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Not In God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence [PDF]

, 2018
Not In God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence Rabbi Jonathan Sacks New York: Schocken ...
McMullen, Carol A.
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The international climate change regime and general principles of law

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
Abstract The Climate Change Advisory Opinion (AO) by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) demonstrates the growing prominence of general principles of law in international law. The Climate Change AO was handed down at the end of the International Law Commission's project on general principles of law with the adoption of its Draft Conclusions.
Renatus Otto Franz Derler, Mads Andenas
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Lightning Injury

Bangladesh Critical Care Journal, 2017
Lightning injuries are injuries caused by lightning strikes. Lightning delivers a massive electrical pulse over a fraction of a millisecond. It can kill a person by instantaneously short-circuiting the heart. Lightning injuries have been the second most common cause of storm-related death in the United States1,2,3. Far more injuries and deaths occur in
Tapash Chandra Roy, Kazi Nuruddin Ahmed, Muhammad Moshiur Rahman, Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman Bhuiyan, Mohammad Rabiul Halim, Mohiuddin Ahmed, ARM Nooruzzaman, Md Motiul Islam, Rajib Hasan   +8 more
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Lightning related human casualties in Mongolia [PDF]

, 2016
Lightning related casualties collected by the Institute of Meteorology in Mongolia from 2003 to 2015 have been analyzed. Being a country with one of the lowest population density, Mongolia records a relatively high human death rate per unit population ...
Doljinsuren, Myagmar, Gomes, Chandima
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Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of emotion in meaning‐making remains undertheorized in cultural sociology. This article argues that emotions and affect are intrinsic to meaning‐making and proposes cathexis—the attachment of emotions generated in social interaction to objects, symbols, and ideas—as the fundamental mechanism by which emotions co‐constitute cultural ...
Dmitry Kurakin
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A Strike from the Air: Cerebral Hemorrhage after a Lightning Strike

Indian Journal of Neurosurgery
Lightning strikes pose a rare but catastrophic risk for a variety of injuries, including damage to the central nervous system. We present the case of a 79-year-old farmer who survived a lightning strike directly in the chest resulting in an intracerebral
Mojsije Radovic, Mirko Micovic, Bojana Zivkovic, Vladimir Bascarevic   +3 more
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Development and Testing of Operational Dual-Polarimetric Radar Based Lightning Initiation Forecast Techniques [PDF]

, 2011
Lightning is one of Earth s natural dangers, destructive not only to life but also physical property. According to the National Weather Service, there are on average 58 lightning fatalities each year, with over 300 related injuries (NWS 2010).
Carey, Lawrence D., Felix, Mariana, Petersen, Walter A., Roeder, William P., Woodard, Crystal   +4 more
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ALOX15‐Derived Oxylipins Attenuate Macrophage Inflammatory Signaling Via a Gαq–PLC–PKC Pathway

The FASEB Journal, Volume 40, Issue 6, 31 March 2026.
ALOX15 expression and its downstream oxylipins, including 12‐HETE and 13‐HODE, are induced in intestinal epithelial and lamina propria immune cells during the early and middle phases of experimental colitis. These endogenous lipid mediators suppress lipopolysaccharide‐induced TNF‐α and IL‐6 production in macrophages without affecting cell viability ...
Adrian Hilman, Yoshiki Ishii, Bambang Dwi Wijatniko, Dina Mustika Rini, Takuya Suzuki   +4 more
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People Deaths and Injuries Caused by Lightning in Himalayan Region, Nepal

International Journal of Geophysics, 2022
Several natural disasters such as lightning, flood, fire, epidemics, and landslides frequently occur in the Himalayan region, of Nepal. The altitude of this region ranges from 59 m to “8848.86 m”—the height of Mount Everest—along with a distance of just ...
Pitri Bhakta Adhikari
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Calls for thunderstorm safety lessons [PDF]

, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR: Thunderstorm safety education should be made compulsory in schools as an early measure to prevent mishaps from occuring,said a lightning protection expert from Universiti Putra Malaysia.
New Straits Times,
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