animals birds and humans

... sentencing of humans to the beasts – damnatio ad bestias – was a punishment for severe crimes and not open to pardon (Ville 1981: 235–40).1 It implied being killed by animals in the arena and was amost ... Consequently, the theme of thischapter is not only the function and value of animals in the Acts of theMartyrs, i.e how real animals are described and more fanciful beasts aresymbolically invented, but ... Tertullian lumps together “the mercilesssword, and the lofty cross, and the rage of wild beasts, and that punishment of the flames, of all most terrible, and all the skill of the executioners in torture”...

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 10:20

... thoughts and a multitude of emotions, animals become natural symbols and such stuff asmyths are made of The relationship between animals and humans is a relationship betweenone species and a tremendous ... complex (Midgley 1988).How kinship and otherness, closeness and distance between humans andanimals are experienced and expressed varies in different types of discourse,and different cultural interpretations ... animal In religions, animals appear as the third party in the interaction betweengods and human beings, often as mediators In this trinity, animals andhumans share a flesh-and-blood reality, while...

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... viewed the linkbetween animals and humans as being closer than others did Animals andhumans in some instances have similar functions and roles One example isthat of animals and children, who are ... real animals, animals offlesh and blood It will give an overview of their function and use in theRoman Empire We will proceed from surveying types of relation betweenanimals and humans and the ... humans and animals Humans cooked androasted meat and did not, like other meat-eating species, eat it raw, a pointmade by Lévi-Strauss and refined in relation to Greek religion by M.Detienne and...

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 10:20

... according to which humans could be reborn as animals and animals as humans (Haussleiter 1935: 79–163). Orpheus felt that humans and animals were basically the same and that killing animals was murder. ... skills between hunters and fishermen, between land animals and sea animals, but also between fish and fishermen, and between land animals and hunters (965F–966B, 975D, 976D–E) However, ... to perform, and they can serve humans. Both tame and wild animals may be trained, according to Alexander. The longest part of Alexander’s exposition is about the virtues and vices of animals. His...

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 10:20

... tendency in Pliny and Aelian conveys the message that animals Trang 10are sometimes and on some points better than humans, and that humans can learn lessons from animals about how to live and behave ... a unity of soul between humans and animals but could just as well be a means of showing the difference between them and making humans distance themselves from animals and move closer to the gods ... love and friendship between animals and humans, the dividing line between the categories is transcended in an important way In the natural histories, animals are both modelled on humans and in...

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 10:20

... (metenso-matosis). Fantasies about animals and humans had their outlet in art, as well as in narratives and literature One prominent theme is transformation between animals and humans A transformation could ... transformation focus in singular ways on similarities and differences between animals and humans, on essences and changes, on permanence and flux Gods changing into animal shapes had been a popular ... more fundamental division between animals and humans than between humans and gods, which is in accordance with a general tendency in people’s thinking concerning animals in these centuries Trang...

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 10:20

... great variety of animalsand their roles and functions, and the difference between real animals andimages of animals In the following section, various interpretations of therole of animals will be ... of division between humans and animals that the Israelites did, forexample, and that the distinction between humans and animals was moreblurred in Egypt (Hornung 1967: 69) Humans simply did not ... from the myriads ofembalmed birds Patric F Houlihan has pointed out that animals that werefarmed and mummified were regarded as intermediaries between gods andhumans, and that the mummies were...

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... sacrifice the horse and many other animals too,both wild and domesticated, and as the Greeks and the Romans toosacrifice dogs to Hecate And among other nations also many otheranimals are offered ... sacrifices and divinatory practices based on slaughteredanimals bestow on animals? It is safe to say that in sacrifices and divinationsbased on sacrifices, animals were treated as objects and were ... inequalitybetween animals and humans The agricultural view of animals In contemporary research, there have been several attempts to determine themeaning and function of Greek and Roman sacrifices...

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 10:20

... animals and humans on a par with each other He points to the larities in the physical equipment of humans and animals, he compares thekilling of sacrificial animals with the killing of humans, and ... beings (oikeiosis) (1.4.2) and that there is a relationship between animals and humans(2.22.1–2) On the other hand, central to Porphyry’s deliberations concerninganimals and their status was the ... animals, and white birds hunted out by land and sea” (The History, 22.12.6) Ammianus adds that the emperor’s soldiers “gorged themselves on the abundance of meat” andbecause of their eating and...

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 10:20

... separation between wild animalsand domestic animals, and while some animals such as deer and gazelleswere conceived of as a form of “honorary cattle”, domestic animals such asdogs and pigs were associated ... man and animals.None of the animals is Adam’s partner, and only man was made in theimage of God:So out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the fieldand every bird of the air, and ... 1Judaism and ChristianityThere was no single Christian view of animals in antiquity, and no singleview of animals in the New Testament None of the New Testament textsmake animals a special issue, and...

