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Grouping & regrouping using Mixintools: An exploratory study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
On a regular basis, teachers find it necessary to place children into groups for instruction. Random assignment is typically the norm when group composition is immaterial to the task.
Berlach, Richard G, McNaught, Keith
core   +1 more source

The ethics of responding to democratic backsliding abroad

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The past decade has seen a marked shift as many previously liberal democratic states have backslidden, taking authoritarian turns. How should liberal actors respond to democratic backsliding by others? Although it might seem that it is vital for liberal actors to react robustly to avoid complicity or to maintain their liberal integrity, this ...
James Pattison
wiley   +1 more source

(Im)material Casts from the Sullan Period

open access: yesEngineering Proceedings
Thanks to Pompeii’s burial under Vesuvio’s 79 AD eruption deposits, the ballistic imprints on its northern defensive perimeter are uniquely attributable to Sulla’s siege of 89 BC.
Claudio Formicola   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Mental, the Mind and the Body [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
I would like to give an account of the mental, the mind and the body. To begin, let us consider some of the differences between objects and activities. An object has spatial extension and can exist at an instant of time.
Hedengren, Paul
core  

Decarbonising Respiratory Care: The Impact of a Low‐Carbon Salbutamol Pressurised Metered‐Dose Inhalers

open access: yesAllergy, EarlyView.
Healthcare systems contribute up to 5% of global GHG emissions, with inhalers contributing a proportion of these. The carbon footprint of current salbutamol inhalers (pMDI with HFA‐134a propellant and DPI) and a planned salbutamol pMDI with low‐GWP propellant HFA‐152a was quantified across seven countries.
James King   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

WithIN the park: a posthuman account of immaterial performances in landscape art encounters

open access: yesDiffractions
This article traces the author’s land art practice using Karen Barad’s (2007) notion of the apparatus in order to offer a possible reimagining of methods for making, engaging, and thinking about land art.
Moss R. Berke
doaj   +1 more source

Philosophy of Intellect and Vision in the De anima and De intellectu of Alexander of Aphrodisias [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Alexander of Aphrodisias (fl. c. 198–209) was born somewhere around 150, in Aphrodisia on the Aegean Sea. He began his career in Alexandria during the reign of Septimius Severus, was appointed to the peripatetic chair at the Lyceum in Athens in 198, a ...
Hendrix, John S
core   +1 more source

Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural‐natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other‐than‐human agency, which in the
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen
wiley   +1 more source

Archival encounters: Troubling material and the historical geographies of workplace violence

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper reflects on the archival encounter. In our discussion, we consider interactions between researchers and more troubling and violent materials, specifically industrial death and injury, held within archives. We contribute to ongoing methodological thought within historical geography by drawing on literature relating to archival ...
Liv Robinson, Paul Griffin
wiley   +1 more source

Grabbing the wind? Assetisation of land and enclosure of wind rights in the Outer Hebrides

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Short Abstract Land has become an increasingly contested resource for the deployment of renewable energy facilities. This paper introduces the notion of ‘wind grabbing’ to explore the intricate interplay between landownership and entitlements to utilise wind energy.
David Rudolph, Laura Tolnov Clausen
wiley   +1 more source

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