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Summary Pacifism, the ethical opposition to war and violence, is a significant aspect of the European and Christian traditions. This commitment can be found in some ancient Greek sources and more definitively in early Christian sources.
Andrew Fiala
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Pacifism without Right and Wrong [PDF]
, 2011 Moral philosophers generally regard pacifism with disdain. Forty years ago, Jan Narveson called it a "bizarre and vaguely ludicrous" doctrine, and that assessment is, in some form or other, still common today.
Farmer, Daniel Diederich
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Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.The article overviews past and current efforts on caloric materials and systems, highlighting the contributions of Ames National Laboratory to the field. Solid‐state caloric heat pumping is an innovative method that can be implemented in a wide range of cooling and heating applications.
Agata Czernuszewicz +5 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.The sea cucumber Holothuria leucospilota detects blue and adjacent wavelengths of light via an r‐opsin with a maximum absorption at 459 nm. In the oral tentacles, papillae, and tube feet, distinct light‐sensing structures with specialized morphologies are formed, constituting a unique pentaradial and bilateral combined photoreception system.
Jiasheng Huang +20 more
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La littérature comme expérience personnelle : la Macédoine et Stratis Myrivilis
Cahiers Balkaniques, 2011 This article examines the relationship of Stratos myrivilis, -a Greek writer, who was born on Lesbos in 1890 and died in Athens in 1967- with Macedonia, which he knew as a soldier during the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913, and then during the First World War ...
Georges Kostakiotis
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Weapons for pacifism: Reconciling ideas in conflict
, 2022 The very idea of a pacifist weapon seems to be an oxymoron-pacifism is the opposition to killing and war, yet weapons are designed to kill. However, given the large and primarily negative impacts of war, if we take seriously the notion of Value Sensitive
Henschke, Adam
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Canada’s cross-Pacific relations: From Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific
International Journal: Canada's Journal of Global Policy Analysis, 2022 This essay proposes a periodization of Canada’s cross-Pacific relations: from the Asia-Pacific era beginning in the 1980s to the Indo-Pacific era beginning around 2018. In the era of the Asia-Pacific, Canada was relatively disengaged on matters other than economic relations, as Ottawa sought to capitalize on dynamic emerging markets.
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) show promise for treating immune‐related disorders through immunomodulation and tissue regeneration. This review gives a brief overview of current clinical approval of MSC therapies. It also discussed how bioengineering, including genetic modification, biomaterial delivery, extracellular vesicles, and iPSC‐derived MSCs,
Sichen Yang +6 more
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The “Confucian” Ideal Person(ality) and Pacifism
Asian StudiesSo-called Confucianism (rujia 儒家) developed a notion of an ideal person(ality), the junzi 君子, who eschews solving problems or eliminating disagreement by use of force. Instead, guided by principles of humaneness (ren 仁) and righteousness (yi 義), he uses
Gregor Paul
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Lactiplantibacillus plantarum GUANKE remodels the indigenous gut microbiota and is associated with microbiota‐dependent restoration of circulating IAA. IAA treatment attenuates JAK3‐STAT3 and Jag1‐Notch4‐Hey1 signaling and reduces CX3CR1+Ly6C− monocytic precursor generation and pulmonary CD11b+ DC accumulation, together with reduced Th2 inflammation ...
Yujia He +10 more
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