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Impact of Geography on Institutions in Agricultural and Nomadic Societies
International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How geography affects the choice of institutions is studied in a theoretical model. In this model, nations are located around a circle. Rulers compete through choosing tax rates, the level of military spending, and the degree of formality of institutions. Geographic condition is captured by population density.
Haiwen Zhou
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Концепт: философия, религия, культура, 2018 The article analyzes the classic work of Max Weber “Protestant sects and the spirit of capitalism” on the relevance of the conclusions of 1906 to the present day.
D. D. Krykanov, K. A. Patrunina
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Bayesian model checking: A comparison of tests
, 2017 Two procedures for checking Bayesian models are compared using a simple test problem based on the local Hubble expansion. Over four orders of magnitude, p-values derived from a global goodness-of-fit criterion for posterior probability density functions (
Lucy, Leon B.
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The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Volunteers have long played a significant role in hospice care. Much of the care volunteers provide consists of weekly hour‐long in‐home visits. Home‐visiting hospice volunteers are not professionals, nor are they strangers or intimates. Hospice volunteers will not typically face moral dilemmas, nor be called upon to make dramatic decisions ...
Michael B. Gill
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Mehmet Akif’s Criticism Against Tradition in the Context of Education
Turcology Research, 2023 Ahmet BAĞLIOĞLU
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Religious conversion : historical aspects and modern perspective [PDF]
, 2008 Religious conversion has become a dangerous social and individual problem. In Latin America, a traditional Catholic area, Protestant sects are successfully con-verting more and more Catholics into their own communities.
Weber, Edmund
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Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences, EarlyView.Using a clinical abdominal CT protocol, all three DECT techniques accurately quantified iodine. Rapid kV‐switching achieved the lowest detectable and quantifiable iodine concentrations, while dual‐layer DECT provided the highest normalised contrast‐to‐noise ratio on 40‐keV virtual monoenergetic images.
Chonsitron Sirituenlee +7 more
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Is the Muslim Brotherhood a Sect?
ReligionsThis article proposes the novel understanding of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood as a sect, going against the grain of the existing literature, which posits it as a political group, a social movement, or a religious movement (or some combination of all ...
Mustafa Menshawy
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ОСНОВНІ ПІДСУМКИ ТА ЗНАЧЕННЯ IV ВСЕРОСІЙСЬКОГО МІСІОНЕРСЬКОГО З’ЇЗДУ 1908 р. (м. КИЇВ) У КОНТЕКСТІ КОНФЕСІЙНОЇ ПОЛІТИКИ САМОДЕРЖАВСТВА [PDF]
Storìnki Istorìï, 2015 The author of this article analyses the results and importance of the 4th All-Russian missionary’s congress, which was in 1908 year in Kyiv, in context of church policy of the Russian government.
Ю. В. Хитровська
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Evaluation and implementation effects of soil erosion control technologies in typical ecologically vulnerable regions [PDF]
Ziyuan Kexue[Objective] To address the significant challenges posed by global economic development and intensified human activities to fragile ecosystems, this study systematically synthesized and comparatively characterized regional soil erosion control ...
WANG Shuang, ZHEN Lin, LI Wenjun, LIANG Li
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