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Expressivism and the practicality of moral convictions (2007)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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.

Libraries and open access: the implications of open-access publishing and dissemination for libraries in higher education institutions (2007)
Book Chapter

This chapter discusses the consequences of open-access (OA) publishing and dissemination for libraries in higher education institutions (HEIs). Key questions (which are addressed in this chapter) include: 1. How might OA help information provision... Read More about Libraries and open access: the implications of open-access publishing and dissemination for libraries in higher education institutions.

Risk and human rights in UK prison governance (2007)
Journal Article

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.

Socially Determined Perceptions of Risk are Reflected in the Decision to Request a Second Opinion Appointed Doctor's Visit (2007)
Book Chapter

Appropriate treatment of corporate groups in insolvency: a universal view (2007)
Journal Article

Effects of transformation on inequality in Russia (2007)
Book Chapter

Clusters, key clusters and local textual functions in Dickens (2007)
Journal Article

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.

The anatomy of metalepsis: visuality turns around on late fifth-century pots (2007)
Book Chapter

Beyond the European province: Foucault and postcolonialism (2007)
Book Chapter

The colonization of most of the free world between the 16th and 21st centuries has brought not only territorial but also epistemic and historiographical violence and domination. The end of formal occupation has not signalled the withdrawal of colonia... Read More about Beyond the European province: Foucault and postcolonialism.

RoMEO Studies 8: self-archiving: the logic behind the colour-coding used in the Copyright Knowledge Bank (2007)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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'?.

Education in occupational health psychology: Where have we been, where are we now and where are we going? (2007)
Book Chapter

At the first full conference of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology (Lund, 1999), the decision was ratified to organise activities around three fora. These together represented the pillars on which the European Academy had been fou... Read More about Education in occupational health psychology: Where have we been, where are we now and where are we going?.

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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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