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Sri Lankan chronicles, Chinese pilgrims and the nineteenth‐century hierarchy of texts in the construction of early Buddhist geography*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
wiley   +1 more source

The Moderating Effect of Physical Activity Between IQOS Smoking and Ventricular Repolarization Parameters in Lebanese University Students

Health Science Reports
Background Cigarette smoking is a major modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and sudden cardiac death, in part through abnormalities in ventricular repolarization.
Jean Khalil, Lucia Helou, Maria Ibrahim, Nicolas Nakhle, Mikhael Kossaify, Talal Harb, Souheil Hallit   +6 more
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From discounts to decisions: the mediating role of brand image in price promotions during turbulent times

Cogent Business & Management
Amid prolonged economic instability, consumers often recalibrate their purchasing decisions based on both price sensitivity and brand perception. This study investigates how price promotions influence consumer buying behavior and brand image in Lebanon ...
Nada Jabbour Al Maalouf, Sibelle Freiha, Joanna Hanna, Layal Sfeir, Chadia Sawaya   +4 more
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A case report of thyroid-associated Orbitopathy with elevated TPO antibodies

BMC Endocrine Disorders, 2020
Background Thyroid associated orbitopathy (TAO) is defined as an immune mediated inflammatory process affecting the extraocular muscles, connective and adipose tissue of uncertain etiopathogenesis.
Radwan El Othman, Christelle Ephrem, Elsie Touma, Souheil Hallit, Rola El Othman   +4 more
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

The Holy Spirit and religious experience in Christian literature c.90 - 200 ad [PDF]

, 1987
The thesis explores whether religious experience and the Spirit are linked in Christian literature between c90 and 200. Three spheres of religious experience were chosen as illustrations - a sense of being personally encountered/overwhelmed by the divine;
Morgan-Wynne, John Eifion
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‘Childish’ and ‘Minors’? Deconstructing Prejudice and Identity Transformation Among Spanish Women Religious During the Long Sixties1

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the identity formation process undertaken by Spanish women's religious following the aggiornamento promoted by the Second Vatican Council. Specifically, it seeks to examine the context in which these women lived and acted, analysing the construction of their identities, their capacity for agency and transgression within ...
Verónica García‐Martín
wiley   +1 more source

Shisha microbiota: the good, the bad and the not so ugly

BMC Research Notes, 2018
Objective Over the last decade, there has been a rapid expansion of the trendy water pipe smoking around the world especially among younger adults. The initial objective of this study was to identify the microbiota of the shisha, which may either be of ...
Julia Hani, Ghenwa Abdel Nour, Joanne Matta, Boushra Jazzar, Michael W. Pfaffl, Lara Hanna-Wakim, Afif M. Abdel Nour   +6 more
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Silent Holy Spirit, September 2019 [PDF]

, 2019
A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in St.

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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
wiley   +1 more source