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Rights: Facts, Evidence, or Beliefs?

Ratio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper considers whether rights hold due to the facts, the best available evidence to people, or people's actual beliefs. While there has been much discussion of this question in the context of what we ought to do, there is less discussion from a rights standpoint.
Joseph Bowen
wiley   +1 more source

COVID-19-Combating English with Chinese Characteristics in the CAT's Translations. [PDF]

Sage Open, 2022
Li P, Tian C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Using gravel pits as novel fire refugia for the threatened Tasmanian paleoendemic conifer Athrotaxis cupressoides

Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.
Athrotaxis cupressoides is an endemic conifer restricted to montane areas of Tasmania. It is slow‐growing and vulnerable to the increasing wildfire activity associated with climate change. We explored the novel idea that disused gravel pits could serve as artificial fire refugia for transplanted populations.
Lynda D. Prior, Scott C. Nichols, Ben J. French, Herbert Staubmann, David M. J. S. Bowman   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Incremental Composition Process for the Construction of Component-Based Management Systems. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel), 2020
Rana T, Bangash YA, Baz A, Rana TA, Imran MA.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The lasting effect of the Romantic view of nature: How it influences perceptions of risk and the support of symbolic actions against climate change

Risk Analysis, EarlyView.
Abstract Culture can have a major impact on how we perceive different hazards. In the Romantic period, nature was described and portrayed as mysterious and benevolent. A deep connection to nature was perceived as important. We proposed that this romantic view would be positively related to people's risk perceptions of man‐made hazards and, more ...
Michael Siegrist, Anne Berthold
wiley   +1 more source

Physicochemical properties of plasma-activated water and associated antimicrobial activity against fungi and bacteria. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Rotondo PR, Aceto D, Ambrico M, Stellacci AM, Faretra F, De Miccolis Angelini RM, Ambrico PF.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The use of public spatial databases in risk analysis: A US‐oriented tutorial

Risk Analysis, EarlyView.
Abstract This tutorial focuses on opportunities and challenges associated with using six large, publicly accessible spatial databases published during the last decade by US federal agencies. These databases provide opportunities for researchers to risk‐inform policy by comparing community asset, demographic, economic, and social data, along with ...
Michael R. Greenberg, Dona Schneider, Louis Anthony Cox Jr.   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Virion morphology and on-virus spike protein structures of diverse SARS-CoV-2 variants. [PDF]

EMBO J
Ke Z, Peacock TP, Brown JC, Sheppard CM, Croll TI, Kotecha A, Goldhill DH, Barclay WS, Briggs JAG.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Who Feels Looked Down Upon? Sources of “Symbolic Violence” in the United States

Sociological Inquiry, EarlyView.
This paper explores the factors increasing the chances of thinking one's cultural tastes and interests would be looked down upon by others, a sentiment put under the label of “symbolic violence” by Pierre Bourdieu. Using data from a survey fielded in the US in 2017–18 (n = 2,514), it examines the role of social position, lifestyle, family status and ...
Will Atkinson
wiley   +1 more source

Experimental Investigation into the Mechanical and Piezoresistive Sensing Properties of Recycled Carbon-Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites for Self-Sensing Applications. [PDF]

Polymers (Basel)
Kim BJ, Nam IW.
europepmc   +1 more source