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The impacts of biological invasions

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock, Teun Everts, Neil Angelo S. Abreo, Jamie Bojko, Victor Deklerck, James W. E. Dickey, Ana Clara S. Franco, Emili García‐Berthou, Stelios Katsanevakis, Natalia I. Kirichenko, Stefano Mammola, Martin A. Nuñez, Ben Parker, Riccardo Scalera, Ismael Soto, Diederik Strubbe, Ali Serhan Tarkan, Lorenzo Vilizzi, Tim Adriaens, Paride Balzani, Dagmara Błońska, Elizabeta Briski, Rein Brys, Amy L. Burgess, James E. Byers, Carlos Cano‐Barbacil, Giuseppe Castaldelli, Jaimie T.A. Dick, Victoria Dominguez Almela, Romina D. Dimarco, Margarita Florencio, Antonín Kouba, Melina Kourantidou, Irmak Kurtul, Irene Martín‐Forés, Olivier Morissette, Julian D. Olden, Bruno E. Soares, Jakub Truszkowski, Hugo Verreycken, Marc Kenis, Ronaldo Sousa, J. Robert Britton   +42 more
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A Comment on \u27Does the Aggregate Demand Curve Suffer from the Fallacy of Composition\u27 [PDF]

, 2003
Commentary on Does the Aggregate Demand Curve Suffer From the Fallacy of Composition, by Ira Saltz, Pat Cantrell, and Joseph Horton, is ...
Kyer, Ben L., Maggs, Gary E
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Fetal Pain Perception: Legislative Assertions and Developmental Neuroscience

Annals of the Child Neurology Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pain perception is a conscious experience, but neither pain nor consciousness is defined in the developing human fetus. Emergent consciousness may be regarded as a phenomenon that ultimately arises from an essential minimum of functional neuronal connectivity. Proposed U.S.
William D. Graf, Timothy M. Crombleholme, Leon G. Epstein, Dawn Gano, Phillip L. Pearl, Timothy V. Salomons, Mark S. Scher, Elise Turk, Klaus‐Peter Zimmer, Harvey B. Sarnat   +9 more
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Losses and External Outcomes Interact to Produce the Gambler's Fallacy. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
When making serial predictions in a binary decision task, there is a clear tendency to assume that after a series of the same external outcome (e.g., heads in a coin flip), the next outcome will be the opposing one (e.g., tails), even when the outcomes ...
Julia A Mossbridge, Christopher J R Roney, Satoru Suzuki   +2 more
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Policy Spandrels: How Design Decisions Can Open Up Spaces for Unintended Policy Change

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second‐order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraught with consequences. By analogy with architectural spandrels—leftover spaces that can be used for unforeseen purposes—policy change can be enabled
Martino Maggetti
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Constructive Memory in Truth‐Telling for Reconciliation

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Truth‐telling has, in diverse contexts, been conceptualised as a vehicle for achieving reconciliation following injustice. As a social and political phenomenon, it involves the communication of narratives grounded in episodic memory. Such narratives may fail to reproduce the details of past events and may even include details that were not ...
Alberto Guerrero‐Velázquez, Stephen W. Enciso   +1 more
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ESÎRÜDDİN EL-EBHERÎ’NİN MUĞALATA’YA (SAFSATA) BAKIŞI

İslami İlimler Dergisi, 2010
Sophisme, according to al-Abharî, is a syllogism consisting of incorrect propositions. These propositions are fallacy and deceptive. One approaches these syllogisms to deceive the other people consciously or unconsciously.
Kamil Kömürcü
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A Response to McMurtry's System of Fallacy in the Media

Informal Logic, 1992
In the Fall 1988 issue of Informal Logic, John McMurtry suggests that the current mass communication system "obstructs and deforms our thinking and our reasoning by a general system of deception" (p. 133).
Walter Ulrich
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Bidirectional associations between parental negativity and child externalising problems: Social support and neighbourhood cohesion as moderators

JCPP Advances, EarlyView.
This study, using data from Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children across ages 4, 7 and 8, found bidirectional associations between parental negativity and child externalising behaviour across ages 7 to 8 but not ages 4 to 7. Contrary to expectations, social support and neighbourhood cohesion did not moderate any of the cross‐lagged paths ...
Jasmine A. L. Raw, Jon Heron, Bonamy R. Oliver, Jane Gilmour, Emily Midouhas   +4 more
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REMARKS ON GENDER – EXPRESSING GENDER IN ENGLISH, AND SOME OF THE MAIN ISSUES THAT LEARNERS (AND TEACHERS) HAVE TO COPE WITH [PDF]

Studii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Straine Aplicate, 2011
The present paper focuses on a number of specific issues (most of which are in fact challenges, misconceptions and rough ideas) that are subject to what is generally called the feminist approach to linguistics.
Constantin Manea, Maria-Camelia Manea
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