A comparative analysis of methods of preinduction cervical ripening and induction of labor in Poland and in Germany (Part II): maternal and neonatal outcomes by Agnieszka K. Kleszcz, Dorota Ćwiek, Olimpia Sipak-Szmigiel

“…The average change in evaluation of the cervix marked on the Bishop Score was higher in Germany, and it was 2.7 points, whereas in Poland, it was 1.6 points. …”
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Les premiers monastères d’Auvergne à la lumière de la documentation textuelle et archéologique (ve-xe siècle) : état de la question by Damien Martinez

“…The first observation we can make is that we had here a primitive type of monasticism, flourishing within an urban context, and encouraged by the local bishops, while other monastic institutions struggled to survive outside this urban setting. …”
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Itinerario de una lista. De la Hispania visigoda a Italia beneventana, del Liber Iudiciorum al Pseudo-Isidoro by William Trouvé

“…Moreover, the list from both these codices has modifications: the names of Gregory the Great, the emperor Maurice and the bishop Isidore of Seville were added. We propose to identify the manuscript difusion of the list, in relation to the Liber Iudiciorum and the Pseudo-Isidore, as well as to interpret these deliberate modifications.…”
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M. Nel, Identity-driven churches: Who are we and where are we going? by A. R. Tucker

“… From text: I have no hesitation in recommending this book for study by every minister, pastor, priest, bishop, denominational executives, “apostle”, and church leader in South Africa. …”
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A Santidade Enfurecida by Leandro Duarte Rust

“…Among the most frequent cases of disputes during the "Gregorian Reformation Era" were clashes between monks and bishops, whose outbreak had repercussions in numerous directions: on aristocratic domination, patrimonial control networks, foundations of ecclesiology, urban mobilizations, legal consensus. …”
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Richard Hurrell Froude et le spectre du désétablissement by Hervé Picton

“…In the early 1830s, the Church’s authority is undermined by a host of scandals widely relayed by the press. The bishops’ vote against the Reform Bill had further alienated public opinion. …”
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Interpretations of the Tower of Babel narrative in the African context by M. Rathbone

“…This is clear in the African cultural hermeneutics of Solomon Avotri and Black African hermeneutics of emeritus arch-bishop Desmond Tutu. The contemporary move among some biblical scholars from the African context that focus on the interaction between scholarly and non-scholarly interpreters of the Bible is an attempt to address the problems associated with rationalism. …”
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The Use of the Stoic Concept of Phronēsis by Irenaeus and Lactantius by Gábor Kendeffy

“… The Stoic concept of practical wisdom and the stoic Idea of the necessary conjunction of good and evil implicitly combined by Stoics themselves can be found in the works of early Christian thinkers like Irenaeus, the bishop of Lyons and Lactantius, the African apologist. …”
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Gutman Index and Detour Gutman Index of Pseudo-Regular Graphs by S. Kavithaa, V. Kaladevi

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Handwritten pre-Tridentine Pontificals by Jan Miazek

“… The article presents the history of pontificals, which are a bishop's liturgical books, beginning with their creation in the 9th century till the 16th century. …”
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Darknesses over the Bistrica. On some unacceptable interpretations of the history of Prizren and its monuments by Vojvodić Dragan, Pirivatrić Srđan

“…The paper discusses some recently proposed views on the religious landscape of medieval Prizren and the region it belonged to, the history of some Serbian churches in this city in Metohija, and the claim that the staurotheke of King Milutin of Serbia and Bishop Grigorije II of Ras, now in the Dominican Monastery in Dubrovnik, was donated to a church dedicated to St. …”
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Entre Église catholique, bailleur européen et Gouvernement marocain, l’action de Caritas Maroc auprès des migrants subsahariens by Julie Robin

“…National Caritas organisations are each autonomous under their bishops, but they combine as part of the Caritas Internationalis confederation, which is a body of the Catholic Church. …”
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Katechizm biblijny Kościoła kartagińskiego by Tomasz Kaczmarek

“… The topic for discussion of this thesis is Ad Quirinum, the second tome of st. Cyprian’s work, the bishop of Carthagina (210–258) which can be thought of as a remarkable biblical catechism. …”
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Ostrov Pereon a středoevropská misie kolem roku 1000 by Jan Stejskal

“…Adalbert (Vojtěch), the bishop of Prague and personal Otto’s friend, played the crucial role within the new imperial eastern policy. …”
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Official Sanctity alla Veneziana: Gerardo, Pietro Orseolo and Giacomo Salomani by Karen McCluskey

“…Despite the existence of an abundance of religious cults in Venice, in the 13th and 14th centuries only three local beati attained official recognition by the Republic: the bishop and martyr Gerardo da Venezia (d. 1046); the doge Pietro Orseolo (d. 976), and the Domincan friar Giacomo Salomani (d. 1314). …”
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Calculus Rules for V-Proximal Subdifferentials in Smooth Banach Spaces by Messaoud Bounkhel

“…In this paper, we establish calculus rules (fuzzy sum rule and chain rule) for both proximal subdifferentials and we prove the Bishop-Phelps theorem for the proximal normal cone. …”
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L’image politique comme manifeste ? Considérations sur la fresque des saints rois dans l’église (luthérienne) de Mălâncrav (xve siècle) by Doina Elena Craciun

“…The iconographical analysis performed here shows a special interest in depicting an interaction between the figures : the royal saints of the Árpád dynasty and the bishop seem to form a group which faces the royal saint Sigismund. …”
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ANTHROPOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS OF RUSSIAN SPIRITUAL ACADEMIES’ TEACHERS OF THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY by M. A. Ershova

“…Archimandrite Sergious (Stragorodsky) interprets the topic of finding salvation not against the background of the changes in God, but from the standpoint of the changes that occur in humanity. Bishop Theodore (Pozdeevsky), Archbishop Hilarion (Troitsky) and Bishop Barnabas (Belyaev) make known scholasticism as epistemological malice characterizing the specifics of theological knowledge necessary to base their intellectual efforts on the personal experience of the struggle against the passions; therefore, they see the new basis of theology in asceticism. …”
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THE RENAISSANCE FRENCH PSALTER. (THE ROMANIAN VERSIFICATION OF THE PSALMS WITH HUGUENOT MELODIES. ON THE OCCASION OF CELEBRATING THE 450th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST FRENCH PSALTER,... by Anamaria Mădălina HOTORAN

“…Celebrating 450 years since the first French Psalter (Le Psautier français) at Geneva (1562), the book represents the second Romanian version of the French Psalter, after the Psalter published in 1673 by Dosoftei, Bishop of Moldavia and it is the result of the work of 18 composers and poets and 13 scientific referents from Romania, France, Germany and USA, under the coordination of  Mircea Valeriu Diaconescu (composer, Germany), Ştefan Bratosin (Univ. …”
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Acute Abdomen in Pregnancy due to Idiopathic Chylous Ascites by Claudia Epelde, Fátima Saravia, Mónica Aguinaga, Ane Toledo, Arantza Lekuona, Mikel Gorostidi

“…Due to uncontrolled pain with an unidentified etiology and an unfavorable Bishop score, an urgent cesarean section was performed. …”
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