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Essence and accident: Byzantine portraiture and Aristotelian philosophy

open access: yesByzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 2022
The presentation of portraits of emperors and saints in Byzantine art can be compared to theories of physiognomy and logic put forward by Aristotle and his Byzantine followers. Similar observations have been made about the portal sculptures of High Gothic cathedrals, but although the ordering of images in the two cases reflected similar patterns of ...
H. Maguire
openaire   +2 more sources

Afro-Brazilian Religions and the Prospects for a Philosophy of Religious Practice

open access: yesReligions, 2023
In this paper, we take our cue from Kevin Schilbrack’s admonishment that the philosophy of religion needs to take religious practices seriously as an object of investigation.
José Eduardo Porcher, Fernando Carlucci
doaj   +2 more sources

Post-traumatic growth in caregivers of children hospitalized in the PICU due to traffic accident: a qualitative study

open access: yesBMC Nursing, 2023
Background Globally, tens of millions of children are hospitalized every year for non-fatal traffic accident injuries, being confronted with an injured child can be extremely stressful for parents.
Zhi Hong Ni   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Lessons learnt from horse-related human fatalities: Accident analysis using HFACS-Equestrianism

open access: yesHeliyon
Equestrianism has an opportunity to learn lessons relating to safer human-horse interactions from those who no longer have a voice, by drawing data from the investigation of horse-related human fatalities and participating in accident analysis.
Meredith Chapman   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

HPR1000: Advanced Pressurized Water Reactor with Active and Passive Safety

open access: yesEngineering, 2016
HPR1000 is an advanced nuclear power plant (NPP) with the significant feature of an active and passive safety design philosophy, developed by the China National Nuclear Corporation.
Ji Xing, Daiyong Song, Yuxiang Wu
doaj   +2 more sources

The deconstruction of the Israeli state

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science
This 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Accident Causation Models: The Good the Bad and the Ugly

open access: yesEngineering Studies, 2023
The main aim of this paper is to evaluate the evolution of Accident Causation Models (ACMs) from the perspective of philosophy of science. I use insights from philosophy of science to provide an epistemological analysis of the ways in which engineering ...
Kristian González Barman
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How Will Autonomous Vehicles Decide in Case of an Accident? An Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Best–Worst Method for Weighting the Criteria from Moral Values Point of View

open access: yesSustainability, 2023
The number of studies on Autonomous Vehicle (AV) ethics discussing decision-making algorithms has increased rapidly, especially since 2017. Many of these studies handle AV ethics through the eye of the trolley problem regarding various moral values ...
B. Altay   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Philosophy and Meanings of the Information Entropy Analysis of Road Safety: Case Study of Russian Cities

open access: yesInf., 2023
This article is devoted to the study of the entropic orderliness of road safety systems of various dimensionalities. The author’s methodology for quantitative assessment of the quality of the road safety systems is based on the use of information entropy
A. Petrov
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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