Biblical spirituality: an "other" reading (allègoria) by Kees Waaijman

“…The transition from an awareness of differences in respect of contents to dialogical non-indifference is crucial for Biblical Spirituality, because it marks the progression from a “meditative” way of reading, which is directed towards content (literary history), to an “orative” or prayerful way of reading, which is concerned with the God-human process of transformation. …”
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Landscapes as Narrative Commentary in Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West by Dianne C. Luce

“…Evoking in the reader the perceptual and interpretive modes of a pensive viewer of a painted landscape, these scenes invite us to apply techniques drawn from art criticism to comprehend them as the narrator’s sober meditations on the Glanton gang’s violent enterprise.…”
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« Petits poèmes en prose » : la forme poétique dans Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Isabelle Gadoin

“…Alongside with awkward passages when the narrator launches into abstract meditations against morals, society or fate, other moments can be found in his novels when the author briefly seems to forsake any concern for realistic description, and to suggest instead enchanted instants of communion between his characters and the world of nature, which transfigure the whole of perception. …”
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La verdad en tiempos de guerra. Una ilustración del consecuencialismo de John Dewey by Miguel Catalán

“…In his response to the war propaganda spread in United States by the Committee on Public Information, Dewey anticipates some of the negative consequences of propaganda persuasion for the intervening nations in the Treaty of Versailles. Dewey meditates on the difficulties to keep the normative standard of truth and consequentialist rationality not only in the course of a war, but also in subsequent years: specific aspects of war as it were propaganda and censorship, the cultivation of the irrationality under the layer of the rigor, the camouflage of individual, economic or class interests under the cloak of patriotism and the will to humiliate the adversary nation under the pretext of doing justice, converge in a socio-political dynamics of falsehood and irrationality whose consequences extend beyond the signing of the peace treaties.…”
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Statistical Analysis on the Mechanical Properties of ATH Nanofiller Addition on the Woven Jute/Polyester Hybrid Composites by the Grey–Taguchi Method by CR Mahesha, Suprabha R, D. Raja Ramesh, Rajesh A S, Melvin Victor De Poures, Ram Subbiah, Wadi B. Alonazi, S. Sivakumar, Agegnehu shara shata

“…Even as fibre as well as pitch meditations raised, greater power was mandatory to fracture the fibres among matrices as well as their reinforcements.…”
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Spectral Telepathy: the Late Style of Susan Howe by Marjorie Perloff

“…When we analyze Howe’s meditations on Wallace Stevens, we learn that she identifies with Stevens to create a new poetic hybrid. …”
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What Am I? Descartes’s Various Ways of Considering the Self by Colin Chamberlain

“…In the Meditations and related texts from the early 1640s, Descartes argues that the self can be correctly considered as either a mind or a human being, and that the self’s properties vary accordingly. …”
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Author Correction: Sex differences in the association between repetitive negative thinking and neurofilament light by Yolanda Lau, Amit Bansal, Cassandre Palix, Harriet Demnitz-King, Miranka Wirth, Olga Klimecki, Gael Chetelat, Géraldine Poisnel, Natalie L. Marchant, The Medit-Ageing Research Group

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“Not the Lover’s Choice, but the Poet’s”: Classical Receptions in Portrait of a Lady on Fire by Benjamin Eldon Stevens

“…By raising these questions via the ancient myth, Portrait meditates on the effect of making, as Orpheus did, “not the lover’s choice, but the poet’s.”…”
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Antropologie filosofică și antroposofie la Ernest Bernea by Constantin STROE

“…This is how we understand why his two main posthumous works – Philosophical meditations. Notes for an outdated philosophy and Small treaty of wisdom and virtue – Ernest Bernea tackles on almost the whole of the philosophical anthropology – human nature, human condition, human origin, man himself, man for others, human relationships with nature and society, basic laws of being and human existence – in conjunction with the ideational area of anthroposophy, with the explicit aim of underlining the decisive role of the spirit in the existence and functioning of man.…”
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A Critical Review of "Non-Existence of God" on the Aristotle's Book “Nicomachean Ethics” and its Effect on Philosophical Ethics Writing among Muslims by Zahra Atashi, Mojtaba Javidi, Alireza Farsinejad

