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Anomalies in Tournament Design: The Madness of March Madness [PDF]
Tournament design is of crucial importance in competitive sports. The primary goal of effective tournament design is to provide incentives for the participants to maximize their performance both during the tournament and in the time period leading up to ...
Cara Howe +2 more
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The Philosophical Quarterly, 2018 This paper revisits some classic thought experiments in which experiences are detached from their characteristic causal roles, and explores what these thought experiments tell us about qualia epiphenomenalism, i.e., the view that qualia are epiphenomenal properties.
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Representations of madness in Indo-Caribbean literature [PDF]
This thesis presents a critical reading of selected Indo-Caribbean prose and poetry and explores their shared concern with issues of madness and insanity.
Gramaglia, Letizia
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Applications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract Premise As the sister clade to angiosperms, extant gymnosperms are crucial for reconstructing ancestral gene regulatory networks in seed plants. This highlights the need for model systems representing each of their distinct lineages. However, tools to quickly and effectively investigate gene function in gymnosperms are still limited due to the
Anthony G. K. Garcia +4 more
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BJPsych BulletinIn Continental Philosophy of Psychiatry: The Lure of Madness Alastair Morgan surveys the contributions of a loosely conceived school of psychiatrists, philosophers and social theorists to understanding and responding to madness during the years 1910–1980.
George Ikkos
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The Evolution of Madness in the Lasting Texts of Persian Literature [PDF]
متن شناسی ادب فارسی, 2014 Madness is word which is of relative validity and its present discourse still needs reformation. Thus, with a qualitative approach, while studying the notion of madness and its evolution throughout time, this research aims to investigate the temporal ...
S Sadidpour, MA Ghaneirad
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A ALIENAÇÃO MENTAL E SUAS (RE)PRODUÇÕES NA CONTEMPORANEIDADE
Colloquium Humanarum, 2009 This paper reflects starting with the concept of "insanity" forged during the XVIIIth century when the madness is known and recognized as mental illness. The insanity is then understood as a product of the practices that worked on the madness, the result
Leandro Anselmo Todesqui Tavares +1 more
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Hominoid‐specific calretinin‐immunopositivity of the optic radiation (geniculocalcarine tract)
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Calretinin‐immunostained coronal section through the primary (V1) and extrastriate (ExSt) cortex of the lar gibbon. Note that the optic radiation (OR) is strongly calretinin‐immunoreactive. This calretinin‐immunopositivity of the OR distinguishes the Hominoidea from other primates in terms of the neurochemistry of the OR.
Nelyane N. M. Santana +5 more
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The Madness Narrative, Between the Literary, the Therapeutic and the Political
Romanian Journal of English Studies, 2013 The present paper discusses the types, functions and limitations of the madness narrative, a particular type of text dealing with a popular research topic: mental instability, within the larger contexts of women’s autobiographical writing and illness ...
Viusenco Anca-Luisa
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Book review: madness, distress and the politics of disablement edited by Helen Spandler, Jill Anderson and Bob Sapey [PDF]
, 2016 In Madness, Distress and the Politics of Disablement, editors Helen Spandler, Jill Anderson and Bob Sapey bring together contributors to explore the challenges of applying theories and policies of disability to understandings of madness and distress ...
Barham, Peter
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