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Multiverse Predictions for Habitability: The Number of Stars and Their Properties

open access: yesUniverse, 2019
In a multiverse setting, we expect to be situated in a universe that is exceptionally good at producing life. Though the conditions for what life needs to arise and thrive are currently unknown, many will be tested in the coming decades.
McCullen Sandora
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THE DRINK HABIT. [PDF]

open access: yesJAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1892
ABSTRACT In discussing the above subject I start out with these propositions: 1, That any ailment which can be cured by moral suasion, religious enthusiasm or simple will power can not be organic in origin. 2, That the drink babit is curable by the above methods. 3, The drink habit is not primarily a disease of any organ.
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Habit and persistence

open access: yesJournal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2023
AbstractVoluntary behaviors (operants) can come in two varieties: Goal‐directed actions, which are emitted based on the remembered value of the reinforcer, and habits, which are evoked by antecedent cues and performed without the reinforcer's value in active memory.
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The Significance of Habit

open access: yesJournal of Moral Philosophy, 2017
Analysis of the concept of habit has been relatively neglected in the contemporary analytic literature. This paper is an attempt to rectify this lack. The strategy begins with a description of some paradigm cases of habit which are used to derive five features as the basis for an explicative definition.
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Climate variations on Earth-like circumbinary planets

open access: yesNature Communications, 2017
Large variations in insolation experienced by circumbinary planets raise the question of the habitability of such planets. Here, the authors show that while the changing insolation does not radically affect habitability, it does impact on the planet’s ...
Max Popp, Siegfried Eggl
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Habiter, co-habiter

open access: yesCalenda, 2018
Dans la suite du numéro de Rhizome n°51 « actualités et sens de l’accompagnement au logement », ce Rhizome n°71 questionne ce qu’est « habiter ». Il y a aujourd’hui consensus pour dire qu’« habiter » est davantage que « se loger » et qu’il y a un enjeu à s’approprier son logement ou son abri.
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Semi-Empirical Estimates of the Cosmic Planet Formation Rate

open access: yesGalaxies
We devise and exploit a data-driven, semi-empirical framework of galaxy formation and evolution, coupling it to recipes for planet formation from stellar and planetary science, to compute the cosmic planet formation rate, and the properties of the ...
Andrea Lapi   +3 more
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Transition to a Moist Greenhouse with CO2 and solar forcing

open access: yesNature Communications, 2016
Greenhouse-gas forcing has previously been thought to be rather ineffective at destroying the habitability of Earth-like planets. Here, the authors show that CO2is as effective as solar forcing at causing a climate transition to a Moist-Greenhouse regime
Max Popp, Hauke Schmidt, Jochem Marotzke
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Health Complaints Associated with Poor Rental Housing Conditions in Arkansas: The Only State Without a Landlord’s Implied Warranty of Habitability

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2016
Arkansas is the only U.S. state that does not have a landlord’s implied warranty of habitability, meaning tenants have a requirement for maintaining their rental properties at certain habitability standards, but landlords are not legally required to ...
Ashley Bachelder   +3 more
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THE PATHOLOGY OF HABIT [PDF]

open access: yesBritish Journal of Inebriety, 1905
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