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Efficacy of an Oral Skincare Supplement on Skin Aging: A 12-Week Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial [PDF]
Dermatology and TherapyIntroduction 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 +3 more
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Ritual Studies and the Study of Rabbinic Literature [PDF]
Currents in Biblical Research, 2017 In the last two decades several important studies have been published that focus on ritual in rabbinic literature, and consider ritual to be a critically important conceptual and analytical category in approaching rabbinic texts and rabbinic culture.
Balberg, Mira
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The structure of ritual and the epistemological approach to ritual study [PDF]
The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 2018 With cases collected from long-term fieldwork on two ethnic groups of China, the Flora-belt Dai and the Ao Yao, this paper analyzes predominant definitions of “ritual.” It discusses such issues as ritual’s technique versus the supernatural, the sacred ...
Qiao Wu
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The Meaning of Water in Javanese Padusan and Japanese Misogi-Harai Rituals [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 Indonesia and Japan are two countries known for their high regard for culture and tradition, with no exception for those associated with religious rituals.
Retno Yulianti Dwiana +2 more
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An Ecolinguistic Study on Ecospiritual Tourism of Rebo Buntung Commoddification
Lingua Cultura, 2021 The research examined the relationship between cultural ritual, linguistic, and ecology in the context of ecotourism. It aimed to encourage, stimulate, and integrate the use of religious tradition’s terms in understanding and reinterpreting the ...
Diah Supatmiwati +4 more
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“It’s actually a bridge for you to cross over into womanhood”
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2021 The Owambo female initiation rite known as Olufuko in Northern Namibia has been at the centre of public debate since the launch of the Olufuko Cultural Festival in 2012.
Saara Kuoppala
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On the Necessity of Ritual Sensibility in Public Protest: A Hong Kong Perspective
Religions, 2021 In Hong Kong, the efficacy of ritualized protest has become an issue of hot debate in recent years. Whereas ritualized protest is a long-term political practice in the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement that has considerable influence, skepticism about it ...
Bryan K. M. Mok
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Frontiers in Nutrition, 2021 The purpose of this study was to validate the efficacy of a customized vitamin-mineral supplement on blood biomarkers in pre-menopausal females. Women (21–40 years old) who were apparently healthy were recruited from the local community (ClinicalTrials ...
Shelby C. Osburn +12 more
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From the ritual of the matins service: The insertion of poetic texts in the chant of the Polyeleos [PDF]
Muzikologija, 2011 In this paper I will examine the practice of inserting non-psalmic poetic texts in the compositions of the Polyeleoi. It is a process of adding or interpolating a poem the content of which is always related to a particular theme from the church ...
Chaldaeakes Achilleus G.
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Tradition of Sesaji Rewandaat Goa Kreo as local wisdom
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2022 Sesaji Rewanda tradition is a ceremonial ritual performed by the Gunungpati community in Goa Kreo which is an annual event on the fifth day of Shawwal a month in the Islamic calendar.
Sifa Destry Fauzia +2 more
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