Accountability and Hyperaccountability in Child Protection Scandals
ABSTRACT The number of child abuse–related deaths has decreased significantly in the United Kingdom over the past 50 years, but there remains public and political concern about the actual and perceived risk of child deaths, with resultant processes enacted to supervise child protection practice.
Robin Sen, John Devaney
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Tone and language contact in southern Cenderawasih Bay [PDF]
David, Kamholz
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Into the darkness: the ecologies of novel 'microbial dark matter' phyla in an Antarctic lake. [PDF]
Williams TJ +3 more
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What Does it Mean to be a Student? Exploring the Experience of “Studenting” as Referring and Hosting
Abstract This article follows the “Biestian” concept of “teaching as pointing,” and expands on it by adding the role and perspective of the student in educational interactions or contacts, which are largely underdeveloped or marginalized in Biesta's theory of education.
Haoyu Jin
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Diversity and taxonomic revision of methanogens and other archaea in the intestinal tract of terrestrial arthropods. [PDF]
Protasov E +19 more
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A Case for Contingent Absurdity
Abstract A popular view on existential absurdity holds that if life is absurd, it must be inescapably so. In opposition to this view, I argue that the concept of existential absurdity allows for life to be contingently absurd. In Nausea (1938) and Being and Nothingness (1943), Jean‐Paul Sartre puts forward two distinct conceptions of an absurd life ...
Thom Hamer
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Permutation test applied to lexical reconstructions partially supports the Altaic linguistic macrofamily. [PDF]
Kassian AS +4 more
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Abstract This essay aims to reveal the conceptual unity of an ensemble of concepts of organic, animal, and anthropological life articulated by the young Karl Marx between 1842 and 1844. To lay the groundwork for my analysis, I begin with Marx's general account of “life as activity.” I argue that Marx articulates a hylomorphic theory of organic form in ...
Christopher Shambaugh
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Historical Linguistics of Sign Languages: Progress and Problems. [PDF]
Power JM.
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The Acts of Eadburg: drypoint additions to Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30
In 1913, two drypoint additions were identified in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 30 (SS30), an eighth‐century Southumbrian copy of the Acts of the Apostles. It was suggested that these additions, cut into the membrane of p. 47, were abbreviations of the Old English female name, Eadburg. Just over a century later, many more drypoint markings
Jessica Hendy‐Hodgkinson
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