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Nonfamily Abducted Children: National Estimates and Characteristics. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Presents national estimates of children abducted by nonfamily perpetrators, based on surveys of households and law enforcement agencies. The Bulletin, which is part of a series summarizing findings from the Second National Incidence Studies of Missing ...
Finkelhor, David   +2 more
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An Analysis of the Achille Lauro Affair: Towards an Effective and Legal Method of Bringing International Terrorists to Justice [PDF]

open access: yes, 1985
This Note will propose five steps towards establishing an effective method of bringing terrorists to justice. Part I of this Note will detail the facts surrounding the Achille Lauro incident. Part II will discuss the laws governing extradition, including
Liput, Andrew L.
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From Deduction to Abduction: Constructing a Coding Frame for Communist Secret Police Documents

open access: yesForum: Qualitative Social Research, 2019
In this shop floor report I explore the process of constructing and reconstructing a coding frame for qualitative content analysis. Drawing on my research experience with the archives of the communist secret police, I highlight the advantages of ...
Dominik Želinský
doaj   +1 more source

Abductive Logic of Inquiry for Quantitative Research in the Digital Age

open access: yesSociological Science, 2021
We propose an abductive logic of scientific inference for quantitative research. The advent of computational sociology has exposed the limitations of a deductive logic of inquiry for quantitative researchers due to a lack of traditional sociological ...
Philipp Brandt, Stefan Timmermans
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Abduction and Dialogical Proof in Argumentation and Logic Programming [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
We develop a model of abduction in abstract argumentation, where changes to an argumentation framework act as hypotheses to explain the support of an observation. We present dialogical proof theories for the main decision problems (i.e., finding hypothe-
Booth, Richard   +4 more
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Sobre o conhecimento que a arte é

open access: yesMatLit, 2015
This article aims to rethink the theory of contemporary art in the light of scientific concepts, establishing a possible structural correspondence between artistic invention and scientific invention. But it also aims to draw attention to the necessity of
Castro, E. M. de Melo e
doaj   +1 more source

Meta-analysis: a tool for constructing theories or evaluating interventions or simply proving everyday assumptions?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
After a brief consideration of the development of meta-analyses as a joint discussion of results from a research area across development stages 0, 1, 2, it is concluded that the present form 2.0 is unsuitable to serve as a basis for theory building ...
Erich H. Witte, Ivo Ponocny
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Naturalism and wonder: Peirce on the logic of Hume’s argument against miracles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
How should we proceed when confronted with a phenomenon (or evidence which points towards a phenomenon) which baffles us? The term "miracle" is a convenient term on which to hang this question.
Legg, Catherine
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Languaging psychopathology: neurobiology and metaphor

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry
Explanatory models of the mind inform our working assumptions about mental illness with direct implications for clinical practice. Neurobiological models assert that the mind can be understood in terms of genetics, chemistry, and neuronal circuits ...
Adnan Syed   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pour une reconception de l’argumentation à la lumière de la dimension argumentative des discours

open access: yesArgumentation et Analyse du Discours, 2018
The paper tries to explain the limited theoretical response to the notion of argumentative dimension (or indirect or oblique argumentation) as opposed to argumentative aim (or direct argumentation).
Alain Rabatel
doaj   +1 more source

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