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Modal Empiricism and Two-Dimensional Semantics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In the paper I argue that it follows from David Chalmers’ semantics and metaphysics concerning microphysical terms that microphysical identifications are strongly necessary.
Ambrus, Gergely
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London eyes: William Dean Howells and the shift to instant photography [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, one of William Dean Howells's many avid readers, finally meeting him in the flesh, expressed surprise that the famed writer was not dead.
Clayton, Owen
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Transcriptional regulation of neuropeptide receptors underlies context‐dependent adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Under environmental changes, the expression level of neuropeptide (NP) and neuropeptide receptor (NPR) genes changes to confer context‐dependent adaptation to the model organism Drosophila melanogaster. Through finding more regulatory elements in the NPR genes in comparison with their ligands (NPs), we found that NPR‐biased transcriptional regulation ...
SeungHeui Ryu   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Empirical Analysis of Perceptual Judgments

open access: yesThe Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2014
This paper is a defense of Reformed Empiricism, especially against those critics who take Reformed Empiricism to be a viable account of empirical rationality only if it avails itself of certain rationalist assumptions that are inconsistent with ...
Nicholas Ray
doaj  

Über die Rolle der Ideen Kants in der Entwicklung der Logik und der universitären Philosophie in Russland [PDF]

open access: yesКантовский сборник, 2010
This article analyses the impact of Kant's ideas on the development of logic and University philosophy in Russia. The integrity of philosophy, psychology (pedagogy), and logic until the early 20th century implied that Kant's ideas influenced logic via ...
Baschanow W. A.
doaj   +1 more source

Time as an Empirical Concept in Special Relativity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
According to a widespread view, Einstein’s definition of time in his special relativity is founded on the positivist verification principle. The present paper challenges this received outlook.
Slavov, Matias Kimi
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Extreme empiricism: John Howard, poetry, and the thermometrics of reform [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This essay examines an outpouring of printed poems and biographical publications in the 1780s and 1790s that sought to shape the public image of the celebrated prison reformer John Howard.
Cervantes, Gabriel, Porter, Dahlia
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Garlic: Empiricism or Science? [PDF]

open access: yesNatural Product Communications, 2009
Garlic (Allium sativum L. fam. Alliaceae) is one of the best-researched, best-selling herbal remedies and is also commonly used as a food and a spice. Garlic constituents include enzymes (for example, alliinase) and sulfur-containing compounds, including alliin, and compounds produced enzymatically from alliin (for example, allicin). Traditionally, it
AVIELLO, GABRIELLA   +7 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Exam‐level analysis of lecture capture viewing and student exam performance

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
This study asks how lecture capture relates to exam performance in biology courses with three noncumulative exams. Mixed‐effects modeling separated between‐students from within‐student effects on exam %. Students who watched more recordings earned higher grades, but viewing spikes above a student's own mean, consistent with cramming, predicted small ...
Kirk Hillsley
wiley   +1 more source

Overview of molecular signatures of senescence and associated resources: pros and cons

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Cells can enter a stress response state termed cellular senescence that is involved in various diseases and aging. Detecting these cells is challenging due to the lack of universal biomarkers. This review presents the current state of senescence identification, from biomarkers to molecular signatures, compares tools and approaches, and highlights ...
Orestis A. Ntintas   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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