Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Laws play some role in explanations: at the very least, they somehow connect what is explained, or the explanandum, to what explains, or the explanans. Thus, thermodynamical laws connect the match's being struck and its lightning, so that the former causes the latter; and laws about set formation connect Socrates' existence with {Socrates}'s ...
Julio De Rizzo
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Seasonal and diel acoustic activity of sei whales (Balaenoptera borealis) in the New York Bight. [PDF]
Sci RepPapadopoulos MR +7 more
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent philosophical work on pain distinguishes a variety of pain qualities and the mechanisms that give rise to them, but pain intensity remains a monolithic notion difficult to account for in reductive terms. The reason for this difficulty is that pain intensity is not a unitary phenomenal magnitude; pain is a complex experience featuring ...
Kim Soland
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Neutral lipid fatty acid composition in the epidermis and blubber of long-finned pilot whales (<i>Globicephala melas</i>) in the Northeast Atlantic confirms tissue-specific stratification. [PDF]
Mar BiolKebke AS +5 more
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Specialized Committees of International Organizations an Important Source of Organizational Autonomy
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Assigning the preparation of decisions to specialized committees composed of member state representatives is a widespread response to the ‘governor's dilemma’, that is, the tension between competence and control, in international organizations (IOs). We theorize a causal mechanism referring to self‐selection and agenda‐setting effects and show
Michael Giesen +3 more
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Genomic signatures of migratory preference and historical whaling in eastern South Pacific humpback whales. [PDF]
Commun BiolCelemín E +7 more
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The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
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Variations in Circulating Thyroid Hormone Profiles Across Age, Sex, and Pregnancy Outcomes in Killer Whales (<i>Orcinus orca</i>) Under Human Care. [PDF]
Animals (Basel)Robeck TR +4 more
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‘Chrystalline Talk’: Thomas Browne's Poetics of Concretion and Mineral Plain Style
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article charts the figuration, both material and rhetorical, of mineral bodies in early modern natural philosophy, paying particular attention to the second book of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica (1646). It argues that concretions (stony calculi and crystals formed through the aggregation of physical matter) make manifest a mineral
Jess Dunmore
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The Russian Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article brings together theories of history and filmic realism to analyze the representation of the provinces in Nataliia Meshchaninova’s The Hope Factory (Kombinat “Nadezhda,” 2014) and Andrei Zviagintsev’s Leviathan (Leviafan, 2014). It argues that these two films share a typically realist attitude of respect toward the profilmic in ...
Daria Ezerova
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