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“Semper supra”? Trump administration policy narratives and the creation of the space force
Abstract In 2019, the Donald Trump administration rejected the draft Treaty on the Prevention of Placement of Weapons in Space (PPWT) in the UN Conference on Disarmament and instead created the Space Force, the first new US military service branch established in decades.
Jeffrey S. Lantis
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Toward a “strong” normativity of fear in Hans Jonas and Aristotle
Abstract What does it mean to say that one “ought” to undergo an emotion? In The Imperative of Responsibility, Hans Jonas provocatively asserts that twentieth‐century citizens “ought” to fear for the well‐being of future generations. I argue that Jonas's demand is not straightforwardly reducible to claims about the fittingness, expedience, or aretaic ...
Magnus Ferguson
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ABSTRACT Previous studies have offered static evidence of free‐riding behavior in military alliances; however, dynamic evidence remains largely unexplored. To address this gap, this study employs a time‐varying parameter vector autoregressive (TVP‐VAR) connectedness approach. This method provides dynamic insights, allowing us to identify unusual shifts
Duc Hong Vo, Minh Phuoc‐Bao Tran
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Hobbes' Ship of Theseus: On the Limits of Surviving a Gradual Replacement of Parts
ABSTRACT In the ancient example of the Ship of Theseus, a ship is restored, having all its parts replaced. Ancient philosophers in Athens wondered if the restored ship was identical to the original ship. About 2000 years later, Thomas Hobbes introduced a twist; after all of the parts of the original ship had been replaced, what if the original parts of
Björn Lundgren
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The Impacts of Economic Sanctions on Food (Prices) Security: Evidence From Targeted Countries
ABSTRACT Our paper examined the impact of economic sanctions on food prices and security. Anecdotal evidence suggests that food security is threatened in nations subject to sanctions. However, the causal link has not been proven. We employ a two‐way fixed‐effects approach and leverage the entropy balancing technique to ascertain the existence of a ...
Sylvanus Kwaku Afesorgbor+2 more
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Immune checkpoints in tumor immunotherapy. Ligand binding to the receptor inhibits immune cell function, promotes tumor cell immune escape, and suppresses the immune response. The pathways of action are VISTA‐IGSF11, TIM‐3‐Ceacam1, CD47‐SIRPα, CTLA‐4‐CD80/CD86, PD‐L1‐PD‐1, MHC‐1‐LILRB, and CD24 ‐ Siglec ‐10. There are also other immune checkpoints such
Han Sun+10 more
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Abstract This study aims to identify different frontline emergency response workforce's perceived knowledge of hazards and their willingness and motivations to go to work during them. An online version of the “Fight or Flight” survey was distributed and collected from Norwegian emergency personnel during the spring of 2023.
Jarle L. Sørensen+9 more
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