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Abstract Under global warming, numerous compound events have emerged, yet the physical linkages between the two factors often remain unclear. The increasing frequency of droughts and heatwaves has raised the likelihood of compound drought and heatwave events (CDHE) worldwide, accompanied by frequent long‐lasting mega‐CDHE posing serious exposure risks.
Jie Zhang +6 more
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Introducción: la demencia asociada con la enfermedad de Alzheimer (EA) se caracteriza por un deterioro cognitivo y funcional progresivo, conduciendo eventualmente a la muerte.
Robinson Fabián Cuadros Cuadros
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Creative Nonfiction: The Christian Dior woman
Abstract This work of creative nonfiction emerges from ethnographic research on Arab women's testimonies of their cancer experience conducted in 2016–2018. It focuses on the account of one Lebanese woman diagnosed with breast cancer and highlights her feelings, thoughts, and perceptions from the time of the initial medical examination through to final ...
Abir Hamdar
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How Do People Conceptualize Narcissism and Narcissistic Individuals?
ABSTRACT Introduction Although past decades have seen notable advances in the conceptualization and assessment of narcissism, scholarship examining lay conceptualizations of the construct remains limited. Method We report two studies utilizing bottom‐up, participant‐driven methodologies to examine public understandings of narcissism and narcissistic ...
Sarah Smith +2 more
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Geopower, Geos and the Colonisation of Palestine
ABSTRACT While the majority of geographical work on colonialism in Palestine centres on territory and land, this article foregrounds geopower and geos in the making of spatial relations. Three arguments are made over three corresponding sections. The first draws on recent writing on geopower and geos (primarily that by Elizabeth Grosz, Elizabeth ...
Mark Griffiths
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Our findings demonstrate that mammal functional richness in tropical regions requires integrating habitat amount and landscape configuration into land‐use planning. Conservation strategies should move beyond setting targets for total habitat area and explicitly incorporate configuration metrics that promote heterogeneity and functional connectivity. In
Julio J. Chacón‐Pacheco +2 more
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The ecclesiastical fight against storm‐makers in the Latin west
This paper studies the strategies used by the Church to fight against the storm‐makers. These figures were said to cause the storms that ruined crops, and during Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages in the Visigothic and Frankish kingdoms were subject to punishment and constraints.
Juan Antonio Jiménez Sánchez
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Este trabajo describe y analiza la prevalencia del tabaquismo en estudiantes de medicina, el conocimiento que tienen sobre métodos de cesación tabáquica y la efectividad que atribuyen a estos métodos y al consejo médico.
M. Alegre +6 more
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The construction of barriers along international borders is increasing globally, including along the boundary between the United States and Mexico. We used a landscape connectivity model to investigate the effects of barriers on wildlife access to water within the Lower Rio Grande Valley (Texas, USA) across three scenarios: (1) without border barriers;
Bogdan Chivoiu +13 more
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Threatened Caring Culture: On the Sad Topicality of the Medea Myth
ABSTRACT The shameless contempt for the weak and helpless, strangers, migrants and traumatized refugees attacks continuously one of our basic motivational systems, namely to protect and care for our children and descendants. The caring system is an instinctive system anchored in evolutionary biology that ensures our survival as a species.
Marianne Leuzinger‐Bohleber
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