Results 51 to 60 of about 679 (156)
Powers That Be: An Adventure in Metaphysics
Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper is an investigation into the increasingly popular trend amongst philosophers on the metaphysics of powers, exemplified by the statement: ‘To be real is to possess a power to affect (or to be affected by) other things’. First, I briefly trace the history of this idea (from the Eleatic dialectic of ancient times to present day quantum
David Rozema
wiley +1 more source
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Philosophers often characterize perception as image‐like. There is little agreement, however, about what constitutes an imagistic or iconic representation. This article identifies five signature properties of iconic representations endorsed in the philosophical and scientific literature: item‐richness, feature‐richness, spatiotemporal ...
Jake Quilty‐Dunn
wiley +1 more source
Tropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Plasmodium vivax remains a challenge for malaria elimination in Nepal due to its ability to relapse. Radical cure with primaquine is effective but limited by poor adherence to the standard 14‐day low‐dose regimen. In 2022, the WHO recommended administering the same total dose (3.5 mg/kg) over 7 days to improve adherence.
Prakash Ghimire +18 more
wiley +1 more source
Hunting Guild Mediates the Effects of Fecundity and Mortality on Sexual Size Dimorphism in Spiders
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 7, July 2026.Female red‐legged golden orb‐weaver (Trichonephila inaurata madagascarensis) with a much smaller male visible near the tip of the female abdomen, southwest Madagascar. Orb‐web weavers are characterised by relatively sedentary females occupying aerial orb webs and highly mobile mate‐searching males.
Mona Hosseini +5 more
wiley +1 more source
European Eating Disorders Review, Volume 34, Issue 4, Page 1003-1015, July 2026.ABSTRACT Objective Maladaptive exercise is a common symptom of eating disorders (EDs). While several measures exist to assess current maladaptive exercise, there are no validated self‐report tools to assess maladaptive exercise history—an important symptom domain among individuals with lifetime EDs.
Katherine Schaumberg +23 more
wiley +1 more source
Natural Sciences, Volume 6, Issue 3, July 2026.ABSTRACT Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) was a blockbuster publication that problematized notions about the origins and nature of scientific revolutions. What became Kuhn's famous rubrics of “normal science” and “paradigms” were similar to concepts of “tacit knowledge” and scientific “frameworks” or “dogmas” in Michael ...
Mary Jo Nye
wiley +1 more source
Bayesian Methods and Universal Darwinism
, 2010 Bayesian methods since the time of Laplace have been understood by their practitioners as closely aligned to the scientific method. Indeed a recent champion of Bayesian methods, E. T. Jaynes, titled his textbook on the subject Probability Theory: the Logic of Science.
openaire +2 more sources
Natural Sciences, Volume 6, Issue 3, July 2026.Within quantum chemistry, density functional theory (DFT) is a revolution. This serves as an example of a multitude of other scientific events, supporting the idea that revolutions are always large, if observed with the appropriate magnification. ABSTRACT Distinguishing scientific revolutions from normal science is a subjective, conflicting matter ...
Sebastian Kozuch
wiley +1 more source
Retaining Models of Human Evolution After Repeated Falsifications—Why?
Natural Sciences, Volume 6, Issue 3, July 2026.Two 19th century paradigms of human evolution emerged: Humans are subdivided into isolated populations in an evolutionary tree, versus human populations interbreed (gene flow) with no isolates. The tree model has been rejected whenever tested since the 1970's, whereas gene flow consistently fits.
Alan R. Templeton
wiley +1 more source