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Newly-found Evidence of Sassanid Simple-pit Burial at Qaleh Iraj, Pishvā, Iran [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2018 One of the most important and, at the same time, uncertain subjects related to Sassanid period is the recognition of common burial customs. Despite great attempts of Zoroastrian religious texts to represent a uniform burial tradition across the whole ...
Mehdi Mousavinia +2 more
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Heatwaves and Home Births: Understanding the Impact of Extreme Heat on Place of Delivery in India
GeoHealth, Volume 9, Issue 11, November 2025.Abstract We investigate the effect of extreme heat on home births in India, proposing that such extreme weather events may impede access to health facilities for childbirth. Utilizing geocoded data from the 2019–2021 Demographic and Health Survey for India, we identified the place of delivery of 208,368 births as home versus health facility.
Arnab K. Dey +3 more
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Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, Volume 31, Issue 5, August 2025.Abstract Medicine is a compound field composed of science and art. The (necessary) degree to which the latter is involved opens medicine, in particular, to the introduction of ideas which do not, by their very nature, submit to confirmation or confutation as do the various methods of traditional science.
Steven K. Baker
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Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 42, Issue 2, Page 668-682, May 2025.ABSTRACT Workism is the phenomenon of people making their work the primary source of meaning and identity in their life. Recent critics of workism have argued that there is a growing trend towards it in many societies and that this is a bad thing. This article brings a philosophical perspective to the debate on workism. It develops a precise account of
Matthew Hammerton
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Open Linguistics, 2017 The aim of the present paper is to illustrate as a case study, the linguistic and stylistic peculiarities characterizing the third book of the Dēnkard, one of the most authoritative texts in Zoroastrian Pahlavi literature (9th-10th CE). The analysis will
Terribili Gianfilippo
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Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, Volume 39, Issue 5, Page 1017-1027, May 2025.Epidemiology, associated comorbidities and current treatment patterns of Adamantiades–Behçet's disease in Germany. Abstract Background Adamantiades–Behçet's disease (ABD) is a rare, chronic, relapsing, multisystem vasculitis, with a reported prevalence of 0.9 out of 100,000 population in Germany in 2012.
C. C. Zouboulis +8 more
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Blueprint for a Universal Theory of Learning to Read: The Combinatorial Model
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 2, April/May/June 2025.The Reading Tree. Abstract In this essay, I outline some of the essential ingredients of a universal theory of reading acquisition, one that seeks to highlight commonalities while embracing the global diversity of languages, writing systems, and cultures.
David L. Share
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Conceptualizing culture critically: Examining perspectives from additional language teachers
Foreign Language Annals, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 182-205, Spring 2025.Abstract This paper presents the findings related to culture from an online survey with French as a second language (FSL) teachers (n = 45) about equity and antioppression in the Ontario FSL curriculum. FSL teachers defined culture and reflected on the link between language and culture and the role of students' cultures in FSL. Framed by an anti‐biased,
Marika Kunnas +2 more
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Renhed og urenhed i zarathustrismen
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 1997 This paper deals with the relation between the pure and the impure in the late Avestan text Vendīdād. It is shown how, in this religion, there is an almost exact correlation between the cosmic dualism between the good creation of Ahura Mazdā and the ...
Erik Reenberg Sand
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From Manichaeism to Zoroastrianism: On the History of the Teaching of the ‘Two Principles’
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2020 The essential feature in the religious history of Pre-Islamic Iran is its dualistic worldview. It marks all stages of Zoroastrianism and also Manichaeism, in which dualism can be regarded as the most important Zoroastrian piece of inheritance.
Götz König
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