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Kinds of Things Terms modified by Things Selected AbstractsSUPERIOR TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY COMMITTEES , ARE WE DOING THE RIGHT THING?BIOETHICS, Issue 5 2009ASAF TOKER No abstract is available for this article. [source] TOUCH, SOUND, AND THINGS WITHOUT THE MINDMETAPHILOSOPHY, Issue 2 2006JAMES VAN CLEVE Abstract: Two notable thought experiments are discussed in this article: Reid's thought experiment about whether a being supplied with tactile sensations alone could acquire the conception of extension and Strawson's thought experiment about whether a being supplied with auditory sensations alone could acquire the conception of mind-independent objects. The experiments are considered alongside Campbell's argument that only on the so-called relational view of experience is it possible for experiences to make available to their subjects the concept of mind-independent objects. I consider how the three issues ought to be construed as raising questions about woulds, coulds, or shoulds,and argue that only on the normative construal of them are they resolvable as intended by the a priori methods of the philosophers who pose them. [source] SHAPE OF THINGS: UNDERSTANDING A LOOM WEIGHTOXFORD JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY, Issue 4 2009LINDA MÅRTENSSON If there is one thing to be learnt from watching people work in old traditional crafts it is this: The tools and the working procedures are never clumsy, never impractical (Hoffmann 1988) Summary Loom weights are common finds in archaeological excavations in Europe and the Near East. They represent the only remains of warp-weighted looms. The function of the warp-weighted loom is well known from ethnographic studies. The function of loom weights, however, has not been investigated and cannot be deduced directly from ethnographical data, since loom weights in antiquity were very different from those used in the twentieth century AD. This paper reviews the functional elements of a loom weight. The weight and thickness of loom weights are established as the defining functional parameters for the operation of the warp-weighted loom. A series of systematic tests demonstrated that the weight of a loom weight defines what yarn to use and the thread density. The thickness of a loom weight, and thus the width of the row of loom weights hanging closely together, defines the width of a fabric and , together with the weight of the loom weight , the thread count and density of the fabric. This new knowledge provides the methodological framework for archaeologists to calculate textile production possibilities from any given loom weight, as long as the weight and thickness are preserved. Furthermore, it allows scholars to assess textile production on sites where no textiles are preserved. [source] SUBSTANCE: THINGS AND STUFFSARISTOTELIAN SOCIETY SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME, Issue 1 2004Peter Hacker The categorial concepts of substance (thing) and substance (stuff) are described, and the conceptual relationships between things and their constitutive stuff delineated. The relationship between substance concepts, expressed by other count-nouns, and natural kind concepts is examined. Artefacts and their parts are argued to be substances, whereas parts of organisms are not. The confusions of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century philosophers who invoked the concept of substance are adumbrated. [source] Reducing Child Poverty with Cash Transfers: A Sure Thing?DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW, Issue 5 2006Armando Barrientos Children are disproportionately represented among the income-poor, many suffer from severe deprivation, and their poverty and vulnerability have cumulative and long-term consequences. This article provides a comparative examination of the poverty-reduction effectiveness of cash transfer programmes targeting children, focusing on three types of such programmes: the Child Support Grant in South Africa, family allowances in transition countries, and targeted conditional cash transfer programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean. It finds that, despite differences in design, cash transfer programmes targeting children in poor households are an effective way of reducing poverty. [source] Seeing What is the Kind Thing to Do: Perception and Emotion in MoralityDIALECTICA, Issue 3 2007Peter Goldie I argue that it is possible, in the right circumstances, to see what the kind thing is to do: in the right circumstances, we can, literally, see deontic facts, as well as facts about others' emotional states, and evaluative facts. In arguing for this, I will deploy a notion of non-inferential perceptual belief or judgement according to which the belief or judgement is arrived at non-inferentially in the phenomenological sense (in the sense of involving no conscious reasoning on the subject's part) and yet is inferential in the epistemic sense (in the sense of being justifiable by the subject after the belief or judgement has been arrived at). The ability to arrive at these kinds of beliefs and judgements is part of virtue, and is also part of what it is to grasp thick ethical concepts in an engaged way. When we come to thinner evaluative and deontic facts and thinner ethical concepts, however, the requirements for non-inferential perceptual belief and judgement are less easily met. Seeing what is the kind thing to do is one matter; seeing what is the right thing to do is another. [source] Learning Styles,How Making Too Many "Wrong Mistakes" Is the Right