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“In Pursuit Of Purified Persuasions”: Making (Some) Sense of the Modern Mind [PDF]
What is more essential to the philosophical act, what we study or how we study? Taking its cue from a line by Thomas Aquinas on the corruptibility of the natural law, this essay seeks to make some sense of the ways in which our way of knowing and ...
Clarke, John Emmet
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Elevation reverses the effects of forest structure on folivory and leaf asymmetry
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Centuries of timber production have homogenized many forests by reducing variation in canopy density and deadwood availability, with far‐reaching consequences for biodiversity and trophic interactions.
Soumen Mallick +13 more
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Cultural evolution and prosociality: widening the hypothesis space [PDF]
Norenzayan and colleagues suggest that Big Gods can be replaced by Big Governments. We examine forms of social and self-monitoring and ritual practice that emerged in Classical China, heterarchical societies like those that emerged in pre-Columbian ...
Huebner, Bryce, Sarkissian, Hagop
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Unravelling the spatial and temporal variability of natural disturbances in European forests
The heterogeneity of natural disturbance patterns and high temporal variability across European Forest suggest the need of adopting context‐dependent management strategies tailored to both the dominant disturbance agent and local environmental conditions, particularly in the most vulnerable regions, such as the Iberian Peninsula—with large and frequent
Sofia Miguel +5 more
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Saraband: The Memoirs of E L Mascall [PDF]
Reviewed Book: Mascall, Eric Lionel. Saraband: The Memoirs of E L Mascall.
Erb, Peter C.
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Abstract Aims To investigate the relationship between climate change cognition and behaviours (awareness, concern, motivation, behaviours at home and behaviours at work), positive and negative future cognition, and environmental sustainability attitudes in nurses and to identify the factors affecting environmental sustainability attitudes.
Sophia J. Chung +2 more
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Augustinianisms and Thomisms (Chapter Nine of the Cambridge Companion to Political Theology)
Excerpt: The standard linage of Augustine and Aquinas that emerges in twentieth-century textbooks of political philosophy is that of two fundamentally opposed theological approaches to the political.
Clair, Joseph, Gregory, Eric
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The Cowl - v.8 - n.19 - Mar 5, 1943 [PDF]
The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 8, Number 19 - Mar 5, 1943.
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Abstract Postprandial hyperglycaemia is characterized by elevated blood glucose levels following a meal and is associated with impaired vascular endothelial function. Regular exercise has been shown to preserve and improve vascular endothelial function.
Laura K. Smith +6 more
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This study applies stochastic rainfall models combining Markov Chains with gamma and mixed exponential distributions to a semi‐arid climate in Northeast Brazil. Model structures were evaluated using Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC), with maximum likelihood (MLM) for parameter estimation and cumulative distribution functions (CDFs) for validation ...
Gabriel Magno Cavalcante Calado +5 more
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