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Expressivism and the practicality of moral convictions (2007)
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Many expressivists have employed a claim about the practicality of morality in support of their view that moral convictions are not purely descriptive mental states. In this paper I argue that all extant arguments of this form fail. I distinguish six... Read More about Expressivism and the practicality of moral convictions.

One-class classification for monitoring a specific land cover class: SVDD classification of fenland (2007)
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Remote sensing is a major source of land cover information. Commonly, interest focuses on a single land cover class. Although a conventional multi-class classifier may be used to provide a map depicting the class of interest the analysis is not focus... Read More about One-class classification for monitoring a specific land cover class: SVDD classification of fenland.

When “happy” means “sad”: neuropsychological evidence for the right prefrontal cortex contribution to executive semantic processing (2007)
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The contribution of the left inferior prefrontal cortex in semantic processing has been widely investigated in the last decade. Converging evidence from functional imaging studies shows that this region is involved in the “executive” or “controlled”... Read More about When “happy” means “sad”: neuropsychological evidence for the right prefrontal cortex contribution to executive semantic processing.

Error analyses reveal contrasting deficits in “theory of mind”: neuropsychological evidence from a 3-option false belief task (2007)
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Perspective taking is a crucial ability that guides our social interactions. In this study, we show how the specific patterns of errors of brain-damaged patients in perspective taking tasks can help us further understand the factors contributing to p... Read More about Error analyses reveal contrasting deficits in “theory of mind”: neuropsychological evidence from a 3-option false belief task.

The everyday life of the revolution: gender, violence and memory (2007)
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The ‘heroic life’ or the life of the revolutionary is one that resists or even seeks to transcend the everyday and the ordinary. The ‘banal’ vulnerabilities of everyday life, however, continue to constitute the unseen, often unspoken background of su... Read More about The everyday life of the revolution: gender, violence and memory.

Prime implicants for modularised non-coherent fault trees using binary decision diagrams (2007)
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This paper presents an extended strategy for the analysis of complex fault trees. The method utilises simplification rules, which are applied to the fault tree to reduce it to a series of smaller subtrees, whose solution is equivalent to the original... Read More about Prime implicants for modularised non-coherent fault trees using binary decision diagrams.

Risk and human rights in UK prison governance (2007)
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Risk and human rights discourses dominate the landscape of prison governance in the United Kingdom. For the most part, however, criminologists have focused only on concepts of risk and lawyers on human rights; there has been little overlap in the sch... Read More about Risk and human rights in UK prison governance.

Informed Consent, Anticipatory Regulation and Ethnographic Practice (2007)
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In this paper we examine the application of informed consent to ethnographic research in health care settings. We do not quarrel with either the principle of informed consent or its translation into the requirement that research should only be carri... Read More about Informed Consent, Anticipatory Regulation and Ethnographic Practice.

Appropriate treatment of corporate groups in insolvency: a universal view (2007)
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Clusters, key clusters and local textual functions in Dickens (2007)
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The paper argues that corpus linguistics can make useful contributions to the descriptive inventory of literary stylistics. The concept of local textual functions is employed as a descriptive tool for the stylistic analysis of a corpus of texts by Ch... Read More about Clusters, key clusters and local textual functions in Dickens.

RoMEO Studies 8: self-archiving: the logic behind the colour-coding used in the Copyright Knowledge Bank (2007)
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Purpose – The purpose of this research is to show how the self-archiving of journal papers is a major step towards providing open access to research. However, copyright transfer agreements (CTAs) that are signed by an author prior to publication ofte... Read More about RoMEO Studies 8: self-archiving: the logic behind the colour-coding used in the Copyright Knowledge Bank.

French public attitudes towards the prospect of war in 1938-1939: `pacifism' or `war anxiety'? (2007)
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This article challenges the received wisdom that French public opinion was infused with pacifist sentiment during the 1930s, and that this sentiment in turn contributed to the French defeat of 1940. It will suggest that French public attitudes toward... Read More about French public attitudes towards the prospect of war in 1938-1939: `pacifism' or `war anxiety'?.

?????? ???????? ??????? ??????? 75 ?76 ?? ???? ????? Tafasir al-mufassirin al-qudama' li-l-ayatayn 75 wa 76 min surat al-Nahl (Ancient Interpretations of Surat an-Nahl 75 & 76) (2007)
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This article in Arabic surveys interpretations of the parabolic imagery in Qur'an 16:75-76 found in the classical commentators al-Tabari (d. 923), al-Razi (d. 1209), al-Qurtubi (d. 1272), al-Baydawi (d. 1282 or 1291), Ibn Kathir (d. 1373) and al-Jala... Read More about ?????? ???????? ??????? ??????? 75 ?76 ?? ???? ????? Tafasir al-mufassirin al-qudama' li-l-ayatayn 75 wa 76 min surat al-Nahl (Ancient Interpretations of Surat an-Nahl 75 & 76).

Writing the resistance: recent books on Hizbullah from Lebanese perspectives (2007)
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Early allergen exposure and atopic eczema (2007)
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Background The relationship between exposure to indoor aeroallergens in early life and subsequent eczema is unclear. We have previously failed to show any significant associations between early life exposure to house dust mite and cat fur allergen... Read More about Early allergen exposure and atopic eczema.

Young people with learning disabilities who sexually harm others: the role of criminal justice within a multi-agency response (2007)
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This paper outlines the key findings from a recent study of statutory service responses to young people with learning disabilities who show sexually inappropriate or abusive behaviours, with a particular focus on the involvement of criminal justice a... Read More about Young people with learning disabilities who sexually harm others: the role of criminal justice within a multi-agency response.

Streams, Grants and Pools: Stakeholding, Asset-Based Welfare and Convertibility (2007)
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A mereological challenge to endurantism (2007)
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Une analyse économique de la protection contractuelle des bases de données (2007)
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Dans de nombreux secteurs de l’économie et dans notre vie de tous les jours, les bases de données ont une importance capitale. Tant les entreprises privées dans les domaines scientifiques, financiers, juridiques, du voyage et du divertissement pour n... Read More about Une analyse économique de la protection contractuelle des bases de données.

Intellectual property rights on information and market power: comparing the European and American protection of databases (2007)
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When the database sui generis right (“database right”) was enacted in 1996, many voices rose to criticise it vehemently. According to some, it would create an unprecedented intellectual property right on information, the latter being traditionally o... Read More about Intellectual property rights on information and market power: comparing the European and American protection of databases.