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A standard procedure for creating a frailty index
BMC Geriatrics, 2008 BackgroundFrailty can be measured in relation to the accumulation of deficits using a frailty index. A frailty index can be developed from most ageing databases.
Samuel D Searle +4 more
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1,2‐Diazetidines − Structure, Synthesis, and Functionalization
European Journal of Organic Chemistry, EarlyView.1,2‐Diazetidines are saturated four‐membered heterocycles featuring two adjacent nitrogen atoms. Despite recent advances in their synthesis and promising potential in medicinal chemistry, the chemistry of these cyclic hydrazines remains underexplored.
Stefan Roesner
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Journal of Social Ontology, 2015 In this paper I will argue that critical theory needs to make its socio-ontological commitments explicit, whilst on the other hand I will posit that contemporary social ontology needs to amend its formalistic approach by embodying a critical theory ...
Testa Italo
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A falácia naturalista e a derivação de Searle
Perspectiva Filosófica, 2022 Neste artigo pretendemos caracterizar a questão da chamada falácia naturalista e avaliar como John Searle a aborda. Para isso, trataremos de forma breve os argumentos de David Hume e G. E.
Daniel Pires Nunes
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A Non-Reductionist Solution to the Problem of Social Causation [PDF]
, 2011 The thesis of the causal closure of the physical world renders mental and social causation philosophically problematic. In The Construction of Social Reality, John Searle offers a partial solution to the problem of the causal efficacy of social and ...
A. dos S. Gouvea, Rodrigo
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Grassland Research, EarlyView.Tall fescue produces more biomass and less carbon dioxide from the soil when it contains its beneficial fungal endophyte. Increased temperatures projected with climate change reduce fescue biomass, while altered rainfall frequency does not. Altering rainfall frequency and increasing temperatures can reduce carbon dioxide emissions from soil.
Rebecca K. McGrail +4 more
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Another cartoon portrait of the mind from the reductionist metaphysicians--a review of Peter Carruthers ‘The Opacity of Mind’ (2011) (review revised 2019) [PDF]
, 2019 Materialism, reductionism, behaviorism, functionalism, dynamic systems theory and computationalism are popular views, but they were shown by Wittgenstein to be incoherent.
Starks, Michael
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Promise‐Keeping Reputations in an Investment Game: An Experimental Investigation
International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We design a controlled laboratory experiment to mitigate moral hazard problems in livestream shopping when sellers make promises to buyers. In our experiment, the promise‐keeping reputation mechanism allows sellers to send promises to buyers while buyers can observe the sellers' historical promise‐keeping records. Results demonstrate that bare
Ninghua Du, Qun Zhao
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Is there such a thing as pragmatics?--Review of Concise Encyclopedia of Pragmatics 2nd ed (2009) [PDF]
, 2016 Clearly neither I nor anyone will ever read any substantial part of this massive tome so I will discuss the one article that interests me most and which I think provides the framework necessary for the understanding of all the rest.
Starks, Michael
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The Alignment Risks of AI Overconfidence about Consciousness
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many contemporary AI systems (as of May 2025) have expressed extreme confidence in current and near‐future AI lacking consciousness and moral patiency. This article argues that artificially reinforcing such confidence, even if pragmatically useful, poses a novel alignment risk: as coherence‐seeking AIs become more epistemically principled ...
Sharon Berry
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