509 research outputs found
Bruno SNELL & M. MEIER-BRÜGGE, Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos.
No full textDonnet Daniel. Bruno SNELL & M. MEIER-BRÜGGE, Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos.. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 72, 2003. p. 308
Bruno SNELL & M. MEIER-BRÜGGE, Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos.
No full textDonnet Daniel. Bruno SNELL & M. MEIER-BRÜGGE, Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos.. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 72, 2003. p. 308
Translation technique and textual studies in the Old Greek and Theodotion versions of Daniel.
No full textThis thesis focuses on two separate, but related areas: the analysis of translation technique and the Greek texts of Daniel. Foremost in the research of Translation Technique (TT) in the Septuagint is the need for a model that is appropriate for the analysis of different ancient languages. In recent years there has been an increasing emphasis on the features of literalism in a translation, but it is argued in this thesis that the focus on literalism is inadequate as a methodology for the analysis of TT. The contention of this thesis is that the analysis of TT should incorporate insights from modem linguistic research. Therefore, the main purpose of this thesis is to develop and apply such a model to the Old Greek (CG) and Theodotion (Th)versions of Daniel. The existence of two complete Greek versions of the book of Daniel that are closely related to the same Vorlage (at least in chapters 1-3 and 7-12), furnish ideal examples for the application of the methodology. Unfortunately, it is no straightforward matter to employ the OG of Daniel, because the available critical edition can no longer be regarded as reliable. The most important witness to the OG version of Daniel is Papyrus 967, and large portions of this manuscript have been published since the appearance of the critical edition of the OG of Daniel in 1954. Therefore, in order to analyze and compare the two Greek texts of Daniel, it is necessary to evaluate all of the variants of Papyrus 967 in order to establish a preliminary critical text of OG. Once a critical text is established the proposed methodology for translation technique is applied to selected passages in the OG and Th versions of Daniel. An analysis and comparison of TT in OG and Th makes it possible to: 1) characterize the TT employed by OG and Th in detail; 2) determine Th's relationship to OG, i.e. is it a revision or independent translation; 3) demonstrate how the Greek texts can be employed effectively for textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible. On the basis of the analysis of Th's text it is also possible to determine Th's relationship to the body of works, which exhibit a close formal correspondence to the Masoretic text, known as Kaige-Theodotion
Season 10 Episode 6: Passing the Plate: Tithing Practices
No full textIf American Christians gave away just ten percent of their income, the resulting eighty-five billion dollars could fund—and solve—many of the world\u27s m ost pressing needs. Patricia Snell of Notre Dame\u27s Center for the Study of Religion and Society, and co-author of Passing the Plate: Why American Christians Don’t Give Away More Money, describes the motives, practices, and myths of charitable giving. Shirley Hoogstra hosts. Episode #1006
Do consumers value hydroponics? Implications for organic certification
No full textRecent controversy about the inclusion of hydroponics in the U.S. Department ofAgriculture (USDA) organic program has highlighted uncertainty about marketinghydroponic crops. In a controversial vote in November 2017, the National OrganicStandards Board chose not to recommend that hydroponic farms be banned fromorganic certification. It is still unclear, however, how consumers perceive and valuehydroponic production. This study used a nonhypothetical choice experiment toestimate consumers’ willingness to pay for hydroponic and traditional lettuce bothwith and without organic certification. No hydroponic premium was found, butexposing consumers to different kinds of information about hydroponics signifi-cantly affected consumers’ preference formation. Findings generally suggest that theNational Organic Program should consider ways to ensure the stability of organicpremiums as perceptions about hydroponics evolve
Menon oder Versuch in Gesprächen, die vornehmsten Punkte aus Kants Kritik der praktischen Vernunft zu erläutern / Von Friedrich Wilhelm Daniel Snell, Professor der Philosphie zu Giesen
No full textAutopsie nach Ex. der ULB Sachsen-AnhaltVorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: Mannheim bey Schwan und Götz, 1796.Titelvign. (Kupferst.
The Book of Daniel and manticism: a critical assessment of the view that the Book of Daniel derives from a mantic tradition
No full textThis dissertation examines the consensus view that is based on Hans-Peter
Müller's 1969 and 1972 articles: Daniel was a mantic wise man in the Mesopotamian
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court, and this was the self-understanding or aspiration of the maskilim of Dan 11:33, 35,
12:3, 10, who wrote the book. Chapter 1 reviews the arguments that make the mantic connection and Chapter 2 concludes that a direct connection with the Danes of Aqht, Ezek, and Jub, and with the angel in 1 Enoch should be rejected. There is evidence that the
tradition of a priest in Ezra 8: 2 and Neh 10: 7, and found also in the superscription to
the Old Greek of Bel, and 4 Ezra 12:10-11, and suggested the name.
