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The Dyke, 2022 From the establishment of the Northern History Research Scheme (NHRS) in 1962 to the present, there are 1,913 Arabic manuscripts in its various repositories.
Nadir A. Nasidi
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Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
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Commercial and Sublime: Popular Astronomy Lectures in Nineteenth Century Britain [PDF]
, 2015 This thesis discusses the practitioners, sites, curriculums, apparatus and audiences of popular astronomy lecturing in nineteenth-century Britain. Lecturers who were active approximately between 1820 and 1860 are the focus.
Huang, H-F
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Limiting Human Genomic Data Generation and Retention for Environmental Reasons
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The exponential growth of human genomic data presents a largely unexamined environmental challenge. Generating, storing, processing, using and sharing genomic data each contribute to environmental harms through substantial energy demands, resource use, and waste generation.
Wendy Xin +2 more
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Astronomy at the frontiers of science
, 2011 Astronomy is by nature an interdisciplinary activity: it involves mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology. Astronomers use (and often develop) the latest technology, the fastest computers and the most refined software.
Lasota, Jean-Pierre
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Zygon, 1990 Book reviews in this article: The Cosmic Blueprint: New Discoveries in Nature's Ability to Order the Universe. By Paul Davies. But Is It Science' The Philosophical Question in the Creation/Evolution Controversy. Edited by Michael Ruse.
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Demystifying Decoloniality: Epistemic Rupture and Material Reality
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Decolonial thought has become increasingly influential across the social sciences, foregrounding coloniality, epistemic injustice, ontological difference and pluriversality as alternatives to Western universalism. This Introduction to the Forum Debate ‘Debating Decolonial Thought’ critically examines the ‘decolonial turn’ in development ...
Sreerekha Sathi
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Lonergan, Decolonization and First Nations Peoples: An Apologetic from an Insider on the Outside
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract The purpose of this article is to respond critically to a research project initiated out of the Board of the Lonergan Research Institute that seeks to expose colonialist assumptions in Lonergan's thought. Some of the initiatives seek to link Lonergan with complicity in Canadian residential schools, spiritual violence, and cultural genocide ...
John D. Dadosky
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Theodor Steinbüchel's Great Figures of Christian Humanism
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract Theodor Steinbüchel (1888–1949) offers a study of eight figures in Western history who may be regarded as gestalts of Christian Humanism. He argued that none of these eight figures will ever return in the same way, but since there was an eternal conception of Christianity to which their ethos gave human form, each of these gestalts can be ...
Tracey Rowland
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Creativity and Embodied Knowledge in Nicholas of Cusa's De mente (1450)
Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article aims to nuance the widespread view that embodied experience plays a secondary role in the acquisition of human knowledge in Nicholas of Cusa's thought. With a focus on De mente (1450), I contend that the body is not limited to being a necessary stimulus to provoke the mind's activity, but rather that finite, material experience ...
Massiel Román Molero
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