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Ben Dorain: An Ecopoetic Translation
Humanities, 2019 In this article, I reflect on my own practice in translating Duncan Bàn Macintyre’s eighteenth-century Gaelic poem, Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain, into a twenty-first century ‘ecopoem’. Macintyre’s Moladh Beinn Dóbhrain has
Garry MacKenzie
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A “Strong” Approach to Sustainability Literacy: Embodied Ecology and Media
Philosophies, 2021 This article outlines a “strong” theoretical approach to sustainability literacy, building on an earlier definition of strong and weak environmental literacy (Stables and Bishop 2001).
Cary Campbell +2 more
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The landscape is a trap: Duck decoys as multispecies atmospheres of deception and betrayal
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 49, Issue 3, September 2024.Short Abstract Duck decoys are trapping devices set in a broader landscape designed to catch ducks. This is done through complex but ambiguous relationships of deception and betrayal involving ducks, dogs and decoymen. The ambiguity of duck decoys continues in new ways, as they are either used to monitor waterfowl biodiversity or preserved as heritage.
Eugenie van Heijgen +2 more
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Music as Environment: An Ecological and Biosemiotic Approach
Behavioral Sciences, 2014 This paper provides an attempt to conceive of music in terms of a sounding environment. Starting from a definition of music as a collection of vibrational events, it introduces the distinction between discrete-symbolic representations as against analog-
Mark Reybrouck
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Natural languages and RNA virus evolution
The Journal of Physiology, Volume 602, Issue 11, Page 2565-2580, 1 June 2024.Abstract figure legend Investigating information approaches applied to molecular biology across diverse disciplines. Abstract Information concepts from physics, mathematics and computer science support many areas of research in biology. Their focus is on objective information, which provides correlations and patterns related to objects, processes ...
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From Biosemiotics to Semiotics [PDF]
, 2002 Biosemiotics and Semiotics have similarities and differences. Both deal with signal and meaning. One difference is that Biosemiotics covers a domain (life) that is less complex that the one addressed by Semiotics (human).
Menant, Christophe
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Entropy, 2009 In this paper evidence is provided that individual neurons possess language, and that the basic unit for communication consists of two neurons and their entire field of interacting dendritic and synaptic connections.
Morris H. Baslow
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Integrating biosemiotics: From a semiological point of view
Sign Systems Studies, 2020 This paper is a study in the ‘philosophy of semiotics’. It is centred on a critical approach to the Peircean sign conception, which underlies biosemiotics and the global perspective on signs.
Adrian Pablé
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Archaeological approaches to RNA virus evolution
The Journal of Physiology, Volume 602, Issue 11, Page 2469-2478, 1 June 2024.Abstract figure legend Molecular tools and concepts from phylosophy of language and archaeology for the search of ancient RNA elements in the current cell. Abstract Studies with RNA enzymes (ribozymes) and protein enzymes have identified certain structural elements that are present in some cellular mRNAs and viral RNAs.
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Limitations on applying Peircean semeiotic. Biosemiotics as applied objective ethics and esthetics rather than semeiotic. [PDF]
, 2005 This paper explores the critical conditions of such semiotic realism that is commonly presumed in the so-called Copenhagen interpretation of biosemiotics. The central task is to make basic biosemiotic concepts as clear as possible by applying C.S. Peirce’
Vehkavaara, Tommi
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