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2014, 10:20

... important with regard to the dose In Hiroshima and Nagasaki iron was used and a heavier metal in the nose and tail This would slow down some of the neutrons and absorb some of the γ-radiation Some years ... steps and products that are involved in carcinogensis To date, an understanding of these mechanisms is just beginning to emerge It is, however, an interesting and active research field and there ... killing effect dominates for both cells and animals In the lower curve, the results are given for an experiment in which a group of mice were exposed and the formation of cancer in the ovaries...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:23

... (2004) Hanahan and Weinberg Hallmarks P Carmeliet and R K Jain Angiogenesis in cancer and other diseases Nature, 407: 249257 (2001) A F Chambers, A C Groom and I C MacDonald Dissemination and growth ... they behave, their working conditions, viruses and bacteria, and natural and artificial radiation and chemicals, (see statements C and E).20 These are usually called “environmental” risk factors ... aliens Only a few percent of the landed cells succeed to divide and form microscopic colonies And only one in a hundred of these succeeds to recruit new blood vassals and grows into a metastatic tumor...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 01:20

... for and trial designs will enable testing of multiple drugs specific trials; and monitor responses to therapy at once, and provide more meaningful insight into what does and doesn’t work, and ... pathology and epidemiology to develop more comprehensive standards and guidelines for biospecimen collection, storage and analysis This work will build on successful molecular markers meetings and ... community and appropriate regulatory authorities (e.g., NCI, FDA and the HHS Office for Human Research Protections and Office for Civil Rights) to generate consensus on and support standards for...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 21:20

... validation studies; advanced informatics and information flow; standardization of reagents and assays and data reporting; and creation of standard statistical and computational tools (see Part II) ... University of Maryland (UM) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) The BRLs are important resources for technology development, standardization of biomarkers and the refinement ... breast and gynecologic cancers, gastrointestinal and other associated cancers, lung and upper aerodigestive cancers and prostate and urologic cancers, each have biomarkers in prevalidation and validation...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 21:20

... cisplatin, and we discovered and developed carboplatin Cisplatin and carboplatin have been two of the most successful anti-cancer agents ever developed, and are currently used to treat ovarian, lung and ... Institutes and Centres • Continue to invest in and foster national and international collaborations to deliver the best research - Consider current and potential connections with the pharmaceutical and ... analysis and publication of high-quality cancer outcome information and explore the many opportunities this rich data gives for enhancing patient choice and improving cancer services Our brand and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... and degradation Activation of ATM and ATR kinases- prevents mitosis in response to DNA damage via phosphorylation of chk1 and -2 and cdc25c This causes inactivation of cyclin B/CDK1 complex and ... mortality, ages 1–14, by sex and age group, in England and Wales 2000–2002 Percentages Males 1–4 years Females 5–14 years 1–4 years 5–14 years Infections Cancers Nervous system and sense organs Circulatory ... nearest whole number) Country Males Females Total 148 16 172 119 129 267 25 301 England and Wales Scotland N Ireland UK Taken from Cancer Research UK statistics available at http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerstats/...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... 2.4 pmol/L d stands for deci; m stands for milli; stands for micro; n stands for nano; p stands for pico; and f stands for femto Abbreviations for measure of risk in epidemiological and clinical ... cancer and all-cause mortality 92 13 Meta-analysis of observational studies on vitamin D levels and colorectal, breast and prostate cancer and colorectal adenoma 100 14 Randomised ... individuals vitamin D status) and the risk of colorectal, breast and prostate cancers and of colorectal adenomas Much of the data suggesting a link between vitamin D status and cancer have been derived...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... guide for the Care and Use of laboratory Animals, animal facilities must be designed considering several factors: in particular, the species, strains, and breed of animals and the goals of the ... microscope and a light emitting source such as lasers; the most commonly used lasers include argon-ion with usable power at 257, 477, and 514 nm and helium neon lasers with usable power at 534, 567, and ... pathology laboratory relying on standard optical microscopes The assessment of FISH and CISH performances in cancer research and diagnosis is beyond the scope of this article and is described in several...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... (SIMAC) and Zirconium dioxide (ZrO2) TiO and IMAC are capable of binding negatively charged phosphate groups from aqueous solutions Simple and complex samples containing phosphopeptides and non-phosphorylated ... precipitation (CPP), Strong cation and anion exchange (SCX and SAX) and Hydrophilic interaction chromatography (HILIC) CPP consists of a pre-fractionation step in order to simplify and enrich phosphopeptides ... solid-support, and a negatively charged analyte is attracted to a positively charged solid-support during SCX and SAX operations respectively SCX and SAX has been successfully combined with IMAC and resulted...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... the publishing and archiving practice of research results by considering the authors’ and research institutions’ perspectives Legal and economic issues concerning the production and dissemination ... “Metadata allow us to describe and classify research information in a systematic way, and as such they are indispensable for searching and finding academic publications and other results of research.” ... US) for archiving e-prints and other kinds of academic content It preserves and enables easy and open access to all types of digital content including text, images and data sets The primary goals...

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