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Do organisms have an ontological status? [PDF]
, 2010 The category of ‘organism’ has an ambiguous status: is it scientific or is it philosophical? Or, if one looks at it from within the relatively recent field or sub-field of philosophy of biology, is it a central, or at least legitimate category therein ...
Wolfe, Charles T.
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1. Charles Darwin and Organic Evolution
, 1958 Evolution was not a new idea. The Greeks speculated on it. In the century before Darwin many different evolutionary theories were proposed, among them notable efforts by Buffon, Lamarck, and Goethe. Their common thread was the concept that the succession
Bloom, Robert L. +6 more
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Patristica et Mediaevalia, 2009 Los primeros comentarios en el Occidente latino a la Ética a Nicómaco tendieron a entender su contenido al interior de un contexto filosófico. Este trabajo expone un ejemplo: la comparación entre las clasificaciones de las virtudes en Aristóteles y en ...
Valeria Buffon
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, 2009 This Article examines environmental rhetoric and argues that a nationalist conception of nature has long distorted environmental policies. Environmental discourse frequently seeks to explain the natural world by reference to the world of nations, a ...
Goldstein, Jared A.
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Identifying pesticide mixtures at country-wide scale
Peer Community JournalWild organisms are likely exposed to complex mixtures of pesticides owing to the large diversity of substances on the market and the broad range agricultural practices.
Cairo, Milena +4 more
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Patristica et Mediaevalia, 2004 The masters of Arts were immersed in an incredibly rich intellectual environment from which they took many tools but to which they also contributed. Although they cultivated the literal genre of commentary it does not mean that they only repeated the ...
Valeria Buffon
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Optimal Discrete Uniform Generation from Coin Flips, and Applications [PDF]
, 2013 This article introduces an algorithm to draw random discrete uniform variables within a given range of size n from a source of random bits. The algorithm aims to be simple to implement and optimal both with regards to the amount of random bits consumed ...
Lumbroso, Jérémie
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Probiotics for the Control of Parasites: An Overview
Journal of Parasitology Research, 2011 Probiotics are defined as live organisms, which confer benefits to the host. Their efficiency was demonstrated for the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders, respiratory infections, and allergic symptoms, but their use is mostly limited to bacterial ...
Marie-Agnès Travers +3 more
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A tributação como instrumento de concretização dos direitos fundamentais
Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Uberlândia, 2010 O presente trabalho analisa as possibilidades de a tributação ser um eficaz meio de densificação do princípio da dignidade da pessoa humana, mediante a materialização dos direitos fundamentais sociais, econômicos e culturais para que, com isso, possam ...
Marciano Buffon
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