Thing to Do: A Response to SparksFOREIGN LANGUAGE ANNALS, Issue 3 2006Obdulia Castro First page of article [source] Currents: Articles in BriefGLOBAL BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATIONAL EXCELLENCE, Issue 1 2001Rachael Green Seven Strategies for Retaining Top Talent Five Ways to Re-recruit Your Employees Building an Effective Global Business Team Lead for Loyalty Do the Right Thing Making Performance Management Relevant Can Pay for Performance Really Work? [source] An Odd Thing Happened on the Way to Balancing: East Asian States' Reactions to China's RiseINTERNATIONAL STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 3 2010Steve Chan Are East Asian states reacting to China's rise according to balance-of-power expectations? This review discusses the pertinent debate and presents overtime data germane to this question. It raises several issues of theoretical argumentation and historical purview pertaining to this debate, and concludes that the conduct of China's neighbors thus far is anomalous from the traditional balance-of-power perspective. [source] Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing: Authority Relations, Ideological Conservatism, and Creativity in Confucian-Heritage CulturesJOURNAL FOR THE THEORY OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, Issue 1 2008DAVID YAU FAI HO ABSTRACT Throughout history, the generation, exercise, and dissemination of knowledge are fraught with dangers, the root causes of which are traceable to the definition of authority relations. The authors compare Greek myths and Chinese legends, setting the stage for a metarelational analysis of authority relations between teacher and students and between scholar-teachers and political rulers in Confucian-heritage cultures. These two relations are rooted in ideological conservatism. They are related in a higher-order relation or metarelation: Political control and the definition of the teacher-student relationship reinforce each other in consolidating authoritarian values. Thus, ideological conservatism shapes educational philosophy and socialization. It conflicts with present demands for creativity in the service of knowledge-based economies. Hence, a major issue in cultural change to be addressed concerns the dilemma between maintaining authoritarian control and enhancing creativity. [source] Laser Welding of Plastics , a Neat ThingLASER TECHNIK JOURNAL, Issue 5 2010The story of a popular laser application Industry has been dealing with the joining of plastics for over half a century. The wish for an economically viable method of joining components was there already when the injection molding process was developed. With the advent of industrial laser technology, laser welding developed into a practical solution for many plastics joining problems. [source] Nirvana as the Last Thing?MODERN THEOLOGY, Issue 1 2000The Iconic End of the Narrative Imagination The essay argues that the life of the world to come, the hoped-for final end of the individual Christian, cannot be characterized or represented narratively; that it can be represented both formally and ironically; and that what Buddhists have said about Nirvana may serve Christian theologians in the development of more adequate formal and iconic representations of the life of the world to come. This is, then an essay in Christian theology concerned primarily to elucidate, at a relatively high degree of abstraction, some syntactical elements in the Christian master text; and secondarily, to comment upon some semantic elements therein. [source] From Vietnam to Kosovo Is The Diet-Coke Generation: Ready for the Real Thing?NEW PERSPECTIVES QUARTERLY, Issue 5 2000Article first published online: 28 JUN 200 No abstract is available for this article. [source] Prediction Models Assessing Transplant Center Performance: Can a Little Knowledge be a Dangerous Thing?AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION, Issue 2 2006J. D. Schold No abstract is available for this article. [source] Architecture of Disbelief: Is Architectural Speciation a Good Thing?ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, Issue 3 2009Neil Spiller Abstract Can visionary architects have their cake and eat it, luxuriating in pecuniary success while also continuing to assert their avant-gardism? Neil Spiller attended a conference in Cornell that brought the role of the architectural visionary under the spotlight and gave him much food for thought. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] That Old Thing Called Flexibility: An Interview with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott BrownARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, Issue 1 2009Francesco Proto Abstract Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown hold an unrivalled position within architecture. Now written several decades ago, their classic books Learning from Las Vegas and Complexity and Contradiction remain unsurpassed for their ability to shock and overturn current architectural thought. Francesco Proto talks to Venturi and Scott Brown on their present thinking about iconography, transparency, spectacularisation, architectural pornography and the contemporary architectural avant-garde. