REZA PR’AS ALMAS: A CONSTITUIÇÃO DE UMA PRÁTICA DE REPRESENTAÇÃO E MEMÓRIA DO CATOLICISMO POPULAR by José Henrique Rodrigues Machado, José Reinaldo Felipe Martins Filho

“… Este artigo visa explorar as expressões de memória, representação e cultura que envolvem a tradição secular da Reza Pr’as Almas, que não apenas sobreviveu à passagem do tempo, mas também se adaptou e se reinventou em um contexto regional brasileiro. …”
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The Collections of Miraculous Stories on the Buddhāvataṃsaka-sūtra by Jing Liu

“…As Buddhism became increasingly secular and accessible, there was a significant rise in literary creativity, notably in the form of miraculous story collections that aided in the propagation of Buddhist beliefs among the general populace. …”
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Eight Khalkha Jebtsun-damba Khutukhtu and Pandito Khambo-Lama Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov, 1911–1915 by Leonid V. Kuras, Bazar D. Tsybenov

“…This charismatic leader was the one who took both secular and religious power over the new Mongolia. …”
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Proclamation of the All-Russian Empire – the Beginning of the Way to the Great Power Status by V. A. Artamonov

“…Schools with high-quality military and secular education, the Academy of Sciences, the Senate, and the Synod were established. …”
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Tsardom of Muscovy Traditional Culture and Peter's Westernization Project by T. V. Chernikova

“…Peter's Westernization was indeed a new stage in adopting European experience because he removed the state and church barriers in the communication of Russian people with Western Europeans and encouraged not only going to the West for education and science, but also opened the way to the creation of secular education and science in Russia. These were prerequisites for the beginning of the modernization of Russia.In other matters, Peter's westernization differed from the previous periods only in the number of cultural and institutional adoptions. …”
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Educación en Derechos Humanos y Democracia by Federico Mayor Zaragoza

“…Eran necesarios para evitar una nueva guerra, es decir, para construir la paz, son necesarios unos nuevos puntos de referencia, unos nuevos asideros éticos que permitan a toda ciudadanía modificar un comportamiento secular basado en la confrontación. El fomento de la dignidad no es una utopía, al contrario, es una necesidad indispensable porque sin ella no pueden concretarse los derechos y deberes humanos de los que tanto dependen la seguridad, supervivencia y felicidad de todos y todas. …”
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Determination of ²³⁸U Content by Gamma Radiation Emitting from ^234mPa Radionuclide by A. Khruschinski, S. Kutsen, A. Zhukouski, Naoyuki Sugai, Hiroshi Sugai, Michinori Mogi

“…The most optimal way to control 238U is to use the 234mPa radionuclide, the activity of which, due to its short lifetime (≈ 1.2 min), is unambiguously related to the activity of 238U even if the secular equilibrium is disturbed in the sample under studyРossibility of use of the 234mPa nuclide gamma radiation to determine 238U with a scintillation detector in a medium containing natural radionuclides is investigated and demonstrated using the simplest examples. …”
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Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Utilization Trends in the United States: Evidence From 2012 to 2021 National Electronic Medical Records Network by Abdulrahman Alsuhibani, PharmD, MSc, PhD, Jonathan R. Thompson, MD, FACS, FASMBS, Patricia R. Wigle, PharmD, BCPS, BCACP, FCCP, Jeff Jianfei Guo, BPharm, PhD, Alex C. Lin, MS, PhD, Marepalli B. Rao, MS, PhD, Ana L. Hincapie, MS, PhD

“…Descriptive statistical analysis was conducted to assess patients’ demographics and characteristics. Annual secular trend analyses were conducted for the annual rate of bariatric surgery, and the specific procedural types and proportions of laparoscopic surgeries. …”
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Trends in tuberculosis mortality among older adults in China, 2004–2021: a Joinpoint regression and age–period–cohort analysis by Mengdi Zhang, Xin Wang, Yiran Xiao, Qiqi Wang, Fei Huang, Xiang Ren, Xiaomin Guo, Wenshan Sun, Jinqi Deng, Qi Jiang, Jianjun Liu, Wenjing Zheng, Hongyan Yao

“…This study aimed to examine secular trends in TB mortality among older adults in China and the net effects of age, period, and cohort.MethodsData from the National Disease Surveillance Points (DSPs) system were analyzed using Joinpoint regression to determine annual changes in TB mortality among individuals aged 60 years and older from 2004 to 2021. …”
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Culturas en movimiento: migración y difusión-dilución de las creencias en México by Daniel Delaunay

