Extremely early initiation of vasopressors might not decrease short-term mortality for adults with septic shock: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Cheng-Hsin Ma, Jack Healy, Ebrima Kinteh, Cheng-Chin Ma, Ching-Fang Tiffany Tzeng, Eric H. Chou, Chin-Chieh Wu, Shih-Chieh Shao, Kuan-Fu Chen

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Die betekenis en funksie van die himnes in Openbaring 4-11 by F. P. Viljoen

“…They revolve around the theme of the sovereignity of God and the Lamb, his coming in judgement and the establishment of the kingdom of the saints. The hymns comment on the plot of the Apocalypse and provide important information which helps the reader to decipher the ensuing events. …”
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An In-depth Exploration of an Unexamined Reliquary in the Church of Mar Tadros-Blat, Syria by Dana Khouli

“…By conducting a detailed analysis of its carvings and symbolic iconography, the study seeks to unravel the religious motifs embedded in its design and interpretation, elucidating their connections with saints, pivotal figures intricately associated with sarcophagus reliquaries. …”
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Sculpture, sculpteurs et ateliers (?) à Chambéry et alentour (vers 1480-v. 1530) by Laurence Riviere Ciavaldini

“…It is supported by a rigorous investigation on a corpus of approximately 300 statues or groups of sculptures in which the author identified original series such as the Savoyard Virgin of Pity or quality works dedicated to local saints of international renown such as St. Anthony in Vienna (France). …”
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Fêtes et processions de Maaloula : une mise en scène des identités dans l’espace d’un village chrétien by Sylvia Chiffoleau

“…Such is the case of the Christian village of Maaloula where, at the end of the summer, the Catholic and Orthodox Churches jointly celebrate a Feast of the Cross, before honouring their respective patron saints. A mixture of identities dominated by a regionally differentiated and doctrinally diverse Christianity are enacted in the village setting. …”
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Robida’s Mormons by Daryl Lee

“…This transnational exchange included “Mormons,” members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who migrated progressively west from the Missouri and Illinois frontiers in the 1830s and 40s to the Great Basin after 1847, where they established an extensive network of colonies. …”
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La cuisine et sa ritualisation en pays mixtèque (Oaxaca, Mexique) by Esther Katz

“…Feast cuisine is served in civic festivals, celebrations of the life cycle and saints festivals celebrated by a whole community. …”
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Marrons, colons, contrebandiers. Réseaux transversaux et configuration métisse sur la côte caraïbe colombienne (Dibulla) by Anne-Marie Losonczy

“…Their organization consists of multipolar networks of kindreds, articulated by rivalry and factionalism, the territorial basis of which is both matrifocal and religious, through localized cults to the saints and the dead. Their regime of memory and historicity, as well as their socio-political organization which overrides ethnic, regional and national borders, make this society a remarkable illustration of a kind of cross-border sociability, without community and definable collective identity, rarely studied by anthropologists. …”
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Présence des pauvres. La fouille de texte dans les sources de langue arabe du Maroc moderne (xviiie‑xixe siècles) by Antoine Perrier

“…The poor play an edifying role in accounts of the lives of saints, sultans and scholars, as a religious model and as a political representation of the people. …”
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Official Sanctity alla Veneziana: Gerardo, Pietro Orseolo and Giacomo Salomani by Karen McCluskey

“…Throughout late-medieval and Renaissance Italy, pious men and women were recognized as saints during their own lifetime and accorded at least local veneration at the site of their tomb after death. …”
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Osoba i przesłanie św. Franciszka by Roland Prejs

“…Francis is undoubtedly one of the most popular Christian saints. There are two different biographies of St. …”
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Święty Maksymilian Maria Kolbe – męczeństwo z miłości by Wiesław Bar

“…The third part shows the consequences – social and for jurisprudence of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints – to declar Fr Maximilian as martyr. Includes, among others, arguments of a group of senators, with which initiative was declared the Year 2011 as “Year of St. …”
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Les montagnes et la montée des clercs dans l’Algérie coloniale. Viticulture, montagnes et réformisme (iṣlāḥ) aux xixe-xxe siècles by Kamel Chachoua

“…Studies of human and social sciences on religion in Algeria have always focused on the roles and functions of the iconic actors (saints, reformers) and ancient and modern institutions (brotherhoods , madrasas , public schools) in a sort of "functionalism the worst and/or the best". …”
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Lektury zalecane Elżbiecie z Radziwiłłów Mieleckiej przez katolickich kaznodziejów w latach 1579–1581 by Anna Sitkowa

“…Piotr Skarga’s “Żywoty świętych” [“Lives of the Saints”], 1579), and after her confession of Catholic faith in June 1580, to provide guidance for her new religious path (e.g. …”
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Le corps entre sacré et profane : la réforme des pratiques pèlerines en Égypte (xixe-xxe siècles) by Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen

“…The annual festivals to the shrines of the saints – the “mouleds” – are among the main features of the Egyptian popular religion, for the Copts and for the Muslims as well. …”
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Łaska w ikonach by Monika Wąchocka

“…They must also bring truly its recipient closer to Divine Persons, biblical events or scenes from the lives of the saints. Over the centuries, from the very beginning of Christian sacred art, through the turbulent period of iconoclasm, up to the present day, icons have retained a fundamental importance in the eastern Church, becoming almost a sacrament. …”
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Monstrous to our human reason. The empty grave of the Winter’s tale by Richard Wilson

“…The statue that comes to life reverses the contretemps of Juliet’s game of playing saints that ‘do not move’. But The Winter’s Tale can never separate the ‘joy and terror’ in its own anachronistic ‘o’erthrow’ of temporal order, nor suppress the horror of bones that ‘Have burst their cerements’ in the uncanny story of the man ‘Dwelt by a churchyard’.…”
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Dieu ou les hommes ? Vivre l’obéissance dans les couvents anglais en exil (1598-1688) by Laurence LUX-STERRITT

“…They chose to be inspired by the mystics and by the examples of the great medieval saints which their spiritual director, Augustine Baker, incited them to discover on their own to meet God without the mediation of confessors or of their exercises. …”
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A cidade desejada e sublimada por Jorge Amado: os lugares imaginados em Bahia de Todos-os- Santos: guia de ruas e mistérios de Salvador by Ricardo Araújo Barberena

“…The book Bahia de Todos-os-santos: guia de ruas e mistérios de Salvador (Bahia of all-saints: a guide to the streets and mysteries of Salvador), by Jorge Amado (published in 1944), portrays an easygoing and provincial capital of Bahia. …”
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Le corps du Prophète by Denis Gril

“…Among the community of Muslims, the saints are the spiritual heirs of the Prophet, and their bodies reflect this heritage through their luminosity and extraordinary powers. …”
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