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Topics as Outcomes: Modeling the Influence of Intergovernmental Grants on Policy Diffusion
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Intergovernmental grants stimulate the diffusion of policy reforms, as the federal government provides states with a financial incentive to adopt policies aligned with federal priorities. Less is known about the extent to which these grants also stimulate horizontal diffusion across states.
NaLette Brodnax, Sarah James
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A Collapse Result in the Mereology of Properties
Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I examine five principles about the metaphysics of properties, each of which has been defended in the literature: (1) the sum of properties is their corresponding conjunctive property, (2) the mereology of properties is classical, (3) properties are individuated by necessary co‐instantiation, (4) sums of objects belonging to different ...
Alejandro G. Di Rienzo
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Meaning, anti‐alienation, and fulfillment
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract One intuition that motivates subjectivist theories about meaning in life is the anti‐alienation intuition, that is, for a life to be meaningful it must engage with the person whose life it is. This article contends that the anti‐alienation and subjectivist theories it motivates are best understood as tracking fulfillment in life; this is an ...
Chad Mason Stevenson
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An integrated data pipeline for semantic data representation of the flame spray pyrolysis process. [PDF]
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No puzzles about truth for nonrealist cognitivism
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Derek Parfit defended a metaethical theory which he calls nonrealist cognitivism. According to this theory, there are irreducibly normative truths that stand without ontological implications. A lot of literature has been dedicated to raising puzzles about the coherency of such a theory. The aim of this article is to solve a puzzle specifically
Evan Jack, Mustafa Khuramy
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Semantic units: organizing knowledge graphs into semantically meaningful units of representation. [PDF]
J Biomed SemanticsVogt L, Kuhn T, Hoehndorf R.
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Metaphysical dependence and the subset relation between powers
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract What is the relation between the token powers of higher‐level occurrences and the token powers of more basic physical occurrences? In related but somewhat different ways, Sydney Shoemaker and Jessica Wilson argue that the former are a proper subset of the latter, and that this can provide a viable account of higher‐level causation within a ...
Kevin Morris
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Causes and effects of fitness landscapes in system test generation: a replication study. [PDF]
Autom Softw EngSahin O, Zhang M, Arcuri A.
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Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Healthcare in the United States is defined by profit motives and economic inequality, yet medical providers and organizations are also guided by moral values such as a commitment to patient well‐being. How have sociologists made sense of this apparent contradiction?
Guillermina Altomonte, Eliza Brown
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