Browsing The College of Arts and Sciences by Issue Date
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Simplicity, Language-Dependency and the Best System Account of Laws
(Theoria: An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 2015-10)It is often said that the best system account of laws(BSA) needs supplementing with a theory of perfectly natural properties. The ‘strength’ and ‘simplicity’ of a systemis language-relative and without a fixed vocabulary ... -
From customer value co-creation behaviour to customer perceived value
(2020-10-15)This study investigates the chain effect of customer value co-creation behavior on the customerization capability and service capability of service firms and, ultimately, customer perceived value. The study evaluates the ... -
Vg9gd T Cell Induction by Human Umbilical Cord Blood Monocytes-Derived, Interferon-a-Stimulated Dendritic Cells
(2020-10-23)Dendritic cells (DC) are professional antigen-presenting cells that activate T cells to kill cancer cells. The extracellular products of DCs have also been reported to perform the same function. In this study, we examined ... -
The motherboard of myriad things: Daoism, Zhuangzi, and the Internet
(2022)Machines, instruments and tools offer many benefits, but according to the classical Daoists—Laozi and Zhuangzi—they can also interfere with living a life in harmony with nature. Despite this, the Zhuangzi offers numerous ... -
Causation in a Virtual World: a Mechanistic Approach
(2022-01-15)Objects appear to causally interact with one another in virtual worlds, such as video games, virtual reality, and training simulations. Is this causation real or is it illusory? In this paper, I argue that virtual causation ... -
Wong, Pak-Hang, and Tom Xiaowei WANG, eds., Harmonious Technology: A Confucian Ethics of Technology
(2022-07-06)Philosophers are paying increasing attention to the implications of technology. While technologies have always transformed the way we live, the speed of technological change in recent decades has made this more acute than ... -
Ethnobotany and Vernacular Names of the Lycophytes and Ferns of Tafea Province, Vanuatu
(2022-08)We conducted extensive fieldwork in the Tafea Province of Vanuatu from 2014 to 2021 as part of a long-term floristic study of plants and fungi, as well as analyses of changes in forest structure and plant diversity in ... -
Environmental Linguistics
(2022-10)Environmental linguistics is an emerging field at the intersection of linguistics and natural sciences. It recognizes the mutual relationship between cultural and ecological diversity, documenting linguistic structures and ... -
Environmental Linguistics
(2022-10)Environmental linguistics is an emerging field at the intersection of linguistics and natural sciences. It recognizes the mutual relationship between cultural and ecological diversity, documenting linguistic structures and ... -
The Motherboard of Myriad Things: Daoism, Zhuangzi, and the Internet
(2022-10-01)Machines, instruments and tools offer many benefits, but according to the classical Daoists-Laozi and Zhuangzi they can also interfere with living a life in harmony with nature. Despite this, the Zhuangzi offers numerous ... -
How realist is informational structural realism?
(2022-11-14)Informational Structural Realism (ISR) presents an innovative framework for understanding the "structure" that structural realists assert our scientific theories accurately depict about the world. Luciano Floridi's detailed ... -
Calendar Plants in Southern Vanuatu
(2023-05-03)One noteworthy example of these is the use of “ecological calendars,” in which natural cycles are observed as guides in time-reckoning. In southern Vanuatu, what we here call “calendar plants” represent the majority of ... -
Wind Lore as Environmental Knowledge in Southern Vanuatu
(Mokpo National University, 2024-04-24)Wind lore constitutes an important domain of environmental knowledge in eight cultures of southern Vanuatu (Aneityum, Futuna, Aniwa, Nafe,Naka, Netwar, Nanu, and Nahual). Our study reviews previous studies in Oceania which ... -
An ethnographic study of Vietnamese-Ukrainian identity
(2024-07-14)Vietnamese Ukrainians are a largely unstudied identity group that has recently attracted attention due to the impacts of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Our study examines Vietnamese-Ukrainian bicultural identity as experienced ... -
An ethnographic study of Vietnamese-Ukrainian identity
(Asian Ethnicity, 2024-07-23)Vietnamese Ukrainians are a largely unstudied identity group that has recently attracted attention due to the impacts of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Our study examines Vietnamese-Ukrainian bicultural identity as experienced ... -
"The children of the Sun and Moon are the gardens"—How people, plants, and a living Sun shape life on Tanna, Vanuatu
(2024-11-20)Based on original ethnographic and ethnobotanical research, we share how in the cosmology of Tanna, an island in Vanuatu’s southernmost province of Tafea, the Sun is viewed as a living, interactive being. Our initial ...
