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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Developmental psychology continues to shape how adults engage with children about death and dying. This influences whether children are included in rituals surrounding human and other‐than‐human bodies. Figurations of the innocent, immature and vulnerable child still dominate adult imaginaries of young children's understandings of mortality ...
Karin Murris +2 more
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Objects of Affection: Deathly Encounters With Taxidermy, Stuffed Toys and Atmospheres
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper explores how children and young people relate to death through affective atmospheres and embodied, imaginative encounters with taxidermy and stuffed toy animals. Using arts‐based research (ABR), we explore how death, affective atmospheres, empathy and materiality entangle during multispecies relations.
Rachel Sinquefield‐Kangas +2 more
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Dynamical dark energy in 0’B braneworlds
European Physical Journal C: Particles and FieldsWe build a novel realization of dark bubble cosmology in non-supersymmetric string theory. Among the simplest models in ten dimensions, the type 0’B orientifold is the unique option which yields a scale-separated construction.
Ivano Basile +2 more
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most research in Death Studies focuses on adult perspectives. Even when children are the intended focus, this research often remains adult‐centred due to the dominance of developmental psychology. A key concept underpinning this approach is the ‘mature death concept’ (MDC), a normative framework that assumes children's understanding of death ...
Renske Visser, Karin Murris
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Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 2017 I argue that some important elements of the current cosmological model are "conventionalist" in the sense defined by Karl Popper. These elements include dark matter and dark energy; both are auxiliary hypotheses that were invoked in response to observations that falsified the standard model as it existed at the time.
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The obsolescence of protected area categories in a polycrisis world
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Current global conservation models face significant limitations in addressing the global polycrisis, and the constraints of the International Union for Conservation of Nature protected area (PA) classification system are part of the issue. The principles of the new conservation paradigm—governance, equity, and interculturality—are not viable ...
Pamela Esther Degele
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Science and Ideology: The Case of Cosmology in the Soviet Union, 1947–1963
Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum, 2013 Ideological considerations have always influenced science, butrarely as directly and massively as in the Soviet Union during the early Cold War period, when cosmology was among the sciences that became politicized.
Kragh, Helge
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Similar or Different? Configurations of Authenticity Across Museum Types
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Authenticity is traditionally regarded as playing a crucial role in museums, science centers, and memorials. However, despite this fact, authenticity has very different meanings in different (institutional) settings. This complicates shared communications across museum practices.
S. Schwan +18 more
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Marxism and Decolonizing Praxis: From Decolonial Misinterpretations to Marxist Contributions
Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article intervenes in postcolonial and decolonial critiques that portray Karl Marx and Marxism as intrinsically Eurocentric and inattentive to race, colonialism and non‐European revolutionary agency. It argues that such critiques often rely on selective, historically limited interpretations that overlook Marx's later writings, in which he
Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
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Inflationary Reheating to Preheating—A Personal Account
UniverseThis is a personal account of the early work that led to what is now known as the preheating stage of inflationary cosmology. The broader applicability of the underlying instability mechanisms in cosmology are indicated.
Robert Brandenberger, Jennie Traschen
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