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The Politics of Othering in the 'Happy Soul': Historicising Abjection in the Promise of Joy for Childhood and Play

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article interrogates the politics of othering embedded in the taken‐for‐granted association of childhood, play, joy, and happiness. It explores how these notions are historically inscribed as forms of otherness tied to the affective normativity of joy.
Chushan Wu
wiley   +1 more source

Odpowiedzialność człowieka za przyrodę w ujęciu Bazylego Wielkiego

open access: yesVox Patrum, 2007
According to St. Basil the human condition and the State of nature are always the same. The histories of the mankind and natural world are closely connected, because of his conception of the nature, conceived as the whole of which a man is a part.
Ewa Osek
doaj   +1 more source

Nafsanalysis: The Problem of Refinement in Sufi Ethics

open access: yesEthos, EarlyView.
Abstract The nafs is the spirit in its ordeal of embodiment. It is the veil through which separation from God becomes the condition of relation to Him. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork among practitioners of the Naqshbandia Awaisia Sufi order in Pakistan, this article approaches the nafs as the site of enjoyment that survives refinement ...
Muhammad Osama Imran
wiley   +1 more source

Political captives in East Asia: Thought reform and national security

open access: yesEuropean Journal of International Security
Thought reform campaigns aimed at the psychological transformation of captives have long been tools to enhance national security and political legitimacy in East Asia.
Barak Kushner
doaj   +1 more source

Hyperspectral tomographic diffractive microscopy: Development and applications

open access: yesJournal of Microscopy, EarlyView.
Abstract Tomographic Diffractive Microscopy (TDM) provides label‐free three‐dimensional imaging of transparent samples with resolution surpassing confocal limits. At IRIMAS, successive instrumental developments since 2009 have enhanced TDM capabilities through transmission, reflection, isotropic, polarisation‐sensitive, and dual‐view configurations ...
Leonardo Pestana Legori   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Streamlining digital speech tests in Latin America and Africa

open access: yesAlzheimer's &Dementia, Volume 21, Issue S9, December 2025.
Abstract Background Digital speech assessments are increasingly recognized as promising tools for identifying early indicators of cognitive decline and dementia. These solutions are cost‐effective, objective, and automated, offering potential to address global disparities in clinical evaluations. However, most available resources and findings originate
Adolfo M Garcia   +6 more
wiley   +2 more sources

Code and Creed: The Construction of AI‐Islamic Discourse in Singapore's Media Landscape

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how Singapore's mainstream media shapes public understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) in Islamic contexts through analysis of newspaper coverage from 1989 to 2024. Drawing on computational analysis of over 620,000 articles from The Straits Times and The Business Times, we develop the concept of “double mediation” to ...
Reza Shaker
wiley   +1 more source

When the Cave Becomes Home: From Mixed Signals to Crossed Wires in the Digital World

open access: yesAcademicus International Scientific Journal
This paper explores the intersection of human psychology and advanced technology, focusing on how intelligent and emotive technology influences human behavior and emotional intelligence, and in the process, might impact our ability to show and feel ...
Carin-Isabel Knoop   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards a Responsible Liberalism

open access: yesKyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Liberalism has many faces, ranging from that which emphasises the laissez‐faire approach of freedom from interference to the interventionist perspective on providing the conditions for people to exercise their liberty. In this essay, after summarising the arguments made by four prominent liberal scholars (namely, Keynes, Hayek, Buchanan and ...
Adam Oliver
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis on Energy Efficiency of Water Chiller and Water Source Heat Pump Systems with Thermodynamic Perfectibility

open access: yes, 2012
To set up a platform for evaluating energy efficiency of water chiller and water source heat pump systems with EER or COP, the method of the second thermodynamic perfectibility was introduced.
Tian Hua   +4 more
core   +1 more source

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