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Breaking Disciplinary Boundaries: Heroism Studies and Contemporary Research Practices [PDF]

open access: yesLimina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 2017
This article explores story and science as products of human cultures, imagination, and innovation, using the recent emergence of heroism research as a case study.
Olivia Efthimiou
doaj  

A revision of the genus Armeria (Plumbaginaceae) in peninsular Italy and Sicily through an integrative taxonomic approach

open access: yesTAXON, Volume 75, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract The genus Armeria in peninsular Italy has been affected by taxonomic ambiguity for more than a century due to high morphological variability. We present a comprehensive revision of peninsular Italian and Sicilian Armeria species, using an integrated taxonomic approach that combines molecular phylogeny, plant and seed morphometrics, and ...
Manuel Tiburtini   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enduring wisdom: towards a comprehensive history of professional child and youth care

open access: yesScottish Journal of Residential Child Care, 2017
In this article we trace some of the important eras in our child and youth care history and highlight a number of the early and more recent contributors to our evolving field whose legacies deserve to be passed on.
James P. Anglin, Larry K. Brendtro
doaj   +1 more source

Parameter‐Preserving Real‐time BIM Rendering via Direct GPU Ray Tracing

open access: yesComputer Animation and Virtual Worlds, Volume 37, Issue 4, July/August 2026.
Parametric BIM geometry is preserved from Revit extraction to GPU ray tracing without mesh tessellation. A two‐tier cache reuses repeated geometry during export, and an instanced OptiX representation reduces memory at render time. The method lowers export time and GPU memory while preserving exact curved surfaces.
Jaehyuk Lim   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Note to Consilience Readers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The last decade of events around the world have brought into clearer focus than ever before this overarching principle: humanity’s many troubles will not abate, they will grow steadily worse, unless humanity can agree on the lodestar of sustainable ...
Wilson, E. O.
core   +1 more source

Consilience and Hypothesis in the Nineteenth Century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Perhaps the most important development in nineteenth century philosophical discussions on scientific methodology was the dynamic re-emergence of the method of hypothesis.
Coko, Klodian
core  

Can Tourism Be Ethical?

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Gray Santana
wiley   +1 more source

The Excitement of Crossing Boundaries

open access: yesJournal of World Philosophies, 2017
This is an intellectual autobiography that aims to explain how I am both an analytic philosopher who writes on questions of moral relativism and pluralism and also on classical Confucianism and Daoism. I have written on the subjects of moral psychology
David B. Wong
doaj   +1 more source

Seeking consilience for sustainability science: physical sciences, life sciences, and the new economics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The human system, driven largely by economic decisions, has profoundly affected planetary ecosystems as well as the energy supplies and natural resources essential to economic production.
Farley, Joshua
core   +1 more source

One giant leap. Review of: Consilience: the Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Book review of Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge. Edward O. Wilson.
Costanza, Robert
core   +2 more sources

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