Chapter 3 concludes that the portrayal of the court diviners in Dan 1-6 is wholly
negative and includes both the diviners, and the essence of the professions, i. e., the
ability to interpret a divine revelation. The critique is conveyed through the story line,
explicit criticisms, irony, and humour. Chapter 4 concludes that Daniel, the interpreter
of dreams and the writing on the wall, is distinguished from every other character and role. In the final form of Dan, Daniel as the divinely assisted each time he interprets, just as when he receives help from an interpreting angel in Dan 7-12.
Chapter 5 demonstrates that the portrayal of Daniel as the divinely assisted
interpreter makes sense of the reinterpretation of old prophecies against the Assyrians
as prophecies against Antiochus IV Epiphanes. Hab 2:2-4 and Isa 52-53 were also
understood as predictions about the maskilim themselves. Comparisons are then made
with the Teacher of Righteousness, the writers of the Hodayot, and with three Essenes
portrayed by Josephus. These too were portrayed as divinely assisted interpreters
Conolophus marthae Gentile & Snell, 2009, new species
No full textConolophus marthae new species Galápagos pink land iguana Figs. 2–5 Holotype. A free-ranging adult male permanently branded with the number 117. A Passive Integrated Transponder (PIT) with the number 091- 601 - 303 was hypodermically inserted in one of the posterior legs. The individual was captured and released approximately four km north of the Equator on the top of Volcan Wolf, Isla Isabela, Galápagos National Park, Ecuador (0.03792 ° N; 91.36324 °W, datum WGS 84, as recorded by a Garmin 12 CX handheld GPS). The individual was captured by A. Jaramillo on June 8 th 2006, blood was drawn by G. Gentile. Photos were shot by G. Gentile. Blood in lysis buffer voucher n. MCZRR 450 (as reported in the Genbank records FJ 716129 and FJ 716130) is hosted in the reptile collection (as specimen n. R 450) of the Civic Museum of Zoology (MCZR, Rome, Italy,). Original photo files, named as “Morphobank_m 27772.jpg” (Figure 2), “Morphobank_m 27773.jpg, Morphobank_m 27774.jpg, M o r p h o b a n k_m 2 7 7 7 5. j p g, M o r p h o b a n k _m 2 7 7 7 6. j p g, M o r p h o b a n k _m 2 7 7 7 7. j p g, a n d Morphobank_m 27778.jpg” (Figures 3 A, 3 B, 3 C, 3 D, 3 E, and 3 F, respectively), and the movie “Morphobank_m 27779.wmv” are included in a project titled as the present paper, hosted in Morphobank (http://www.morphobank.org). Such photos and video form a basis of the description and should be considered also as illustrating the type specimen, for purposes of Article 73.1. 4 of the Code (ICZN, 1999), but see also the paragraph “Notes added in proofs”. All material refers to the same individual (free ranging, with PIT number 091- 601 - 303), elected as Holotype. Diagnosis. Conolophus marthae sp. nov. is distinguished from C. pallidus and C. subcristatus by the following color pattern: pinkish head, pinkish and black (dark) body and legs, with a typical black-striped pattern on the mid to posterior dorsal body; stripes are along the dorsal-ventral axis, may be irregular and their number variable; stripes may join to form a more complex pattern; stripes occur on the ventral body, but are less evident; dark tail. Other distinctive, but slightly variable morphological traits co-occur in males: i) adipose nuchal crest with small or reduced conic scales, ii) poorly elevated (pyramid-shaped) or almost flat dorsal head scales. Conolophus marthae sp. nov. is also distinguished from the other two congeneric species by a distinctive pattern of head-bob behavior (Fig. 6, see Morphobank accession code: p 241). The new species is unequivocally distinguished from C. pallidus and C. subcristatus by the several diagnostic sites in the sequence of the control region and cytochrome b gene of the mtDNA, reported in Table 1, and by a completely different, non overlapping, size-range of alleles at the microsatellite locus CS 7 (Tzika et al., 2008; Gentile et al. 2009). Alleles at locus CS 7 range between 245 and 333 bases (as defined in Gentile et al. 2009). Description of Holotype in life. Sex: Male Age: Adult Weight: 5.0 Kg. Morphological measurements: SVL: 47.0 cm; VTL: 61.4 cm; head length: 78.22 mm; head width: 63.76 mm; internostril distance: 17.89 mm; eye-eye distance: 35.19 mm. Control region 786 465 12 24 795 471 51 25 796 474 69 63 C. subcristatus and C. pallidus G 807 T T A C T C T 492 T A T C T G C 75 A G A C G G T C 85 T C. marthae sp. nov. C 814 C A T T G T C 498 A G C T A A A 117 G A C T A A C T 92 C 831 525 135 93 847 528 147 167 Cytochrome b 867 536 171 168 868 547 207 179 873 550 249 198 C. subcristatus C 889 C C C C C C C 553 C C A T T T C 255 A A A G C C T 204 C G C. pallidus. 