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50,000 years of Japanese prehistory : a transcript of the symposium of November 1, 1978, University of Manitoba
(2012-04-11) Monks, Gregory G.; Kobayoshi, Tatsuo; Pearson, Richard; Ikawa-Smith, Fumiko; Koike, Hiroko; Matsushima, Yoshiake
This volume contains two presentations. The first is a transcript of a seminar on Japanese prehistory, which was given in conjunction with (and to provide context for) the exhibit, "50,000 Years of Japanese Prehistory" at the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature. It has been edited heavily (by G.G. Monks) in places to ensure clarity, eliminate redundancy and improve grammar. The second presentation is a paper on seasonality estimation using bivalve mollusc shells.
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À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs étude de la structure
(1975) Sheffield, Margaret Jean
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Absolute idealism as affecting social philosophy
(1923) Solmundsson, Johann Pjetur
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Accessing populations with specialized clinical needs: an illustrative case study using Google Adwords™
(American Psychological Assocation, 2013) Eaton, Warren O.; Kenyon, Katherine M.
When seeking help for health problems, a majority of individuals now look online first. There they are confronted with millions of results and typically visit only a few toplisted websites. As a consequence, being noticed is a significant problem for psychologists who use online tools to recruit help-seeking persons to either research studies or professional practices. The salience of a psychologist’s online presence can be increased through the use pay-per-click (PPC) advertisements that, for a price, appear near the top of the search results listings. The potential of PPC advertising to recruit a clinical sample for a research survey on childhood obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD) was tested in this proof-of-concept case study using Google AdwordsTM. We created and implemented ads whose appearance on searchers screens was triggered by selected keywords that matched the content of our website landing page. Ads were displayed in 11 selected geographic locations worldwide and were aimed at parents of children with OCD. Over a 16-week campaign 183 participants completed our survey at an average cost of $27 per survey completion. Detailed keyword phrases were most effective, and geographical variation was notable. The results show that PPC advertising can be cost effective for the recruitment of participants to studies on a specialized clinical topic. Moreover, because PPC ads can be restricted to small geographic areas, online advertising may also be cost effective for making psychological services known to potential local clients.
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Actualist modal realism
(2010) Murray, Adam Russell.
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Advances in the indirect, descriptive, and experimental approaches to the functional analysis of problem behavior
(Psicothema, 2014) Wightman, Jade; Julio, Flávia; Virués-Ortega, Javier
BACKGROUND: Experimental functional analysis is an assessment methodology to identify the environmental factors that maintain problem behavior in individuals with developmental disabilities and in other populations. Functional analysis provides the basis for the development of reinforcement-based approaches to treatment. METHODS: This article reviews the procedures, validity, and clinical implementation of the methodological variations of functional analysis and function-based interventions. RESULTS: We present six variations of functional analysis methodology in addition to the typical functional analysis: brief functional analysis, single-function tests, latency-based functional analysis, functional analysis of precursors, and trial-based functional analysis. We also present the three general categories of function-based interventions: extinction, antecedent manipulation, and differential reinforcement. CONCLUSIONS: Functional analysis methodology is a valid and efficient approach to the assessment of problem behavior and the selection of treatment strategies.
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Adventures in space racism: going beyond the Turing Test to determine AI moral standing
(2015) Novelli, Nicholas; Shaver, Robert (Philosophy) Hannan, Sarah (Political Studies); Martens, Rhonda (Philosophy)
In pop culture, artificial intelligences (AI) are frequently portrayed as worthy of moral personhood, and failing to treat these entities as such is often treated as analogous to racism. The implicit condition for attributing moral personhood to an AI is usually passing some form of the "Turing Test", wherein an entity passes if it could be mistaken for a human. I argue that this is unfounded under any moral theory that uses the capacity for desire as the criteria for moral standing. Though the action-based theory of desire ensures that passing a rigourous enough version of the Turing Test would be sufficient for moral personhood, that theory has unacceptable results when used in moral theory. If a desire-based moral theory is to be made defensible, it must use a phenomenological account of desire, which would make the Turing Test fail to track the relevant property.
