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The Ambiguous Oracle: narrative configuration in Acts [PDF]
, 2011 This paper outlines the way in which a plot-device, which for the sake of convenience we shall call the ‘ambiguous oracle’ in Acts 1.6–8, controls and influences the narrative, creating coherence and enabling interpretation.
Bale, Alan
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Is there really a dictator's dilemma? Information and repression in autocracy
American Journal of Political Science, Volume 70, Issue 1, Page 381-395, January 2026.Abstract In his seminal work on the political economy of dictatorship, Ronald Wintrobe posited the existence of a “dictator's dilemma,” in which repression leaves an autocrat less secure by reducing information about discontent. We explore the nature and resolution of this dilemma with a formalization that builds on recent work in the political economy
Scott Gehlbach +3 more
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Cervantes, lector de Jenofonte, y las 'Obras de Xenophonte' traducidas por Diego Gracián [PDF]
, 2010 La presencia de Jenofonte en Don Quijote va más allá de la alusión pasajera que se hace al ateniense en el prólogo a la primera parte. Tras perfilar la fortuna de la obra de Jenofonte en Occidente, con particular atención a su lugar en la cultura del ...
Schwartz, L. (Lía)
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Exploring the importance of aromatic plants' extrafloral volatiles for pollinator attraction
New Phytologist, Volume 248, Issue 2, Page 517-528, October 2025.Summary Aromatic plants occur in many plant lineages and have widespread ethnobiological significance. Yet, the ecological significance and evolutionary origins of aromatic volatile emissions remain uncertain. Aromatic emissions have been implicated in defensive interactions but may also have other important functions.
Aphrodite Kantsa +3 more
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Tibrone, un armosta poco intraprendente? Note su uno spartano in Asia
Erga-Logoi, 2022 This paper focuses on the Spartan harmost Thibron, who led two expeditions to Asia in the first decade of the 4th century. It aims both to reconstruct the historical events, which are set in a context in which Sparta’s political action is characterised ...
Paolo A. Tuci
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Влияние корпоративного налога на прибыль и уровня маркетизации на структуру капитала публичных компаний Китая [PDF]
, 2016 В статье анализируются данные об изменении структуры капитала компаний в связи с реформой корпоративного налога на прибыль, акции которых обращаются на бирже.
Yong Fan, Юн Фань
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Respublica noumenon: Kant, Rousseau, and Plato's Republic
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 387-409, September 2025.Abstract This article examines the philosophical sources for Kant's interpretation of Plato's Republic and its impact on his conception of the ideal state. I argue that Kant's knowledge of Plato was not derived from Plato's writings, but from secondary accounts.
Michael Kryluk
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Xenophon und die spartanische Nauarchie
Historika : Studi di Storia Greca e Romana, 2016 Xenophon generally considered Sparta to have been a well organized, ideal city-state, which fact he attributed to the presumed lawgiver Lycurgus. By contrast, he saw the Sparta of his own time as having gone awry in several ways, especially due to the ...
Lukas Thommen
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Society, Politics, and Ideology of Classical Athens [PDF]
, 2003 В книге – на основании анализа разнообразных источников и использования последних достижений историографии – рассматриваются дискуссионные проблемы истории Афин V–IV вв. до н.э., а также сопутствующие темы.
Karpyuk, Sergey Georgievich +1 more
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Strategic thinking in the shadow of self‐enhancement: Benefits and costs
British Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 1725-1742, October 2024.Abstract Using a variant of the hide‐and‐seek game, we show in three studies that self‐enhancement can help or hinder strategic thinking. In this guessing game, one player chooses a number while another player tries to guess it. Each player does this either in a random fashion (throwing a mental die) or by active thinking.
David J. Grüning, Joachim I. Krueger
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