890....... 561....... 267....... 205.. C. marthae sp. nov. T 891 T T T T T T T 573 A T C C C C T 291 G T T A T T C 247 T A 914 600 295 318 948 633 315 335 967 666 321 338 1014 683 363 508 C. subcristatus C Y R T C C C T G A C C T C T C T A A G T T G A 1053 693 369 509 C. pallidus. T G..................... 1059 700 372 512 C. marthae sp. nov. T G C C T T T C A G A T C T C A C G G C C C A C 1062 702 408 651 1068 706 411 696 1071 721 417 834 1081 723 426 850 1087 747 463 1098 C. subcristatus A T T C C C T C C T C T C C T G C G C A T A G C C. pallidus.... A................... C. marthae sp. nov. G C C T T T C T T C T C T G C A T A T G C G T A Meristic characteristics: N. supralabial scales: 7 (left side) and 9 (right side); n. infralabial scales: 10 (left side) and 9 (right side); n. scales around the parietal scale: 8; n. scales around the mental scale: 9; n. scales around the rostral scale: 8; n. scales along the middle-dorsal line: 17; n. scales around the inguinal scar: 46. Number of femoral pores: 19 (left leg) and 18 (right leg). Morphological characteristics: Snout elongated, not shortened. Tympanum taller than wide. Scales flat or almost flat above the tympanum, in the post-orbital region. Slightly more elevated pyramid-shaped scales occur in the dorsal head. Nuchal crest pronounced, adipose, with small conic scales which are reduced or almost flat along the ridge of the anterior half of the crest. Conic scales are more prominent, but not spinose, along the ridge of the posterior half. Dorsal crest less developed, with small conic scales along the ridge. Caudal crest poorly developed. Round-cross-section tail, not laterally compressed. Fingers of fore and hind legs with short claws, not recurved. Coloration: pinkish head, pinkish and black (dark) body and legs, with a black-striped pattern on the mid to posterior dorsal body. On both sides, five vertical black stripes occur between forelimb and hind limb, along the dorsal-ventral axis. The first stripe is interrupted. Stripes 2–5 are joined horizontally, describing a complex pattern. Stripes are present but less evident on the ventral body. Dark tail. Behavioral characteristics: The head-bob display (nodding behavior) consists of repeated modules. Each module comprises three series of multiple head movements (“ups and downs”; Fig. 6 a–c) and is completely executed within a time interval of 4–5 seconds. Frequency of movements performed in each series is high, with 4 to 6 movements per second. Two sub-series, separated by a few deciseconds, may be recognized within series 2. A fourth, additional series, similar to series 3, may be observed occasionally (Fig. 6 d). Etymology. The new species is named in memory of Martha Rebecca Gentile, second daughter of the first author. Martha prematurely left this world. She was born dead, as consequence of a medical doctor’s negligence, on August 20 th 2003. Distribution. Thus far, this species is known to occur only on Volcan Wolf (Fig. 1), the northernmost volcano of Isla Isabela (Galápagos National Park, Ecuador). Remarks. The new species is easily distinguished from the other two congeneric species. The color pattern is typical of the new species and was never observed in any of the populations of the other two named species. The origin and the nature of the pink pigmentation deserve further investigation. Nevertheless, it is instructive to note that when we surgically removed one pink scale, blood flowed out of the tissue of the removed scale, which immediately lost its pink color. Traits i) and ii) in the diagnosis are more evident in males, whereas they are variable and generally less pronounced in females. Although in the Plaza Sur population of C. subcristatus almost flat dorsal head scales may be observed, such a trait never co-occurs in combination with the other traits characteristic of C. marthae sp. nov. Although the “head-bob” pattern is slightly different between C. subcristatus populations in different islands (Gentile, unpublished data), the nodding behavior of C. marthae sp. nov. is very distinctive and characteristic. This is particularly relevant since it is exhibited in sympatry (syntopy) with C. subcristatus. None of the other species of land iguanas or any marine iguanas show a similar pattern (see Carpenter, 1982, for a comparison). Conolophus marthae sp. nov. is distinct from the other two congeners by about 7 % mtDNA genetic divergence, much higher than genetic divergence between C. pallidus and C. subcristatus (less than 2 %, Gentile et al. 2009). Twenty-four nucleotide sites of the control region and seventy-two