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Winter Solstice Celebrations in Denmark: A Growing Non-Religious Ritualisation

Religions, 2021
During the last decade, local celebrations of winter solstice on the 21st of December have increased all over Denmark. These events refer to the Old Norse ritual of celebrating the return of the light, and their appeal is very broad on a local community ...
Astrid Krabbe Trolle
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Developmental constraints mediate the reversal of temperature effects on the autumn phenology of European beech after the summer solstice [PDF]

eLife
Accurate projections of temperate tree growing seasons under climate change require representing developmental constraints that determine tree resource allocation.
Dominic Rebindaine, Thomas W Crowther, Susanne S Renner, Zhaofei Wu, Yibiao Zou, Lidong Mo, Haozhi Ma, Raymo Bucher, Constantin M Zohner   +8 more
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Pooled safety analysis of two phase 3 studies investigating trifluridine/tipiracil plus bevacizumab in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer [PDF]

Frontiers in Oncology
BackgroundTrifluridine/tipiracil (FTD/TPI) is approved as monotherapy and in combination with bevacizumab for the treatment of patients with refractory metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).
Julien Taieb, Marwan Fakih, Gabor Liposits, Gerald W. Prager, Eric Van Cutsem, Fortunato Ciardiello, Nadia Amellal, Elizabeth Calleja, Mei Liu, Lucas Roby, Josep Tabernero, Thierry André   +11 more
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Summer solstice optimizes the thermal growing season [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Van der Meersch
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Wetland mapping with multi-temporal sentinel-1 & -2 imagery (2017 – 2020) and LiDAR data in the grassland natural region of alberta

GIScience & Remote Sensing, 2021
In the Grassland Natural Region (GNR) of southern Alberta, wetlands are relatively small-sized disconnected prairie pothole marshes, swamps, and shallow open water habitats often surrounded by grasslands, parkland forests, agricultural lands, and urban ...
Alex Okiemute Onojeghuo, Ajoke Ruth Onojeghuo, Michelle Cotton, Johnathan Potter, Brennan Jones   +4 more
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John the Baptist and Fasting

Vox Patrum, 2023
The Gospels passages describe John the Baptist’s ascetic behaviour in the Judean desert, eating locusts and wild honey, wearing garments made of camel hair. The food choices of St.
Gianluca Olcese
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Stellar astronomy of the Bronze Age sanctuaries in North Khakassia [PDF]

Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2015
This publication presents the results of two studies of astroarchaeological monuments in North Khakassia confirming the existence of Siberia stellar astronomy in the Bronze age (andronovo culture, Khakassia, mid-II millennium BC).
Larichev, V.E., Gienko, E.G., Parshikov, S.A.   +2 more
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The symbolic use of light in Hadrianic architecture and the 'Kiss of the Sun' [PDF]

Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2018
In this presentation we will discuss three Roman monuments of the times of Emperor Hadrian (117-138 AD): the Villa Adriana at Tivoli near Rome, the Mausoleum of Hadrian in Rome (now Castel Sant'Angelo) and finally the Pantheon (also in Rome).
De Franceschini, M., Veneziano, G.
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SOLSTICE

Zygon, 2008
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A prehistoric Native American pictograph that signals the summer solstice [PDF]

Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2021
The current article examines a 90 cm. tall, prehistoric Native American pictograph painted in red ochre which depicts a red Anthropomorph wearing a “V”-shaped headdress.
McHugh John, Lundwall John, Howells Tom
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