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Williams’s Pragmatic Genealogy and Self-Effacing Functionality [PDF]
In Truth and Truthfulness, Bernard Williams sought to defend the value of truth by giving a vindicatory genealogy revealing its instrumental value. But what separates Williams’s instrumental vindication from the indirect utilitarianism of which he was a ...
Queloz, Matthieu
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Genealogies of two linked neutral loci after a selective sweep in a large population of stochastically varying size [PDF]
We study the impact of a hard selective sweep on the genealogy of partially linked neutral loci in the vicinity of the positively selected allele. We consider a sexual population of stochastically varying size and, focusing on two neighboring loci ...
Brink-Spalink, Rebekka, Smadi, Charline
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Revealing Social Functions through Pragmatic Genealogies [PDF]
There is an under-appreciated tradition of genealogical explanation that is centrally concerned with social functions. I shall refer to it as the tradition of pragmatic genealogy.
Queloz, Matthieu
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ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Ett sällsynt arvskifte i Huvudstad 1666
Man möter ofta föreställningen att livet förr var hårt, fattigt och grått. Från Huvudstad by intill Vadstena finns ett bevarat arvskifte från år 1666 som tvärtom vittnar om relativt välstånd.
Claes Westling
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Genealogy of catalytic branching models
We consider catalytic branching populations. They consist of a catalyst population evolving according to a critical binary branching process in continuous time with a constant branching rate and a reactant population with a branching rate proportional to
Greven, Andreas+2 more
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Mediation, Genealogy, and (the) Enlightenment/s [PDF]
This is a preprint (author's original) version of the article published in Eighteenth Century Studies 45(1):127-39. The final version of the article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2011.0042 (login required to access content).
Schmidt, James
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Abstract This paper explores the animating ethos of digital unemployment services. Unlike human‐to‐human services, where the intention of policy is normally mediated by professionals, digital services are fully designed in the policy imagination. As a result, it is a pressing issue to understand the ethos that animates their development.
Ray Griffin+2 more
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Tre Sven Sundberg och ärkebiskop Anton Niklas Sundberg (1818–1900)
En del felaktiga påståenden i litteraturen om ärkebiskop Anton Niklas Sundbergs ursprung diskuteras. Det gäller inte bara en sammanblandning av två Sven Sundberg som anges vara hans far utan också uppgifter om familjenamnet Sundbergs ursprung.
Per-Olof Åstrand
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This commentary is about the article by Feng, Cho, and Doolittle (1), a paper that addresses genealogical relationships between the three domains of organisms. First, however, I would like to be as forthcoming as possible on issues of nepotism and reveal another genealogy—that relating this paper’s senior author and me. Russell F.
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