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Unfit Mothers Only: Medical Gatekeeping of Second‐ and Third‐Trimester Abortion in France

Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background In France, abortion is available without restriction as to reason until 14 weeks of pregnancy. Beyond this limit, medical authorization is required and “medical termination of pregnancy” is permitted for fetal malformation or serious danger to the woman's health, including from “psychosocial distress.” Little is known about how ...
Raphaël Perrin
wiley   +1 more source

Zooming in and out of semantics: proximal-distal construal levels and prominence hierarchies. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Lobben M, Laeng B.
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On the Limits of Intransitive Coordination

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A growing number of authors suggest that concept coordination—the kind of relation we pick out when we say that the concepts of one or more individuals represent something as the same—is not a transitive relation. Here we consider global features of representational systems to break new ground in the assessment of the intransitivity view. From
Víctor M. Verdejo, Joost J. Joosten
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Limits to resilience: Investigating narratives in ASL signers who acquired their first language in adolescence. [PDF]

Lang Learn Dev
Frederiksen AT, Mayberry RI.
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Descartes in Two Dimensions

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Descartes' cogito argument is perhaps the most well‐known philosophical argument, the conclusion of which is supposed to be a form of rationalism that allows for contingent a priori knowledge of the world. In this short note, I argue that, in fact, the all important statement, ‘I am, I exist’, should be analysed through the lens of (classical)
Tom Schoonen
wiley   +1 more source

A multi-dimensional analysis of native and non-native academic research articles in twelve disciplines. [PDF]

PLoS One
Deng J, Al-Shaibani GKS.
europepmc   +1 more source

Legal Clarity and the Rule of Law: A Global Experimental Study of Consistency in Administrative Decision‐Making

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Laws often contain linguistically complex features that increase cognitive processing demands and weaken comprehension. We extend this argument to bureaucratic decision‐making by proposing that reduced legal clarity decreases the consistency of administrative decisions.
Joakim Nilsson, Marina Nistotskaya
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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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Influences of Language Functions on Linguistic Features: Multi-Dimensional and Entropy Analyses of Academic and Entertainment Registers. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Hu C, Zhu Y, Yuan L.
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Poetic Sociology

Sociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Can sociologists feel? Sociological writing can be beautiful, making us think differently about people, processes, and structures. Yet traditional academic writing that does this is rare. For example, most articles adhere to a jargon‐filled format and structure that mimics a detached and disciplined writer.
Victoria Reyes
wiley   +1 more source