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Selective Realism vs. Individual Realism for Scientific Creativity [PDF]
, 2017 Individual realism asserts that our best scientific theories are (approximately) true. In contrast, selective realism asserts that only the stable posits of our best scientific theories are true.
Park, Seungbae
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Caloric curve of star clusters
, 2012 Self-gravitating systems, like globular clusters or elliptical galaxies, are the prototypes of many-body systems with long-range interactions, and should be the natural arena where to test theoretical predictions on the statistical behaviour of long ...
Casetti, Lapo, Nardini, Cesare
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BMC Public Health, 2016 Background Obesity has become a world-wide epidemic and is spreading to countries with emerging economies. Previously tested interventions are often too costly to maintain in the long term. This leaves a need for improved strategies for management of the
Anneliese Arno, Steve Thomas
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Gravitational phase transitions with an exclusion constraint in position space
, 2013 We discuss the statistical mechanics of a system of self-gravitating particles with an exclusion constraint in position space in a space of dimension $d$.
Chavanis, Pierre-Henri
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Assessing Use of Caloric Information on Restaurant Menus and Resulting Meal Selection in Saudi Arabia: Application of the Theory of Planned Behavior [PDF]
, 2021 Areej Ali Alkhathami +7 more
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Is undernutrition responsive to changes in incomes? [PDF]
This paper discusses the effect that changes in individual incomes have on aggregate undernutrition. Undernutrition depends not only on nutrient intakes but on other factors, including nutrient requirements - which may differ widely amongst people.
Ravallion, Martin
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A novel experimental method for the measurement of the caloric curves of clusters
, 2008 A novel experimental scheme has been developed in order to measure the heat capacity of mass selected clusters. It is based on controlled sticking of atoms on clusters.
Chirot, Fabien +4 more
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Paradigms and Postmodern Politics from an Islamic Perspective
American Journal of Islam and Society, 1991 The paradigm shifts from the 1950s to the 1980s in political science are best explained with reference to the encounter with the Other, an encounter which has three stages: first, the self-confident representation of the Other which is characteristic of ...
Eric A. Winkel
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2020 Background Inappropriate gestational weight gain in pregnancy may negatively impact health outcomes for mothers and babies. While optimal gestational weight gain is often not acheived, effective counselling by antenatal health care providers is ...
Beth Murray-Davis +9 more
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Adult Learners in a Novel Environment Use Prestige-Biased Social Learning
Evolutionary Psychology, 2012 Social learning (learning from others) is evolutionarily adaptive under a wide range of conditions and is a long-standing area of interest across the social and biological sciences.
Curtis Atkisson +2 more
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