Towards an Ethics of Distance: Representation, Free Production and Virtuality [PDF]
, 2016 This article takes it inspiration from a crisis between Deleuzian free production and representation in contemporary virtual and digital culture.
McCaffrey, E
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Adaptive Twisting Metamaterials
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This work introduces torque‐controlled twisting metamaterials as a transformative platform for adaptive crashworthiness. By combining multiscale predictive modeling with experimental validation on additively manufactured gyroids, it demonstrates tunable stiffness, collapse stress, and energy absorption.
Mattia Utzeri +6 more
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THE FIRST LATVIAN PHILOSOPHER JĒKABS OSIS AND THE SEARCH FOR SUBSTANCE; pp. 95–108 [PDF]
Trames, 2015 JÄkabs Osis (1860â1920) is the first academically educated Latvian philosopher and one of the founders of the University of Latvia. However, Osis never worked there.
Andris Hiršs
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Rewriting Polymer Fate via Chemomechanical Coupling
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This work introduces a life‐like “living” polymer platform that can grow, degrow, and reprogram its properties after fabrication. By integrating mass transport, reversible polymerization, and controlled catalysis, the material achieves on‐demand changes in size, shape, and mechanical properties.
Jiahe Huang +9 more
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Practices and normativity: Philosophy of Science, Agency and Epistemic Normativity
Cuadernos de Filosofía LatinoamericanaThe present work aims to present the notion of eidetic agency as a novel account for the understanding of an epistemic normativity based on practices.
Miguel Fonseca Martínez
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Anti-Trafficking Review, 2018 In the context of recent large-scale migratory flows from North Africa to the European Union, significant convergence and overlap has been observed between human trafficking and migrant smuggling, and between ‘economic’ and ‘forced’ migration. This paper
Giorgia Serughetti
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Consciousness, Naturalism, and Human Flourishing [PDF]
, 2019 This chapter pursues the question of naturalism in the context of non-Western philosophical contributions to ethics and philosophy of mind: First, what conception of naturalism, if any, is best suited to capture the scope of Buddhist Reductionism? Second,
Coseru, Christian
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Impact of Paper Substrates and Storage Conditions on the Stability of Blood Grouping Assays
Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.Four paper‐based blood grouping assays are constructed from cellulose and nitrocellulose, with vertical and lateral flow formats. The optimal storage conditions are determined based on temperature, antibody storage buffer composition, and antibody dilution.
Laura Marcela Rey Gomez +4 more
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Organisational scapegoats and hierarchical constraints : a critical discourse analysis of inter-agency collaboration within New Zealand's public sector : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy (Humanities and Social Sciences) in Defence and Security Studies at Massey University, Manawatu , New Zealand [PDF]
, 2015 The legacy of the 2000s whole-of-government reform agenda promotes that public sector agencies work across the sector, encouraging an inter-agency collaborative approach to resolve the so called ‘wicked problems’ facing New Zealand.
Butler, Rachel
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The life of Metis: cunning maternal interventions [PDF]
, 2009 This paper charts the different and co-existent uses of the Greek myth and concept of Metis for feminist philosophy. I show how the move from using the myth of Metis to an engagement with the marginalised ancient Greek concept of cunning intelligence ...
Jacobs, Amber
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