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Collective responsibility and the scope of justice
Ethics & Global Politics, 2016 The paper examines Thomas Nagel's ‘political conception’ of justice that holds that the requirements of socioeconomic justice apply only among those persons who are subject to the authority of the same political institutions. The paper has two aims.
Zoltan Miklosi
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Mutual Recognition and Moral Luck
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract According to contractualists, whether we are able to lead a flourishing and meaningful life is influenced, in part, by our capacity to relate to other rational self‐governing beings on mutually justifiable terms. At the same time, it seems that our success in relating with our fellow rational creatures on terms that they could not reasonably ...
Ken Oshitani
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Equine Veterinary Education, EarlyView.Summary A 4‐year‐old, 6‐month pregnant, Welsh pony mare presented with severe acute clinical signs including depression, anorexia, pale mucous membranes, tachycardia with a grade 4/6 holosystolic murmur and moderate expiratory dyspnoea with diffuse wheezes. There was no evidence of placentitis or fetal distress.
M. F. David +4 more
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Countercyclical Return Expectations: Evidence from the Livingston Survey
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, EarlyView.Abstract This paper shows that forecasts from professional economists in the Livingston survey imply countercyclical variation in expected excess returns on U.S. stocks. These expectations are approximately rational and strongly positively correlated with expected excess returns from the log‐utility investor of Martin (2017), the habit model of ...
STIG V. MØLLER +3 more
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Climate Change, Demand Uncertainty, and Firms' Investments: Evidence from Planned Power Plants
The Journal of Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How does demand uncertainty affect firms' investment decisions? We examine this question in the context of electricity‐producing firms' planned investments in new power plants. We measure uncertainty about future electricity demand using plausibly exogenous variation in temperature projections across scientific climate models. The results show
CHEN LIN +2 more
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Mind &Language, EarlyView.Attentional guidance plays two crucial roles in temporally extended agency. First, guidance stabilizes attention onto our tasks—and tunes out distractions—for extended periods of time. Second, guidance makes attention telic/atelic. Guidance imposes completion conditions on telic attention (e.g., searching for your keys) but not atelic attention (e.g ...
Zachary C. Irving
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Modern Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
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Design and optimisation of rapid real‐time PCR assays for the detection of key Culicoides species
Medical and Veterinary Entomology, EarlyView.Species‐specific real‐time PCR assays were designed and optimised using primer/probe sets targeting C. obsoletus, C. scoticus, C. chiopterus, C. dewulfi, C. pulicaris, C. punctatus and C. impunctatus. Primer specificity and amplification efficiency were validated through in silico specificity analysis and real‐time PCR amplification profiling.
Elsie Isiye +10 more
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