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Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
wiley   +1 more source

Was Einhard a widower?

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
wiley   +1 more source

Enquêtes sur la morphogénèse des habitats groupés en basse vallée de l'Ariège au Moyen Âge [PDF]

, 2011
National audienceNaissance des villages groupés au Moyen Âge en basse vallée de l'Ariège d'après la documentation écrite, les plans anciens, la toponymie et l'enquête ...
Guillot, Florence
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Auditor Task Prioritization Hiérarchisation des tâches d’audit

Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study how auditors prioritize tasks and how variations in task order influence auditors' performance. Drawing on conservation of resources theory, we develop and test our hypotheses through three experiments involving over 350 professional auditors. The first two experiments assess the impact of task order on performance.
Bart Dierynck, Christian P. H. Peters
wiley   +1 more source

Monitoring African Megafauna in an Anthropogenic Landscape: A 15‐Year Case Study of the Vulnerable West African Giraffe

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
We used pattern recognition software to correct misidentifications in a 15‐year photographic database of the last, vulnerable West African giraffe population in Niger. After revealing substantial methodological errors that had inflated population estimates by nearly 19%, we corrected individual encounter histories and applied capture‐mark‐recapture ...
Mara Vukelić, Ella W. White, Julian Fennessy, Abdoul Razack Moussa Zabeirou, Kateřina Gašparová, Simon Valle, Michael B. Brown, Thomas Rabeil, Karolína Brandlová   +8 more
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What can lithics tell us about food production during the transition to farming? Exploring harvesting practices and cultural changes during the neolithic in Southwest Asia: a view from Qminas (north‐western Syria)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the continuity and change in harvesting practices between the Late Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB) and the Early Pottery Neolithic at Qminas, north‐western Levant, through a traceological analysis of flint sickles. By combining qualitative traceological analysis with quantitative functional approaches, we demonstrate that ...
Fiona Pichon, Osamu Maeda, Juan José Ibáñez Estévez, Patricia Anderson   +3 more
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Propos préliminaire : quelle est la nature et le degré de la “centralité” de Brioude ? Comment comprendre le Brivadois et sa place par rapport aux autres territoires ? [PDF]

, 2011
International audienceL'auteur se propose d'interroger les trois siècles (XIe-XIIIe siècle) des "temps féodaux" relatifs à la ville de Brioude, à travers la chronologie, les sources (hagiographiques, diplomatiques, monumentales,...), l'historiographie ...
Fray, Jean-Luc
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The Politics of Preferences for Public Mental Health Insurance in Quebec

Canadian Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract We study public demand for the extension of public health insurance to psychological services. Previous research neglects the interplay of self‐interest and ideology to explain individuals’ willingness to pay for public mental health care. Relying on an original survey of the Quebec population, we show that support for the extension of mental ...
Olivier Jacques, Gabriel Gosselin
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La mer glaciale : de 'locus horridus' à lieu digne de protection

Revue Nordique des Études Francophones
L’article vise à inscrire les études nordiques du Moyen Âge et du début de l’âge moderne dans les réflexions récentes centrées sur la mer, notamment celles des Blue Humanities.
Alessia Bauer
doaj   +1 more source

Aspects épidémiologiques, cliniques et thérapeutiques des tumeurs ovariennes présumées bénignes à l'Hôpital Central de Yaoundé

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2016
INTRODUCTION: les tumeurs ovariennes présumées bénignes (TOPB) constituent l'un des motifs les plus fréquents de consultation gynécologique, et l'une des indications les plus fréquentes en chirurgie gynécologique.
Jeanne Hortence Fouedjio, Florent Ymele Fouelifack, Nadge Amougou Nnang, Robinson Enow Mbu   +3 more
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