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“I'm a Good Guy Who Deserves Better, Yet Nobody Wants to Give me Better”: The Accounts of Nice Guys
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Within Western popular culture and online discourse, a “Nice Guy” is someone who enacts niceness for which they believe they are owed, deserving of, or entitled to something in return—especially the romantic or sexual attention of women. In this study, we examine the use of accounts in personal narratives told in an anonymous online discussion forum ...
Brooke Weinmann, Dennis D. Waskul
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Islamic Philosophy in Contemporary Iran [PDF]
حکمت اسرا, 2009 History bears witness to the fact that Islamic Iran was always a cradle for wisdom and philosophical thought. The great sages and mystics of this land—from FÁrÁbÐ to Ibn SÐnÁ, MawlÁnÁ RÙmÐ to SuhrawardÐ, and Sayyid Íaydar ÀmulÐ to MullÁ ÑadrÁ—are known ...
Muhammad Fanaie Ishkawari
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Optimising Wave Energy Plant Location Through Neutrosophic Multi‐Criteria Group Decision‐Making
CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The global shift towards sustainable energy has intensified research into renewable sources, particularly wave energy. Pakistan, with its long coastline, holds significant potential for wave energy development. However, identifying optimal locations for wave energy plants involves evaluating complex, multi‐faceted criteria.
Hafiz Muhammad Athar Farid +4 more
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Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
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Constellations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The paper compares Hartmut Rosa's resonance theory of “the good life” and Daniel Haybron's psychic affirmation theory of “happiness,” which he differentiates, as a descriptive notion, from “well‐being” as an evaluative notion. Haybron suggests that a central determinant of happiness has to be the somewhat reliable occurrence of positive ...
Ole Höffken
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NASA Standard for Models and Simulations: Philosophy and Requirements Overview [PDF]
, 2009 Following the Columbia Accident Investigation Board report, the NASA Administrator chartered an executive team (known as the Diaz Team) to identify those CAIB report elements with NASA-wide applicability and to develop corrective measures to address each
Blattnig, St3eve R. +5 more
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The deconstruction of the Israeli state
Frontiers in Political ScienceThis paper argues that the core of Israeli crisis of democracy has been an attack of the Israeli government on the state. That is, the current Israeli government has been transforming the regime and undermining its liberal characters by dismantling the ...
Doron Navot, Yair Goldshmidt
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The Vindication of a National Public Policy Under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act [PDF]
, 1953 Vi går mot en tid med fler och fler bonusfamiljer, där halvsyskon och bonusbarn är något vanligt och ibland förväntat. Att det ska vara svårt och kräver en del jobb är nog de flesta medvetna om, men hur blir det med kärleken mellan parterna som en gång ...
Griffith, Melvin L.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the ‘edges’ of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and ...
Jennifer Cearns
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SEMANTICS OF THE FAN IN WILDE’S PLAYS
Филологический класс, 2016 The article discusses the importance of the image of the fan in Oscar Wilde’s plays. The review of foreign and national research on comedies allows to speak about a philosophical component of Wilde’s plays that still remains insufficiently studied.
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