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What's in a Promise?

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many, perhaps even most, philosophers hold that, in order to promise someone something, the promisor must intend to communicate what they are promising. I argue against this claim, explain why it matters to the nature of promising, and sketch an alternative picture of normatively powerful speech acts.
Eliot Michaelson
wiley   +1 more source

A novel method based on high‐resolution imaging spectroscopy to predict fine‐root traits and the economics space of fresh tree roots

open access: yesNew Phytologist, EarlyView.
Maps of the estimated root nitrogen concentration in the < 0.5‐mm‐diameter classes of 20 woody species based on the imaging spectroscopy using the shortwave infrared spectral region. Summary Tree fine‐root morphological, anatomical, and chemical traits are important to reflect belowground resource acquisition strategies to support tree growth, but ...
Naoki Makita   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of Resistance Training on Body Composition, Physical Fitness, and Cardiometabolic Health in Children and Adolescents With Overweight/Obesity: An Umbrella Review With Meta‐Analyses

open access: yesObesity Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Resistance training (RT) is increasingly recognized as a promising exercise modality for enhancing health and fitness in children and adolescents. However, evidence remains inconsistent in those with overweight/obesity. This umbrella review synthesized evidence from systematic reviews to evaluate RT effects on body composition ...
Eric Tsz‐Chun Poon   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Werner Irnich: Pioneer in the Development of the Dual‐Chamber Pacemaker—An Obituary

open access: yesPacing and Clinical Electrophysiology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Fifty years ago, Werner Irnich presented the concept of an optimal pacemaker capable of responding appropriately to various cardiac arrhythmias and perceptual disturbances, and intended to be used in 85% of patients. With this concept, Irnich was far ahead of his time. His proposed circuitry for AV block and atrial fibrillation, as well as his
Bernd Lemke
wiley   +1 more source

De‐Moralizing Friendship: Unfinished Business

open access: yesPhilosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We have duties to our friends that we don't have to strangers. Philosophers traditionally take these duties of friendship to be moral duties. But this moralist position cannot accommodate the full scope of the duties that we have to our friends. Many of these associative duties appear to be duties of a distinct normative kind.
Jessica Isserow
wiley   +1 more source

Recruiting Street‐Level Bureaucrats Through Co‐Design: The Effects of Incorporating Citizen Insights Into Job Advertisements

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Street‐level bureaucrats (SLBs) directly affect citizens, making them central to public service delivery. Service success therefore hinges on public sector organizations' ability to recruit competent SLBs. We argue that citizens' perspectives should inform SLB recruitment, especially for contact‐intensive, relational frontline roles.
Jakob Trischler   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strange Bedfellows, No Thanks! A Survey Experiment on the Choice of Lobbying Coalition Partners in Policy Agenda Setting

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The literature on lobbying coalitions has explored the choice of interest organizations to cooperate with others in a series of correlational studies. Yet, considerable diversity in cooperation activities, as well as path dependencies between organizations complicate these analyses.
Wiebke Marie Junk, Ellis Aizenberg
wiley   +1 more source

Governing Credit in the Digital Age: Public Perceptions and Engagement in China's Credit Systems

open access: yesRegulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is a global trend toward embedding personal credit systems and their scoring mechanisms within broader governance infrastructures. A prominent and controversial example is China's Social Credit System (SCS), which plays a central role in the country's data‐driven financial and social governance.
Mo Chen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pipe Water, Employment and Health: A Gendered Analysis in India

open access: yesReview of Development Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of indoor piped drinking water (IPDW) on gender disparities in employment and health in India, using panel data from the India Human Development Survey (2005–2012). Employing a differences‐in‐differences (DID) model with heterogeneous treatment effects, the analysis reveals that IPDW access increases rural women ...
Ashish K. Sedai
wiley   +1 more source

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