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The Political Symbolism of Ants and Bees in Old Norse Sources
Collegium Medievale, 2020 In this article I discuss the political themes attached to the eusocial creatures, specifically ants and bees, in Old Norse sources. I consider the situation of Old Norse as a transnational literature, encompassing one country that lacked ants and bees ...
Richard Cole
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Fragments of the past: how to study old Norse religion
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1999 The state of the sources of the Old Norse religions presents a great problem. Most of them were written down two hundred or even three hundred years after the Christianization of the North, based on an oral tradition going back to the pre-Christian ages.
Britt-Mari Näsström
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Postnatal craniomandibular growth in Harbor seals (Phoca vitulina vitulina)
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Postnatal ontogeny in Harbor seals (Phoca vitulina vitulina). Cranium and mandible grow rapidly until 5 years of age, followed by a deceleration and finally a stagnation. Abstract As secondarily aquatic carnivores, seals display several phenotypic differences compared to their terrestrial relatives.
Elisabeth Steinbach +2 more
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What do they talk about “in fair words” in Old Norse-Icelandic literature?
ШагиThe paper analyses the use of the paroemia at mæla fagrt ok hyggja flátt (to speak fairly and to think falsely) in the Old Norse-Icelandic literary corpus, focusing both on the paroemia and its derivative — the representation of the characters’ eloquence
D. S. Glebova
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Arthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.Objective Low copy number (CN) of complement C4 isoforms and high CN of retroviral HERV‐K elements are known risk factors for many immune‐mediated inflammatory diseases (IMIDs), often showing sex‐biased effects. Here, we assessed whether CN variation within the C4 gene contributes to giant cell arteritis (GCA) and IgA vasculitis (IgAV), two complex ...
Laura Martínez‐Gutiérrez +295 more
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Towards Standards in Digital Editions of Old Norse Prose
Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries PublicationsThis paper provides an overview over the authors ongoing PhD-research project at the University of Oslo, which aims to contribute to ongoing efforts to transition the field of Old Norse philology into the age of digital humanities by providing a ...
Sebastian Pohland
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From Youth to Age through Old English Poetry (with Old Norse Parallels)
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2001 It has been argued that the most pre-eminent age of man among the Anglo-Saxons was senectus. This view is based on the fact that many contemporary texts emphasize the wisdom associated with age while ignoring the physical deterioration that it involves.
Jordi Sánchez Martí
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Autism Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Exogenous prenatal exposures may affect neurodevelopment across multiple generations. We investigated grandmother and grandfather smoking, alcohol, coffee, and tea consumption during pregnancy in relation to their grandchildren's risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Michelle Pearl +6 more
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British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.Abstract Despite regulatory progress being made in the past two decades, off‐label drug use in paediatrics remains pervasive, with prevalence estimated between 3% and 97% of prescriptions across different clinical settings. Off‐label use—defined as prescribing outside the conditions described in the Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC)—is often ...
Tjitske M. van der Zanden +3 more
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British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.Aim Many women take medications during pregnancy. However, the risk to the fetus from most medications is uncertain. Congenital anomalies are one of the leading causes of infant death and contribute to long‐term disability. Signal detection methods can be used to systematically identify possible medication–anomaly associations that require further ...
Hannah Johnson +22 more
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