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An experimental test of non-local realism

open access: yesNature, 2007
Most working scientists hold fast to the concept of 'realism' - a viewpoint according to which an external reality exists independent of observation. But quantum physics has shattered some of our cornerstone beliefs.
A Aspect   +34 more
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Left Realism, community and state-building [PDF]

open access: yesCrime, Law and Social Change, 2010
Left Realism, as it emerged in the mid 1980s in the UK was a policy-oriented intervention focusing on the reality of crime for the working class victim and the need to elaborate a socialist alternative to conservative emphases on 'law and order'. It saw the renewal of high crime, deprived communities as involving democratic police accountability to ...
openaire   +5 more sources

Realist Criminology and its Discontents

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2016
Critical criminology must move beyond twentieth-century empiricist and idealist paradigms because the concepts and research programmes influenced by these paradigms are falling into obsolescence. Roger Matthews’ recent work firmly advocates this position
Simon Winlow, Steve Hall
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Critical Realism and Feminist Criminology: Shall the Twain Ever Meet?

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2016
This article assesses the commonalities and divergences between critical realist criminology and feminist criminology. Using Roger Matthews’ (2014) construction of Critical Realism as discussed in his book, Realist Criminology, the article first notes ...
Claire Renzetti
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A novel closed-chest porcine model of chronic ischemic heart failure suitable for experimental research in cardiovascular disease [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Cardiac pathologies are among the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in industrialized countries, with myocardial infarction (MI) representing one of the major conditions leading to heart failure (HF).
Antonio Amodeo   +15 more
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A Constant State of War Or A Dog Eat Dog System?

open access: yesPolitikon, 2012
It has become far too fashionable to adopt a (neo)realist approach to world affairs, especially since this approach purports to deal with the ‘here and now’ of international politics.
Nathan Andrews
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The Visible and the Invisible: Photographic Works by Patrick Hogan, Ailbhe Ní Bhriain and David Creedon

open access: yesÉtudes Britanniques Contemporaines, 2014
The three series of photographs under scrutiny waver between the documentary and the poetic, between realism and the imaginary. The result of long projects and research, they visually condense the experience of exile: they picture abandoned houses, or ...
Valérie Morisson
doaj   +1 more source

The Case for Participatory Realism in Scheler’s Ethics

open access: yesPhenomenology and Mind, 2016
might one ask how phenomenological commitments relate to value ontology. Consider Phil Blosser’s words: …the chief defect of Scheler’s phenomenology, like all philosophies of value, was the weakness of his treatment of the ontology of values.
J. Edward Hackett
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The poetic crossroads of Rade Drainac: Three travel notes from Ohrid [PDF]

open access: yesBaština
Using the example of three travelogues by Rade Drainac, "The Road to Ohrid", "On Lake Ohrid" and "Ohrid Meditations", we interpret the poetic dilemmas, decisions and characteristics of his work in the early 1930s.
Heleta Milena M.
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Without Place, Is It Real?

open access: yesInternational Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2016
This article reviews Matthews’ (2014) Realist Criminology as an opportunity to address larger shortcomings within critical criminology, which is the failure to develop an alternative theory of crime and place to the mainstream theories of social ...
Joseph F Donnermeyer
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