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Dictynna, 2010 La compétition artistique entre Pallas et Arachné au livre VI des Métamorphoses oppose une déesse, qui représente l’auguste noblesse divine (augusta grauitas), à une tisserande d’origine sociale fort modeste – précise Ovide – mais que son art a rendue ...
Florence Klein
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Absolute monarchy in France [PDF]
, 2012 An original scholarly interpretation of the nature of the French monarchy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It argues that rather than seeing this monarchy as centralised and administrative, we should see it as a state formation replete with ...
Campbell, Peter R
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Noblesse Oblige? Social Status and Economic Inequality Maintenance among Politicians
PLoS ONE, 2014 Economic inequality is at historically high levels in the United States and is among the most pressing issues facing society. And yet, predicting the behavior of politicians with respect to their support of economic inequality remains a significant ...
Michael W. Kraus, Bennett Callaghan
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Evidence for Erosional Efficiency of Extreme Precipitation Events at a Multi‐ Decadal Time Scale
Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, Volume 130, Issue 3, March 2025.Abstract Extreme precipitation events play a pivotal role in shaping Earth's surface through their influences on hillslope processes (triggering mass‐wasting events) and on transport capacity and dynamics of rivers. This study investigates the impact of such events on sediment transport using Réunion Island as a natural laboratory due to its intense ...
Eric Gayer +3 more
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The Elite Global Citizen: How Wealth Shapes Cosmopolitan Identity and Charitable Intentions
European Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 55, Issue 1, Page 99-118, February 2025.ABSTRACT In four studies, we provide the first empirical examination of how wealth relates to cosmopolitan identity and its consequences for charitable intentions. Study 1 demonstrated that wealth positively predicted cosmopolitan identity in a 60‐nation dataset (n = 90,350). Study 2 replicated this finding with multi‐item measures in the United States,
Kunalan Manokara +2 more
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Cahiers d’histoire, 2017 Dans le passage problématique du moment politique renaissant à l’ère baroque, des administrateurs d’un genre nouveau contribuèrent, par leur expertise et leur capacité d’innovation technique et politique, à saturer de leur présence et de leur savoir ...
Jérémie Ferrer-Bartomeu
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Red, White and Bicycle: RVA, France and the Bike Race, Blog 2 [PDF]
, 2015 Student blog posts from the Great VCU Bike Race ...
Mack, Jamie
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Does Lack of Commitment Undermine the Hypocrite's Standing to Blame?
Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 42, Issue 1, Page 375-389, February 2025.ABSTRACT According to an influential account of standing, hypocritical blamers lack standing to blame in virtue of their lack of commitment to the norm etc. which they invoke. Nevertheless, the commitment account has the wrong shape for it to explain why hypocrites lack standing to blame.
Kasper Lippert‐Rasmussen
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Tr@jectoires, 2017 À l’aide de six exemples d’abbayes de Suisse et du sud-ouest de l’Allemagne dans le contexte de la réforme de Saint-Blaise et d’Hirsau, l’étude porte sur les relations entre les abbayes et les familles comtales fondatrices.
Johannes Waldschütz
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Evolutionary Stability of Ecological Hierarchy [PDF]
, 2003 A self-similar hierarchical solution that is both dynamically and evolutionarily stable is found to the multi dimensional Lotka-Volterra equation with a single chain of prey-predator relations.
E. Chauvet +4 more
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