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Machine, organism and language: a comparative epistemology of AI models. [PDF]

AI Soc
Pasquinelli M.
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Family Work Among the Astors

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within classical sociological accounts of capitalism, families are curious remnants of the past. Contemporary elite sociology dismisses the family in a different way: by primarily focusing on individual men. When the family does appear within elite studies, scholars frequently follow a stratification framework, which focuses on the ...
Shamus Khan, Max Besbris, Estela Diaz
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Cultivating a 'Habitus of Multiplicity' in Cross-Cultural Medicine: From Case Study Conflict to Many-Sided Conditions of Care Through Process and Jain Metaphysics. [PDF]

Nurs Philos
Donaldson B.
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The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Supporters of a recently announced normative turn in sociology acknowledge that what they recommend is by no means entirely new. However, they have given little attention to an early precursor: the British sociologist Leonard Hobhouse. He focussed on the role of the normative in social life and insisted that sociology could, and must, play an ...
Martyn Hammersley
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Phenomenology and the ethics of dying: reclaiming the lived meaning of death in contemporary clinical practice in South Asia - a narrative review. [PDF]

Philos Ethics Humanit Med
Silva S, Ramadasa U, Jayasinghe S.
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Rethinking Toleration: Wesley, Whitefield and Evangelical Collaboration in the Eighteenth Century

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract There is a growing body of scholarship on the history of religious toleration; nevertheless, historians have largely treated toleration as a matter of governmental policy and legal principle. This article broadens that account by examining John Wesley and George Whitefield's vision of evangelical unity across denominational lines.
Sarah Irving‐Stonebraker
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Benjamin Robins's New Principles of Gunnery and the Response From the British Mathematical, Educational, and Military World of the Mid‐Eighteenth Century

Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses to what degree Benjamin Robins's discoveries in his book New Principles of Gunnery, 1742, affected the British mathematical, military, and educational world of the mid‐eighteenth century. While it drew praise and critique from Europe, especially from the notable mathematician Leonhard Euler, his mathematical theories were
Samuel Dodson
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Measurement Error, Manipulation, and the Value of Short‐Term Performance in Job Retention Erreur de mesure, manipulation et valeur de la performance à court terme en matière de maintien de l'emploi

Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper studies how the accuracy of a short‐term performance measure affects its value when a principal decides whether to retain or fire an agent, who can manipulate that measure. Compared with ignoring performance and never firing the agent, the performance measure is valuable when the savings in the expected cost of the retention error ...
Naomi Rothenberg
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Member News. [PDF]

J Hist Behav Sci
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What works, for whom, and under what circumstances for recipients of training in opportunistic behaviour change conversations: A mixed methods realist evaluation protocol. [PDF]

PLoS One
Nichol B, Rodrigues AM, Anderson-Weaver R, Dalkin S, Hunter R, Brown H, Morgner C, Stuart B, Albury C, Haighton C.   +9 more
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