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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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Old Russian Graffito Inscription in the Abbey of Saint-Gilles, South of France
Slovene, 2014 The abbey of Saint-Gilles-du-Gard near Arles in the south of France was one of the most prominent pilgrimage sites in medieval Europe. Recent archaeological investigation has shown that construction of the abbey church, one of the most significant ...
Anne-Sophie Brun +3 more
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The burden on EDs during Hajj due to pilgrim noncompliance with treatment for chronic conditions
Saudi Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2020 Background: Makkah, Saudi Arabia, receives about three to four million pilgrims for Hajj annually. Many of these pilgrims are elderly and sick, and many have chronic medical conditions (CMCs) for which they take medication.
Areej Omar BaDawood +5 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Why do some informal neighborhoods receive public investment while others are neglected or evicted? This article addresses the inconsistent governmental responses to informal settlements in Jakarta, Indonesia, during the democratic period. State actions range from violent evictions to tolerance and community‐led improvements.
Kadek Wara Urwasi
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Motives of Pilgrims for visiting Monasteries Visoki Dečani and Pećka Patrijaršija [PDF]
Glasnik Srpskog Geografskog Društva, 2019 The period of returning the people to religion, that is evident in the last two decades, increased the number of the pilgrimage tours all over the world, including the Republic of Serbia.
Nedeljković-Knežević Milena +3 more
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Charity and welcome at the monastery
Crkva u Svijetu, 2023 The early medieval coenobitic tradition, starting from the ancient monastic rules, has developed a discipline on the practice of charity, which reflects social conditions and mentality proper to its time.
Laura Del Bono
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Western Balkans as the Frontline of Russian Hybrid Warfare
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Hybrid warfare (HW) scholarship acknowledges the phenomenon's contextual and temporal specificity, yet its dominant conceptual framing has generated a literature largely centred on identifying and categorising hybrid activities. This focus has left the contextual vulnerabilities that enable hybrid threats (HTs) and shape an adversary's ...
Vesna Bojicic‐Dzelilovic
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Religiosity of pilgrims in Serbia: Case study of three sanctuaries [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2012 Pilgrimage is an ancient form of religious expression, inherent in almost every confession. Modern pilgrimage differs from past pilgrim travels in various attributes. Pilgrimages contribute to the tourism development because they affect interreligious
Radisavljević-Ćiparizović Dragana
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Greek ΜΝΗΣΘΗ and Aramaic DKYR in the Near East: A Comparative Epigraphic Study
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Past studies of graffiti containing the word ΜΝΗΣΘΗ have never fully established its intrinsic meaning. However, due to the existence of the Aramaic term DKYR, which carries a seemingly identical meaning to ΜΝΗΣΘΗ, in similar contexts in the Roman Near East, a comparison between both words is possible. Four distinct sites where the coexistence
Sebastien Mazurek
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ANZ Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Advances in imaging, non‐operative management, and endovascular techniques have reshaped abdominal trauma care, but their impact on operative trends in blunt‐dominant Australian trauma systems is incompletely described. Aims To describe temporal trends in operative and minimally invasive management of abdominal trauma at an ...
Michael Noonan +6 more
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