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On the primacy of primordial RNA [PDF]

open access: possibleBiosystems, 1987
The ability of RNA to catalyze biochemical reactions is used to develop a self-consistent picture of how a primordial RNA could have given rise to the necessary factors and processes of early life forms. Essential to this proposal is the impact of RNA structural domains, "selected" by thermodynamic criteria, on the structure of early proteins (exons ...
Cedergren, Robert, Grosjean, Henri
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The Primacy of Intersubjectivity

Advances in Nursing Science, 2008
The most important result of phenomenological research is the discovery of inherent intersubjectivity. Strategies for reporting phenomenological research and recognizing its intersubjective aspects are discussed. In addition to its significance for the practice of nurturing care, intersubjectivity is discussed in response to criticism of phenomenology ...
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The Primacy of Narcissism

Psychological Reports, 1969
Arguments are presented in support of Freud's position that narcissism developmentally precedes object love. Narcissism in mature human relationships can be exemplified by the case of being in love.
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On the Primacy of Writing in French: The Primacy of Speech

The Modern Language Journal, 1966
author appreciates the fact that the more one learns of the language of a people, the less and less "savage" the citizens of that culture appear as time goes on. Each of you who is responsible for a language laboratory or produces the material to be used therein has the direct responsibility of recognizing defects in the materials your students will ...
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In search of self-definition: Motivational primacy of the individual self, motivational primacy of the collective self, or contextual primacy?

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1999
Four investigations examined the dynamics between the individual self (self-representation independent of group membership) and the collective self (self-representation derived from group membership). Relative to participants whose collective self was threatened, participants whose individual self was threatened (a) considered the threat more severe ...
L, Gaertner, C, Sedikides, K, Graetz
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The Primacy of the Social and Sociogenesis

Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 2015
It has become a truism to state that cultural characteristics (knowledge, identity, practices) are "socially constructed." However, critics point out that the social overwhelmingly is understood as a context-a trivial sense of the social-and that the real social nature of human practices tends not to be shown. The Russian social psychologist L.
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The Primacy of Paradox

2009
Among all the revolutions in the history of mankind, perhaps none has been so purposive, ruthless, relatively bloodless and largely unnoticeable as that of science. Wresting power from prophets, priests and kings, science has made accessible to all the opportunity to understand, reason, learn, discover and, most importantly, aspire to a better way of ...
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Urban Primacy in Tanzania

Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1989
Dissatisfaction with the regional distribution of population and employment is nearly universal among Third World policymakers. In particular, the overwhelming economic, social, demographic, and political dominance of the largest city-its primacy-is believed to sap the development potential of the entire country as well as present insurmountable ...
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The Primacy of Will

1999
Abstract Schopenhauer conceives the will as metaphysically primary, as the thing in itself that underlies all phenomena, but also as having primacy over the intellect in human psychology. Experience is a function of the brain, which receives a teleological explanation as furthering the life of the organism.
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The Primacy of Cognition in Schizophrenia.

American Psychologist, 2005
Cognitive tasks and concepts are used increasingly in schizophrenia science and treatment. Recent meta-analyses show that across a spectrum of research domains only cognitive measures distinguish a majority of schizophrenia patients from healthy people.
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