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Sacred Journeys: Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

Religions, 2018
Pilgrimage, being an ancient practice and a global phenomenon, continues to gain a growinginterest among scholars as its scope traverses many other disciplines and perspectives.[...]
Chadwick Co Sy Su
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Tool use for corpse cleaning in chimpanzees [PDF]

, 2017
For the first time, chimpanzees have been observed using tools to clean the corpse of a deceased group member. A female chimpanzee sat down at the dead body of a young male, selected a firm stem of grass, and started to intently remove debris from his ...
Cronin, Katherine A., Haun, Daniel B. M., van Leeuwen, Edwin J. C.   +2 more
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Phenomenon of Suicide in Russian Stories by V. Nabokov

Научный диалог, 2020
The results of the analysis of suicidal issues in the stories of V. Nabokov “Blow of a Wing”, “Fairy Tale”, “Accident”, “Lycus”, “Notification”, “Letter to Russia”, “Vasily Shishkov” are presented in the article.
V. Yu. Lebedeva
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International human rights law and the right to mental health [PDF]

, 2015
Purpose: Why did the WHO claim that there is “no health without mental health”? In its reform of the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW), why did the Taiwan government add oral health into the Department of Mental Health? This paper explores normative
Chang, Chu-Hui, Chang, Chueh, Lee, Po-Han, Wen, Kuei-Chun   +3 more
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Outros Sísifos

Carnets, 2016
The attachment of Vergílio Ferreira to a «problem-novel» with a philosophical theme, focusing on the existential question, finds in Albert Camus a natural referent.
Miguel Filipe Mochila
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Prospects for observing the magnetorotational instability in the Plasma Couette Experiment

, 2015
Many astrophysical disks, such as protoplanetary disks, are in a regime where non-ideal, plasma-specific magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effects can significantly influence the behavior of the magnetorotational instability (MRI).
Clark, M., Collins, C., Cooper, C. M., Flanagan, K., Forest, C. B., Khalzov, I. V., Wallace, J.   +6 more
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Primate thanatology and hominoid mortuary archeology

Primates, 2019
In recent years, a thanatology of primates has become a respectable research topic, and although still sparse, observations among several taxa have shown how complex responses to the dead can be.
P. Pettitt, James R. Anderson
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ROLE OF VIRTOPSY IN THE POST MORTEM DIAGNOSIS OF DROWNING [PDF]

, 2014
Purpose: Due to admitted limits of autopsy-based studies in the diagnosis of drowning, virtopsy is considered the new imaging horizon in these post-mortem studies.
ARGO, Antonina, GALFANO, Maria Cristina, LA TONA, Giuseppe, LAGALLA, Roberto, LO RE, Giuseppe, MIDIRI, Massimo, MILONE, Livio, PICONE, Dario, PROCACCIANTI, Paolo, SALERNO, Sergio, VERNUCCIO, Federica, ZERBO, Stefania   +11 more
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Comparative thanatology, an integrative approach: exploring sensory/cognitive aspects of death recognition in vertebrates and invertebrates

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018
Evolutionary thanatology benefits from broad taxonomic comparisons of non-human animals' responses to death. Furthermore, exploring the sensory and cognitive bases of these responses promises to allow classification of the underlying mechanisms on a ...
André Gonçalves, D. Biro
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Dental Age Assessment using Demirjian’s Eight Teeth Method and Willems Method in a Tertiary Hospital [PDF]

, 2018
Introduction: Age estimation is an important aspect in forensic anthropology, as it can aid in the identification of the deceased, and can be used in cases of immigration, child abuse and criminal prosecution in living individuals.
Agrawal, Nitin Kumar, Dahal, Samarika, Hackman, Lucina   +2 more
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