Ovid Underwater: Environmental Dialectics at Achelous’ Banquet by Andrew Feldherr

“…The themes of these stories, sacrifice, nurture, and reproduction, as mythical evocations of distinctively human strategies of survival, help anchor narrative itself as a means of exposing and mediating the alterity of the cosmos and suggest a model for understanding Ovid’s own act of narration in political terms.…”
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Mahabbah Kepada Allah SWT dan Para Makhluk-Nya by Ernaka Heri Putra Suharyanto, Aziz Akbar

“…There is also the meaning of the word mahabbah as a feeling of affection so that it results in ignoring his own interests because he prioritizes the interests of those he loves even at sacrifice. The method used in writing this article is in the form of literature review or based on literature review by reading, understanding and analyzing the necessary reference sources in accordance with mahabbah studies in everyday life.…”
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« Coded Voices Speaking from the Walls » : les fresques murales de Belfast dans la prose nord-irlandaise by Stephanie Schwerter

“…This article explores the function of murals in the following three post-ceasefire novels: Sacrifice of Fools by Ian McDonald, Eureka Street by Robert McLiam Wilson and That Which Was by Glenn Patterson. …”
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« Si vous votez la loi d’exclusion aujourd’hui, c’est vous qui serez exclus demain » by Bilel Kchouk

“…This repositioning took place through multiple logics such as political sacrifice of several agents, networking solidarity and bargaining. …”
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Le statut de la sainteté dans les « religions politiques » by Yves Bizeul

“…“Political religions” transform holiness into self-sacrifice in the name of political action. Furthermore, the saint hereby becomes a hero (of work, of war, or of propaganda) and an armed or unarmed missionary serving a holy “cause”. …”
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Administration of Vitamin D Metabolites Affects RNA Expression of Xenobiotic Metabolising Enzymes and Function of ABC Transporters in Rats by Karoline Klumpp, Frauke Lange, Alexandra S. Muscher-Banse, Nadine Schnepel, Kathrin Hansen, Adrian L. Lifschitz, Laura Mate, Mirja R. Wilkens

“…Forty-eight female rats were divided into three treatment and corresponding placebo groups: (1) a single intraperitoneal injection of 1,25-(OH)2D3 or placebo 12 h before sacrifice; (2) daily supplementation with 25-OHD3 by oral gavage or placebo for 10 days; and (3) a single intramuscular injection of vitamin D3 10 days before sacrifice. …”
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Jet Travel and Desert by Sean Clancy

“…Most agents who commit to such a pledge exercise a great deal of virtue, and therefore deserve to have their lives go better, while also making a significant sacrifice, thus ensuring that their lives go worse. …”
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Culebras de maíz : los xatsy del depósito ritual ayuujk en Oaxacaes by Ma. Carmen Castillo Cisneros

“…He or she is previously consulted to indicate the amounts of bundles, corn figurines, corn powder, small tamales, cigars, candles, mezcal, tepache and poultry needed for making the offerings and the animal sacrifice. And it is women who before going to the mountain, follow a strict mathematical sequence in developing the components of the offering that will be deposited at the foot of the Catholic altar in the household and then in the mountain. …”
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Origens da Religião e da Moral by Élisée Reclus

“…Besides that, emphasizes that the reproduction of irrationalities such as those that promoted the emergence of rituals of sacrifice of people and animals are important elements for understanding the development and consolidation of different religions and these irrationalities were aligned with the interests related to the maintenance of power…”
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Fasts and Feasts in Estonians’ Representations of the Seto Culture by Andreas Kalkun

“…The religious rituals of the Seto came to be regarded with a fresh eye: traditional fasting was associated with the discourse of health care, food sacrifice with economy and religious feasts with criminal activities and alcoholism. …”
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S’isoler pour honorer : l’exemple des sanctuaires de Déméter dans le Péloponnèse by Manon Sauvage‑Cerisier

“…Finally, several elements are to be dissimulated from worshippers: it is sometimes absolutely forbidden to see the cult statue, to witness the sacrifice or to enter a certain part of the sanctuary. …”
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Introduction to Dossier. Dispossession, Social Segregation of Space and Territories in Resistance in Latin America by Ivette Vallejo, Giannina Zamora, William Sacher

“…Accumulation due to dispossession in Latin America has intensified in the last decade, creating new areas of sacrifice for the installation of hydrocarbon, energy-mining, monoculture, agroindustry and biofuel projects. …”
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Non-Fictional Interwar Narratives by English Writers by Barbara PUSCHMANN-NALENZ

“…Both had volunteered for the First World War and were deeply disillusioned about the meaninglessness of the sacrifice of lives. The borderlines between fiction and nonfiction often become blurred in these texts, despite their different conceptual approach. …”
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Le biopic du sportif américain by Rémi Fontanel

“…These cinematographic epics are steeped in such values as perseverance, sacrifice, belief in destiny, boldness, courage, etc., the man behind the athlete existing only in relation to the particular community he represents, challenges or dreams to fit in. …”
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Blind detection of orthogonal space-time block coding based on ICA schemes by GU Bo1, LIU Ju1, XU Hong-ji1

“…By introducing information in both space and time domain, transmit diversity gain could be achieved by or-thogonal space-time block coding （OSTBC）, and higher coding gain could be obtained without sacrifice of bandwidth. However the decoding required accurate channel state information （CSI）, which strongly determined the system per-formance. …”
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African Indigenous Medicine Activities in Mbarara Municipality, Uganda by Godfrey, Barigye

“…Some African indigenous medicine healers and neo-liberalists have misused the cherished objectives of community values and turned it into witch-craft characterized with human sacrifice, money extortion, and many more evil related practices. …”
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Filiation et novum temporel : le cas d’Interstellar et d’Arrival by Simon Bréan

“…Interstellar (Christopher Nolan, 2014) and Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, 2016) each offer a remarkable example of the tension between the affective charge proper to character development – affection, dilemma, sacrifice – and the cognitive distancing proper to the novum they propose; a novum linked to temporality, but proposing a very specific version of the theme of time travel. …”
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A Football Player’s Insider View: Inspiring the Achievement Story of the Turkey Amputee Football National Team by Yalın Aygün, Cemal Gündoğdu, Şakir Tüfekçi, Betül Akyol, Burak Canpolat, Mehmet Ilkım

“…Analysis resulted in a synthesis of the various ways Turkey National Amputee Football Team experienced success: (a) Determination and Team Spirit, (b) Self-sacrifice, (c) Challenging to Limitations, Restrictions and Barriers, and (d) Dependent Images and Expectations. …”
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The Politics of Objects: Eliza Cook’s Biographies of Things by Fabienne Moine

“…Then this article turns to the social lives of things, more precisely of raw material, whose dignity is restored by giving them a voice and by showing that their self-sacrifice ensures the preservation of the community’s identity and promotes social cohesion. …”
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Fast Image Search with Locality-Sensitive Hashing and Homogeneous Kernels Map by Jun-yi Li, Jian-hua Li

“…As to hold the kernel functions, recent work has probed methods to create locality-sensitive hashing, which guarantee our approach’s linear time; however existing methods still do not solve the problem of locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) algorithm and indirectly sacrifice the loss in accuracy of search results in order to allow fast queries. …”
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