nucleotide sites in cyt b gene sequences are diagnostically different and allow distinguishing between the new species and the other congeneric ones. The deep divergence is estimated to have started in a period when the Galápagos did not have their current configuration (Gentile et al. 2009). The absence of alleles shared with the other two species at the microsatellite locus CS 7 and the presence of several private alleles at other loci (Tzika et al., 2008; Gentile et al., 2009) indicate genetic isolation, even with the syntopic population of C. subcristatus. Occasional hybridization between marine (Amblyrhynchus cristatus Bell, 1825) and land iguanas (C. subcristatus) may still occur on Isla Plaza Sur, generating a black, brow-striped F 1 hybrid (Rassmann et al., 1997). Conolophus marthae sp. nov. lacks in any of the adaptive traits exhibited by marine iguanas (shortened snout; laterally compressed tail; developed caudal crest; long, recurved claws) and genetic data (Gentile et al. 2009) provide strong evidence that C. marthae sp. nov. did not originate by hybridization between marine and land (yellow) iguanas. A total of 120 individuals of Conolophus marthae sp. nov. were observed and sampled in three field trips, in 2005, 2006, and 2009 (see the paragraph “Notes added in proofs”). Besides the taxonomic implications, C. marthae sp. nov. is very important as it is the only evidence of deep divergence within the Galápagos land iguana lineage. In fact, the new species carries an ancient evolutionary legacy, being the only remnant of a lineage originated when the Galápagos archipelago did not have its present configuration. Conolophus marthae sp. nov. is a narrow endemism and its population size is small. Its inclusion in the Red List of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as "critically endangered" has been recommended (Gentile et al. 2009).Published as part of Gentile, Gabriele & Snell, Howard, 2009, Conolophus marthae sp. nov. (Squamata, Iguanidae), a new species of land iguana from the Galápagos archipelago, pp. 1-10 in Zootaxa 2201 on pages 2-8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18962
The Incidence and Cost of Job Loss in a Transition Economy: Displaced Workers in Estonia, 1989-1999
No full textWe examine the pattern and costs of worker displacement in one of the more reform- oriented transition countries, Estonia, as the transition process develops. Using Labour Force Survey data covering the period 1989-1999, we show that after the initial shock, displacement rates in Estonia have fallen back to levels observed in several western economies, as the economy picks up. The incidence of displacement is also similar to that in the West – concentrated on the less skilled and those with short job tenure. Roughly half of those displaced find re-employment within two months while the other half lingers on in the state of non-employment. There is less evidence however of a wage penalty to job loss, unlike in some Western countries, a fact one might attribute more to the nature of the transition process than to wage setting institutions in Estonia. The main cost of displacement is then the income loss due to non-employment, which is severe for a minority of workers who experience long-term non-employment.Displaced workers, labour markets in transition
Multidimensional sexual perfectionism
No full textPerfectionism is a multidimensional personality characteristic that can affect all areas of life. This article presents the first systematic investigation of multidimensional perfectionism in the domain of sexuality exploring the unique relationships that different forms of sexual perfectionism show with positive and negative aspects of sexuality. A sample of 272 university students (52 male, 220 female) completed measures of four forms of sexual perfectionism: self-oriented, partner-oriented, partner-prescribed, and socially prescribed. In addition, they completed measures of sexual esteem, sexual self-efficacy, sexual optimism, sex life satisfaction (capturing positive aspects of sexuality) and sexual problem self-blame, sexual anxiety, sexual depression, and negative sexual perfectionism cognitions during sex (capturing negative aspects). Results showed unique patterns of relationships for the four forms of sexual perfectionism, suggesting that partner-prescribed and socially prescribed sexual perfectionism are maladaptive forms of sexual perfectionism associated with negative aspects of sexuality whereas self-oriented and partner-oriented sexual perfectionism emerged as ambivalent forms associated with positive and negative aspects
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