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Covenant in the Persian period : from Genesis to Chronicles
The 22 essays in this new and comprehensive study explore how notions of covenant, especially the Sinaitic covenant, flourished during the Neo-Babylonian, Persian, and early Hellenistic periods. Following the upheaval of the Davidic monarchy, the temple’s destruction, the disenfranchisement of the Jerusalem priesthood, the deportation of Judeans to other lands, the struggles of Judeans who remained in the land, and the limited returns of some Judean groups from exile, the covenant motif proved to be an increasingly influential symbol in Judean intellectual life. The contributors to this volume, drawn from many different countries including Canada, Germany, Israel, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States, document how Judean writers working within historiographic, Levitical, prophetic, priestly, and sapiential circles creatively reworked older notions of covenant to invent a new way of understanding this idea. These writers examine how new conceptions of the covenant made between YHWH and Israel at Mt. Sinai play a significant role in the process of early Jewish identity formation. Others focus on how transformations in the Abrahamic, Davidic, and Priestly covenants responded to cultural changes within Judean society, both in the homeland and in the diaspora. Cumulatively, the studies of biblical writings, from Genesis to Chronicles, demonstrate how Jewish literature in this period developed a striking diversity of ideas related to covenantal themes.
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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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Captivity and Animal Microbiomes: Potential Roles of Microbiota for Influencing Animal Conservation
During the ongoing biodiversity crisis, captive conservation and breeding programs offer a refuge for species to persist and provide source populations for reintroduction efforts. Unfortunately, captive animals are at a higher disease risk and reintroduction efforts remain largely unsuccessful. One potential factor in these outcomes is the host microbiota which includes a large diversity and abundance of bacteria, fungi, and viruses that play an essential role in host physiology. Relative to wild populations, the generalized pattern of gut and skin microbiomes in captivity are reduced alpha diversity and they exhibit a significant shift in community composition and/or structure which often correlates with various physiological maladies. Many conditions of captivity (antibiotic exposure, altered diet composition, homogenous environment, increased stress, and altered intraspecific interactions) likely lead to changes in the host-associated microbiome. To minimize the problems arising from captivity, efforts can be taken to manipulate microbial diversity and composition to be comparable with wild populations through methods such as increasing dietary diversity, exposure to natural environmental reservoirs, or probiotics. For individuals destined for reintroduction, these strategies can prime the microbiota to buffer against novel pathogens and changes in
diet
and improve reintroduction success. The microbiome is a critical component of animal physiology and its role in species conservation should be expanded and included in the repertoire of future management practices.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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