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Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 2, Page 911-925, April 2026.ABSTRACT Three categories of explanations exist for why we age: mechanistic theories, which omit reference to evolutionary forces; weakening force of selection theories, which posit that barriers exist that prevent evolutionary forces from optimising fitness in ageing; and optimisation theories, which posit that evolutionary forces actually select for ...
Michael S. Ringel
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Tā Te Tamariki Mahi, he wāwāhi Tahā: Gamifying Māori Data Sovereignty
Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 56, Issue 2, April 2026.The concept and implementation of Māori Data Sovereignty (MDS) into education environments have grown in salience and importance over the last decade. However, as a concept, it is difficult to understand. One way to address the communication of difficult concepts in education environments is through gamification.
Sequoia Short (Ngāti Maniapoto +5 more
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Binary synthesis: Goethe's aesthetic intuition in literature and science [PDF]
, 2005 Argument This essay seeks to identify the cultural significance of Goethe's scientific writings. He reformulates, in the light of his own concrete experience, “crucial turning-points” (Hauptmomente) in the history of science – key ideas, the ...
Stephenson, R.
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On Nietzsche’s Criticism Towards Common Sense Realism in Human, All Too Human I, 11 [PDF]
, 2017 The paper explores Nietzsche's observations on language in Human, All Too Human I, 11; reflects on the anti-realist position that Nietzsche defends in that aphorism; and focuses on the role she plays in his later investigation on Western culture and its ...
Gori, Pietro
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‘Clinging Together Against the Dark’: A Pragmatist Reading of Sustainability Conversations
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 35, Issue 2, Page 744-763, April 2026.ABSTRACT In this paper, we present a typology of managers' interpretations of sustainability as ‘narrative fields’ derived from a qualitative multi‐site study and offer a Pragmatist reading of the results. Pragmatism is grounded in an ethic of meliorism, the belief in the possibility of gradually improving the world through human effort and ...
Barry A. Colbert, Elizabeth C. Kurucz
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THE EARLIEST PRINTED COLLECTION OF PERSIAN PROVERBS
Proverbium, 2012 Some proverb bibliographies mention Proverbiorum Et Sententiarum Persicarvm Centuria, A Hundred Persian Proverbs and Aphorism, compiled by Levin Warner and published in 1644 in Leiden.
Tea Shurgaia
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Being, doing, and play: A theoretical and clinical exploration
, 2017 This paper explores the metonymy of the following aphorism, delivered by Winnicott in a 1967 lecture: “From being comes doing, but there can be no do before be.” (1970, p. 25, emphasis in original).
Haskell, Nathan A.
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Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 295-319, April 2026.ABSTRACT We examine the sectoral impact of Western sanctions on Russian corporate performance from 2014 to 2021 using a panel of listed nonfinancial firms. Applying continuous‐time heterogeneous treatment models and difference‐in‐differences estimators, we document persistent divergence across sectors: The energy sector exhibits sustained ...
Eugene Nivorozhkin
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Beckett, Adorno, and the Hope for Nothingness as Something: Meditations on Theology in the Age of Its Impossibility [PDF]
, 2018 This article discusses the theological implications of Adorno’s writings on Beckett by specifically examining their constellative motifs of death, reconciliation and redemption. It addresses not only their content but also their form,
Nosthoff, Anna-Verena
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