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Epistocracy and the Commitment Problem
Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The epistocracy debate has turned largely on the character of the electorate—what voters know, whether competence filters can be designed well, and what filtered selection produces. Another strand has focused on the legitimacy of epistocratic justifications. I ask instead about the equilibrium effects of the institution.
Simon Goldstein
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The problem of free will is child's play
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 147-154, April 2026.Abstract I argue that the essence of ‘free will’ is control, the ability to do otherwise and that this ability is an acquired skill: We can and do see people acquire it, as for example small children learn to play and to do all the other things that human agents characteristically do.
Sophie‐Grace Chappell
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Architectural Dynamics in Tolkien’s Novel, The Hobbit: A Literary and Cinematic Perspective
PLANARCH - Design and Planning ResearchThis study investigates the dynamic interplay between architectural elements and narrative construction in J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit (1937) and its cinematic adaptations directed by Peter Jackson.
Yasemin Mısırlı, Zeynep Tuna Ultav
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Barnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning, 2014 : Tove Jansson is above all known as the creator of the Moomin world which includes novels, short stories, picture-books and comic strips. Between 1958 and 1966, however, she produced over a hundred illustrations offering a novel and idiosyncratic take ...
Olga Holownia
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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 32-41, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article presents the 2024 Report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, entitled ‘Contemporary Forms of Slavery as Affecting Currently and Formerly Incarcerated People’, and assesses the regime in England and Wales on the basis of the Rapporteur's recommendations.
Virginia Mantouvalou
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Modulational Instability of Optical Vortices in Engineered Saturable Media
Engineering, 2022 Propagation of light beams in turbid media such as underwater environments, fog, clouds, or biological tissues finds increasingly important applications in science and technology, including bio-imaging, underwater communication, and free-space ...
D.G. Pires, N.M. Litchinitser
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Evolutionary Applications, Volume 19, Issue 2, February 2026.ABSTRACT Direct‐developing species lack the pelagic larval phase which facilitates connectivity in most marine species. Consequently, they tend to exhibit spatially restricted dispersal and increased population structure. When subject to harvesting, this biological constraint increases their vulnerability to localized depletion, as local aggregations ...
Cassidy C. D'Aloia +8 more
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IET Image Processing, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/December 2026.The paper presents a native length encoding approach alongside a human skeleton‐based action recognition model (named CLS‐Transformer) for home service robots. The model incorporates a novel cue coding strategy that captures richer feature information. The experimental results demonstrate that CLS‐Transformer achieves superior recognition accuracy and ...
Jie Shen +5 more
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Inspiracja radykalna, czyli wątki tolkienowskie w twórczości Varga Vikernesa
Creatio Fantastica, 2018 In the article Radical Inspiration, or Tolkienian Threads in the Works of Varg Vikernes, Adam Podlewski draws a comparison between John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s and Varg Vikernes’ esthetical, theological, and civilisational worldview.
Adam Podlewski
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Spatial modeling of extinct Southeast Asian Hobbit Homo floresiensis habitat suitability based on its diet availability and climatic parameters as a proxy [PDF]
, 2021 Andri Wibowo
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