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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History [PDF]
, 2007 Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to ...
Ludger Wößmann +3 more
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The problem of influences on the monumental art of the Ukrainian-American artist S. Hordynskyi
Convergências - Revista de Investigação e Ensino das Artes, 2023 In today’s conditions, namely, the establishment and development of the Ukrainian nation, its cultural and historical origins are of great significance.
Khrystyna Berehovska +4 more
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Quantum logic and decohering histories [PDF]
, 1995 An introduction is given to an algebraic formulation and generalisation of the consistent histories approach to quantum theory. The main technical tool in this theory is an orthoalgebra of history propositions that serves as a generalised temporal ...
Isham, C J
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Evo-devo of human adolescence: beyond disease models of early puberty [PDF]
, 2013 Despite substantial heritability in pubertal development, much variation remains to be explained, leaving room for the influence of environmental factors to adjust its phenotypic trajectory in the service of fitness goals.
A Templeton +69 more
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The foundations of a nation : framing Pakistan from 1940-1971 through international relations theory and postcolonialism [PDF]
, 2018 This paper explores the emerging integration of international relations theory with postcolonial scholarship and uses Pakistan’s state formation and history as a case study. It is argued that international relations theory privileges European experiences
Orme, Joshua Charles
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Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 2022 Background The West African Ebola virus epidemic from 2014 to 2016 is unprecedented in its scale, surpassing all previous and subsequent Ebola outbreaks since 1976.
Saskia Wilhelmy +2 more
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Originalism and the Law of the Past [PDF]
, 2019 Originalism has long been criticized for its “law office history” and other historical sins. But a recent “positive turn” in originalist thought may help make peace between history and law.
Baude, William, Sachs, Stephen E.
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The substructure of stasis-theory from Hermagoras to Hermogenes [PDF]
, 1994 This paper analyses the history of the scheme aition, sunekhon, krinomenon in the rhetorical theory of stasis (issue-theory). The role of this scheme in the theory of Hermagoras of Temnos is reconstructed; it is shown that successive changes of position ...
Heath, M.
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Cosmic expansion history from SNe Ia data via information field theory -- the charm code [PDF]
, 2016 We present charm (cosmic history agnostic reconstruction method), a novel inference algorithm that reconstructs the cosmic expansion history as encoded in the Hubble parameter $H(z)$ from SNe Ia data.
Böhm, Vanessa +6 more
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Kuhn Losses Regained: Van Vleck from Spectra to Susceptibilities [PDF]
, 2012 We follow the trajectory of John H. Van Vleck from his 1926 Bulletin for the National Research Council (NRC) on the old quantum theory to his 1932 book, The Theory of Electric and Magnetic Susceptibilities.
Janssen, Michel, Midwinter, Charles
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