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Applications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract Premise Genebanks must maintain viable seeds for decades. Seeds that germinate are clearly alive, but some seeds, often from wild populations, do not germinate because they are dormant, empty, aged, or damaged (D.E.A.D.). This work evaluates the effects of D.E.A.D.
Christina Walters +33 more
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The Story of Non-real Man: personal identity and existentialism [PDF]
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2020 The article analyzes the concept of personality, how it can be formulated within the framework of existential philosophy; from this perspective, the narrative theory of personality identity is criticized.
R. L. Kochnev
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Locke's Criterion for the Reality of Ideas: Unambiguous but Untenable [PDF]
, 1997 The paper argues against the claim held, e.g., by Leibniz, that Locke employs a double standard for determining whether an object before the mind (i.e., an idea) is real.
de Waal, Cornelis
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract As the UK higher education sector becomes increasingly market‐driven and focused on preparing students for the graduate labour market, universities must define and contextualise employability and their role in supporting students beyond academia.
Michael Maher +3 more
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Ranking Universities: Criteria and Consequences [PDF]
, 2007 This Supplement to 'Higher Education Digest' Number 59 brings together a number of items addressing the issue of university rankings. The first piece explores some of the background to the debate: the impact of rankings, the main criticisms and broader ...
Locke, William
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Is the well‐known phrase ‘small is beautiful’ true of small transnational education institutions?
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The purpose of this research is to consider the potential attractiveness of operating a small international branch campus (IBC). Drawing upon resource‐based and legitimacy theories, we examine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats associated with the business model that is based on having a small institution size.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
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General to Locke & Berkeley [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2015 In history of philosophy, the universals are considered to be one of the most important and controversial problems. A group of thinkers has highlighted to be mark of difference between human and animal while some others have degraded it to a mere name.
seyyed mohammad hakak, zahra Esmaeli
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Locke’s Composition Principle and the Argument for God’s Immateriality
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2022 Locke’s argument for God’s immateriality in 'Essay' IV x is usually interpreted as involving a principle that in some way prohibits the causation of thought by matter.
Tyler Hanck
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Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how money attitudes moderate the relationship between personality traits and early pension withdrawal behaviour in the context of South Africa's new Two‐Pot retirement system. Drawing on structural equation modelling with data from over 5000 retirement fund members, whether Money Prudence and Money Anxiety condition the ...
Paul Prinn Nixon, Evan Gilbert
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Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2020 I argue for a new interpretation of Locke’s account of akrasia. On this interpretation, akrasia occurs on Locke’s account because certain cognitive biases endemic to the human mind dispose us to privilege present over future happiness.
Matthew A. Leisinger
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