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Cross-species neuroscience: closing the explanatory gap. [PDF]

open access: yesPhilos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2021
Neuroscience has seen substantial development in non-invasive methods available for investigating the living human brain. However, these tools are limited to coarse macroscopic measures of neural activity that aggregate the diverse responses of thousands of cells.
Barron HC   +4 more
europepmc   +6 more sources

The Structure and Dynamics Argument against Materialism Revisited

open access: yesProblemos, 2020
Alter (2016) elaborates and defends an ambitious argument advanced by Chalmers (2002) against physicalism. As Alter notes, the argument is valid. But I will argue that not all its premises are true. In particular, it is false that all physical truths are
Andrei Mărăşoiu
doaj   +1 more source

Component analysis of driver’s subjective risk level at pedestrian appearance and examination by an actual vehicle test

open access: yesNihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2022
This paper discusses explanatory variables that constitute the driver’s subjective risk level when encountering a pedestrian who suddenly pops out from the roadside.
Hiroyuki TAKANASHI, Tetsushi MIMURO
doaj   +1 more source

Learning from machines to close the gap between funding and expenditure in the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme

open access: yesInternational Journal of Information Management Data Insights, 2022
The Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) allocates funds to participants for purchase of services. Only one percent of the 89,299 participants spent all of their allocated funds with 85 participants having failed to spend any, meaning ...
Satish Chand, Yu Zhang
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Explaining the Gender Gap in Waiting Times for Scheduled Surgery in the Portuguese National Health Service

open access: yesPortuguese Journal of Public Health, 2021
Objective: This paper evaluates the gender gap in waiting times for scheduled surgery, using information on 2.6 million surgical episodes in Portuguese National Health Service hospitals covering the period from 2011 to 2015. Methodology: We estimated the
Joana Cima   +2 more
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Cosmopsychism and Consciousness Research: A Fresh View on the Causal Mechanisms Underlying Phenomenal States

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Despite the progress made in studying the observable exteriors of conscious processes, which are reflected in the neural correlates of consciousness (NCC), there are still no satisfactory answers to two closely related core questions.
Joachim Keppler, Itay Shani
doaj   +1 more source

Subjective Holism and the Problem of Consciousness. [PDF]

open access: yesPizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī
How does unconscious matter become conscious? How does our physical part, which lacks consciousness, have such a subjective quality? This is the explanatory gap in the problem of consciousness or the hard problem of consciousness which comes from a ...
Siamak Abdollahi, Mansour Nasiri
doaj   +1 more source

Global output gap and domestic inflation in China [PDF]

open access: yesPanoeconomicus, 2017
This paper evaluates whether globalization has led to greater sensitivity of Chinese consumer price inflation to the global output gap. The empirical analysis uses quarterly data over the period 1995-2012.
Zhang Chengsi, Ji Xingchen, Dai Wensheng
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The Language of Colour: Neurology and the Ineffable

open access: yesBiolinguistics, 2012
It is often claimed, following Joseph Levine, that there is an ‘explanatory gap’ between ordinary physical facts and the way we perceive things, so that it is impossible to explain, among other things, why colours actually look the way they do.
Nicholas Unwin
doaj   +1 more source

Income differentials on regional labour markets in Southwest Germany [PDF]

open access: yesPanoeconomicus, 2009
The aim of our paper is to identify explanatory variables for income disparities between women and men across different regional types. Using data from the BA Employment Panel (BEP) descriptive statistics show that the gender pay gap grows wider from ...
Guyot Alice   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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