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Interleukin‐18 signaling promotes activation of hepatic stellate cells in mouse liver fibrosis

open access: yesHepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Interleukin‐18 signaling promotes activation of hepatic stellate cells in mouse liver fibrosis. Abstract Background and Aims Nucleotide‐binding oligomerization domain‐like receptor‐family pyrin domain‐containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome activation has been shown to result in liver fibrosis.
Jana Knorr   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Umwelt ethics

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2003
In this paper I will sketch an Umwelt ethics, i.e., an ethics that rests heavily on fundamental features of Jakob von Uexküll’s Umwelt theory. In the course of an interpretation of the Umwelt theory, a number of concepts are introduced.
Morten Tønnessen
doaj   +1 more source

Intencionalidade e Umwelt

open access: yesFilosofia Unisinos, 2018
O artigo procura analisar a noção de intencionalidade segundo a teoria de Umwelt de Jakob von Uexküll. Seguindo também o naturalismo biológico de John Searle, o objetivo é explicitar o significado filosófico da noção de Umwelt e mostrar que ela pode ...
Arthur Araújo
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Konstruktivismus

open access: yesMonitor Versorgungsforschung, 2022
Den Konstruktivismus-Artikel zusammenfassen zu wollen, heißt konsequenter- oder paradoxerweise ihn nicht letztgültig beschreiben oder einzelnen Autor:innen zuordnen zu können.
Markus Greß-Heister M.A., LL.M.
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New roles and challenges within the healthcare workforce: a Heideggerian perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Purpose To explore insights based on the phenomenology of Martin Heidegger, on the dynamic relationships between human experience and work roles. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the findings of a hermeneutic phenomenological study of nurse ...
Wilson, Anthea
core   +1 more source

Keeping a distance in neoliberal times: The politics of friendship in the City of Sanctuary movement

open access: yesThe Geographical Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract In 2010, the UK government transferred all contracts for the accommodation and reception of asylum seekers from local authorities to private contractors, followed by large financial cuts to support services. This article explores the consequences of these neoliberal reforms for the languages of asylum used by the City of Sanctuary movement ...
Franz Bernhardt
wiley   +1 more source

Umwelt as the foundation of an ethics of smart environments

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
Due to the increasing embeddedness of pervasive and immersive technologies in the built environment, a new type of spaces known as smart environments emerges.
Patrick Lecomte
doaj   +1 more source

Further considerations on semiosis in evolution: Arbitrarity plus semiotic fitting, and/or mutability plus natural selection

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2023
This essay attempts to combine some recent theoretical results in (bio)semiotics on arbitrariness, semiotic fitting, umwelt, choice, and extended theory of evolution into a more coherent whole.
Kalevi Kull
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Bringing Forth Within: Enhabiting at the Intersection Between Enaction and Ecological Psychology

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2020
Baggs and Chemero (2018) propose that certain tensions between enaction and ecological psychology arise due different interpretations about what is meant by the “environment.” In the enactive approach the emphasis is on the umwelt, which describes the ...
Mark M. James
doaj   +1 more source

Biopolitical subjectification

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2019
The article proposes a semiotic interpretation of the concept of biopolitics. Instead of a politics that takes “life itself ” as its object and, as a result, separates life as an object from subjects, biopolitics is read as subjectification – a ...
Ott Puumeister
doaj   +1 more source

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