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The History and Ideas of George Herbert Mead's Pragmatism and Its Relevance for Operational Research and Systems Thinkers

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT George Herbert Mead is an oft forgotten or ignored American philosopher who was one of the originators of pragmatism. Today, he is recognised as a creative thinker who has teased out knotty problems that others in the field had not realised were problems. Understanding Mead's analysis has been made difficult because he died prematurely without
Richard Ormerod
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Reply to van Haastert: Local competition between Ras/actin-driven protrusions. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Alonso A, Kirkegaard JB, Endres RG.
europepmc   +1 more source

(Dis)information Systems: a Systemic View of Disinformation

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disinformation is an ancient social phenomenon that has found a favourable environment for dissemination in internet‐based social networks. While the scientific community seeks to address the problem by creating specific tools to detect and classify the various types of false information, we argue that systems thinking is necessary to ...
Herbert Laroca, Vitor Rocio, Antonio Cunha   +2 more
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Tris((4-BMes₂)phenyl)methanide: a carbanion with a delocalised triple quinoidal structure. [PDF]

Chem Sci
Zhang Y, Krebs J, Friedrich A, Yamaguchi S, Krummenacher I, Braunschweig H, Marder TB, Ji L.   +7 more
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Variation on Toxic and Inflammatory Potential of Coal Smoke of Different Sources From a Region With High Lung Cancer Risk

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Excess lung cancer risk in Xuanwei and Fuyuan, China, has been attributed to household air pollution from use of a locally sourced smoky (bituminous) coal. However, the carcinogenic mechanisms remain unclear. Given the important role of inflammation in lung cancer development, this study compared the proinflammatory potentials of the ...
Yongliang Zhang, Wei Hu, Nathanial Rothman, Dingyu Liu, Jihua Li, Jun Xu, Bofu Ning, Roel Vermeulen, Qing Lan, Flemming R. Cassee, George S. Downward   +10 more
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Correction: Efficient CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing of <i>phytoene desaturase</i> in Musa-AAA: a critical step for genetic improvement of East African highland bananas. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci
Kalungi F, Mulindwa J, Muiruri SK, Ntui VO, Mustafa AS, Namanya PB, Kubiriba J, Tripathi L, Barekye A, Tindamanyire JM.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The contribution of the humanities to the theory and practice of public administration in the 21st century

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro, Wolfgang Drechsler, Fabienne Maron, Albert Meijer, Hiroko Shimada‐Logie, Michele Tantardini   +5 more
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Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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Increased tibiofemoral rotation is associated with anatomical risk factors for lateral patella instability. [PDF]

J Exp Orthop
Watrinet J, Gerdesmeyer L, Meurer F, Vieider RP, Runer A, Siebenlist S, Willinger L.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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