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A History of ‘Religious History’
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
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Etudes Epistémè, 2005 William Beckford (1760-1844) is essentially known for the singularity of his Vathek (1787-7) often presented in connection with the Gothic rage or the vogue for the oriental tale. However, Vathek was just one element in a larger « orientalist » ensemble.
Laurent Châtel
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School Board Elections in England and Wales, 1870–1902: An Electoral Experiment?
History, EarlyView.Abstract The 1870 Elementary Education Act enabled the creation of school boards in England and Wales. Members were directly elected by the cumulative vote. This method gave each individual voter as many votes as there were seats on a school board, in some cases up to fifteen.
ED GREEN
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Oriental Studies, 2018 The article provides an overview of documents in the Archives of Orientalists at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences that contain important information about the history of the manuscripts collection of Gregory IV of ...
M. V. Fionin
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Global Inequality of Opportunity in Education Decreased During the 20th Century
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We document changes in global inequality of opportunity in education for women and men born between 1941 and 1983, using individual‐level census and survey data on 46.7 million individuals from 95 countries, representing all major regions of the world.
Michael Grätz +2 more
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CRISPR, APGAR and Cancer Screening: Public Engagement, Controversy and Misaligned Values
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There are many calls for public engagement in decision‐making around controversial technologies, but far fewer calls for public engagement in deliberation around less controversial interventions. We think the public should be involved in discussing CRISPR, but not in discussing APGAR.
Stephen John
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The ‘Prostate Cancer Screening for People at Genetic Risk of Aggressive Disease’ (PATROL) study
BJU International, EarlyView.Background Inherited (germline) pathogenic and likely pathogenic variants (gPVs) in key genes associated with increased risk of prostate cancer (PCa) now warrant more attentive PCa screening per National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines—e.g., BRCA2, HOXB13, ATM, BRCA1, MSH2, MSH6, CHEK2 and TP53.
Heather H. Cheng +12 more
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Transcultural Appropriation оf Shakespeare in the 19th Century Serbia
Књижевна историјаThis article examines a specific and unusual instance of the 19th century bardolatry in Serbia. Its focus is on the inter-textual and poetic qualities of celebratory parody as well as on the politically engaged dialogue with Shakespeare in the narrative
Zorica Bečanović Nikolić
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Bulletin of Economic Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines student admissions to higher education based on past performance, focusing on two measures: high school GPA and national exam scores. GPA is teacher‐assigned and based on repeated assessments, while these exams are externally graded, one‐off standardized tests. Using a nationwide dataset, we investigate how the relevance of
Pedro Luis Silva +2 more
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The cerebral palsy directed acyclic graph: A structural causal model of aetiology
Developmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.The first international cerebral palsy directed acyclic graph (CP‐DAG) maps over 100 nodes and 370 links across biological, clinical, and social domains, offering a unified causal framework to guide research and identify knowledge gaps. Abstract Aim To describe the development of the initial version of the cerebral palsy (CP) directed acyclic graph ...
Shona Goldsmith +9 more
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