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What Is Truth?: On the Need for an Old Paradigm [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In this essay I argue for the need to restore our recognition of the importance of philosophical truth in our endeavor to understand our world and our selves.
Oxenberg, Richard
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Safety in Numbers: Developing a Shared Analytics Services for Academic Libraries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Purpose It is clear that libraries consider the use of data to inform decision making a top priority in the next five years. Jisc’s considerable work on activity data has highlighted the lack of tools and services for libraries to exploit this data.
Showers, Ben, Stone, Graham
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Maximizing information on the environment by dynamically controlled qubit probes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
We explore the ability of a qubit probe to characterize unknown parameters of its environment. By resorting to quantum estimation theory, we analytically find the ultimate bound on the precision of estimating key parameters of a broad class of ubiquitous
Alvarez, Gonzalo A.   +2 more
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Anticipatory analysis and its alternatives in life-course research: Part 1: Education and first childbearing

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2006
Procedures that seek to explain current behavior by future outcomes (anticipatory analysis) constitute a widespread but problematic approach in life-course analysis because they disturb the role of time and the temporal order of events.
Michaela Kreyenfeld, Jan M. Hoem
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Improved corrosion resistance and mechanical properties of severely deformed ZM31 alloy

open access: yesHeliyon
The hexagonal close-packed (HCP) crystal structure of Mg alloys lead to poor formability as well as other undesirable mechanical behaviors in an otherwise highly sought-after alloy for commercial use.
A.I. Alateyah   +6 more
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Ars vitae in Iamblichus and in the Stoic Seneca [PDF]

open access: yesSCHOLE, 2010
Seneca expounds a theory of therapy and teaching with the ultimate goal of self knowledge and wisdom. Some of his techniques are based on Pythagorean principles or derive ideas from them, among them the focused and constant ascesis of self control ...
Eliopoulos, Panos
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Program Eksperimental Perilaku Siklik Pilar Persegi Berongga Jembatan dengan Beton Berkekuatan Ultra Tinggi

open access: yesJurnal Teknik Sipil, 2015
This paper discusses the hysteretic behavior of Hollow Rectangular Section Piers (HRSP) by applying Ultra High Strength Concrete (UHSC) material. The experimental program conducted in two models of HRSP-UHSC specimens were loaded by combination of a ...
Mohammad Junaedy Rahman   +3 more
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"No, it just didn't work": a teacher's reflections on all-attainment teaching [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Setting - the practice by which learners are allocated to different classes on the basis of perceived ability - is a social justice issue. Despite overwhelming evidence that, overall, setting is educationally harmful and in discriminatory ways, the ...
Jackson, Colin, Povey, Hilary
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