Haberlea rhodopensis is a paleolithic tertiary relict species, best known as a resurrection plant with remarkable tolerance to desiccation. When exposed to severe drought stress, H. rhodopensis shows an ability to maintain the structural integrity of its
Z. Ivanova +6 more
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Norwegian Blues? Rethinking the Idea of Middle Powers in an Era of Fuzzy Bifurcation
ABSTRACT Unsuccessful efforts to update the middle power concept for the contemporary international system have prompted calls for the concept to be “historicized”—to be retired from common use and treated as a purely historical term. The problem with this proposal is that “middle power” has become increasingly popular in the 2020s in analysis ...
Kim Richard Nossal
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Like WheatT Arising Green: How the Church Grows and Thrives [PDF]
(Excerpt) The theme for the 1991 Institute of Liturgical Studies is taken from the hymn Now the Green Blade Rises. This wonderful Easter hymn, No. 148 in The Lutheran Book of Worship, concludes each stanza with the refrain, Love is come again like ...
Bouman, Walter R
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Spiritual Manifest Destiny: B.A. Santamaria's Political Theology
This article offers a reading of B.A. Santamaria's political theology and its role in the making of contemporary Australian political imaginaries. The article charts the shifting targets of Santamaria's critique and activism, showing his departure from the perceived communist threat to a wide‐ranging attack on liberal and leftist social movements.
Clare Monagle
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The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference
Abstract While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal
Loubna El Amine
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Mitogenomic phylogenies suggest the resurrection of the subfamily Porrocaecinae and provide insights into the systematics of the superfamily Ascaridoidea (Nematoda: Ascaridomorpha), with the description of a new species of Porrocaecum [PDF]
Xiao-Hong Gu +6 more
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Have We Come An This Way for Birth or Death?1 Liturgical Music as Prophetic Ministry [PDF]
(Excerpt) The prophet announces to the world what must die in order that the Kingdom of God be born. In its very doing liturgical music participates in this death-resurrection mystery which lies at the core of Christian identity and mission.
Harmon, Kathleen
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ABSTRACT According to anthropological theories of brokerage, brokers build bridges, close gaps, make connections, and construct shared norms. In this article, I argue that such structural‐functionalist approaches to brokerage do not prove adequate in addressing unsettled and unsettling scale‐making practices of refugee‐led support initiatives in ...
Lieke van der Veer
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Using the resurrection approach to understand contemporary evolution in changing environments
The resurrection approach of reviving ancestors from stored propagules and comparing them with descendants under common conditions has emerged as a powerful method of detecting and characterizing contemporary evolution.
S. Franks, Elena Hamann, A. E. Weis
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How to Be Hopeful About Climate Change
ABSTRACT Why do people in climate‐vulnerable regions of Kenya and Namibia express more hope for the future than many in Germany, despite facing greater environmental threats? Drawing on ethnographic research and the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel, we make two arguments.
Julian Sommerschuh, Michael Schnegg
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