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Ritual Reform and Ritual Behavior

Traditiones, 2012
The article focuses on the complex question of continuity and change as exemplified by ritual policies and ritual practices during the Lutheran reformation in 16th century Denmark-Norway. Thematically the article concentrates on matrimony and funeral.
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Beyond the grave: Do the dead have rights?

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Anatomists who work with the Dead often see themselves as custodians of the Dead. To those who opine that the Dead no longer have Rights (legal or moral) or privileges and have nothing more to contribute to the development of Society or to human endeavor, the Dead's custodians might respond that there is ample evidence that some Rights and ...
Beverley Kramer, Bernard Moxham
wiley   +1 more source

The impact of family interview on the relationship between medical students and their silent mentor

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract The gross anatomy laboratory course often triggers significant negative emotions in medical students during dissection. While various pedagogical interventions aim to alleviate psychological burden, the fundamental question of how students' perceptions of donors evolve throughout the course remains underexplored.
Po‐Fang Tsai, Mei‐Fang Tseng, Ruei‐Jen Chiou   +2 more
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Structural and Symbolic Information in the Context of the General Theory of Information

Information, 2017
The general theory of information, which includes syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and many other special theories of information, provides theoretical and practical tools for discerning a very large diversity of different kinds, types, and classes of ...
Mark Burgin, Rainer Feistel
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COVID-19 and the Transformations of the Interaction Order: Patternization and De-Ritualization of Social Interactions

, 2023
This chapter explores what cultural transformations the COVID-19 pandemic has brought and may bring in the near future to the interaction order. This question arises from two observations.
Romania, Vincenzo
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Developing a critical caste analysis within information science and technology: A research review: An annual review of information science and technology paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Caste—an ascriptive social hierarchy in South Asia and its diaspora—is a globalized phenomenon. Recent caste‐based discrimination, particularly in technology companies and anti‐caste efforts to address it, has compelled academia, policy, and the technology industry to better understand contemporary mechanics of caste.
Nayana Kirasur, Britt Paris
wiley   +1 more source

Strategic truth: the Didache and the ritualization of confession

, 2011
The Didache’s imperatives to confess faults are located in an array of ritual practices similar to that of other Greco-Roman associations. Yet, there are distinctive ways in which each group strategically uses confessional practice within these arrays ...
Olfert, Ryan
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Ritualization of Online Worship During COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study in GKMI ARK

, 2023
The COVID-19 outbreak that first happened in the city of Wuhan, China on January 2020 did not take long until it reached other parts of the world and then declared by World Health Organization as a pandemic within two month. In Indonesia, Mr.
Murwendayoko, Ayus Aditia
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When AI outputs become documents: Documentation activity in human–AI dialogue

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Large language models (LLMs) generate texts that increasingly circulate as documents in knowledge infrastructures, yet their documentary status remains theoretically underdetermined. Unlike traditional documents, LLM outputs lack identifiable authorship, stable provenance, or testimonial grounding.
Sascha Donner
wiley   +1 more source

Affective dimensions in the information behavior of forcibly displaced people: A literature review. An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This review analyzed 241 scholarly articles published between 2010 and 2025 in information science venues to examine how affect shapes refugees' information behavior during forced migration and to identify additional contextual factors. It identifies seven affective dimensions: anxiety, shame and stigma, grief and loss, frustration, (mis)trust,
Maja Krtalić, Lilach Alon
wiley   +1 more source