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Theoretical Procedures and Elder-Vass's Critical Realist Ontology [PDF]

, 2012
This article scrutinizes some theoretical procedures prevalent in the philosophy of social science. These procedures are exemplified in Elder-Vass’s critical realism, which promises to place the social sciences on a sound ontological footing. The article
Tsilipakos, Leonidas
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The CRL Rights Commission’s view on followers of controversial prophets in South Africa

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
This article employs the utilitarian view of religion in African traditional religions (ATRs) to critically evaluate the South African Commission for the Promotion of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic (CRL) Communities’ characterisation of
Collium Banda
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The KnowWhereGraph ontology

Journal of Web Semantics
KnowWhereGraph is one of the largest fully publicly available geospatial knowledge graphs. It includes data from 30 layers on natural hazards (e.g., hurricanes, wildfires), climate variables (e.g., air temperature, precipitation), soil properties, crop and land-cover types, demographics, and human health, various place and region identifiers, among ...
Cogan Shimizu, Shirly Stephen, Adrita Barua, Ling Cai 0002, Antrea Christou, Kitty Currier, Abhilekha Dalal, Colby K. Fisher, Pascal Hitzler, Krzysztof Janowicz, Wenwen Li 0002, Zilong Liu 0003, Mohammad Saeid Mahdavinejad, Gengchen Mai, Dean Rehberger, Mark Schildhauer, Meilin Shi, Sanaz Saki Norouzi, Yuanyuan Tian 0002, Sizhe Wang, Zhangyu Wang, Joseph Zalewski, Lu Zhou 0005, Rui Zhu 0008   +23 more
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Ontologies for Behavior [PDF]

Bioinformatics, 2004
Abstract Summary: Although dozens of biological ontologies have been created and deployed, relatively little attention has been given to using ontologies to represent behavior. Ontologies for two different behavior systems are described here.
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Ionomycin suppresses cancer cell growth by disrupting mitochondrial transcription

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
In this study, we identify a new function for the selective Ca2+ ionophore, ionomycin, as an inhibitor of mitochondrial transcription. Both total and nascent RNA analyses revealed that ionomycin treatment reduces the transcription of mitochondrial genes.
Lishen Wang, Mingqiang Deng, Dongmei He, Diqin Lai, Dongjun Liu, Dengyong Zhu, Zhenhua Zhang, Peng Tang, Chuanman Zhou, Menghui Yin, Xichen Bao   +10 more
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An ontological analysis of some biological ontologies [PDF]

Frontiers in Genetics, 2012
The functional importance of biological entities makes their understanding, analysis, and representation essential in modern biology. Arguably, semantic representation necessary for machine interoperability is a far more difficult task than syntactic representation, necessitating conceptual schema and ontologies for in-silico biological knowledge ...
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Accurate and noninvasive prostate cancer detection using plasma‐derived extracellular vesicle RNA

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Plasma extracellular vesicles were captured with WGA‐conjugated magnetic beads and profiled for RNA biomarkers. A three‐RNA panel (NM_024955, NR_047469, and NR_002564) distinguished prostate cancer from healthy controls and benign prostatic hyperplasia, supporting a simple, noninvasive approach to improve prostate cancer detection.
Hanping Wei, Haoran Wu, Wei Feng
wiley   +1 more source

Zizek and the ontological emergence of technology [PDF]

, 2009
This discussion utilises the thought of Slavoj Zizek as a departure point to consider the ontological emergence of technology as techne in the conceptual encounter of the Abyss in Being.
Hourigan, Daniel
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Voices and experiences of health/illness from female victims of gender violence in Tabasco, Mexico. Because this happens to me, I have to suffer

Social Medicine, 2019
Violence against women has a great impact on health and the health system, they present a greater number of physical and emotional diseases. This phenomenon has been constructed under processes of invisibility and naturalization as a result of a ...
Angela Beatriz Martínez González, Alejandro Arnaldo Barroso Martínez   +1 more
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THE STRENGTH BEHIND GROWTH: EXPLORING METAPHORS IN PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR’S POEM, THE SEEDLING

Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching
This research analyzes the types of metaphors in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s ‘The Seedling’ using Lakoff and Johnson’s conceptual metaphor theory. A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things.
Fitriyah Fitriyah, Aisyah Ahzahra Suroso, Arvina Septa Maharani   +2 more
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