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What Shapes Health-Related Behaviors? The Role of Social Factors [PDF]

, 2011
Outlines how social factors such as education, income, and neighborhood conditions affect stress levels and access to healthy choices and medical care, in turn shaping health-related behaviors.
Colleen Barclay, Paula Braveman, Susan Egerter   +2 more
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Retroactivity in Science: Latour, Žižek, Kuhn

Open Philosophy
This article discusses three recent philosophers who speak in different ways about the retroactive construction of reality by human knowledge. Bruno Latour unapologetically claims that the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II could not have died of tuberculosis ...
Harman Graham
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Methylprednisolone for Heart Surgery in Infants - A Randomized, Controlled Trial. [PDF]

N Engl J Med, 2022
Hill KD, Kannankeril PJ, Jacobs JP, Baldwin HS, Jacobs ML, O'Brien SM, Bichel DP, Graham EM, Blasiole B, Resheidat A, Husain AS, Kumar SR, Kirchner JL, Gallup DS, Turek JW, Bleiweis M, Mettler B, Benscoter A, Wald E, Karamlou T, Van Bergen AH, Overman D, Eghtesady P, Butts R, Kim JS, Scott JP, Anderson BR, Swartz MF, McConnell PI, Vener DF, Li JS, STRESS Network Investigators.   +31 more
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The Machine Starts: Computers as Collaborators in Writing [PDF]

, 2011
The penetration of digital technologies into the process of creating and disseminating narratives is no longer a new phenomenon, but perhaps what does still seem strange and far-fetched is the suggestion that machines are collaborators and authors in ...
Flintham, Joe
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Causation According to Mario Bunge and Graham Harman

, 2021
Imagine a billiard table, with several red billiard balls. Suppose that one of them impacts another. It could be claimed that the first billiard ball, the cause, makes direct contact with the second one, the effect. If we had to generalize this for all things, not just billiard balls, we would say that “thing A causes thing B”.
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Para além da paranoia epistêmica: Graham Harman e a teoria social orientada ao objeto (T. S. O. O) = Beyond Epistemic paranoia: Graham Harman and object-oriented social theory (T. S. O. O.) = Más allá de la paranoia epistémica: Graham Harman y la teoría social orientada a objetos (T.S.O.)

Veritas, 2023
A Ontologia Orientada ao Objeto (OOO) é uma linha filosófica contemporânea muito difundida no universo acadêmico, com vários debates acalorados ao longo do globo, mas ainda bastante tímida quando o assunto é o campo da Teoria Social.
Pinho, Thiago de Araujo
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Buildings are not Processes: A Disagreement with Latour and Yaneva

Ardeth, 2017
The classic and traditional source on actor-network theory and architecture is a co-authored and well-know 2008 piece by Bruno Latour  and Albena Yaneva («Give Me a Gun and I Will Make All Buildings Move»: An Ant’s View of Architecture).
Graham Harman
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Realism Means Formalism: Latour, Bryant, and the Critique of Materialism

Open Philosophy
Drawing on arguments from Bruno Latour and Levi R. Bryant, this article defends the claim that materialism comes in two different forms (found respectively in the hard sciences and in cultural studies), and that despite their ostensibly opposite views ...
Harman Graham
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“Get the Tone Right”: Reading with the Realism of Object-Oriented Ontology

Open Philosophy, 2018
This paper investigates the consequences of taking seriously the metaphysics of Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO), as defined by Graham Harman, in the field of literature. Acutely focusing on just one possible mobilisation and application of the theory, the
Wei-Hao Chin Gabriel Patrick
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Understanding the nature and etiology of intimate partner violence and [PDF]

, 2011
Theoretical perspectives underlying hypotheses about the nature and etiology of intimate partner violence are important as they inform professionals how they should best respond to reduce or eliminate this social problem.
Dixon, Louise
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