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Why Does Eleazar Sprinkle The Red Cow Blood? Making Sense of a Biblical ritual

Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, 2009
Numbers 19:1-10 is a prescriptive ritual text concerned with the preparation of the ashes of a burnt “red cow” to be used to counteract the impurity caused by exposure to a human corpse. Like many other biblical
William K. Gilders
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Efficacy of an Oral Skincare Supplement on Skin Aging: A 12-Week Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial

Dermatology and Therapy
Introduction Aging leads to structural and compositional changes in the skin, contributing to more wrinkles, less smoothness, and dryness. There is growing interest in oral non-invasive interventions to help ameliorate visual signs of skin aging.
Adeline M. Grier-Welch, Arianne Y. Vance, Nima Alamdari, Mastaneh Sharafi   +3 more
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Using 6S-5-methyltetrahydrofolate instead of folic acid in prenatal multivitamin reduces unmetabolized folic acid concentrations in the mother-fetus dyad: a 24-week randomized controlled trial

Frontiers in Nutrition
A growing number of prenatal multivitamin (MVI) products use 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (5-MTHF) in place of the synthetic folic acid (FA), because FA needs to be reduced to 5-MTHF for use in cellular methylation reactions and excess FA consumption can ...
Fulvia Draicchio, Jeanette Hausser, Mastaneh Sharafi, Adeline Grier-Welch, Arianne Vance, Nima Alamdari, Itamar D. Futterman, Scott Chudnoff, Olga Malysheva, Marie A. Caudill, Isabelle Hanson, Xinyin Jiang   +11 more
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Circularity, Sustainability, and the Quality of Coffee Sold via Vending Machines: What Do Italian Consumers Prefer?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vending is an important sector in the daily lives of many people, and coffee is the most frequently consumed product in the European market. Like many other sectors, vending is responding to the challenge of sustainable development by taking various actions, such as offering increasingly ecologically sound coffee while maintaining/improving ...
Alberto Bertossi, Stefania Troiano, Francesco Marangon   +2 more
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Retinal Vessel Segmentation: A Comprehensive Review From Classical Methods to Deep Learning Advances (1982–2025)

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Four decades of retinal vessel segmentation research (1982–2025) are synthesized, spanning classical image processing, machine learning, and deep learning paradigms. A meta‐analysis of 428 studies establishes a unified taxonomy and highlights performance trends, generalization capabilities, and clinical relevance.
Avinash Bansal, Jan Kubíček, Jana Bahrová, Alice Varyšová, Martin Augustýnek, Marek Penhaker, Juraj Timkovič   +6 more
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Komunikasi Ritual pada Budaya Bertani Atoni Pah Meto di Timor-Nusa Tenggara Timur

Jurnal Aspikom, 2011
The ritual is one way of communicating. All forms of ritual is communicative. The ritual is always a symbolic behavior in social situations. Because of this ritual is always a way to communicate something.
Yermia Djefri Manafe
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Magwee / Manyue (满月): Sebuah Inkulturasi Ritual Kelahiran dalam Tradisi Umat Katolik Tionghoa

Media, 2022
This paper discusses the ritual of Magwee or Manyue, a celebration of the first month for babies in Chinese tradition. The purpose of this essay is to find the theological meaning behind the Chinese ritual and at the same time to work out a model of ...
Arief Gunawan
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Border harm and affective injustice: The politics of anger at the Melilla border, Spain

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines protests in a detention center in Melilla, Spain—a site where structural violence intersects with the everyday harms of confinement. Adopting a justice and dignity‐centered perspective, we analyze grassroots forms of resistance emerging at the border. The study focuses on the protests of Tunisian migrants and explores the
Corina Tulbure
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Représenter « avec » le rite : réflexivité et danse rituelle dans un tableau murui-muina

Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2021
Analyzing a painting of the Amazonian painter Brus Rubio Churay dedicated to the murui-muina ritual dances, I will show the particular link that the artist establishes between art and ritual: his painting is less a representation of the ritual and more a
Oscar Ivan Garcia
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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