Serum Selenium Status in Autoimmune Thyroid Disorders: A Case-control Study [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic ResearchIntroduction: Selenium is a trace element essential for normal health, playing a crucial role in thyroid hormone synthesis and metabolism. In Autoimmune Thyroid Disorders (AITD), selenium deficiency can exacerbate inflammation, impair thyroid hormone ...
Ceema Varghese +4 more
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Much of the activism on environmental issues within the US Catholic Church is not coming from those with institutional power (like bishops and diocesan priests), but rather from sisters, who have no formal power. What factors facilitate sisters’ environmental activism?
Sabrina Danielsen, Ellie Simmons
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Canon law issues of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Bosnia and Herzegovina under the administration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu, 2019 The paper examines certain canon law issues encountered the Serbian Orthodox Church in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the period until 1905, when the Church authorities enacted a Statute which definitely resolved the legal status of the Serbian Orthodox ...
Tomić Marko
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Consumption of Ultra-Processed Food and Drink Products in a Greek Christian Orthodox Church Fasting Population. [PDF]
Nutrients, 2023 Kokkinopoulou A +9 more
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Multi‐Religiosity Among Asian Americans and Non‐Asian Americans
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reports key findings of a split‐sample experiment comparing conventional measures of single‐choice religion and new measures of multi‐religiosity. Although conventional measures implicitly assume congruence among religious affiliation, belief, and practice within a single religion, the new measures are designed to capture multi ...
Fenggang Yang, Joey Marshall
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Between privilege and exclusion: Orthodox church singers coping with the Covid-19 lockdown. [PDF]
Arch Psychol Relig, 2023 Takala-Roszczenko M.
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Religious Participation After Covid‐19: Evidence From US Catholic Dioceses and Smartphone Data
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How do religious rules and regulations affect behavior? We examine this question using changes in Catholic regulations during the Covid‐19 pandemic combined with mobility data from 15 million smartphone users from 2019 to 2022. We first document overall trends: Total religious attendance declined sharply in March 2020 and thereafter recovered ...
Angela Cools +2 more
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Metropolitan Nestor (Anisimov) and His Church Activity during the Khrushchev’s Persecution (1958–1962) [PDF]
Вестник Екатеринбургской духовной семинарииThe article discusses the outstanding Russian missionary, “Apostle of Kamchatka” Metropolitan Nestor (Anisimov) and his church ministry in Novosibirsk diocese (1956–1958) and Kirovgrad doicese (1959–1962) in the period of persecution of the Russian ...
Metropolitan Isidor (Roman V. Tupikin)
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Nutrient Intake and Risk Factors for Metabolic Syndrome in Christian Orthodox Church Religious Fasters. [PDF]
Nutrients, 2023 Kokkinopoulou A +10 more
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The US Religious Public and Radical Human Enhancements
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A radical enhancement to the human body or brain is defined as giving human capabilities that no past or present human has possessed. These are being developed by scientists and bioengineers and backed by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. This article reports on the first study of the US religious public's views of radical enhancements using a ...
John H. Evans
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