“…Las culturas seculares también evolucionan a escala local, a veces de manera rápida: esta perspectiva a menudo es olvidada porque se ha privilegiado la atención a las influencias trasnacionales. …”
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HOTSSea v1: a NEMO-based physical Hindcast of the Salish Sea (1980–2018) supporting ecosystem model development by G. Oldford, G. Oldford, T. Jarníková, V. Christensen, M. Dunphy

“…However, we demonstrated that the model simulates temperature anomalies and a secular warming trend over the entire water column in general agreement with observations. …”
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Changes in the use practitioner-based complementary and alternative medicine over time in Canada: Cohort and period effects. by Mayilee Canizares, Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, Monique A M Gignac, Richard H Glazier, Elizabeth M Badley

“…<h4>Results</h4>The findings suggest that, at corresponding ages, more recent cohorts reported greater CAM (OR = 25.9, 95% CI: 20.0; 33.6 for Gen Xers vs. pre-World War) and chiropractic use than their predecessors (OR = 2.2, 95% CI: 1.7; 2.8 for Gen Xers vs. pre-World War). There was also a secular trend of increasing CAM use, but not chiropractic use, over time (period effect) across all ages. …”
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The study of pubertal stage and age of menarche in girls in Isfahan province, Iran by Nafiseh Mozafarian, Mahin Hashemipour, Mohammad Reza Maracy, Masoumeh Pourrajab, Razieh Omidi, Roya Kelishadi

“…Our study indicated the secular trend toward earlier menarche in girls. Nationally representative surveys and longitudinal studies are necessary to determine the exact age of puberty for future international comparisons.…”
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Trends in the incidence of the Epstein-Barr virus-associated malignancies extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma and nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Taiwan. by Shyh-An Yeh, Liang-Chun Chiu, Hsin-Chieh Lin, Hung-Ju Li, Sheng-Fung Lin, Yu-Chieh Su

“…To assess the incidence of ENKTL from 2008 to 2021 and NPC from 1995 to 2021, an epidemiological study was performed using population-based registry data from the Taiwan Cancer Registry. The secular trends in the annual incidence rates were expressed as average annual percent change (AAPC). …”
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FEAR OF SOCIAL ALIENATION OF LOVE AS GENDER CHARACTERISTICS by V. V. Melnyk, L. І. Моzhovyi, I. A. Reshetova

“…In view of the above the purpose of the paper is to investigate the conceptual contradictions associated with the reconstruction of basic measurements of the fear of alienation of love within different ideological approaches; to reveal the most significant contradictions that manifest themselves in the differences between secular and religious frames; to determine a philosophical and fundamental foundation for the types of fear: metaphysical, transcendental and social, which to some extent have influenced the development of a gender tradition. …”
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Islamic Perspectives on Multicultural Education Values in The Sumberdem Clean Village Tradition by Ummi Ulfatus Syahriyah, Ilma Fahmi Aziza, Islahuddin Islahuddin

“…This tradition can serve as a model for integrating multicultural values into community practices, especially in diverse cultural and religious settings, fostering inclusive environments that promote mutual respect and collective well-being, in alignment with both secular and religious frameworks for social harmony. …”
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Christian vs liberal conceptions of human rights by Piotr Mazurkiewicz

“…From the point of view of secular liberalism, the idea of God appears as an unnecessary by-product of the process of human evolution. …”
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The revival of spiritual practices: factors influencing the “seeking deities and offering prayers” behavior of China’s Generation Z on social media in an atheistic context by Jing Wang, Balamuralithara Balakrishnan, Xiaohui Wan, Qirui Yu, Qiqi Ye

“…Among contemporary Chinese youth, participation in digital religious practices is a temporary, secular activity undertaken only as a comforting behavior when anxiety becomes unmanageable or surpasses their threshold of tolerance. …”
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Security and religion in democratizing Tunisia: re-enacting surveillance through religious narratives and gendered dynamics by Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu, Alessandra Bonci

“…This section is crucial to understand the sociological and political background of the security policies, and explains how the struggle between the so-called secular forces and the religious parties have created a hierarchy between state-led Islam and non-state-led Islam, securitizing religion. …”
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Radiation hazards from natural radionuclides contained in rice from former tin mining land by J. Mellawati, N. Madyaningarum, E.A. Fajrianshah, E.B. jumpeno, T.R.D. Larasati, N. Mulyana, E. Nurtjahya, K. Khotimah

“…Placed for approximately 30 days before gamma spectrometer measurements to allow the decay products to reach secular equilibrium. Utilizing a high purity germanium detector, the radioactivity of the samples was quantified through a gamma spectrometer. …”
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