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Preliminary investigation of equine veterinary hospital staff attitudes towards pain assessment in a single centre

open access: yesVeterinary Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Despite the availability of several equine pain assessment tools, their use in equine veterinary practice appears limited compared to small animal practice. This study explores potential barriers to equine pain assessment, as reported by staff at a single UK equine teaching hospital.
Olivia Curry   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Stoic Monastic: Taiwanese Buddhism and the Problem of Emotions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper explores the stoicism of Taiwanese monastics and argues that, in this context, emotions are believed to be dangerous in part because they interfere with spiritual cultivation.
Crane, Hillary
core   +3 more sources

Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
wiley   +1 more source

Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century.
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
wiley   +1 more source

Tacitus, Stoic Exempla , And The Praecipuum Munus Annalium [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Tacitus\u27 claim that history should inspire good deeds and deter bad ones (Annals 3.65) should be taken seriously: his exempla are supposed to help his readers think through their own moral difficulties.
Turpin, William
core   +1 more source

The Construction of a Bestseller: The Case of Thomas Nettleton's Some Thoughts Concerning Virtue and Happiness (1729)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson.
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

Sailing Through Setbacks—What Makes Personal Financial Resilience?

open access: yesAccounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We investigate financial adaptation by young adults (18 to 40 years old) during a recent cost‐of‐living crisis in a developed economy. Interview, financial, demographic and psychographic data are brought together to shed new light on personal financial resilience, or the capacity to adapt to financial shocks.
Syed Shah   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Marcus Aurelius: Ideas of the last great stoic as a foundation of different natural law theories [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova: Pravni Fakultet u Novom Sadu
Literature on Marcus Aurelius is quite controversial. A part of scholars fully deny that he was a stoic philosopher, more moderate scholars are classifying him as an emperor to whom stoic philosophy was only a personal philosophy (a life standing), while
Avramović Dragutin S.
doaj   +1 more source

LIGHT AND AFFECTS FROM A COMPARATIVE POINT OF VIEW [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Light metaphors occurring in Chinese philosophy and Stoicism are of special interest for the unique ways they channel potentialities of the self. In this paper I apply ideas from cognitive linguistics to examine selected structural features of these ...
Takaki, Kyle
core   +1 more source

Formulating Cognitive Functioning to Guide Personalised Treatment for People Diagnosed With Mental Disorders

open access: yesActa Psychiatrica Scandinavica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Objective and subjective cognitive impairment are highly prevalent in mental disorders and transdiagnostic phenomena. Cognitive impairment is associated with poorer functional outcomes and therefore requires treatment, but little guidance is available for clinicians.
Kelly Allott   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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