Reasons and biological causes. Some reflections on Boudon’s Theory of Ordinary Rationality by Francisco José León Medina

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Legal initiative for Gestational Surrogacy in Portugal: an overview of the legal, regulatory, and ethical issues by Maria Patrão Neves

“…In 2016, Portugal launched a second political attempt to legalize gestational surrogacy, proposing it as: being altruistic; forbidding a biological tie between the surrogate and the child; requiring a biological relationship between one of the legal parents and the child; and demanding a legal contract between the surrogate and the legal parents. …”
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The boundaries that constitute us: Parasite, pandemic life, and crises of vulnerability by Won Jeon

“…I posit the parasite and the virus as biological and communicational forms which model the impossibility of solipsism in life (be it viral, parasitic, or human). …”
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L'impossible integrite de l'individu : sur la trilogie d'Agota Kristof by Csaba Horváth

“…The biological duplication of the heroes makes impossible the traditional concept of the individual, while the historical experience ruins the idea of personality. …”
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The Bartleby Machine: exploring creative disobedience in computers by Bruno Caldas Vianna

“…Other missing human (or biological) skills present in art are emotion, goal-less production, and agency, which is a problem even when human volition is studied. …”
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Evaluación comparativa de la micromorfología del polen y las observaciones meióticas en algunas especies del género Salvia l. (Lamiaceae) en Irán by Masoumeh Safaeishakib, Behnaz Alijanpoor, Masoud Sheidai

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Riesgos de desaparición de líquenes por desplazamiento del hábitat en un escenario de calentamiento global en el suroeste de los Andes venezolanos by Vicente Marcano, Laura Castillo

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Travel literature from a female perspective : Aurora Bertrana’s pre-texts and other European travellers by Isabel Marcillas Piquer

“…This article explores the relationship between biological gender and literary subgenre consisting of travel literature to discern the common features and conventions underlying the pre-text of the travel books regarding women. …”
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La opinión pública y los imaginarios sociales: hacia una redefinición de la espiral del silencio by Dittus, Rubén

“…I examine the claims that humans possess a biological desire for peer acceptance and a fear of peer rejection, and I argue that both these claims have an essentialist connotation. …”
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In the night of nonknowledge: Derrida on freedom by Mauro Senatore

“…To this end, first, I shall explore Derrida’s early deconstructive reading of the conception of subjective freedom that underpins modern philosophical and biological accounts of the living. Second, I shall focus on the conception of the other’s freedom that Derrida finds at work in the symbolic machine of sovereign decision. …”
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Un ser humano construído socialmente: una aproximación (bio)tecnológica A social constructed human beeing: a (bio)technological approach by Francesca Randazzo, Juan R. Coca, Jesús A. Valero Matas

“…From a Social Imaginaries approach, (bio)technology can be considered as a contemporary social magma formed by biological, technical, psychological, sociological and axiological factors. …”
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Criminal reaction to Women murdering in Latin America in 21st century by Vinicius Ferreira Baptista

“…Finally, the scope of legal protection is generally limited to "woman" in a biological dimension. …”
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Epic Sock Puppet Theater : artistic tactics for mitigating online disinformation by Derek Curry, Jennifer Gradecki

“…The project is based on inoculation theory, a biological metaphor for building resistance against future disinformation through careful preemptive exposure to disinformation messages, as well as research that found that the revelation of a sock puppet account helped social media users identify other sock puppets spreading disinformation. …”
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Biocontrol of the pine processionary moth Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Denis and Schiffermuller, 1775) with plant extracts by M. Kherroubi, F. Mouhouche, Z. Zerrouk Izzeddine, M. Chahbar

“…En conclusió, els insecticides biològics metanol de pollancre (PMP) i cloroform-metanol de pollancre (PMC) van resultar més eficaços i, per tant, es podrien integrar en el control biològic de T. pityocampa juntament amb parasitoides d’ous.…”
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Venes i artèries : del model macroscòpic al microscòpic by Montserrat Cabello, Mariona Domènech Girbau

“…La utilització de les TIC en les activitats de laboratori no només permet acostar, en temps real, els fenòmens naturals als alumnes, sinó que pot ajudar a construir els models biològics que hi al darrera d’aquells fenòmens. …”
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Dades sobre la biologia d'espècies ibèrico-baleàriques d'<i>Artemisia</i> L. by Joan Vallès Xirau

“…La germinació de les cipseles, el tipus de cicle biològic, la biologia de la reproducció i la fenologia són els principals termes tractats. …”
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L’experimentació a l’aula del projecte “Biologia en context” : la mirada del professorat by Sílvia Lope

“…Des del curs 2005-2006 s’està implementat en un conjunt de centres de Catalunya el projecte de batxillerat “Biologia en context”, que prové de l’adaptació del projecte anglès SNAB (Salters Nuffield Advanced Biology). L’objectiu d’aquest projecte és disposar d’uns materials innovadors directament aplicables a l’aula així com d’un marc per a la formació i innovació en didàctica del professorat de ciències. …”
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“See, Its Eye is Fixed on It”: Anscombe and Wittgenstein on Animals and Intention by Duncan Richter

“…Gustafsson notices this problem, and offers a solution based on biology and, in particular, knowledge of what is and is not conducive to the flourishing of members of each species. …”
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The myth of the Humanities in crisis by Josep Maria Terricabras

“…This line of thought brings us ultimately to his recommending that, in contrary to the prejudices of specialisation, global understanding and a humanistic education be proposed which does not exclude mathematics, physics, biology or technology, as it is in the interrelation and the understanding of the difference that we can reencounter the sense of humanity.…”
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The human body from a biotechnological perspective in art contexts: active space of experimentation in constant transformation by Rafael Ortiz Martinez de Carnero

“…Over the last three decades, the rise of new conceptualizations around the human body in connection with technology and machines has led to the development of new art practices in parallel with technological advances in the fields of biology, medicine and computing. This paper examines the human body in art contexts where biotechnology plays a relevant role in the generation of new conceptualizations around the human body topic. …”
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