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Posthumanism: A Fickle Philosophy? [PDF]
, 2018 Defining posthumanism as a single, well-oriented philosophy is a difficult if not impossible endeavour. Part of the reason for this difficulty is accounted by posthumanism’s illusive origins and its perpetually changing hermeneutics.
Umbrello, Steven
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Meandering and Riversphere: The Potential of Paradox
Open Rivers, 2018 Heraclitus of Ephesus (535 BCE-475 BCE) was the master of paradox: "It rests by changing," "a thing agrees at variance with itself," and “the same: living and dead, and the waking and the sleeping, and the young and the old” (Kahn 1979, Fragments LII ...
Irene J. Klaver
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Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.This review explores advances in wearable and lab‐on‐chip technologies for breast cancer detection. Covering tactile, thermal, ultrasound, microwave, electrical impedance tomography, electrochemical, microelectromechanical, and optical systems, it highlights innovations in flexible electronics, nanomaterials, and machine learning.
Neshika Wijewardhane +4 more
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The role of philosophical context in the development of research methodology and theory [PDF]
, 2008 The research strategy dictates the major direction of the research and constitutes one of the important decisions made by the researcher. However, researchers’ understanding on theory at the outset of the research guides the design of the research.
Amaratunga, RDG +2 more
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Moral Experience: Its Existence, Describability, and Significance [PDF]
, 2020 One of the newest research areas in moral philosophy is moral phenomenology: the dedicated study of the experiential dimension of moral mental life. The idea has been to bring phenomenological evidence to bear on some central issues in metaethics and ...
Kriegel, Uriah
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Development of Heat Engines Powered by Twisted and Coiled Polymer Fiber Actuators
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.Continuously rotating engines driven by thermally responsive actuating materials can turn waste heat into useful energy. For the first time heat engines operated by twisted and coiled polymer fiber actuators are demonstrated with engine design guided by two simple analytical models.
Geoffrey M. Spinks +2 more
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The Gap between Philosophy and the Philosophy of Education in Japanese Academia: A Statistical Survey of the Largest Competitive Research Funding Database in Japan [PDF]
, 2017 This short article is based on my special lecture entitled "Aristotle and the Philosophy of Education" at Tamagawa University Research Institute in Tokyo on September 19, 2015, through a recording of the spoken language transcribed in written form with ...
Tachibana, Koji
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From Rigid to Soft Robotic Approaches for Neuroendoscopy
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Robotic assistance has had minimal impact on deep intraventricular surgeries, where small‐scale, precision, and reduced invasiveness can contribute to improved patient outcomes. Emerging technologies in rigid, soft, and hybrid robotics are reviewed to identify the most promising mechanisms for deep brain navigation in addition to an attempt to identify
Kieran Gilday +3 more
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Contributions from Alfred Schütz’s phenomenological sociology for nursing research - review article
Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing, 2008 Understanding the human being is a complex task, because it involves biological, psychological and social questions. Investigation of Cartesian procedure had suffered ruptures, mainly because of the criticism to objectivity, on dealing whit human ...
Diego Schaurich +3 more
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Science and Interdisciplinarity: A Treatise on the Philosophy of Interdisciplinary Research [PDF]
Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences, 2022 There is an increasing drive towards interdisciplinarity in all fields of knowledge. The general schema is a necessary and ultimately useful one in generating new ideas and “big picture” conceptualizations of knowledge, yet an impediment to its large ...
Lucas W.E. Tessaro
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