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Differences in spatial niche of terrestrial mammals when facing extreme snowfall: the case in east Asian forests. [PDF]
Front ZoolEnari H +4 more
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Infinite ethics and the limits of impartiality
Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract Beneficence—the part of morality concerned with promoting people's well‐being—is widely thought to be both agent‐neutral and impartial: it prescribes a common aim to all, and does not favor some individuals over others. This paper explores a problem for agent‐neutral, impartial beneficence from the perspective of “individualistic ethics” in ...
Jacob M. Nebel
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Everyone scavenges: From pole to equator, nature's recyclers perform a widespread and largely unheralded service. [PDF]
BioscienceDybas CL.
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No Guide to Ground: Right‐Making and Right‐Makers
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is often taken for granted that right‐makers, that is, the things that make something—say, an action—right, do so by explaining why it is right. This view can be spelled out in terms of metaphysical ground: right‐making just is grounding of rightness facts.
Singa Behrens
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Growth Process and Mortality of <i>Sasa borealis</i> Seedlings over Six Years Following Mass Flowering and Factors Influencing Them. [PDF]
Biology (Basel)Suzuki H, Kajimura H.
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Track Record Arguments in Normative Ethics
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Track record arguments (TRAs) contend that it speaks in favor of an ethical theory (such as utilitarianism) if many of its past proponents had moral views that were controversial at their time but which we now consider to be clearly true (e.g., women's equal rights in 18th century Europe). This paper explores how to construct potentially sound
Leonard Dung
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Zoonotic Orthoflaviviruses Related to Birds: A Literature Review. [PDF]
MicroorganismsSavić V +6 more
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Consequentialism and the ideal theory debate in political philosophy
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Andreas T. Schmidt
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Plant, Cell &Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Seed defence priming is emerging as a novel, cost‐efficient and environmentally safe tool for pest management. It has been proposed as a means to uncouple the defence‐growth trade‐off in plants by enhancing defence responses with minimal fitness costs, but the mechanisms underlying this role remain elusive.
Lucia Talavera‐Mateo +5 more
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