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Elephants, Quality, and Doing the Right ThingACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, Issue 5 2009Arthur B. Sanders MD No abstract is available for this article. [source] Gender, Ideology and Issue Preference: Is There such a Thing as a Political Women's Interest in Britain?1BRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, Issue 1 2004Rosie Campbell This article is not intended as a comprehensive study of gender and attitude in Britain. Neither is it a thorough analysis of gender and vote in Britain. It is, however, designed to ascertain whether there is any evidence to suggest that men and women might think about politics in different ways. Mainstream measures of ideology are examined and it is asked whether they can be applied equally to both sexes and also whether issues that might be defined as being especially important to women, such as health and education, provide more powerful explanations of women's voting choices than men's. [source] The Original Meaning of "Democracy": Capacity to Do Things, not Majority RuleCONSTELLATIONS: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CRITICAL AND DEMOCRATIC THEORY, Issue 1 2008Josiah Ober First page of article [source] An Exchange for All Things?GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, Issue 1 2001An Inquiry into the Scholarship of Fire Fire was once considered a founding element and an informing principle for analysis of the world. Today it is neither. Its study resides primarily in those countries that have both public lands, which hold fire, and scientific institutions, with which to study it. In particular, forestry has long claimed fire as a speciality and continues to harbour the most practical experience regarding it. In fact, fire may deserve better, and can give more. A case, not entirely whimsical, can be made for a programme of ,fire studies' that could span the many forms of scholarship that share an interest in humanity's species monopoly over fire's manipulation. [source] Good Government Means Different Things in Different CountriesGOVERNANCE, Issue 1 2010MATT ANDREWS Work on good governance implies a one-best-way model of effective government. This has isomorphic influences on development, whereby governments are influenced to adopt a one-size-fits-all approach to get things done. This article challenges whether such an approach exists, proposing that models actually do not hold even for the so-called effective governments. Governments look different, even if they are similarly called models of good government. This proposition is examined through a study of public financial management practices in a set of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and non-OECD countries. The study shows that effective governments are not more likely to exhibit better practice characteristics implied in one-best-way models. Good public financial management means different things in different countries. The article concludes by suggesting that good governance models give way to menus and the development community invest more time in examining why different countries select different menu items. [source] Sleep apnea and dialysis therapies: Things that go bump in the night?HEMODIALYSIS INTERNATIONAL, Issue 4 2007Mark L. UNRUH Abstract Sleep apnea has been linked to excessive daytime sleepiness, depressed mood, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease in the general population. The prevalence of severe sleep apnea in the conventional thrice-weekly hemodialysis population has been estimated to be more than 50%. Sleep apnea leads to repetitive episodes of hypoxemia, hypercapnia, sleep disruption, and activation of the sympathetic nervous system. The hypoxemia, arousals, and intrathoracic pressure changes associated with sleep apnea lead to sympathetic activation, endothelial dysfunction, oxidative stress, and inflammation. Because sleep apnea has been shown to be widespread in the conventional dialysis population, it may be that sleep apnea contributes substantially to the sleepiness, poor quality of life, and cardiovascular disease found in this population. The causal links between conventional dialysis and sleep apnea remain speculative, but there are likely multiple factors related to volume status and azotemia that contribute to the high rate of severe sleep apnea in dialysis patients. Both nocturnal automated peritoneal dialysis and nocturnal hemodialysis have been associated with reduced severity of sleep apnea. Nocturnal dialysis modalities may provide tools to increase our understanding of the uremic sleep apnea and may also provide therapeutic alternatives for end-stage renal disease patients with severe sleep apnea. In conclusion, sleep apnea is an important, but overlooked, public health problem for the dialysis population. The impact of sleep apnea treatment in this high-risk population may include reduced sleepiness, better mood and blood pressure, and lowered risk of cardiovascular disease. [source] On Treating Things as People: Objectification, Pornography, and the History of the VibratorHYPATIA, Issue 2 2006JENNIFER M. SAULArticle first published online: 9 JAN 200 This article discusses recent feminist arguments for the possible existence of an interesting link between treating things as people (in the case of pornography) and treating people (especially women) as things. It argues, by way of a historical case study, that the connection is more complicated than these arguments have supposed. In addition, the essay suggests some possible general links between treatment of things and treatment of people. [source] Content Validation Is Useful for Many Things, but Validity Isn't One of ThemINDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 4 2009KEVIN R. MURPHY Content-oriented validation strategies establish the validity of selection tests as predictors of performance by comparing the content of the tests with the content of the job. These comparisons turn out to have little if any bearing on the predictive validity