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Open AccessSensitivity of turbulence parameters to tidal energy converter loads in BEM simulations
Renewable energy is playing an increasingly central role in the global energy supply due to decarbonisation and energy security aims. A vital aspect of renewable energy systems will be the predictability of th...
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Cosmopolitanism, International Development and Human Rights
This chapter shows that cosmopolitanism, international development and human rights can be articulated in ways that are more or less supportive of one another and of the expansion of global capitalism. The fir...
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Open AccessThe rotten core of presentism
Recently, some have attempted to reformulate debates in first-order metaphysics, particularly in the metaphysics of time and modality, for reasons due to Williamson (Modal logic as metaphysics, Oxford Universi...
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What an Ethics of Discourse and Recognition Can Contribute to a Critical Theory of Refugee Claim Adjudication: Reclaiming Epistemic Justice for Gender-Based Asylum Seekers
Using examples drawn from gender-based asylum cases, this chapter examines how far recognition theory (RT) and discourse theory (DT) can guide social criticism of the judicial processing of women’s application...
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When Microcredit Doesn’t Empower Poor Women: Recognition Theory’s Contribution to the Debate Over Adaptive Preferences
This essay proposes recognition as a preferred approach to explaining poor ’s puzzling preference for patriarchal subordination even after they have accessed an ostensibly empowering asset: . Neither the s...
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Critical Theory and Global Development
This chapter explores recent research by critical theorists concerning theories of (under)development. Drawing from the research of Thomas McCarthy, Axel Honneth, Jurgen Habermas, Amy Allen, Nancy Fraser, and ...
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Open AccessPlatonism, Alienation, and Negativity
A platonic theory of possibility states that truths about what’s possible are determined by facts about properties not being instantiated (or being ‘uninstantiated’). Recently, Matthew Tugby has argued in favo...
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Open AccessThe Virtues of Thisness Presentism
Presentists believe that only present things exist. But opponents insist this view has unacceptable implications: if only present things exist, we can’t express singular propositions about the past, since the ...
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Models and Behaviour of Stakeholders
Stakeholders’ behaviour has several impacts on model risk and model management. The asset side of the balance sheet may be impacted by feedback loops on financial markets. Customer behaviour is one of the top ...
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A Morally Enlightened Positivism? Kelsen and Habermas on the Democratic Roots of Validity in Municipal and International Law
A commonplace misconception identifies Kelsen as a one-dimensional legal positivist and Habermas as a one-dimensional legal moralist. I argue, on the contrary, that both theorists defend a complex normative co...
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Michael H. Tunick: The Science of Cheese
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The Public Sphere as Site of Emancipation and Enlightenment: A Discourse Theoretic Critique of Digital Communication
Habermas claims that an inclusive public sphere is the only deliberative forum for generating public opinion that satisfies the epistemic and normative conditions underlying legitimate decision making. He adds .....
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Open AccessA retrospective study investigating the rate of HER2 discordance between primary breast carcinoma and locoregional or metastatic disease
Overall survival of HER2 positive metastatic breast cancer patients has been significantly improved with inclusion of trastuzumab to chemotherapy. Several studies have demonstrated discordant HER2 status in th...
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Neal K. Van Alfen, George Bruening and Jan E. Leach (eds): Annual Review of Phytopathology
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Open AccessNeurofibromatosis 2011: a report of the Children’s Tumor Foundation Annual Meeting
The 2011 annual meeting of the Children’s Tumor Foundation, the annual gathering of the neurofibromatosis (NF) research and clinical communities, was attended by 330 participants who discussed integration of n...
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Books and booklets in brief
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Plant pathology in the 21st century
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The politics of plants
Food security is not a new concern, but has taken on new dimensions in recent years. Here we position food security in a broader context relating to the use and management of global biomass resources, and spec...
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Open AccessImproved survival of thalassaemia major in the UK and relation to T2* cardiovascular magnetic resonance
The UK Thalassaemia Register records births, deaths and selected clinical data of patients with thalassaemia who are resident in the UK. A study of survival and causes of death was undertaken which aimed to in...
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The early stages of verb acquisition in German, Spanish and English
This article provides a preliminary report on how children acquire verb paradigms, proposing a set of verb stages. The stages are: 1. Holophrases: the first action words appear; 2. Early Word Combinations: act...
