Abstract The active/passive distinction, once a hallmark of classical metaphysics, has largely been discarded from contemporary thought. The revival of powers theory has not seen an equally vigorous rehabilitation of the real distinction between active and passive powers. I begin an analysis and vindication with a critique of E.J. Lowe's discussion.
David S. Oderberg
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Conversational Alignment With Artificial Intelligence in Context
ABSTRACT The development of sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) conversational agents based on large language models raises important questions about the relationship between human norms, values, and practices and AI design and performance. This article explores what it means for AI agents to be conversationally aligned to human communicative ...
Rachel Katharine Sterken+1 more
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ABSTRACT To measure is to err. Serving both numeric and non‐numeric measurement, the language of measurement refers to margins of error, within which measurement reports locate their measurements. Such reports and reasoning from them invoke what is known and what is known to be known about error‐strewn measurement to derive and contrast the ...
Barry Schein
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Institutions, in time: Designing feedback pathways for shared infrastructure transitions
Abstract Electric utilities, challenged by a rapidly unfolding energy transition, use many informal institutions to bridge across technologies and sectors. Little is known, however, about how electric utility systems and other polycentric systems' institutions‐in‐use vary and evolve over time.
Matthew Grimley+6 more
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Work accident or accident at work? [PDF]
Dos Santos Júnior CJ+2 more
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Abstract Worker cooperatives in the gig economy can involve large and heterogeneous memberships, which makes them vulnerable to member opportunism depleting collective resources. External shocks may present another challenge for collective resource management.
Damion Jonathan Bunders, Tine De Moor
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Early reduction of skin potassium without sodium accumulation in the pathogenesis of salt sensitivity in primary aldosteronism. [PDF]
Mlejnek P+6 more
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Public Patterns in Private Writing: Computational Insights into Russophone Diaries
Abstract Diaries seem to contain almost anything; how could it be otherwise, given the diversity of their authors, the variety of contexts in which they are authored, and the range of reasons for authoring them? But examining diaries en masse, using computationally assisted reading, discloses large‐scale commonalities obscured by the local variance ...
Tatyana Gershkovich+2 more
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Protective Effects of Frankincense Oil on Wound Healing: Downregulating Caspase-3 Expression to Facilitate the Transition from the Inflammatory to Proliferative Phase. [PDF]
Venkatesan K+8 more
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Gasless laparoendoscopic single-site assisted extracorporeal ovarian cystectomy through the umbilicus for the management of ovarian torsion at 33 weeks of gestation: A case report with literature review. [PDF]
Takeda A, Hayashi S.
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