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Is there a ‘right’ to use Welsh in prison?
Journal of Law and Society, EarlyView.Abstract The use of the Welsh language is generally understood as a ‘right’ in contemporary Wales. While this right is often lauded as one of Welsh devolution's defining achievements, the efficacy of current protections is contested. This article contributes to the debate by focusing on the prison context, where the question of Welsh language rights is
GREGORY DAVIES, ROBERT JONES
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The (Simp)le Truth About Excessive and Obsessive Romantic Behaviors in Men
Journal of Personality, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective “Simps” are individuals (primarily men) who engage in costly or extravagant gestures toward a romantic interest without receiving reciprocation. As its first empirical validation, the current study newly operationalizes simping behaviors as well as the motivating factors predicting simping.
Daniel Ho +3 more
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Virtual Optical Waveguides for Particle Transport and Sorting
PhotonicsPrecise manipulation and directed transport of micro- and nano-particles are cornerstones of emerging lab-on-a-chip technologies. Traditional optofluidic systems that combine optical tweezers with microfluidic channels enable long-range transport ...
Liuhao Zhu +5 more
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“Organic and Beautiful and Imperfect”: An Interview with Queer Pop Musician Be Steadwell
Current Musicology, 2017 Be Steadwell is a musician from Washington, DC. She has self-produced six albums, the most recent of which is entitled Jaded. dark love songs. She has toured the US and Europe, and was recently selected to a 2016 Strathmore Artist in Residence.
Seth Mulliken
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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Much of the activism on environmental issues within the US Catholic Church is not coming from those with institutional power (like bishops and diocesan priests), but rather from sisters, who have no formal power. What factors facilitate sisters’ environmental activism?
Sabrina Danielsen, Ellie Simmons
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The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
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THE LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF QARDH FINANCING FOR STAKEHOLDER WELFARE IN ISLAMIC ECONOMIC LAW
Hakam: Jurnal Kajian Hukum Islam dan Hukum Ekonomi IslamIn the context of Baitul Maal Wa Al Tamwil (BMT) Maslahah, qardh loans are a financial product that, according to Sharia principles, do not require material compensation.
Saifuddin Zuhri
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Into the Bermuda Triangle: How Prime Ministers Fall
IPPR Progressive Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Eleven years after David Cameron promised ‘stability and strong government’; nine years after Theresa May pledged ‘strong and stable leadership’; and two years after Keir Starmer vowed to ‘stop the chaos’, the UK has its seventh prime minister in a decade.
Robert Saunders
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L’inscription d’une église rurale du territoire narbonnais au ve siècle
Pallas, 2010 This is a study of the inscription celebrating the consecration of a church located on the slope of the antique oppidum of Ensérune (in Narbonese territory). The stone is severely dilapidated but a XVIIth century copy exists.
Michel Chalon
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