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Striated Muscle in Radical Prostatectomy Specimens
INTRODUCTION: The study aimed to determine if the presence and amount of striated muscle on the apical sections of the cruciate sections of laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP) specimens predict early and long-term urinary...
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Killing Kindly: Applying Jens Timmermann's Kantian Ethics of Animal Welfare to the Modern System of Livestock Farming
Alexander Lowe
Jan 01, 0001
This essay seeks to contribute to this conversation in an ethically applicable way, addressing specifically the Kantian vein of animal welfare discussed by Dr. Jens Timmermann in his essay When the Tail Wags the Dog: Animal...
Published by: Ursinus College
Inside the Anthropocene
Uwe Voigt
Jan 07, 2019
This paper deals with the question, what does it mean to be inside the Anthropocene? In order to answer this question in the first place one hasto have a notion of what the Anthropocene is. There is a seemingly simple factual...
Media Coverage of 3D Visual Tools Used in Urban Participatory Planning
The opportunities provided by adopting digitally-generated visual tools in urban participatory planning are compelling. These visual tools can promote interactions between authorities and citizens and among citizens. However...
Teardown Index
Replacing older homes with new ones constructed to higher efficiency standards is one way to raise the operating efficiency of building stocks. However, new buildings require large amounts of embodied energy to construct, and it...
Trust-Supporting Design Elements as Signals for AI-Based Chatbots in Customer Service
In the present study, different trust factors regarding customers' perceptions of their intention to interact with or without trust-supporting design elements as signals (stimuli) in an artificial intelligence (AI)-based chatbot...
Simulating lattice gauge theories within quantum technologies
Abstract: Lattice gauge theories, which originated from particle physics in the context of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), provide an important intellectual stimulus to further develop quantum information technologies. While one...
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Hidden figures
Uwe Peters
Mar 04, 2021
Abstract: Demographic diversity might often be present in a group without group members noticing it. What are the epistemic effects if they do? Several philosophers and social scientists have recently argued that when...
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Hidden figures
Uwe Peters
Mar 31, 2021
Demographic diversity might often be present in a group without group members noticing it. What are the epistemic effects if they do? Several philosophers and social scientists have recently argued that when individuals detect...
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Inside the Anthropocene
Uwe Voigt
Jan 07, 2019
This paper deals with the question, what does it mean to be inside the Anthropocene? In order to answer this question in the first place one hasto have a notion of what the Anthropocene is. There is a seemingly simple factual...
Objectivity, perceptual constancy, and teleology in young children
Uwe Peters
Nov 16, 2022
Can young children such as 3‐year‐olds represent the world objectively? Some prominent developmental psychologists—such as Perner and Tomasello—assume so. I argue that this view is susceptible to a prima facie powerful...
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Internet Voting and Turnout
Micha Germann, Uwe Serdült
Jun 01, 2017
Internet voting (i-voting) is often discussed as a potential remedy against declining turnout rates. This paper presents new evidence on the causal effect of i-voting on turnout, drawing on trials conducted in two Swiss cantons...
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Simulating lattice gauge theories within quantum technologies
Abstract: Lattice gauge theories, which originated from particle physics in the context of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), provide an important intellectual stimulus to further develop quantum information technologies. While one...
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The new retailer
Jens Nordfält
Jan 01, 2017
Retailers have a potentially great impact on the surrounding society. The retail store and the assortment it carries is often the interface between a manufacturing company and the consumer. The majority of all purchase decision...
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The River Lech—a Cyborg
Jens Soentgen
Jan 07, 2019
What is a river? Wikipedia describes a river as “a natural, linear body of water that flows over land surfaces.” This definition, however, is only an external and geometric definition; I would like to present an alternative. My...
The ‘dark side’ of personal values
Personal values are considered as guiding principles in one's life. Much of previous research on values hasconsequently focused on its relations with variables that are considered positive, including subjective well-being...
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Internet Voting and Turnout
Micha Germann, Uwe Serdült
Jun 01, 2017
Internet voting (i-voting) is often discussed as a potential remedy against declining turnout rates. This paper presents new evidence on the causal effect of i-voting on turnout, drawing on trials conducted in two Swiss cantons...
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The source attribution effect:
We tested whether mere source attribution is sufficient to cause polarization between groups, even on consensual non-divisive positions. Across four studies (N = 2,182), using samples from Germany, the UK, and the USA, agreement...
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