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The Trajectory of an Agreement: Tracing Objectivated Knowledge Across a Series of Mundane Encounters
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This article adds to the sociological study of time and temporality in everyday life by building on recent longitudinal developments within conversation analysis. It investigates members' methods to bring about change within their shared (life) world. It examines how, as part of an extended project of action, one agreement made early on is continually ...
Sarah Hitzler, Jonas Kramer
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Conceptual Analysis in Metaethics [PDF]
, 2017 A critical survey of various positions on the nature, use, possession, and analysis of normative concepts. We frame our treatment around G.E. Moore’s Open Question Argument, and the ways metaethicists have responded by departing from a Classical Theory ...
Finlay, Stephen, Laskowski, N. G.
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World Journal of Surgery, EarlyView.Biologic mesh has historically been used for ventral hernia repairs (VHR) in contaminated fields in an off‐label fashion due to early evidence suggesting that they may be able to withstand these conditions more favorably than synthetic mesh. This study aims to compare outcomes of two non‐crosslinked porcine acellular dermal matrices—XenMatrix (Bard ...
Abdulaziz Elemosho +7 more
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Expressing emotions in words: Facebook text-based comments in Tamil [PDF]
, 2015 Language being used as a communication tool is embedded with emotions. Emotions in language are obvious in face-to-face (F2F) communication than in any other forms of communications.
Abd Rahim, Normaliza +3 more
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Zoo Biology, EarlyView.First successful vasectomy in a southern African male giraffe, Giraffa camelopardis giraffa ABSTRACT This study reports the first successful vasectomy on a southern African male giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis giraffa). The goal of the procedure was to create a teaser male for reproductive studies.
Francois Deacon +7 more
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Developmental environment and age shape macronutrient allocation to eggs and ejaculates
Functional Ecology, EarlyView.Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Environmental conditions during development can have lasting effects on reproductive investment, but the sex‐ and age‐specific nature of such effects remains poorly understood.
Upama Aich +4 more
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From “Old Left” to “New Labour”? Eric Hobsbawm and the Rhetoric of “Realistic Marxism” [PDF]
, 2006 The rise of Tony Blair and “New Labour” has generally been understood as the result of the 18-year-long hegemony of Conservative Party rule under Margaret Thatcher and John Major, from 1979 until 1997, wherein the Labour Party was forced to make ...
Pimlott, Herbert
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Detecting Sarcasm in Multimodal Social Platforms
, 2016 Sarcasm is a peculiar form of sentiment expression, where the surface sentiment differs from the implied sentiment. The detection of sarcasm in social media platforms has been applied in the past mainly to textual utterances where lexical indicators ...
Bamman D. +14 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article investigates companionate processes of self‐making in a religious community of Catholic nuns in eastern Indonesia. I argue that the sociality of the convent establishes a unique context for understanding the effects of one's company on processes of self‐becoming.
Meghan Rose Donnelly
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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