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Can we repudiate ontology altogether?
Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract Ontological nihilists repudiate ontology altogether, maintaining that ontological structure is an unnecessary addition to our theorizing. Recent defenses of the view involve a sophisticated combination of highly expressive but ontologically innocent languages combined with a metaphysics of features—non‐objectual, complete but modifiable states
Christopher J. Masterman
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Rapid Identification of New Psychoactive Substances in Letters by LA-APCI-MS. [PDF]
Drug Test AnalLaser ablation coupled to molecular mass spectrometry utilizing a modified atmospheric pressure chemical ionization source was used for the detection of synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists in infused prison mail samples. ABSTRACT New psychoactive substances (NPS), especially synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists (SCRA), are increasingly smuggled ...
Wesner M +4 more
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Illegal to punish or punish the illegals: Which way should Ukraine and Moldova choose? [PDF]
A government seeks to minimise the maximum expected utility of migrants and smugglers, but has to do this under constraints. It is argued that a vote maximising government should choose policies based on the relative weight of the introduced lobby ...
Lundgren, Ted
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent years have seen a growing number of philosophers come to defend normative nihilism. Even if their arguments do not induce in many a belief in normative nihilism, there may be grounds on which to be less than certain about the falsity of normative nihilism.
Lewis Williams
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Interstate Cigarette Bootlegging: Extent, Revenue Losses, and Effects of Government Intervention [PDF]
In this paper, we develop and estimate a model of commercial smuggling in which some, but not all, firms smuggle a portion of the cigarettes they sell. The model is used to examine the effects on interstate cigarette smuggling of the Contraband Cigarette
Jerry G. Thursby, Marie C. Thursby
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Southwest Border Violence: Issues in Identifying and Measuring Spillover Violence [PDF]
, 2010 [Excerpt] There has been a recent increase in the level of drug trafficking-related violence within and between the drug trafficking organizations in Mexico. This violence has generated concern among U.S.
Eddy, Mark +6 more
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Environmental Politics in North and East Syria/Rojava: A Scoping and Conceptual Literature Review
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article presents a scoping and conceptual literature review on environmental politics in North and East Syria/Rojava. The review aims to synthesize existing academic research in English on the interplay between armed conflict and environmental change in the region, focusing on the Kurdish‐led socio‐political model known as the Autonomous ...
Pinar Dinc +2 more
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Smuggling of human beings and connection with organized crime
Academicus International Scientific Journal, 2015 Through this paper is intended to note the difference between human smuggling and trafficking in human beings, emphasizing the distinctive items and those that are common. During work the focus is on criminal offenses committed by persons individually or
Xhevdet Halili
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Cocaine: The Complementarity Between Legal and Illegal Trade [PDF]
The smuggling cost of an imported illegal good decreases as the volume of legally imported goods increases. First because more imports are typically associated to an increased number of transporters, which is an increased supply of potential smugglers ...
Francesco Flaviano Russo
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Trafficking in Persons: U.S. Policy and Issues for Congress [PDF]
, 2012 [Excerpt] This report focuses on international and domestic human trafficking and U.S. policy responses, with particular emphasis on the TVPA and its subsequent reauthorizations.
Siskin, Alison, Wyler, Liana Sun
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