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Contingence historique et contiguïté des possibles

open access: yesTracés, 2013
« What could not be or could not have been »: the reference to possible worlds is intrinsic to the notion of contingency however vague and intuitive this notion might be. In the same vein, contingency evokes the idea of indeterminacy. The purpose of this
Ivan Ermakoff
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The Strucplot Framework: Visualizing Multi-way Contingency Tables with vcd [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This paper describes the `strucplot' framework for the visualization of multi-way contingency tables. Strucplot displays include hierarchical conditional plots such as mosaic, association, and sieve plots, and can be combined into more complex ...
Zeileis, Achim   +5 more
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Third Party Contingency contracts in settlement and litigation [PDF]

open access: yes
We present, for the first time, a model of recent institutional developments in litigation funding across several European jurisdictions. Recognizing the financing constraints that British cost rules may impose on litigants, these new contractual ...
Roland Kirstein, Neil Rickman
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Les raisonnements contrefactuels dans l’histoire

open access: yesArgumentation et Analyse du Discours, 2020
This paper deals with the diverse types of counterfactual reasoning – particularly those one encounters in historiography and more generally in essays dealing with historical events.
Marc Angenot
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Acquisition of automatic imitation is sensitive to sensorimotor contingency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The associative sequence learning model proposes that the development of the mirror system depends on the same mechanisms of associative learning that mediate Pavlovian and instrumental conditioning. To test this model, two experiments used the reduction
Heyes, C.   +12 more
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A Risk-Based Methodology and Tool Combining Threat Analysis and Power System Security Assessment

open access: yesEnergies, 2017
A thorough investigation of power system security requires the analysis of the vulnerabilities to natural and man-related threats which potentially trigger multiple contingencies.
Emanuele Ciapessoni   +7 more
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There and back again: consequences of biofilm specialization under selection for dispersal

open access: yesFrontiers in Genetics, 2015
Experimental evolution paired with modern sequencing can be a powerful approach to identify the mechanisms by which bacteria adapt to discrete environmental conditions found in nature or during infections.
Devon eO'Rourke   +3 more
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Coronavirus: A Contingency that Eliminates Contingency

open access: yesCritical Inquiry, 2021
The article focuses on coronavirus pandemic which is blamed on deregulated border crossing for anticommunists and mentions collective castigation in Egypt aimed at production of awakening Topics discussed include coronavirus blamed on financial capitalism and biopolitical state of exception, response to telepresence technologies and therapeutic ...
openaire   +1 more source

A Contingency View of Consolidation Systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
A consolidation system is a type of an accounting information system that aims to facilitate the consolidation process of organisations that are comprised of a collection of entities, but that are required to produce one set of consolidated financial ...
SMITH, PIETER,RETIEF   +1 more
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Towards an effective design of management control systems : a contingency approach [PDF]

open access: yes
In an attempt to provide a better understanding of MCS design, this study has utilised the contingency theory approach to investigate the contingent relationships between perceived environmental uncertainty (PEU), business strategy, organisational ...
Al-Dahiyat, Mohammed Abdul Rahim
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