Conversational AI Agents: The Effect of Process and Outcome Variation on Anthropomorphism and Trust
Information Systems Journal, Volume 36, Issue 4, Page 597-623, July 2026.ABSTRACT Organisations increasingly deploy conversational AI agents (CAs) in agentic roles where behavioural variations are inevitable. Prior work often conflates two distinct forms of variation: outcome variation (where success fluctuates) and process variation (where the path to completion varies).
Kambiz Saffarizadeh, Mark Keil
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Planetary health ethics: A Confucian alternative. [PDF]
J Clim Chang HealthIp EC.
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“That We May Love the As Yet Unknown God”: The Meaning of Analogy in Augustine’s De Trinitate
Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 708-729, July 2026.Abstract Recent interest in the idea of analogy and the analogy of being, along with the apparent invocation of Augustine’s De Trinitate in the definition of Lateran IV, calls for a renewed investigation into the idea of analogy in the aforementioned text. Methodologically, “analogy” in De Trin. names a form of discourse which attempts to see the truth
Samuel J. Korb
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Using (disruptive) eco-visualization to re-connect humans to nature: results from workshops with youth and adults. [PDF]
Front PsycholLöfström E, Santandrea C, Hellevik CC.
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La Espiritualidad: Transmitting Peruvian Culturo‐Spiritual Elements into Occidental Systemic Spaces
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, Volume 47, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT This paper is a decolonising, Indigenous qualitative inquiry that integrates elements of critical autoethnography, narrative methods and conceptual analysis to explore how Peruvian Andean cosmology can inform contemporary systems thinking and family therapy practice.
Deisy Amorin‐Woods
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Health & nature: a critical review of historical perspectives to support narratives for change. [PDF]
Int J Equity HealthAmengual-Moreno M +6 more
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Rethinking One Health: Microbial Foundations for Ecological Governance
BioEssays, Volume 48, Issue 6, June 2026.One Health (OH) frameworks often approach health through bounded events and discrete risks. Ecological microbial foundations reposition microorganisms as constitutive elements of OH. Microbial metrics help trace ecological trajectories, disruptions, and recovery dynamics, providing process‐based indicators of ecosystem change.
Andrea Fernandez Diaz +4 more
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From paradigm blindness to paradigm shift? An integrative review and critical analysis of the regenerative paradigm. [PDF]
AmbioTaveras-Dalmau V, Becken S, Westoby R.
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Injuries in deep time: interpreting competitive behaviours in extinct reptiles via palaeopathology
Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 3, Page 1073-1090, June 2026.ABSTRACT For over a century, palaeopathology has been used as a tool for understanding evolution, disease in past communities and populations, and to interpret behaviour of extinct taxa. Physical traumas in particular have frequently been the justification for interpretations about aggressive and even competitive behaviours in extinct taxa.
Maximilian Scott +3 more
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Beyond Anthropocentrism: The Moral and Strategic Philosophy behind Russell and Burch's 3Rs in Animal Experimentation. [PDF]
Sci Eng EthicsMüller ND.
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