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What are particularistic pejoratives?

open access: yesMind &Language, EarlyView.
Particularistic pejoratives (PPs) mock individuals based on their personal attributes yet lack a precise definition. This paper seeks to refine our understanding of PPs by examining their derogatory profiles across three dimensions: descriptiveness, intensity, and slurring potential.
Víctor Carranza‐Pinedo
wiley   +1 more source

Dorsal Genital Nerve Stimulation in Patients With Fecal Incontinence and Fecal Urgency: A Feasibility Study With the Novel UCon Neurostimulator

open access: yesNeurogastroenterology &Motility, EarlyView.
Dorsal genital nerve stimulation with the UCon neurostimulator was found to be safe and feasible. A 4‐week period of home stimulation resulted in a reduction of fecal incontinence episodes, a decrease in strong urgency episodes, and an improvement in bowel‐related questionnaires.
Louise Schmidt Grau   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Softening the Border: A Capacities Approach to the Perception–Cognition Distinction

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Approaches to the perception–cognition distinction tend toward two extremes. Many embrace a hard border, treating perception and cognition as mutually exclusive, non‐overlapping categories. By contrast, eliminativism denies that any principled, theoretically useful distinction exists between perception and cognition.
Jacob Beck, Casey O'Callaghan
wiley   +1 more source

‘I'm Dead!’: Action, Homicide and Denied Catharsis in Early Modern Spanish Drama

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In early modern Spanish drama, the expression ‘¡Muerto soy!’ (‘I'm dead!’) is commonly used to indicate a literal death or to figuratively express a character's extreme fear or passion. Recent studies, even one collection published under the title of ‘¡Muerto soy!’, have paid scant attention to the phrase in context, a serious omission when ...
Ted Bergman
wiley   +1 more source

The Politics of Social Care in Japan: How Central–Local Interactions Shaped Child Allowances and Elderly Medical Care

open access: yesSocial Policy &Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines why Japan's social care reforms of the early 1970s led to a generous elderly care system but only modest and narrowly targeted support for children. Although child allowances and free medical care for the elderly were introduced almost simultaneously, they followed sharply divergent paths.
Ryotaro Takahashi
wiley   +1 more source

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