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Mishpat Ivri, Halakhah and Legal Philosophy: Agunah and the Theory of “Legal Sources" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
In this paper, I ask whether mishpat ivri (Jewish Law) is appropriately conceived as a “legal system”. I review Menachem Elon’s use of a “Sources” Theory of Law (based on Salmond) in his account of Mishpat Ivri; the status of religious law from the ...
Jackson, Bernard S.
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A Soft Wearable Robot for Vertical Jump Enhancement via a Pneumatic Energy‐Storing Propulsion Actuator and Triarticular Kinetic‐Chained Structure

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
The Jump‐Enhancing Textile Suit integrates the Pneumatic Energy‐Storing Propulsion Actuator (PESPA) and the Triarticular Kinetic‐Chained Structure (TKiCS). PESPA stores elastic energy under pneumatic pressure and releases it during the propulsive phase to augment movement.
Sunghun Kim   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Outcomes from a Novel Approach to Studying Consumer Genetic Testing for Germline Cancer and Cardiovascular Risk

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the growing availability of consumer genetic testing for serious disease risks, outcomes data remain limited for individuals undergoing testing for high‐ and moderate‐penetrance genes. To address this gap, we evaluated the feasibility of the Consumer Genetic Testing Outcomes Evaluation Paradigm (CGT‐OEP), a novel approach for studying ...
Madison K. Kilbride   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Experimental Ethics and Kantian Deontology

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Philosophy
The study assesses J. Greene’s experimental criticism of deontological normative theory, offers an alternative interpretation of experimental data, which does not lead to Greene’s conclusions about the inconsistency of deontology, and analyzes some ...
Vadim A. Chaly
doaj   +1 more source

A scoping review of non‐binary research in “Australian” social sciences: Community, solidarity, resilience and resisting marginalisation

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
Abstract Non‐binary and genderqueer identities are increasingly discussed in public discourse and academia, but there remains a dearth of academic literature centred on non‐binary people's lives and experiences. When non‐binary people are included in research, it is frequently as an additive to explorations of trans identities and subsumed under the ...
Lucy Nicholas, Sal Clark, Chloe Falzon
wiley   +1 more source

Speech Acts: The Contemporary Theoretical Landscape [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
What makes it the case that an utterance constitutes an illocutionary act of a given kind? This is the central question of speech-act theory. Answers to it—i.e., theories of speech acts—have proliferated.
Fogal, Daniel   +2 more
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Descartes intuitionniste ?

open access: yesPhilosophia Scientiæ
Descartes’ mathematical philosophy is sometimes identified with intuitionism. To appreciate this assertion, it is firstly necessary to understand the precise concept of intuition that Descartes elaborates in his great treatise on method, the Rules for ...
Frédéric de Buzon
doaj   +1 more source

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