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Values Acquisition and Values Education: Some Proposals
(2001)Three proposals are made regarding values acquisition in schools. It is believed that: (a) optimal conditions for the integration of values into school-students' lives will include students' voluntary commitments; (b) ... -
Fact and Artifact : Reification and Drift in the History and Growth of Interactive Software Systems
(2001)We discuss the processes and forces informing artifact design and the subsequent drift in requirements and interests in the long-term growth of reified systems. We describe, following Latour, the strategies of technoscience ... -
Kripke's sceptical paradox : normativeness and meaning
(1986)Saul Kripke's recent discussion of Wittgenstein's later philosophy presents a powerful sceptical paradox. The conclusion of it is that no facts about an individual considered on his own determine what he means by his words. ... -
Swinburne on thought and consciousness
(1987)Some years ago H. H. Price put forward a dispositional account of thinking, suggesting that we are never directly aware of our thoughts as such, and claiming that we are, at most, conscious of inner word images (auditory ... -
Meaning, mistake and miscalculation
(1997)The issue of what distinguishes systems which have original intentionalityfrom those which do not has been brought into sharp focus by Saul Kripke inhis discussion of the sceptical paradox he attributes to Wittgenstein.In ... -
The Inaugural Address: Perception and metaphysical scepticism
(1998)In this paper I introduce and critically examine a paradox about perceiving that is in some ways analogous to the paradox about meaning which Kripke puts forward in his exegesis of Wittgenstein's views on Rule-following. ... -
Pharmacological characterization of cannabinoid receptor activity in the rat-isolated ileum myenteric plexus-longitudinal muscle preparation
(2010)Background and purpose: Cannabinoid effects on intestinal transit are commonly evaluated in rats. We characterized the cannabinoid receptors mediating the inhibitory effect of 5-(1,1-dimethylheptyl)-2-[5-hydroxy-2-(3-hyd ... -
Pharmaceutical foams : are they the answer to the dilemma of topical nanoparticles?
(2010)Nanoparticulate systems have the potential to improve topical drug delivery because of their capacity to enhance drug loading and dissolution, protect chemically unstable therapeutic agents, and improve product aesthetics. ... -
Louça de mesa da indústria brasileira: produto e produtor.
(2004)This study considered the Brazilian production of industrial tableware. This segment’s output is always there, to some degree, in every home, restaurant, hotel, school and hospital, catering to man’s most primal need. The ... -
The Robot Club: Robots as Agents to Improve the Social Skills of Young People on the Autistic Spectrum
(2010-04-12)To better understand the difficulties and strengths associated with both high and low functioning individuals with an autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), the hyper-systemising theory has been proposed by Baron-Cohen and ... -
Temperature Scales and the "Lithium Problem"
(2010-04-12)The discovery of the Spite plateau in the abundances of 7Li for metal-poor stars led to the determination of an observationally deduced primordial lithium abundance. However, with the determination of the baryon density, ... -
Drawing Out the Value of Drawings.
(São Paulo: Altermarket, 2009)This paper proposes an explanation for why academics disagree about the value of drawings. It notes that such disagreements can be found not only between academics in traditional text-dominated disciplines, but also ... -
Visual Reasoning: I see what you mean
(2001)This paper is a study of examples of visual reasoning from Wittgenstein. There are two key issues. First, to what extent are some lexical concepts predicated on visual examples? Cases of ostensively defined nouns such as ... -
Sustained delivery of salbutamol and beclometasone from spray-dried double emulsions
(2010)The sustained delivery of multiple agents to the lung offers potential benefits to patients. This study explores the preparation of highly respirable dual-loaded spray-dried double emulsions. Spray-dried powders were ... -
Discovery of a new soft gamma repeater: SGR J0418+5729
(2010)On 2009 June 5, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope triggered on two short and relatively dim bursts with spectral properties similar to soft gamma repeater (SGR) bursts. Independent ... -
Characteristics, Behaviors, and Attitudes of Men Bypassing the Healthcare System When Obtaining Phosphodiesterase Type 5 Inhibitors
(2010)Introduction. Men may choose to bypass the healthcare system to obtain a phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitor (PDE5i). Aim. Evaluate the characteristics and purchasing patterns of men obtaining a PDE5i without prior healthcare ... -
The topical delivery of benzoyl peroxide using elegant dynamic hydrofluoroalkane foams
(2010)Formulating benzoyl peroxide (BPO) in an effective topical product is challenging due to its poor water solubility and chemical instability, but delivering BPO using elegant foams is an attractive solution to this problem. ... -
Renoir and the half life of Impressionism
(2008)This article sets out to examine some of the traditional components of Renoir's practice as a painter. Modernist views of nineteenth century art history have long clouded our vision of many aspects of artistic practice in ... -
Computational Analysis of Facial Expressions
(2010-03-22)This PhD work constitutes a series of inter-disciplinary studies that use biologically plausible computational techniques and experiments with human subjects in analyzing facial expressions. The performance of the ... -
Emotional support for lone mothers following diagnosis of additional needs in their child
(2009)From a feminist perspective this article explores emotional support for lone mothers following diagnosis of additional needs in their child; this is in terms of previous and contemporary emotional support from informal and ...