Spinoza’s Strong Eudaimonism by Brandon Smith

“…Weak eudaimonists do not ground their ethical conceptions of happiness in complete theories of metaphysics, epistemology, or psychology. …”
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Reflexivity, description and the analysis of social settings by Rodney Watson

“…One (among many other) crucial distinctions is that between 'stipulative' and 'essential' reflexivity - the former originating in part in G.H.Mead's notions of the 'I' and the 'Me', and extended within current theories of reflexive modernity. This concept has been wrenched by professional social scientist from its mundane moorings and has been 'elevated' into an analytic technique of self interrogation. …”
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« Soy feminista y me gusta el perreo » : les conflits de (re)signification dans les politiques sexuelles du reggaeton by Victor Santos Rodriguez

“…While the hypersexualized logic of reggaeton/perreo has traditionally translated into uninhibited sexism, it has at the same time served as a fulcrum for operations of feminist reversal as conceived by queer theories. The article highlights the centrality of the dancing (perreo) body as a semiotic space where redefinitions of the heteropatriarchal gender/sexuality regime play out, thus making a contribution to the literature on popular music, which is struggling to embrace this epistemological turn. …”
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Common Sense Diagrams: The US Two-Party System in Magruder’s American Government, 1917–2023 by Janne Holmén

“…The diagrams are analysed with the help of theories from the cognitive sciences. Magruder’s American Government has dominated the US civics textbook market since its first edition in 1917. …”
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The Architecture of a Lifetime: Structures of Remembrance and Invention in Walter Benjamin and Aldo Rossi by Jolien Paeleman

“…In present-day architectural criticism, Aldo Rossi’s oeuvre still constitutes a rich subject for discussion because of its resistance to easy pinpointing, even if Rossi himself explained his theories and methods of design on numerous occasions. …”
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Human studies and user studies: a call for methodological inter-disciplinarity (Brenda Dervin) by Brenda Dervin

“…Drawing on extensive literature reviews focusing, in particular, on user (and audience) research in the fields of library and information science and communication studies, the author describes the increasing chaos of human studies and user studies--the plethora of theories, concepts, approaches, methods, and findings which plague researchers within and between fields and bewilder policy maker and practitioner observers. …”
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What kind of intuition for what kind of education: A scoping review by Rosa Cera, Marta Sinclair

“…The results show that STEM disciplines are more interested in the educational dimension of intuition and conceptualise it according to psychological or neurological theories; they find it useful in experiential learning for training expert intuition through visual elements. …”
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Metamorphoses of Corpus Christi: Eucharistic Processions & Clashes in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Vienna by Károly Goda

“… Through analysing the processional veneration of the Eucharist in Vienna, this study re-assesses and differentiates the existing theories on the socio-cultural roles of Central European Corpus Christi processions in the context of one of the most significant residential and capital cities of the Holy Roman Empire. …”
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“Unnatural, unnatural, unnatural, unnatural unnatural” . . . but real? The Toolbox Murders (Dennis Donnelly, 1978) and the Exploitation of True Story Adaptations by Wickham Clayton

“…Through engaging with Todd Berliner’s work on incoherent narration, along with theories of, and approaches to, true story adaptation, this article addresses not only how the film functions, but how it works as an adaptation of “actual events.” …”
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The Feminization of Employment through Export-Led Strategies: Evidence from Viet Nam. by Thi Anh-Dao Tran

“…Surprisingly, most of the earlier studies omit one important empirical fact, namely that the feminization of work contributed significantly to their rapid industrialization. Feminist trade theories argue that export-oriented development strategies have so far been exploitative of cheap female labour in the South. …”
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Decision-Making Based on Spherical Linear Diophantine Fuzzy Rough Aggregation Operators and EDAS Method by Muhammad Qiyas, Neelam Khan, Muhammad Naeem, Samuel Okyere

“…Many researchers and scholars have suggested numerous fuzzy set theories to resolve these ambiguities and uncertainties. …”
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South Sea Daggers and the Dead Man’s Eye: Foreign Invasion in Fin-de-Siècle Optogram Fiction by Andrea Goulet

“…This is the age of post-Pasteurian fears of microbial contagion, of pre-Freudian theories of atavistic threats to civilized order, of Lombrosan anthropometry and its identification of the criminal classes in Europe with the ‘primitive’ peoples of Africa, South America, Asia, and the South Seas. …”
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Love and anger in Amazonia and in academia: a disciple’s account of Joanna Overing’s oeuvre and teachings by Carlos D. Londoño Sulkin

“…This is my personal account of her loves and peeves, her generous supervisory style, her theories, and her place in the history of our discipline and regional specialization, as I now see these. …”
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Linear and Nonlinear Dynamic Analyses of Sandwich Panels with Face Sheet-to-Core Debonding by Vyacheslav N. Burlayenko, Tomasz Sadowski

“…First, various popular theories of intact sandwich panels are briefly mentioned and a model is proposed to effectively analyse the modal dynamics of debonded and damaged (due to impact) sandwich panels. …”
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Research on Forecasting of the Compressor Geometric Variable System Based on the MAE Model by Cunjiang Xia, Yuyou Zhan, Yan Tan, Wenqing Wu

“…Finally, to make our theories more reasonable and convincing, experiments on different aeroengine states, including the transition state and the steady state, are carried out.…”
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A Single-Valued Extended Hesitant Fuzzy Score-Based Technique for Probabilistic Hesitant Fuzzy Multiple Criteria Decision-Making by Bahram Farhadinia, Atefeh Taghavi

“…Adopting such a unification process allows decision makers to disregard the probability part in developing fruitful theories of comparison of PHFSs. By keeping this feature in mind, we try to introduce a class of score functions for the notion of the single-valued extended hesitant fuzzy set (SVEHFS) as a novel deformation of PHFS. …”
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Well-being is dead, long live well-being! by Mark Piper

“… My primary concern in this paper is with how answering a central metaethical question about well-being impacts work on substantive theories of well-being. Specifically, I argue that well-being invariantism is a priori untenable and hence that any attempt to establish one or more substantive prudential goods as the ‘essence’ of well-being is doomed to failure. …”
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‘What are people for?’ by Yat Shun Kei

“…Despite the peculiarities of these theories, their conceptualisation of the environment had pointed towards an important question in employing the ecosystemic metaphor: what are people for?…”
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Method for Pythagorean Interval 2-Tuple Linguistic Multiattribute Group Decision Making and Its Application to the Ship Navigation Environment Safety Assessment by Fuchun Yuan

“…In this paper, some fundamental theories of the Pythagorean interval 2-tuple linguistic numbers (PI2TLNs) combined with the EDAS (evaluation based on distance from average solution) method are proposed. …”
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Content System of Physical Fitness Training for Track and Field Athletes and Evaluation Criteria of Some Indicators Based on Artificial Neural Network by Wei Wang, Xiaowei Chen

“…It is also the main source of many classic theories and methods of modern competitive training, and most of them are still in use today. …”
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