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The Astronomical and Ethnological Components of the Cult of Bird-Man on Easter Island [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 The bird-man cult remains the main secret of Easter Island (Rapa Nui), a remote plot of land in the Pacific. This paper includes not only necessary ethnological data, but also some results on the archaeoastronomy. The research of some lines marked on a stone calendar from the Mataveri area, an archaic zone of the bird-man cult, allows to insist that ...
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Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Just over 100 years after Katherine Routledge's 1921–1922 expedition to the Mangareva Islands, digitized copies of a portion of her field notes from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) in London were returned to the source community in French Polynesia.
James L. Flexner +2 more
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A Note on the Rapanui Lunar Calendar [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 This paper is dedicated to the research of secrets of Easter Island (Rapa Nui), a remote plot of land in the Pacific; the article contains not only ethnological data, but also some results on the archaeoastronomy. This author examines both lunar calendar lists presented on the Mamari tablet as well as on a panel at Ahu Raai.
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Political Epistemology without Apologies
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Political epistemology has become a popular field of research in recent years. It sets itself the ambitious task to intertwine epistemology with social and political theory in order to do justice to the relationships between truth and politics, or reason and power.
Frieder Vogelmann
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Some Notes on the Rapanui Archaeoastronomy [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 This paper is dedicated to the research of secrets of Easter Island (Rapa Nui), a remote plot of land in the Pacific; the work includes not only necessary ethnological data, but also some results on the archaeoastronomy. The analysis of several rock drawings lets us date them.
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About the modern tools and methods of scientific research conducting in the field of the history of Mathematics [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 One of the variants for systematizing the activities of the historian of mathematics is proposed, as well as a scheme for organizing research and search work in the preparation of scientific articles and reports on the history of science.
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Patients' Experiences of Day Surgery: A Qualitative Systematic Review
Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim To examine how patients experience day surgery. Design Systematic review using Thomas and Harden's framework for synthesis and analysed through Ricoeur's theory of interpretation. Methods and Data Sources Systematic searches in MEDLINE, CINAHL and EMBASE (September 2023) identified qualitative studies focusing on patients' lived ...
Josephine Ransborg Sig +4 more
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Project G.N.O.S.I.S.: Geographical Network Of Synoptic Information System [PDF]
arXiv, 2012 Everybody knows how much synoptic maps are useful today. An excellent example above all is Google Earth: its simplicity and friendly interface allows every user to have the Earth maps ready in just one simple layout; nevertheless a crucial dimension is missing in Google Earth: the time.
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Personal Relative Deprivation and Locus of Control
Journal of Personality, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective We investigated the relationship between personal relative deprivation (PRD)—resentment from the belief that one is worse off than people who are similar to oneself—and locus of control. Background Research has yet to comprehensively investigate whether PRD is associated with a tendency to favor external (vs.
Mitchell J. Callan +34 more
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Variational Inference for Stochastic Block Models from Sampled Data [PDF]
arXiv, 2017 This paper deals with non-observed dyads during the sampling of a network and consecutive issues in the inference of the Stochastic Block Model (SBM). We review sampling designs and recover Missing At Random (MAR) and Not Missing At Random (NMAR) conditions for the SBM.
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