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‘Pre‐Technologies’ and the Lifeworld: Assistive Technologies as ‘Pre‐Technologies’ for Self‐Formation as Freedom

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article identifies assistive technologies (ATs) as ‘pre‐technologies’ mediating access to other technologies for disabled subjects (DSs). The motivation is to show that without ATs, DSs cannot be said to have the same level of access to freedom and self‐forming activities as able‐bodied subjects.
Sarel Marais
wiley   +1 more source

Lactation, Childrearing, and Gender Justice

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, I discuss the significance of early infant feeding choices for the goal of gender justice. Focusing on human lactation practices, I identify Exclusive Gestational Nursing (EGN) as the norm in advanced industrial societies, which creates the expectation and permission for gestators, and only gestators, to nurse children, and ...
Jenny Brown
wiley   +1 more source

ARABIC –MIRACLES OF JESUS CHRIST WHICH ARE ONLY DESCRIBED IN THE QURAN BUT DO NOT MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

open access: yesدی اسکالر, 2017
The miracles are one of the most significant studies of the Holy Quran and the Holy Bible. The Muslim and Christian scholars both are agreed about the meanings of miracles but differ in number, nature, and sources.
Riaz Ahmad Saeed, Mati ur Rehman
doaj  

Miracles and the Holy Spirit in the Sufi Metaphysics of ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī

open access: yesReligions
In this paper, I analyze the account of miracles given by ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī (d. 811/1408), one of the major interpreters of the Sufi metaphysics of Ibn ʿArabī (d. 638/1240).
Fitzroy Morrissey
doaj   +1 more source

Safety Assessment and Hypoglycemic Effect of Moringa oleifera Lam. Seed Lectin (WSMoL) in Alloxan‐Induced Diabetic Mice

open access: yesJournal of Applied Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Moringa oleifera Lam. seeds contain WSMoL, a lectin previously studied for toxicity and pharmacological effects. In this study, we investigated WSMoL (10, 25, or 50 mg/kg i.p.) for acute and 14‐day repeated‐dose toxicity, as well as genotoxicity, in Swiss mice.
Alícia Natalie Silva dos Santos   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Physics‐Guided Neural Network for Quantitative Parameter Mapping Using Balanced Steady State Free Precession MRI

open access: yesMagnetic Resonance in Medicine, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose To propose a new method using a physics‐guided neural network for quantitative parameter mapping in balanced steady‐state free precession (bSSFP) imaging. Theory and Methods We trained physics‐guided neural networks with a multilayer perceptron using simulated bSSFP signals generated from tissue parameters (T1$$ {T}_1 $$, T2$$ {T}_2 $$,
Hye‐Ryeong Choi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The adjudication of miracles: Rethinking the criteria of historicity

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2009
This is the second article in a series of two that discusses whether historians are within their professional rights to investigate miracle claims. In the first, I made a positive case that they are and then proceeded to examine two major arguments in ...
Michael R. Licona, Jan G. Van der Watt
doaj   +1 more source

Of Miracles and Evidential Probability: Hume’s “Abject Failure” Vindicated [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This paper defends David Hume's "Of Miracles" from John Earman's (2000) Bayesian attack by showing that Earman misrepresents Hume's argument against believing in miracles and misunderstands Hume's epistemology of probable belief.
Vanderburgh, William L.
core   +1 more source

David Hume's Reductionist Epistemology of Testimony [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
David Hume advances a reductionist epistemology of testimony: testimonial beliefs are justified on the basis of beliefs formed from other sources. This reduction, however, has been misunderstood.
Faulkner, P.
core   +1 more source

Globalizing Comparative Public Administration With Integrative Contextualization: State Autonomy in the Developmental Path of Hong Kong and Singapore

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The lack of a common variable for comparison has been a major obstacle to the development of Comparative Public Administration (CPA). State autonomy enables an integrative contextualization approach, allowing both the analysis of contextual individual country experiences and the generation of generalized comparable knowledge.
Wilson Wong
wiley   +1 more source

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