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Nutritional properties, traditional uses and potential new applications for the sotol plant (Asparagaceae, Convallarioideae): A review

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Sotol (Dasylirion spp.) is a resilient desert plant that sustains ecosystems, cultures and livelihoods in Chihuahua Desert. Our review highlights its nutritional properties, traditional uses and potential new applications in food, pharmaceuticals, renewable energy and water remediation. By synthesizing evidence across disciplines, we show how sotol can
Dámaris Leopoldina Ojeda Barrios   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review of Robert McNamara, The Personalism of Edith Stein: A Synthesis of Thomism and Phenomenology

open access: yesJournal of Moral Theology
Review of Robert McNamara, _The Personalism of Edith Stein: A Synthesis of Thomism and ...
Catherine Moon
doaj   +1 more source

The Compatibility of Evolution and Classical Metaphysics

open access: yesStudia Gilsoniana, 2020
The compatibility of evolution with Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics is defended in response to Fr. Michal Chaberek’s thesis of incompatibility. The motivation and structure of Darwin’s theory are reviewed, including the roles of secondary causality ...
Dennis F. Polis
doaj   +1 more source

Strategies for Assessing Post‐Wildfire Geomorphic Resilience in Semiarid Rivers

open access: yesRiver Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We review and summarize diverse components of a catchment that can be monitored after wildfire to assess the geomorphic resilience of the river corridor in semiarid regions. We distinguish upland portions of river catchments from river corridors.
Ellen Wohl   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Potential Impacts of Low Flows on Fish Foodscapes and Production in a Braided River

open access: yesRiver Research and Applications, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Changes in river discharge affect the physical composition and connectivity of habitats which, in turn, may shape the spatial distribution of fish food abundance, accessibility and quality—the ‘foodscape’—of river ecosystems. However, the influence of river flows on fish foodscapes has received very little attention from scientists. We studied
Rick J. Stoffels   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Ethical and Moral Possibilities of Influencing Human Decisions Through Solutions Proposed by Transhumanists: A Perspective on Love and Human Relationships

open access: yesWrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny
The transhumanist vision seeks to enhance human decision-making, particularly in romantic relationships, through methods like “love drugs.” This work critically evaluates the transhumanist proposal for using “love drugs” and contrasts it with the ...
Paweł Orzeł
doaj   +1 more source

Was Thomas Aquinas a Young Earth Creationist? [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Gilsoniana
This article concerns the question of whether St. Thomas Aquinas can be considered a young Earth creationist. This question breaks down to three different though interrelated issues: Aquinas’s view on the origin of species, his position on the length of ...
Michał Chaberek
doaj   +1 more source

Reclaiming the secular: developing dialogic skills for a post-secular society [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This research paper addresses secularization from both political and religious perspectives. One of its manifestations in the political sphere is that of globalization that can lead to alienation within society; and in the United Kingdom this is ...
Luby, Antony
core   +1 more source

Fénelon et la notion thomiste de prémotion physique. Le thomisme moderne au tribunal du molinisme [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
http://rhr.revues.org/7714As a Molinist, Fénelon never ceased to combat the assimilation of Jansenism to Thomism, which Jansenists used in order to discredit Roman condemnations against them. He was so fierce that his contemporaries wondered if he wished
de Franceschi, Sylvio Hermann
core   +2 more sources

REPRESENTING POLLUTION AT THE AGRARIAN–URBAN FRONTIER: Participatory Documentary Film‐Making in Bar Elias, Lebanon

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract The Beqaa Valley in Lebanon has become increasingly polluted, and residents are attributing illness to improper waste disposal and dumping. This article explores local epistemologies of pollution’s causes and effects in three films, which were researched and produced by local residents of Bar Elias, a small town in the Beqaa, which has rapidly
Hannah Sender   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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