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Individuality and Aggregativity [PDF]
Why is there a specific problem with biological individuality? Because the living realm contains a wide range of exotic particular concrete entities that do not easily match our ordinary concept of an individual.
Chauvier, Stéphane
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Biological individuality is a notoriously thorny topic for biologists and philosophers of biology. In this paper we argue that biological individuality presents multiple, interconnected questions for biologists and philosophers that together form a ...
M. I. Kaiser, Rose Trappes
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This paper aims at questioning the concept of exercise as it is understood in the mannerist treaties of art in the late Cinquecento. It relies on a thorough investigation on the philosophical sources (such as Aristotelism and Neoplatonism) of these ...
Baptiste Tochon-Danguy
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Mechanisms and implications in gene polymorphism mediated diverse reponses to sedatives, analgesics and muscle relaxants [PDF]
Responses to sedatives, analgesics and muscle relaxants vary among patients under general anesthesia, which could be ascribed to the disparities of clinical characteristics and genetic factors of individuals.
Yan Sun+4 more
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Individuality, self and sociality of vascular plants
Vascular plants are integrated into coherent bodies via plant-specific synaptic adhesion domains, action potentials (APs) and other means of long-distance signalling running throughout the plant bodies.
F. Baluška, S. Mancuso
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"Building for the age" according to the principles of holism, individuality, and development: Historicism and architecture [PDF]
Originating from the fields of philosophy and history, the term historicism is often used by architectural historians. Aiming to contribute to the theoretical framework for the analysis of architectural historicism, the paper first explores the ...
Mađanović Milica
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A neurodevelopmental origin of behavioral individuality in the Drosophila visual system
Diversity from development When given a line to follow, some fruit flies do so carefully and others weave. Linneweber et al. now show that these behaviors are stable for an individual but diverse in an isogenic population.
G. Linneweber+10 more
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Humanism: A tradition common to both Islam and Europe [PDF]
The growing interest of the Arabs in Arabic translations from Greek since the 8th century has been interpreted as a sign of humanism in Islam. This is comparable to humanists in Europe who, since the 14th century, considered the Greek and Latin ...
Daiber Hans
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Ecological scaffolding and the evolution of individuality
Evolutionary transitions in individuality are central to the emergence of biological complexity. Recent experiments provide glimpses of processes underpinning the transition from single cells to multicellular life and draw attention to the critical role ...
A. Black, Pierrick Bourrat, P. Rainey
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Use of Stroop Test for Sports Psychology Study: Cross-Over Design Research
Background: In sports psychology research, the Stroop test and its derivations are commonly used to investigate the benefits of exercise on cognitive function.
Shinji Takahashi, Philip M. Grove
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