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Now, Again and Again: The Metaphysics of Many Presents

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper discusses whether there can be multiple present moments. After presenting some reasons for thinking that the question is worthwhile, I challenge several objections to its possibility: worries about the exclusivity of tense; the nature of change, tense logic and semantics; and the apparent tension between multiple presents and an ...
Nikk Effingham
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Pre-saccadic Attention (and not Arousal) modulates the Size-Eccentricity Effect

Scientific Reports
Peripherally located objects are often perceived to be smaller than centrally located objects. This perceptual phenomenon, known as the Size-Eccentricity Effect (SEE), is mainly due to the structural properties of the visual system and is further ...
Jad Laaboudi, Anne Hillairet de Boisferon, Céline Paeye   +2 more
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'You Don't Know How Lucky You Are to Be Here!': Reflections on Covert Practices in an Overt Participant Observation Study [PDF]

There has been a tendency in sociology to see covert and overt roles of social researchers in participant observation studies as opposites. This is both in terms of the researcher role and the surrounding ethics, with the overt researcher role being seen
John S. McKenzie
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Do's and Don'ts in Peace Negotiations: Learning From the Arab‐Israeli Peace Negotiations

Peace &Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article suggests practical information on the requirements for successful negotiations. Building on extensive research in archives and more than 100 in‐depth interviews with senior decision‐makers and negotiators who were involved in the Arab‐Israeli conflict, the article outlines the basic qualities that negotiators, mediators, and ...
Raphael Cohen‐Almagor
wiley   +1 more source

Rare express saccades in elderly fallers

, 2008
Q Yang1, T T Lê1, E Debay1, C Orssaud2, G Magnier3, Z Kapoula11Groupe IRIS Vision and Motricité Binoculaire, CNRS, Service d’Ophtalmologie-ORL-Stomatologie; 2Service d’Ophtalmologie, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou,
Z Kapoula, Q Yang, G Magnier, E Debay, T T Lê, C Orssaud   +5 more
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Traceability as evidence for timber legality: Institutional competence and legal design under the ITTA

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how traceability records acquire legal significance under the International Tropical Timber Agreement (ITTA) and domestic and regional timber‐legality regimes. It argues that traceability systems should be understood as evidentiary infrastructures whose legal relevance depends on institutional competence, lawful authority
Marcelo Feitosa de Paula Dias
wiley   +1 more source

Gukurahundism, Constitutionality and Ethnonationalist Language Policy Contestations: An Ideological Critique of Mediated Discourses About Mother Tongue Instruction in Zimbabwe

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines mediated discourses on the state of implementation of language in education policy using a critical incident as a reference. Employing Thompson's modes of ideology, we perform an ideological critique of purposively sampled cross‐media discourses spawned by the failed attempt of a Zimbabwean government deputy minister to ...
Khulekani Ndlovu, Busani Maseko, Liqhwa Siziba   +2 more
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Climate Shocks and Unemployment Claims

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a US state–level climate risk measure and the panel local projections framework, this study analyzes both linear and asymmetric effects of climate shocks on unemployment claims. The results provide strong evidence that climate shocks significantly increase both initial and continuing claims, with the linear estimates showing a stronger ...
Abeeb Olaniran, Xin Sheng, Oguzhan Cepni, Rangan Gupta   +3 more
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The Indian English Complaint Tradition: ‘Old Chestnuts’ and New Perspectives

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT English usage in India has been the target of a linguistic complaint tradition ‘which has taken the form of complaint about so‐called mis‐use of language and linguistic decline’ since the 19th century. The Indian English (IndE) complaint tradition in the 21st century has shifted from colonial to postcolonial in that IndE usage is now targeted ...
Claudia Lange, Sven Leuckert
wiley   +1 more source

Making sense of touch: Spatial tactile cues promote efficient visuo‐somatosensory integration and restore motor accuracy under sensory conflict

The Journal of Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract figure legend Mirror‐reversed vision introduces a spatial discrepancy between visual and somatosensory information about hand position during finger tracing. The informational context of tactile cues significantly modulated the consequences of this visuo‐somatosensory conflict.
Maria Evangelia Vlachou, Eva Lafaverges, Laurence Mouchnino, Jean Blouin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source