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Migrant construction workers faced precarity but still found meaning
Study of African migrant construction workers in Portugal examining how meaningful work persists despite precarious employment, structural barriers, and inadequate labor protections through.
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Feminist logic may favor bilateralist strong negation
Feminist critique of inferentialism showing how formal logic systems embed political hierarchies and proposing paraconsistent alternatives that address these concerns.
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Metaphysics Reimagined
Analysis of metaphysics' loss of credibility and pathways for renewal through methodological integration of introspection, evolutionary evidence, and testable inquiry.
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Where ecospirituality is grounded: Nature as place
Analysis develops nature as place as foundational to ecospirituality through a conceptual trajectory spanning physical concreteness, human-nature relations, emotion, and aesthetics.
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What is groundwater?
Examines how groundwater shifted from participatory knowledge to abstracted resource in Western thought, suggesting metaphysical reorientation could improve water crisis responses.
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Finnish words for light and day reflect seasonal life in the north
Study of Finnish lexical and semantic frameworks for light and temporal concepts in response to extreme seasonal daylight variation in Nordic latitudes.
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Western and Middle Eastern media differ in framing Al-Assad's collapse
Transitivity analysis reveals how Western and Middle Eastern media used distinct linguistic strategies to represent Al-Assad's regime collapse according to ideological positions.
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Authors argue longevity research has an ethical case
Ethical case for longevity science grounded in autonomy and self-ownership rather than consequences alone; addresses philosophical and societal objections to aging research.
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Shaolin in Zambia emerges as a collaborative cultural assemblage
Study challenges state-centric views of Chinese cultural engagement by analyzing the Zambia Shaolin Cultural Center as a collaborative assemblage where diverse actors negotiate and adapt practices.
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Principles-based authorship guidance is proposed for science
Framework for responsible authorship practices anchored in transparency, credit, and accountability across research institutions, journals, and funding organizations
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Review examines the social life of HIV public health data
Review examining social dimensions of HIV public health data systems, conceptual frameworks for ethical practice, and governance concerns for marginalized populations.
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Heartfulness architecture links physical design with lived experience
Study examines integration of physical architecture with contemplative experience in meditation spaces using Heartfulness framework, proposing model linking design, atmosphere, ritual, and meaning.
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Aurignacian signs were deliberate and conventional
Research reveals that early modern humans 40,000 years ago used systematic geometric sign systems on Aurignacian artifacts, demonstrating proto-writing complexity comparable to later writing systems.