Good to love or good to eat? Ethical and ideological implications of hunting, killing and the consumption of anthropomorphic animals in popular picturebooks by Kelly Hübben

“…From an early age, children are taught that animals come in different categories, some of which are good to love, and should be treated with due respect (pets) and others that are good to eat, and, at least in Western cultures, less deserving of our compassion. …”
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Quel genre de convictions dans les Conventions ? Esquisses d’auto-ethnographie des droits humains des femmes en tant qu’économies morales : le cas des Modifications Génitales Fémin... by Michela Fusaschi

“…Through an analysis of concepts such as culture, tradition, gender, victims and patriarchy, assumed in an antihistoric and essentialist key in these texts, the author highlights how they are the result of ‘convictions’ of a mainstream Western difference feminism and of an agreed-upon language which has helped foster human rights of women rhetoric as moral economies. …”
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Analysis of the Crust Deformations before and after the 2008 Wenchuan Ms8.0 Earthquake Based on GPS Measurements by Jicang Wu, Renzhao Liu, Yongqi Chen, Conrad Tang, Guojie Meng, Yaming Dang

“…We use the movement velocities of GPS stations in western Sichuan province, China, to determine the distribution of horizontal strain accumulation before the 2008 Wenchuan Ms8.0 earthquake with a piecewise approximation approach and the coseismic displacements to determine the fault slips of the earthquake with an inversion analysis method. …”
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A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THE UNDERSTANDING OF GOD IN J.S. MBITI’S THEOLOGY by Y Han, Jaco Beyers

“…Mbiti systematises data of the African concepts of God in a set of Western Christian doctrinal systems. He presupposes a continuity between the Christian and the African concepts of God, and overemphasises the similarities. …”
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Chamanisme féminin « contre nature » ? Menstruation, gestation et femmes chamanes parmi les Shipibo-Conibo de l’Amazonie occidentale by Anne-Marie Colpron

“…Menstruation, gestation and female shamans among the Shipibo-Conibo of Western Amazonia. Amazonian shamanism is often described as a male social role from which women are ‘naturally’ excluded because of taboos concerning the particularities of their biology, namely menstrual blood and pregnancy. …”
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La nuit entre histoire et littérature by Alain Cabantous

“…But the comparative approach to night between France and England not only reveals different sensibilities, but also shows that night was an original creative wellspring that spread, among a broad Western European public, its terrifying models of night, conveyed no less by Elizabethan theatre than by tomb poetry or gothic novels.…”
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Giant Cell Arteritis: An Atypical Presentation Diagnosed with the Use of MRI Imaging by Siddesh Shambhu, Lisbet Suarez

“…Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common primary systemic vasculitis in western countries in individuals over the age of 50. …”
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Sculpture, sculpteurs et ateliers (?) à Chambéry et alentour (vers 1480-v. 1530) by Laurence Riviere Ciavaldini

“…Boisset-Boisset on medieval sculpture in Western Savoy, 1480-1530, at Grenoble Alpes University, in November 2015. …”
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A Single Bangle Does Not Jingle: The Twinning Imperative of Ubuntu by Nokuthula Hlabangane

“…The paper taps into the lived ethos of abantu to argue that decolonisation as a reflection of the lifeways central to the cosmic rhythm is not far off even within the patriarchal, western-centric, colonial Africa. In this way, the ubiquity of the capitalist, instrumentalist, rational reason is routinely undermined as higher ideals are lived, heralding beauty in the desert.…”
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Healthcare and traditional medicine in the Tobolsk North: the view of political exiles of the late 19th century by V. A. Yakovchuk

“…In conclusion, the general state of health care and its importance in the daily life of political exiles, the role of provincial authorities in the system of political exile in the North of Western Siberia are assessed.…”
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First record of Violet Dropwing Trithemis annulata (Palisot de Beauvois, 1807) (Odonata: Libellulidae) in Slovenia by Damjan Vinko, Ali Šalamun

“…This widespread Afrotropical species has rapidly expanded its range in south and south-western Europe in the recent two decades, with global warming apparently being the main driver of this expansion. …”
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Northward expansion of the Critically Endangered Arabian leopard in Dhofar, Oman by Hadi Al Hikmani, Khalid Al Hikmani

“…We advocate the designation of central and western areas of the Nejd as a National Nature Reserve, to protect critical habitat for the Arabian leopard and for other species in this region.…”
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Entre patrimoine et développement durable, quel avenir pour les églises paroissiales ? by Mélanie Meynier-Philip

“…Within the framework of a PhD in Architecture, the research tackles the future of the parochial churches of the Lyon Saint-Étienne urban area, in a context of accelerated secularization of Western societies. Faced with an increasing desertion – disappearance of parishioners and their religious use –their use value, linked to their potential of reconversion, as well as to their affective value, carried by a heritage community, allow them to have a future. …”
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Climate change and water resources: Excess, shortage, and pollution by Franck Galland

“…A series of extreme climate events in 2022 had a profound impact on water resources in France and western Europe. Droughts led to water shortages in several areas and were followed by winter storms that caused record flooding.Long-term projections point to significant reductions in the amount of water in rivers and groundwater reserves. …”
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Orientin and vitexin attenuate lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammatory responses in RAW264.7 cells: a molecular docking study, biochemical characterization, and mechanism analysis by Yue Yu, Fusheng Pei, Zhanming Li

“…Moreover, RAW264.7 cells with lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammation were used to evaluate the anti-inflammatory activities of orientin and vitexin, based on the inflammation-related cytokines production, quantitative real-time reverse transcription PCR, and western blotting analysis. As a result, orientin or vitexin attenuated inflammatory responses through modulation of the MAPK/NF-κB signaling pathway by suppressing NF-κB translocation.…”
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Lactobacillus acidophilus Suppresses Colitis-Associated Activation of the IL-23/Th17 Axis by Linlin Chen, Yiyou Zou, Jie Peng, Fanggen Lu, Yani Yin, Fujun Li, Junwen Yang

“…The expression of interleukin- (IL-) 17, tumor necrosis factor α (TNFα), IL-23, transforming growth factor β1 (TGFβ1), signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3), and phosphorylated (p)-STAT3 was examined by RT-PCR, Western blotting, and immunohistochemical analysis. …”
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Néotène, Hybrides et Chimères by Marika Moisseeff

“…Like other myths in other times and places, works of science fiction portray hybrid beings that, in this case, reveal contemporary Western understandings of human nature. It is from this perspective that the author explores one such account, Les fables de l’Humpur, which chronicles the end of humanity following a rebellion of the chimeras produced to relieve “true” or “pure” humans from thankless drudgery.…”
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Programa “Ciência sem Fronteiras”: geopolítica do conhecimento e o projeto de desenvolvimento brasileiro by Rogéria Campos de Almeida Dutra, Leonardo Francisco de Azevedo

“…Far from questioning the current Western model of development, it is based on the center-periphery model and on the supremacy of natural science as a way of integrating our country into the valued industrial and technological routes of the world system.…”
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Germanys’ strategies to contribute to a European Information Society by Andreas Koch, Florian Schweinle

“…In the following, e-Health-, e- Government, and e-Business-projects will be discussed both on a national level and on the level of two selected federal states (North Rhine-Westphalia and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania).…”
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The Ammonite Tirolites idrianus – A Paleontological Icon of the Idrija UNESCO Global Geopark (Slovenia) by Mojca Gorjup Kavčič, Matija Križnar

“…Idrija UNECO Global Geopark embraces the area of Idrija Municipality in the western part of Slovenia, with an area of 294 km2. …”
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