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The killer of Socrates: Coniine and Related Alkaloids in the Plant Kingdom

open access: yesMolecules, 2017
Coniine, a polyketide-derived alkaloid, is poisonous to humans and animals. It is a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor antagonist, which leads to inhibition of the nervous system, eventually causing death by suffocation in mammals.
Hannu Hotti, H. Rischer
semanticscholar   +1 more source

II—Resemblance Nominalism, Conjunctions and Truthmakers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The resemblance nominalist says that the truthmaker of 〈Socrates is white〉 ultimately involves only concrete particulars that resemble each other. Furthermore he also says that Socrates and Plato are the truthmakers of 〈Socrates resembles Plato〉, and ...
Rodriguez-Pereyra, Gonzalo
core  

What can we learn from SOCRATES: more questions than answers? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This editorial refers to ‘Vericiguat in patients with worsening chronic heart failure and preserved ejection fraction: results of the SOluble guanylate Cyclase stimulatoR in heArT failurE patientS with PRESERVED EF (SOCRATES-PRESERVED) Study’, by B ...
Cleland, John G.F., Mueller, Christian
core   +1 more source

Operationalising global education in teacher education and training: A model for contextualising terminology

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite a growing international consensus that students need to be provided with the type of education that effectively prepares them to engage in and contribute to their globalised world, and that teachers need to be appropriately trained to facilitate this teaching and learning, ‘global education’ continues to be hindered by a lack of ...
Sarah‐Louise Jones   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Solving the Socratic Problem—A Contribution from Medicine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This essay provides a medical theory that could clarify enigmas surrounding the historical Socrates. It offers textual evidence that Socrates had temporal lobe epilepsy and that its two types of seizure manifested as recurrent voices and peculiar ...
Muramoto, Osamu
core  

Theuth versus Thamus: the esoteric Plato revisited [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The distinction between esoteric and exoteric readings of Plato will be revisited in this article with respect to two esoteric approaches: the German Tübingen School and the American Straussians (i.e., those interpreters who have been inspired by the ...
Staehler, Tanja
core   +2 more sources

Appraising Policies Through Social Multi‐Criteria Evaluation: Lessons From a Systematic Review of Applications

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to renewed interest in analytical tools that address complex policy problems and move beyond linear‐rational approaches in policy appraisal, Social Multi‐Criteria Evaluation (SMCE) integrates participatory approaches with multi‐criteria analysis (MCA), thereby incorporating specialised knowledge and diverse social values and ...
Egle Basyte Ferrari
wiley   +1 more source

Characterization of Structure, Properties, and Energetic Performance of a 1:1 Ammonium Dinitramide‐3,4‐Diaminofurazan Cocrystal

open access: yesPropellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, EarlyView.
Ammonium dinitramide (ADN) and 3,4‐Diaminofurazan (DAF) form a 1:1 energetic cocrystal. We report its crystal structure and spectroscopic signature and evaluate thermal stability, decomposition behavior, hygroscopicity, and combustion properties. Propellant performance calculations benchmark the material against guanylurea dinitramide (GuDN) and ...
Peter Schultz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Riscrivere una leggenda. I Sette Sapienti e l’“Apologia di Socrate” [PDF]

open access: yesParole Rubate, 2021
The tale of the tripod that the Seven Wise Men exchanged, until one of them decided to offer it to Apollo, the most knowledgeable in their circle, seems to form the subtext of the well-known episode of Delphi’s Oracle addressed to Socrates, recounted by ...
Giulia Sara Corsino
doaj  

Swift J1644+57: An Ultra-Luminous X-ray Event

open access: yes, 2012
The photon spectral energy distribution of the powerful transient Sw J1644+57 resembles those of the brightest Ultra-Luminous X-ray sources (ULXs).
Goodman   +13 more
core   +1 more source

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