of selection tests. There is little empirical support for the hypothesis that the match between job content and test content influences validity, and there are often structural factors in selection (e.g., positive correlations among selection tests) that strongly limit the possible influence of test content on validity. Comparisons between test content and job content have important implications for the acceptability of testing, the defensibility of tests in legal proceedings, and the transparency of test development and validation, but these comparisons have little if any bearing on validity. [source] Facts Are Stubborn ThingsINDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 3 2008SCOTT HIGHHOUSE [source] Things Still To Be Done on the Still-Face EffectINFANCY, Issue 4 2003E. Z. Tronick Adamson and Frick (2003/this issue) have written a fine and challenging review of the research on the still-face. Of special value is their placement of the face-to-face still-face (FFSF) paradigm in a historical framework, which permits us to see how much about the still-face effect and infant functioning we have learned in the past 30 years. Their review led me to think about several issues. First was the issue of whether or not to standardize the FFSF paradigm. Second, Adamson and Frick argue the still-face put the "infant's reaction in a new interpretive frame," but it is a reaction that still challenges our "understanding of young infants' social, emotional, and cognitive capacities." Thus, I would like to discuss explanations of the still-face effect. Last, I discuss some suggestions for further research. For an elaborated version of this article, additional archival material is located at http:www.infancyarchives.com. [source] Some Things in Moderation: A Case Study of Internal AuditINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AUDITING, Issue 1 2000A.J. Berry Abstract The development of a system of moderation of assessment procedures in a new University is examined in this case study. Internal and external moderation are equated with internal and external audit and the relationship between the audit of content and the audit of procedures (Power, 1994) is examined in the light of differing modes of accountability (Sinclair, 1995). [source] The Secret Life of Things: Rethinking Social OntologyJOURNAL FOR THE THEORY OF SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR, Issue 3 2003Iordanis Marcoulatos Despite a recent resurgence of interest in social ontology, the standard conceptualization of social/cultural objects reiterates dichotomies such as nature and culture, subjectivity and objectivity: the objective components of a social/cultural environment are usually divided into their (symbolically vacuous) material substratum, natural or manufactured, and their imposed or assigned social import. Inert materiality and subjectively or intersubjectively assigned meanings and functions remain distinct as constitutive aspects of a reality that is intuitively experienced as a whole. In contrast,by means of examining a broad range of natural/cultural entities,I propose an experiential or visceral ontology of the social, which addresses the comprehensive nature of our experience of cultural objects, as well as their perpetual transmutability within the space between nature and culture, objectivity and subjectivity. This perspective allows for a cathexis of meaning in the material constitution of cultural entities,in contrast to a mere imposition of detachable layers of meaning,and suggests a reconsideration of our unexamined perception of social/political action as editorial supervision and correction. Moreover, I point out the centrality of the concept of practice for recovering the lived sense of social things, since practice, by virtue of its inalienable informality, constitutes the field of Protean renewal of this sense. I understand my approach as complementary to the body-turn in contemporary social theory, since I extend the postulation of meaningfulness in the objective aspect of subjective existence (i.e. the body) towards its lived surroundings, which are here perceived as engaged in a process of meaningful practiced reciprocations with corporeal subjectivities. [source] The More Things Change, the More They Remain the SameJOURNAL OF CLINICAL HYPERTENSION, Issue 4 2009Marvin Moser MD First page of article [source] The Matrix Model of dual diagnosis service deliveryJOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC & MENTAL HEALTH NURSING, Issue 3 2009B. GEORGESON bsc(hons) The Matrix Model is essentially a strategy for managing dual diagnosis across a range of agencies. It is a way of implementing partnership working across services and commissioning structures. The Matrix Model was born out of hard experience at the coalface of dual diagnosis treatment at a tier four service in Bristol. A very common experience, which many may recognize, was that clients with complex mental health and addiction needs were being sent from ,pillar to post' in their treatment. Things needed to change. Here is a method of how things can change. Briefly, professionals in the drug/alcohol and mental health fields co-locate, working with clients in each other's workspaces. In doing this, they create nodes of integration. These nodes of integration link through parallel-working to create a matrix. Outcome and key recommendation is that professionals in the drug/alcohol and mental health fields co-locate in each other's agencies, adopting an assertive outreach approach to working with dual diagnosis/complex-needs clients. [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||