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Demography, 2013
We investigate factors affecting women’s decisions to terminate pregnancies in Matlab, Bangladesh, using logistic regression on high-quality data from the Demographic Surveillance System on more than 215,000 pregnancies that occurred between 1978 and 2008. Variables associated with the desire not to have another birth soon (very young and older maternal age, a greater number of living children, the recent birth of twins or of a son, a short interval since a recent live birth) are associated with a greater likelihood of pregnancy termination, and the effects of many of these explanatory variables are stronger in more recent years. Women are less likely to terminate a pregnancy if they don’t have any living sons or recently experienced a miscarriage, a stillbirth, or the death of a child. The higher the woman’s level of education, the more likely she is to terminate a pregnancy. Between 1982 and the mid-2000s, pregnancy termination was significantly less likely in the area of Matlab w...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2022
Slovenská kazateľská spisba 19. storočia. Bibliografický prehľad publikujúcich autorov a ich samostatne a časopisecky vydaných kázní, 2024
The Slovak preaching writings of the 19th century. The bibliographic overview of publishing authors and their self-published and magazine-published sermons. The publication provides an overview of 19th century sermons that were published in the Slovak language. All known sermon authors have been identified. Sermons were published by Catholics and Evangelicals. The sermons were published as occasional publications, as collections of sermons, or in magazines. A significant landmark in the periodization is the year 1848. The events of the revolutionary year affected society, which was reflected in the contents of the sermons. An important event was the founding of the oldest Catholic homiletic periodical. In the first half of the century, several variants of the Slovak language alternated, after the revolution this problem was solved, the Catholics used the written language, the Evangelicals remained faithful to the biblical Czech. Preaching in the 19th century underwent a significant positive change. At the beginning of the century, it received only marginal attention in theological education. The Slovak environment felt the need for sermons in their own language. This need was solved by priests who founded homiletic magazines. They did not come out at the same time, but continuously followed each other. This tradition was born in 1848 and continues continuously to this day. Four Catholic periodicals were published: Treasures of preaching (1848 – 1869), Slovenský "Sion" (The Slovak Sion, 1869 – 1873), Kazatel (The Preacher, 1874 – 1880), Kazatelňa (The Pulpit, 1881 – 1908). Evangelicals in Lower Hungary published the magazine Slovo života (The Word of Life, 1881-1882), which was officially banned because it openly criticized Magyarization. The Catholics were more prudent, they avoided open confrontation, but when they received positive stimuli from the papal encyclicals, they used them in favour of the Slovaks. The publication of sermons in print had several meanings and significance. Occasional small or several-page prints were intended to preserve the memory and identity of the church community in which the published sermon was delivered. The preaching itself was enriched by independently published books of sermons. And the development of preaching as a professional field within church or spiritual life was only brought about by homiletic magazines. Professional periodicals were systematically published by Catholics from 1848 throughout the second half of the 19th century. Many sermons remained only in manuscripts. Homiletic writings as a whole form a significant, even extensive area of Slovak literature. Its importance lies not only in the quantity, but especially in the extent to which it was used. It captured the entire Slovak language area, which today is much smaller than in the 19th century. Sermons shaped the Slovak soul and were one of the few spiritual and cultural opportunities for education and spiritual enjoyment, because the majority of Slovaks did not have economic or other opportunities to come into contact with other, for example, secular culture.
DOMUS, 2009
We are living through an exponential explosion in the amounts of data we are generating, capturing, analyzing, visualizing, and storing���including cultural content. On August 25, 2008, Google's software engineers announced on googleblog. blogspot. com that the index of web pages, which Google is computing several times daily, has reached 1 trillion unique URLs. 1 During the same month, YouTube. com reported that users were uploaded 13 hours of new video to the site every minute. 2 And in November 2008, the number of images ...
Journal of Geosciences, 2024
The ultramafic Kukes Massif is located in the eastern part of the Mirdita ophiolite (N Albania), which is recognised as representing Supra-Subduction lithosphere. It comprises a thick (0.8-2.5 km) dunite zone containing abundant occurrences of chromite ores and is cut by orthopyroxenitic and clinopyroxenitic veins. In this paper we focus on the genesis and evolution of olivine and chromite forming dunite in the northern part of the Kukes Massif. The chemical composition of minerals in dunites is highly variabile and apparent at outcrop scale. The most significant changes are recorded by olivine, which contains over 90 Fo in the host dunite but decreases to 87.5 in proximity of clinopyroxenitic veins. The composition of spinel is also sensitive to the presence of veins: in host dunite its Cr# is over 80 (chromite type I), whereas the presence of veins causes its decrease to 68 (type II). Clinopyroxene in vein-forming clinopyroxenite has Mg# from 86 to 92 and is Al-rich (Al 2 O 3 0.8-2.6 wt. %). Orthopyroxene forms orthopyroxenites (Mg# 90-93, Al 2 O 3 0.2-1.6 wt. %), but also screens (Mg# 83-91, Al 2 O 3 0.8-2.4 wt. %) at the contact between clinopyroxenite veins and the host dunite. The thick dunitic sequence at Kukes must have been formed as a result of intensive percolation of possibly boninitic melt through parental harzburgite. Another step in the evolution of the Kukes massif was related to intrusion of the pyroxenitic veins. These melts were not equilibrated with the host dunite and led to metasomatic modification of chromite and olivine, increasing Al 2 O 3 content in former (from 6-8 up to 18 wt. %) and decreasing Fo (extremely from 92 to 87.5) in the latter. The process is evident proximal to clinopyroxenite veins, but a subtle effect is also recorded in the chemical composition of dunite contacting orthopyroxenite, leading to increase in Fe 2 O 3 content. Metasomatism modified the composition of dunites in a zone of 0.5 m around pyroxenites. Our studies indicate a multistage evolution of the SSZ peridotites and show that its deciphering requires careful mineralogical examination.
2011
Most societies in the past have had slaves, and almost all peoples have at some time in their pasts been both slaves and owners of slaves. Recent decades have seen a significant increase in our understanding of the historical role played by slavery and wide interest across a range of academic disciplines in the evolution of the institution. Exciting and innovative research methodologies have been developed, and numerous fruitful debates generated. Further, the study of slavery has come to provide strong connections between academic research and the wider public interest at a time when such links have in general been weak. The Cambridge World History of Slavery responds to these trends by providing for the first time, in four volumes, a comprehensive global history of this widespread phenomenon from the ancient world to the present day.
FERNÁNDEZ-GÖTZ, M.; Maschek, D. and Roymans, N. (2020): Power, Asymmetries and How to View the Roman World. Antiquity 94(378): 1653-1656.
Collana Sigea di geologia ambientale -Dario Flaccovio Editore, Palermo, 2012
Aldrovandiana. Historical Studies in Natural History,, 2024
Cuadernos del Centro de Estudios de Diseño y Comunicación, 2021
isara solutions, 2022
Journal of Human, Earth, and Future
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2011
Book of Abstracts 8th MS Food Day, 2024
FIA研究懇談会会誌, 2010
International Orthodontics, 2017
The Emerging Contours of the Medium. Literature and Mediality. Richard Müller (Anthology Editor). Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, 2024