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Astrobiological Perspectives on Consciousness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The Stanley Miller experiment suggests that amino acid-based life is ubiquitous in our universe, although its varieties are not likely to have followed the particular, highly contingent and path-dependent, trajectory found on Earth.
Rodrick Wallace
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MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION AND AGGREGATION MECHANISMS: A REAL ALTERNATIVE TO THE CLASS ACTION RULE?

open access: yesRevista Eletrônica de Direito Processual, 2019
Recently, the argument that aggregation mechanisms, as the multidistrict litigation, could be an alternative to class actions became usual. This essay analyses the compatibility between the theoretical frame and the material enforcement of such tool ...
Gustavo Osna
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Small clause results revisited [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The main purpose of this paper is to show that argument structure constructions like complex telic path of motion constructions (John walked to the store) or complex resultative constructions (The dog barked the chickens awake) are not to be regarded as "
Mateu, Jaume
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Piketty in the light of Pasinetti and Foley: Income distribution, economic growth and financial fragility

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Political Economy
The paper discusses the hypothesis that the functional distribution of income is not necessary stable along the growth path of a capitalist economy. We reviewed Pasinetti and Foley models showing that if we use the traditional definition of capital, i.e.,
MARWIL J. DÁVILA-FERNÁNDEZ   +1 more
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Testing Understanding by Design

open access: yesNew Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work
Understanding by Design (UbD) is a well-known curricular methodology aiming at leading students to develop deep understanding of the arguments proposed by teachers.
Giorgio Ostinelli
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Coherent backscattering of light by atoms in the saturated regime

open access: yes, 2004
We present the first calculation of coherent backscattering with inelastic scattering by saturated atoms. We consider the scattering of a quasi-monochromatic laser pulse by two distant atoms in free space.
A. A. Golubentsev   +13 more
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Geometric Time and Causal Time in Relativistic Lagrangian Mechanics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In this article, we argue that two distinct types of time should be taken into account in relativistic physics: a geometric time, which emanates from the structure of spacetime and its metrics, and a causal time, indicating the flow from the past to the ...
Brunet, Olivier
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Dialogue as Being With: An Antitoxin to Hate and Intolerance

open access: yesJournal of Hate Studies, 2020
As the social and political landscape becomes more fearful, intolerant, and self-centered, the concept of dialogue offers a different path, a constructive way of approaching alien ideas and beliefs.
Tony Osborne
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Sampling contingency tables

open access: yesAKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics, 2018
Let Ω be the set of all m × n matrices, where r i and c j are the sums of entries in row i and column j, respectively. Sampling efficiently uniformly at random elements of Ω is a problem with interesting applications in Combinatorics and Statistics.
Koko K. Kayibi, S. Pirzada, T.A. Chishti
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Large Deviations for Non-Markovian Diffusions and a Path-Dependent Eikonal Equation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper provides a large deviation principle for Non-Markovian, Brownian motion driven stochastic differential equations with random coefficients.
Ma, Jin   +3 more
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