Prayers for Lent and Holy Week

Context and violence in individual prayers for protection'

The individual prayers fo r protection within the Psalter are marked by a consistency in terms o f the context supposed and the nature o f violence experienced by the psalmists. Consistently, these psalms also assert that the right to retributive violence against the enemies belongs to Yahweh alone. Such a consistent pattern indicates that those responsible fo r assembling the Book o f Psalms i...

Herman Lent, scientist and citizen--II.

Brazil and Science lost a unique figure on July 7, 2004, when Herman Lent died, at 93 years of age. Herman Lent was Emeritus Researcher of the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, recipient of the Order of Scientific Merit in the category of Grã-Cruz in 2002, Member ofAcademia Brasileira de Ciências (Brazilian Academy of Sciences) and Lecturer and Researcher level 1A of Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento C...

Chaotic extensions and the lent particle method for Brownian motion

Abstract: In previous works, we have developed a new Malliavin calculus on the Poisson space based on the lent particle formula. The aim of this work is to prove that, on the Wiener space for the standard Ornstein-Uhlenbeck structure, we also have such a formula which permits to calculate easily and intuitively the Malliavin derivative of a functional. Our approach uses chaos extensions associa...

lENT ALIENATION: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY

Holy springs and holy water: underestimated sources of illness?

Use of holy springs and holy water is inherent in religious activities. Holy spring water is also used extensively for personal drinking water, although not assessed according to drinking water standards. Holy water in churches and chapels may cause infections via wetting of lips and sprinkling on persons. Our aim was to assess the microbiological and chemical water quality of holy springs and ...