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Aeschylus on Darius and Persian Memory
(JSTOR, 2015) Sampson, C. Michael
This paper considers how Aeschylus dramatizes the memory of his Persian characters, and argues that the contradictory recollection of Marathon in Persae reflects an imperial ideology with which failure is incompatible: the dramatis personae frame Xerxes' defeat at Salamis as unprecedented even as they summon Darius as a semi-divine benefactor. With recourse to what historians and anthropologists term “social” or “collective” memory, the paper then considers how such a portrayal of Persian memory would have resonated with an Athenian audience in 472 engaged in democratic debate over the nature of the burgeoning Delian League.
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The aesthetic relevance of artistic acts : an examination of recent contributions to the theory and metatheory of art
(1979) Davies, David Alan
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The aesthetics of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche : a comparative study
(1955) Engel, Srul Morris von
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Age of child obsessive-compulsive disorder onset and its relation to gender, symptom severity, and family functioning
(2015-03-17) Kenyon, Katherine M.; Eaton, Warren O.
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Age-of-walking as a predictor of childhood vocabulary
(Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal., 2011-04) Schultz, Jennifer N.; Eaton, Warren O.
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Aggression and older adults: news media coverage across care settings and relationships
(Cambridge University Press, 2020) Funk, Laura; Herron, Rachel; Spencer, Dale; Thomas, Starr Lee
ystematic, in-depth exploration of news media coverage of aggression and older adults remains sparse, with little attention to how and why particular frames manifest in coverage across differing settings and relationships. Frame analysis was used to analyze 141 English-language Canadian news media articles published between 2008 and 2019. Existing coverage tended towards stigmatizing, fear-inducing, and biomedical framings of aggression, yet also reflected and reinforced ambiguity, most notably around key differences between settings and relations of care. Mainstream news coverage reflects tensions in public understandings of aggression and older adults (e.g., as a medical or criminal issue), reinforced in particular ways because of the nature of news reporting. More nuanced coverage would advance understanding of differences among settings, relationships, and types of actions, and of the need for multifaceted prevention and policy responses based on these differences.
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Alasdair MacIntyre's tradition-constituted enquiry : an examination of its Aristotelian elements
(1995) Huebner, Christopher K.
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Alexander Dumas fils et la pièce à thèse
(1954) Harper, Frederick Kilburn
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Alfred de Musset : the man and the artist
(1934) Kruglikoff, Alexander
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Amour adultère et réflexion morale chez Marie de France un triptyque fondé sur les Lais
(1979) Jacobson, James.
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An analysis of empirical equivalence, its foundation, the evidence-theory distinction, and its entailment, underdetermination
(1999-10-01T00:00:00Z) Koolage, W. John
Historically, there have been three different forms of arguments to show that we can choose between theories in a non-arbitrary, and truth-tracking fashion: non-empirical virtues of theories provide a truth-tracking criteria, the evidence itself allows us to choose between the theories, and the historical success of science provides evidence for one theory over its rivals. I argue that each of these arguments fails to defeat the claim that, when faced with empirically equivalent rivals, selecting one theory over the others is not arbitrary. However, a defense of the claim that theory choice is arbitrary does not amount to the claim that theory selection is arbitrary. Thus, I argue that there is a motivation for the claim that we should not select any given theory, and that it is in principle possible to defend such a claim. However, my defense can only justify the claim that theory choice is arbitrary in a narrow set of cases: when it is used against people who are undecided with respect to realism and anti-realism, and when it used against people who are realists for reasons other than the belief that there are non-empirical virtues of theories. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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An analysis of the definition of qualitative confirmation proposed by Carl Hempel
(1969) Wiebe, Phillip Howard
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The analytic intelligence always proceeds by discriminations which introduce intellectual structure and contrast clearness into the subject but ultimately the distinction itself is subjective mental not objectively valid
(1935) Bellan, Alexander Louis