.7–0 ka BP) on Lighthouse Reef carbonate platform. Post‐glacial and Holocene sea‐level rise largely controlled the sedimentological, faunal and floral changes
Eberhard Gischler, Dominik Schmitt, Annika Wiegand, Hermann Behling, Lyudmila Shumilovskikh, Martin Melles, Volker Wennrich, Elija Nolte, Jozef Grego, Flavio S. Anselmetti, Hendrik Vogel, Daniel Birgel, Jörn Peckmann   +12 more
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Electronic Enlightenment Scholarly Edition of Correspondence

RIDE, 2017
The Electronic Enlightenment Scholarly Edition of Correspondence (EE), under the directorship of Robert McNamee and made available on a subscription basis by Oxford University Press, is a text collection of over 70,000 individual letters (written between
Mark J. Hill
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17th Century Variola Virus Reveals the Recent History of Smallpox [PDF]

Current Biology, 2016
Smallpox holds a unique position in the history of medicine. It was the first disease for which a vaccine was developed and remains the only human disease eradicated by vaccination. Although there have been claims of smallpox in Egypt, India, and China dating back millennia [1-4], the timescale of emergence of the causative agent, variola virus (VARV),
G. Brian Golding, Debi Poinar, Jason W. Sahl, Geoffrey L. Smith, Alison Devault, Stephanie Marciniak, Sebastián Duchêne, Sebastián Duchêne, Margaret Humphreys, Dario Piombino-Mascali, Maria F. Perdomo, John Southon, Matthew V. Emery, Jean Marie Rouillard, Klaus Hedman, Antti Sajantila, Jan P. Buchmann, Rimantas Jankauskas, Hendrik N. Poinar, Edward C. Holmes, Ana T. Duggan, Olivier Dutour, Olivier Dutour   +22 more
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Exploring Political Polarization Between Opponents and Supporters of Ruling Parties Following the 2019 Lebanese Uprising

European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The 17 October 2019 uprising in Lebanon marked a pivotal period of economic crisis and discontent with the ruling elite. We examined social cohesion post‐uprising by exploring political polarization between “anti‐ruling parties” citizens and “partisan/unaligned” citizens, in two surveys with a community sample (Study 1, N = 357) and a ...
Mortada Al‐Amine, Rim Saab, Charles Harb, Rima Majed   +3 more
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“Wheat of Portugal” . The African adventure of maize

Culture & History Digital Journal, 2013
This work focuses on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and starts from the introduction of maize (Zea mays) in different places of Africa by the Portuguese.
Manuel de Paz-Sánchez
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Induced abortion in the world: 1. Perception of abortion throughout the centuries and by religions

International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract Induced abortion has religious, moral, and cultural dimensions that place it at the center of major ethical debates. The interest of women caught in the middle of this never‐ending controversy requires that a dialogue replaces current confrontation.
Giuseppe Benagiano, Kristina Gemzell‐Danielsson, Marwan Habiba, Salvatore Mancuso, Shantha Shantha‐Kumari   +4 more
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