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Contemporary Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We develop a method for estimating the private value of knowing the future realization of some financial statistics, and then we apply the measure to the familiar ratios from the DuPont decomposition of return on equity. The estimation is grounded in the standard rational expectations model, adapted to accommodate relative risk aversion, and ...
Russell Lundholm, Xin Zheng
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Language Understanding and Knowledge of Meaning
The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2010 In recent years the view that understanding a language requires knowing what its words and expressions mean has come under attack. One line of attack attempts to show that while knowledge can be undermined by Gettier-style counterexamples, language ...
Mitchell Green
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Ole Pettit and other unidentified men.
Photo of a group of men including Ole Pettit (back row left)
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, 2008 This photograph of Katherine Pettit was taken by Doris Ulmann in the late 1920s or early 1930s. Pettit was founder of Pine Mountain Settlement School and Hindman Settlement School in Kentucky. Pettit taught natural vegetable dyeing.
Ulmann, Doris, d. 1934;
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What political theory can learn from conceptual engineering: The case of “corruption”
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Conceptual change is commonplace in political theory. Recent scholarship argues that improving a concept, or “engineering” it, can sharpen its normative and explanatory power. This article illustrates what political theory can learn from conceptual engineering (CE) by examining the evolution of “corruption” as a case study.
Emanuela Ceva, Patrizia Pedrini
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What is (de)politicization and what is wrong with it?
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract This article attempts to clarify the meaning of (de)politicization. Politicization sometimes refers to the inappropriate intrusion of partisan loyalties in nonpolitical social domains (affective politicization). Politicization can also constitute an ideal of civic agency and energy (contestatory politicization).
Dimitrios Halikias
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How Bioethicists Can Contribute to Democratic Deliberation
Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is sometimes suggested that policymaking on bioethical questions should be more democratic, either through direct popular participation (as in a referendum) or through improved forms of representation (such as random mini‐publics or elected officials). Such proposals seem to leave no special place for input from bioethicists.
Ben Saunders
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Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Care leavers often encounter considerable health and well‐being challenges, underscoring the need for continued support into early adulthood. This small‐scale mixed‐methods study explored the health, well‐being and extended care experiences of participants in the South Australian Next Steps pilot program for residential care leavers, assessed ...
Sally‐Ann Keipert +3 more
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Liquid Assemblies: An Institutional Design for Liquid Democracy
Constellations, EarlyView.
Chiara Valsangiacomo Balmelli +1 more
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Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.Abstract Small, fragmented populations of critically endangered species require different conservation strategies than large, contiguous populations, as they are vulnerable to local extinction, demographic shifts, and behavior changes. Effective management necessitates regular, systematic surveys to detect early warning signs of decline and facilitate ...
Bobbi J. Estabrook +5 more
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