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Covenant in the Persian period : from Genesis to Chronicles
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Out of Captivity : Surviving 1,967 Days in the Colombian Jungle
Describes how a plane carrying the three American civilian contractors crash-landed in Colombia, their capture by the FARC, the five years that they spent as hostages of the guerrilla group, and their eventual rescue.
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The Growth of Hand Reared Young Hydropotes inermis in Captivity
以上海动物园人工哺育的11只幼獐 (雄性3, 雌性8) 为研究对象, 收集1—15周龄的体重 (Y) 、体长 (X2) 、前后足长 (X5, X4) 、肩高 (X1) 、胸围 (X3) 、耳长 (X6) 和尾长 (X7) 8项体尺数据。利用SPSS 18.0计算各体尺的平均值, 对所选8项体尺进行相关性分析, 建立幼獐的体重增长模型, 并对影响体重较大的几项体尺构建回归方程。采用经典动物增长非线性Logistic、Gompertz、von Bertalanffy函数模型和Gauss、幂函数、指数函数对人工哺育幼獐体重生长曲线进行拟合, 研究其变化规律。结果表明：体重受体长、肩高、后足长和胸围影响较大, Y=-5456.11+35.80X1+60.43X2+30.25X3+160.01X4 (R2=0.978) , Logistic、Gompertz、Gauss、指数函数增长模型对幼獐体重增长有较好的拟合效果。本研究将为今后獐的研究提供参考。
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Whale in a fishbowl
Wednesday, a whale living in captivity, is inspired by a little girl named Piper to try to reach the sea.
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PERFORMATIVIDAD POLÍTICA Y RITUALES CÍVICOS EN LA CONSTRUCCIÓN DEL APRISMO EN EL EXTREMO SUR PERUANO
El presente trabajo analiza la manera en que el Partido Aprista Peruano construyó su legitimidad política en Tacna durante 1931 a través de prácticas rituales y performances públicas. A partir de un análisis detallado del diario La Nación, se examina cómo el partido transformó espacios cotidianos en escenarios de significación política, desplegó elaboradas manifestaciones de poder y utilizó la música como elemento central de sus rituales. En el contexto particular de una ciudad que había retornado recientemente a la soberanía peruana tras medio siglo de ocupación chilena, se sostiene que el APRA articuló la memoria del cautiverio con su proyecto político nacional, desarrollando un sofisticado repertorio ceremonial que combinaba elementos nacionalistas tradicionales con una moderna liturgia política de masas. Esta estrategia performativa fue clave para su consolidación como fuerza hegemónica en el ámbito regional.
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White women captives in North Africa: narrative of enslavement, 1735-1803
\"A fascinating anthology of historical narratives composed from the late sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries by European women abducted by Muslim corsairs and enslaved in North Africa during the age of piracy. Many of the narratives are very rare and are by women coming from diverse social and economic backgrounds\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Captivity and habituation to humans raise curiosity in vervet monkeys
The cognitive mechanisms causing intraspecific behavioural differences between wild and captive animals remain poorly understood. Although diminished neophobia, resulting from a safer environment and more “free” time, has been proposed to underlie these differences among settings, less is known about how captivity influences exploration tendency. Here, we refer to the combination of reduced neophobia and increased interest in exploring novelty as “curiosity”, which we systematically compared across seven groups of captive and wild vervet monkeys (Chlorocebus pygerythrus) by exposing them to a test battery of eight novel stimuli. In the wild sample, we included both monkeys habituated to human presence and unhabituated individuals filmed using motion-triggered cameras. Results revealed clear differences in number of approaches to novel stimuli among captive, wild-habituated and wild-unhabituated monkeys. As foraging pressure and predation risks are assumed to be equal for all wild monkeys, our results do not support a relationship between curiosity and safety or free time. Instead, we propose “the habituation hypothesis” as an explanation of why well-habituated and captive monkeys both approached and explored novelty more than unhabituated individuals. We conclude that varying levels of human and/or human artefact habituation, rather than the risks present in natural environments, better explain variation in curiosity in our sample of vervet monkeys.
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The natural way of things
\"Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a broken-down property in the middle of a desert. Strangers to each other, they have no idea where they are, or how they came to be there with eight other girls. In each girl's past is a sexual scandal with a powerful man. The Natural Way of Things is a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be hunted. Most of all, it is the story of two friends, their sisterly love and courage\"--from author's website.
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The Captive's Position
Why do narratives of Indian captivity emerge in New England between 1682 and 1707 and why are these texts, so centrally concerned with women's experience, supported and even written by a powerful group of Puritan ministers? InThe Captive's Position, Teresa Toulouse argues for a new interpretation of the captivity narrative-one that takes into account the profound shifts in political and social authority and legitimacy that occurred in New England at the end of the seventeenth century. While North American narratives of Indian captivity had been written before this period by French priests and other European adventurers, those stories had focused largely on Catholic conversions and martyrdoms or male strategies for survival among the Indians. In contrast, the New England texts represented a colonial Protestant woman who was separated brutally from her family but who demonstrated qualities of religious acceptance, humility, and obedience until she was eventually returned to her own community. Toulouse explores how the female captive's position came to resonate so powerfully for traditional male elites in the second and third generation of the Massachusetts colony. Threatened by ongoing wars with Indians and French as well as by a range of royal English interventions in New England political and cultural life, figures such as Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, and John Williams perceived themselves to be equally challenged by religious and social conflicts within New England. By responding to and employing popular representations of female captivity, they were enabled to express their ambivalence toward the world of their fathers and toward imperial expansion and thereby to negotiate their own complicated sense of personal and cultural identity. Examining the captivity narratives of Mary Rowlandson, Hannah Dustan, Hannah Swarton, and John Williams (who comes to stand in for the female captive), Toulouse asserts the need to read these gendered texts as cultural products that variably engage, shape, and confound colonial attitudes toward both Europe and the local scene in Massachusetts. In doing so,The Captive's Positionoffers a new story of the rise and breakdown of orthodox Puritan captivities and a meditation on the relationship between dreams of authority and historical change.
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