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Trends and correlates of marijuana use among late middle-aged and older adults in the United States, 2002–2014 [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Recent trend studies suggest that marijuana use is on the rise among the general population of adults ages 18 and older in the United States.
AbiNader, Millan+6 more
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Intellectual life in the Islamic civilization Personal libraries in Andalusia as model
The book is a pot of knowledge, so human has interested in create bookcases or libraries since ancient times to collect human heritage which is represented in the books, this for organize, keep, and to facilitate the benefit of that heritage. The dawn of
Ashraf Mohamed, Israa Mohamed
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Self-portrait in the Middle Ages [PDF]
Self-portrait has always been a complex artistic genre since its appearance until gaining its autonomy, because it reflects the artist’s mental and artistic development level to a great extent.
Ioana Palamar
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The Early Christians in the Face of Epidemics
The purpose of the article is to present the reaction of the early Christians to the emergence and the spread of the great epidemics. During the early Christian ages (2nd–3rd centuries) different plagues devastated people of the Roman Empire ...
Oleksandr Kashchuk
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This research was funded through Natural Environment Research Council (grant NE/J021822/1) and the APC was paid through the RCUK OA block grant.
Peter A. Cawood+2 more
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The High Middle Ages witnessed Christmas emerge as a major Christian feast in western Europe, a time of merriment and miracles. Always intended to celebrate the Incarnation, Christmas became a time to honour the little baby in the manger and his loving mother, as part of a spiritual shift towards remembering the human Jesus. Although Kalends traditions
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Greek-Arabic-Latin: The transmission of mathematical texts in the Middle Ages [PDF]
During the Middle Ages many Greek mathematical and astronomical texts were translated from Greek into Arabic (ca. ninth century) and from Arabic into Latin (ca. twelfth century). There were many factors complicating the study of them, such as translation
Lorch, Richard
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A risk society? Environmental hazards, risk and resilience in the later Middle Ages in Europe
Modern society is said to have restructured in reaction to contemporary hazards with the aim of improving its management of risk. This implies that pre-industrial societies were somehow fundamentally different. In this paper, we challenge that hypothesis
C. Gerrard, D. Petley
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The unpredictably eruptive dynamics of spruce budworm populations in eastern Canada
We examine historical population data for spruce budworm from several locations through the period 1930–1997, and use density‐dependent recruitment curves to test whether the pattern of population growth over time is more consistent with Royama's (1984; Ecological Monographs 54:429–462) linear R(t) model of harmonic oscillation at Green River New ...
Barry J. Cooke, Jacques Régnière
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Everyman with fangs: The acceptance of the modern vampire [PDF]
The vampire, an enduring demon from the European middle ages has through the course of the 20th century undergone a journey of transformation. The journey of the beast describes a circle, starting and ending with the depiction of the vampire as a ...
Cardow, Andrew
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