Habits of Mind A Brand New Condillac by Jeremy Dunham

“…In this article, I argue that from at least the writing of his 1754 Traité des sensations, this reading fails to capture the true nature of his philosophy of mind. …”
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First-Train Timetable Synchronization in Metro Networks under Origin-Destination Demand Conditions by Hetian Chai, Xiaopeng Tian, Huimin Niu

“…With the help of even headway scheduling on each line, the problem is actually to adjust the departure times of first trains and connecting trains from their origin stations and the departure interval on each line. …”
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Coordinated Compliance Control Method of Five-Axis Redundant Industrial Manipulator Based on Monocular Vision by Hua Cen

“…According to the acquired object target position, the traditional Euler angle is used to calculate the actuator posture impedance at the end of the robotic arm, thereby realizing the coordinated compliant control of the five-axis redundant industrial manipulator. …”
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When “Things Fall Apart”: Thinking Through Absurdity with Arendt and Aseyev by Cana Beverage

“…War often occasions such moments, not just because of the moral and political turmoil that accompanies it or the physical damage it inflicts upon people and their environments, but also because of its absurdity; this latter feature, the absurdity of war, is captured by Stanislav Aseyev, a Donetsk-born Ukrainian writer, in his books In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas and The Torture Camp on Paradise Street. …”
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Politicisation and the Rhetoric of Shanghai Urbanism by Non Arkaraprasertkul

“…The purpose is to check in a practical way the actuality of the built environment in relation to its history and political presence through first-hand primary sources, which is intended to fill unanticipated voids that surfaced in the understanding of Shanghai in a physical sense. …”
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Rusya Federasyonu’nun Kafkasya Politikası: Bütüncül Bakış by Ahmet SAPMAZ

“…However, considering especially security policies of the RF, it is possible to see that the region is actually handled holistically. In the post-Cold War period, the Caucasus formed one of the most dynamic areas of RF's domestic, foreign and security policy and almost served as a testing ground for analyzing Moscow's reaction to the developments. …”
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Recognizing Florida's Venomous Snakes by Steve A. Johnson, Martin B. Main

“…Therefore it is best not to attempt to capture, harass, or harm any snake. To do so may put you at risk of being bitten by a venomous species. …”
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Rethinking Bodily Expression in Human-Robot Communication: Insights from Sculpture. by Belinda J Dunstan, Guy Hoffman

“…We illustrate the third principle via a robot design that uses a flexible fabric skin stretched over rigid and elastic actuation elements. Using insights from sculpture can promote the design of robots from a transdisciplinary perspective by increasing the readability of robot intent and affect even when the robot is not actively moving.…”
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Indigenous Agency in the Missionary Encounter: The Example of the Khanty and the Nenets by Eva Toulouze

“…This article intends to present another view of the encounter, showing firstly why this erroneous vision developed and secondly how the Khanty and the Nenets are actually active in the interaction. It shows how in both cases, either by accepting or by refusing, the natives follow their own interests and their own decisions without submitting to stronger constraint against their will. …”
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Inside the Black Box: Detecting and Mitigating Algorithmic Bias Across Racialized Groups in College Student-Success Prediction by Denisa Gándara, Hadis Anahideh, Matthew P. Ison, Lorenzo Picchiarini

“…Because predictive algorithms rely on historical data, they capture societal injustices, including racism. In this study, we examine how the accuracy of college student success predictions differs between racialized groups, signaling algorithmic bias. …”
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Money as a coordinating device of a commodity economy: old and new, Russian and French readings of Marx by Nikolay Nenovsky

“…While the former pair upheld the theory of value (each one in his own way), the latter actually eliminated it (again each one in his own way).…”
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Descartes on Natural Signs and the Case of Sensory Perception

“…This is supported by Descartes’ consistent usage of the notion of sign for capturing the activities exclusive to embodied minds. …”
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A Discourse Coherence Analysis Method Combining Sentence Embedding and Dimension Grid by Lanlan Jiang, Shengjun Yuan, Jun Li

“…In this paper, we propose a discourse coherence analysis method combining sentence embedding and the dimension grid, we obtain sentence-level vector representation by deep learning, and we introduce a coherence model that captures the fine-grained semantic transitions in text. …”
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Perspectivas de reforma del sector del agua en México: un análisis institucional by Ma. de Lourdes Amaya Ventura

“…En este ensayo se examinan las condiciones actuales de México con la intención de determinar la conveniencia de una reforma del marco institucional del sector del agua. …”
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Responsive Harmony in the <i>Zhuangzi</i> by Luyao Li

“…It first challenges Chenyang Li’s distinction between Confucian “active harmony” (主动和谐) and Daoist “passive harmony” (被动和谐), arguing that the “passive” label fails to capture the characteristic of Zhuangzian harmony. …”
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A Beginner’s Guide to Water Management — Color by Florida LAKEWATCH

“… Aside from water clarity, the color of water in a lake is one of the main attributes that captures people's attention—particularly if the color begins to change. …”
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Engins de pêche dans les collections du Musée de l’Homme by Serge Bahuchet, Pauline Rameau, Nastassia Reyes

“…Nous décrivons 95 objets ou lots d’objets se rapportant aux techniques de pêche, conservés dans les collections d’anthropologie culturelle du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, au Musée de l’Homme : 77 engins de pêche, et des objets accessoires (liés aux embarcations, à la manipulation des prises ou à leur préparation après la capture), recueillis dans 26 pays différents. Cet ensemble est présenté selon la classification fonctionnelle élaborée par Théodore Monod (1973), que nous avons modifiée pour les pêches avec des hameçons. …”
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H∞ Networked Cascade Control System Design for Turboshaft Engines with Random Packet Dropouts by Xiaofeng Liu, Xu Sun

“…The distributed control architecture becomes more and more important in future gas turbine engine control systems, in which the sensors and actuators will be connected to the controllers via a network. …”
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Vincent Gayon, L’OCDE au travail. Contribution à une sociologie historique de la « coopération économique internationale » sur le chômage et l’emploi (1970-2010) by Vincent Gayon

“…If the OECD’s publications are often referred to or criticized, very few academic efforts have actually tried to analyze their elaboration. Based on the organization’s archives, the objective of this thesis is to fill in this gap by analyzing the production of OECD expertise on unemployment and employment, from the beginning of the 1970s to nowadays. …”
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La ciencia en José Martí by José Ramón Gómez Cobelo

“…En este artículo se hace un análisis, sobre la base del enfoque de sistema y la filosofía de la relación, de las ideas martianas sobre la ciencia, así como la evolución de la relación desde la perspectiva martiana y su utilidad en los tiempos actuales.Se ejemplifica con su propia obra poética, específicamente los Versos sencillos.…”
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