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How to Fish With Respect: A Transformation of Human‐Fish Relations in Riverside Amazonia
ABSTRACT Riverside inhabitants of the Middle Xingu River Basin, in the Brazilian Amazonia, frequently say that it is important to respect animals and the forest spirits who protect them. In recent decades, however, the development of an iced fish industry in the region has changed what respect means and how it is expressed when it comes to fishing ...
Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie
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Using Celebrity to Advance Equality
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Alfred Archer
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Being Wrong About Personal Transformation
Abstract Transformative experiences are thought to change us in different ways. Some transform us epistemically by providing genuinely new, previously unimaginable experiences, while others bring about personal transformation by altering our values. Recent debates on transformative experiences have explored the challenges these experiences pose for ...
Adrian Kind
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Of Carcasses and Christ: Rereading the Repugnant Ecological Other
ABSTRACT This essay claims that a collection of hunting and fishing devotionals provincializes a common trope in environmental literatures: the figure of the repugnantly anti‐ecological conservative Protestant. A close reading of these texts reveals their authors’ and ideal audiences’ extensive knowledge of land and animal minds, which deflates their ...
Colin B. Weaver
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Sculpting the Future of Bone: The Evolution of Absorbable Materials in Orthopedics
This review summarizes the current status of polymeric, ceramic, and metallic absorbable materials in orthopedic applications, and highlights several innovative strategies designed to enhance mechanical performance, control degradation, and promote bioactivity. We also discuss the progress and translational potential of absorbable materials in treating
Zhao Wang +13 more
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Abstract This chapter examines the contours of the religious and spiritual information experiences subfield through a review and content analysis of selected contributions from the past two decades in both information science and related fields. The research question that guides this review is: How have spirituality and religion been conceptualized in ...
Nadia Caidi +4 more
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The CSI Effect: Fact or Fiction? [PDF]
The CSI effect has been a subject undergoing intense scrutiny in recent years. With the ever-increasing number of television shows, such as CSI and all of its spinoffs, that poorly represent the field of forensic science, there has also been a growing ...
Alejo, Kavita
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Crossing the ‘Uncanny Valley’: Adaptation to Cartoon Faces Can Influence Perception of Human Faces
In this study we assessed whether there is a single face space common to both human and cartoon faces by testing whether adaptation to cartoon faces can affect perception of human faces.
Chen, Haiwen +3 more
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1.Possessing adequate knowledge about epilepsy could make people treat and act well towards those living with epilepsy. 2.To reduce and eliminate stigmatization against PLWE, mass media awareness campaign about epilepsy on both traditional and social media as well as community‐level information centres should be undertaken. ABSTRACT Background Epilepsy‐
Nana Ama Otua Otabil +4 more
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An endangered oral tradition of the North Atlantic [PDF]
Dr Leonard is a Research Fellow at Trinity Hall College, the Department of Linguistics and the Scott Polar Research Institute, all at the University of Cambridge.
Leonard, Stephen Pax
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