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The used cooking oil has become a significant environmental concern, as it leads to water pollution and clogged drainage systems. A solution to this issue is recycling the used oil into useful products, such as binders for textile pigment printing ...
Nagla S. Elshemy +2 more
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Abstract I propose the concept of delomization, the process whereby a sign comes to be understood as a symbol. I term such signs delomes. With rhematization and dicentization, delomization completes the triplet that linguistic anthropologists derive from Charles Sanders Peirce's third trichotomy.
Urmila Nair
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Student Vow to the Blessed Virgin for Protection Against Cholera [PDF]
Handwritten vow to Holy Mary, ever Virgin Mother of God pledging to procure two golden crowns, one for thee and one for thy Divine Infant as a perpetual memorial of thy Mercy and of our Gratitude should they be protected from the danger to which ...
Xavier University (Cincinnati, Ohio)
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Shaping expectations, losing flexibility: A study of CEO promises as strategic communication tools
Abstract Research Summary CEO promises are powerful but understudied communication tools. We develop a dual‐mechanism framework theorizing that while CEO promises elevate stakeholder expectations, they simultaneously constrain strategic flexibility. We argue that CEO promise‐making is shaped by two competing pressures: making more promises when the ...
Majid Majzoubi +2 more
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Old Testament Poems for Vow Fulfillment: A Form-Critical and Theological Study
The most pervasive and enduring contribution of Hermann Gunkel\u27s form-critical program for psalms studies is the insight that certain types of poems are particularly well suited to certain types of cultic occasions.
Heard, R. Christopher
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Independent Board of Directors Group Faultlines and CSR: Evidence From India
ABSTRACT This study, leveraging group faultline and upper echelons theories, explores how relation and task‐based faultlines among independent board members influence CSR investment under the contingency effect of the financial slack of the firms. This study, leveraging the concept of group faultline and upper echelons, first hypothesizes how the supra‐
Arpita Agnihotri, Saurabh Bhattacharya
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Though monastic life is often imagined to be a flight from the world, Benedictine monks take on the intense social commitment of life in close community.
Irvine, Richard
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Using personal narrative to promote person-centered values in aging, dementia, and caregiving. [PDF]
Merrilees J +4 more
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Stepparenting and Moral Parenthood
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Luara Ferracioli
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