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BCI-Mediated Behavior, Moral Luck, and Punishment [PDF]
, 2020 An ongoing debate in the philosophy of action concerns the prevalence of moral luck: instances in which an agent’s moral responsibility is due, at least in part, to factors beyond his control.
Miller, Daniel J.
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Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the effectiveness of private actors in contributing to crime prevention. We leverage well‐publicised increases in security measures, including additional security guards and tagging of goods, by Tesco, a large UK supermarket chain.
Nils Braakmann, Wednesday Croft
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Aukštybinių pastatų atsiradimas ir jų raida
Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2009 Although the evolution of high-rise buildings counts the second centenary, there is no overall criterion used to characterize them. Different are the reasons of their origin and evolution (in view of urbanism, heritage preservation, etc.) in various ...
Josifas Parasonis, Ernestas Gaudutis
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Plant Biotechnology Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Salinity stress can cause significant yield losses in crops because of its major impact on reproductive success. The complexity of salinity stress responses, particularly their tissue‐ and cell‐specific regulation, continues to challenge the translation of molecular insights into tangible crop yield improvements.
Jitendra K. Mohanty +8 more
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Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis
Sociological Forum, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The role of emotion in meaning‐making remains undertheorized in cultural sociology. This article argues that emotions and affect are intrinsic to meaning‐making and proposes cathexis—the attachment of emotions generated in social interaction to objects, symbols, and ideas—as the fundamental mechanism by which emotions co‐constitute cultural ...
Dmitry Kurakin
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STRUCTURES OF THE HIGH-RISE BUILDING “LAKHTA CENTER” IN SAINT-PETERSBURG
International Journal for Computational Civil and Structural Engineering, 2019 The “Lakhta Center” skyscraper that built up in Saint-Petersburg on the coast of Baltic sea at the end of 2018 is the highest building of Europe. The tower has 87 floors above the ground and 2 underground floors.
Elena lyukhina +3 more
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Later life mobilities at the margins of urban geography
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.Short Abstract How do older people navigate African cities? This paper addresses that question through vernacular accounts of everyday mobility in Accra and Sekondi‐Takoradi, Ghana. By engaging with geographies of later life, it challenges the Southern urban critique to better reflect the plurality of marginality, and contributes to reimagining how ...
James Esson +5 more
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The Lagrangian cobordism group of $T^2$
, 2014 We compute the Lagrangian cobordism group of the standard symplectic 2-torus and prove that it is isomorphic to the Grothendieck group of its derived Fukaya category.
Haug, Luis
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“It Will Get Crowded, It Will Get Dull!”: Preventive Sensations of Density in Zurich's Future‐Making
City &Society, Volume 38, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT In Zurich, Switzerland's largest and wealthiest city, future planning around densification has been intensely debated in recent years, spurring referendums and direct democratic votes, and permeating the public discourse through governmental communication, political propaganda, and heightened media coverage.
Sabrina Stallone
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Walls as a Space of Pacification
Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA, 2020 Today we live in a world that daily erects walls on the most delicate borders between countries. Over the centuries, the walls have acquired a dual significance for the city. They make the city an island, creating a feeling of unity as well as security.
Francesco Del Sole
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