“…Aristotle “Nicomachean's” book on ethics is one of his most important books on ethics. By meditating on this book, one becomes the guardian of God, in which there are no traces of the many letters of God, one of the divine religions. …”
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Ortega on liberalism and democracy: revisiting an old discussion by Carlos Morujão

“…I also try to highlight the changes in Ortega’s concept of liberalism, from his early liberal socialism (under the influence of Paul Natorp) to the mature liberalism that follows Ortega’s acceptance of phenomenology, of which we find a document in Meditations on Quixote of 1914 and in “New and old politics”, published in the same year. …”
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Barrès contre Ruskin by Jessica Desclaux

“…To respond to Ruskin, he didn’t write a theoretical essay on art, but he inserted in novel or travel writing short polemical meditations. They testified to his increasing first-hand knowledge of Ruskin’s writings and they mostly dealt with the role the Italian Renaissance should play and with the representation of Venice. …”
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Literatura parenetică. Modelele bizantin, occidental și național by Eugen Simion

“…The conceptual term of Middle Ages (id est an age of darkness, mysticism, scholastics, spiritual asceticism) is revised; it is shown, according to historian Le Goff, that the respective age was one of cathedrals, therefore of real creation in which, besides the representative types (the saint and the knight), a third emblematic character came into being: the solitary thinker, the meditative spirit who, looking for a model of existence, brings back the ideas, virtues and myths of Antiquity and, at the same time, thinks of himself in relation with the Divinity. …”
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Comparative Analysis of the Accuracy of Six Intraoral Scanners Using a Full-Arch Model by Münir Demirel, Faruk Emir, Gülsüm Ceylan, Almira Ada Diken Türksayar

“…The same model was digitized by using 6 IOSs (Trios 4, Trios 3, Primescan, Omnicam, Planmeca Emerald S, and Medit i700) (n=10) to generate test scan STLs. All STL files were imported into a 3-dimensional analysis software program (Geomagic Control X). …”
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Ja, goed te deunen onze machtige (Psalm 147,1): De zoektocht naar een toonzetting van de Psalmen by A. de Keyzer

“…It is all about facilitating the saying of the psalm verse, consisting of two half verses that are separated and connected by a meditative caesura. Each half verse numbers an amount of pulse moments, mostly three. …”
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Extraintestinal manifestations of inflammatory bowel diseases: arthropathy and arthritis by Gulustan Hamid Sadygova

“…Resolution of this issue is not only an actual trend, but a demand of worldwide medical community for treatment and rehabilitation IBD patients as well. Conclusion. Meditate analysis of extraintestinal IBD manifestations, in particular IBD-associated arthropathy and arthritis, expands potential of time the diagnosis and adequate drug treatment to decrease disability risk and to improve quality of life of IBD patients.…”
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Incorporation of opacifier to Type III alpha gypsum and its effect on scannability and linear setting expansion – An in vitro study by Sai Akhil Khadkekar, Mahendranadh Reddy Kareti, Mahadev Shastry Yelishetty, S. Venkata Aditya, Srilekha Daripalli

“…Each group’s scannability was assessed using a Medit lab scanner, and their LSE was measured. Statistical Analysis Used: One-way ANOVA with Tukey’s post-hoc test for multiple comparisons. …”
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Mere moral beliefs aren't sufficient to determine pro-social behaviors! A moderated mediation framework tested in healthcare settings based on Belief in Self-Determinism (BSD) Theo... by Muhammad Ali Asadullah, Tabassum Iqbal, Ali Haj Khalifa, Sajid Haider

“…The study also found that the mediating role of moral courage between moral convictions and pro-social rule-breaking differs across different levels of professional experience. Particularly, the meditating role of moral courage between moral convictions and prosocial behaviors reduces with the increase in professional experience. …”
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Dual career athletes and psycho-physiological stress by Francesca Latino, Pierpaolo Limone, Francesco Peluso Cassese, Rosabel Martinez-Roig, Giulia Amato, Francesco Tafuri

“…Discussion: This study confirmed that meditative practice through Yoga can be a source of improvement of psycho-physiological parameters in the context of interventions aimed at improving the well-being of dual career students Conclusions: In conclusion, there is a need to support and increase research in this area to have new and adequate information about the reality of the Dual Career and to be able to help student-athletes to reconcile school and sports paths. …”
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