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- The Imperative of Virtue in the Age of Global Technology and Globalized Mass Culture: A Liberal-Humanist Response to the Heideggerian Challenge.Borys M.Kowalsky -2011 -Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 31 (1):28-42.How has the globalization of technology contributed to the globalization of the war against the Enlightenment liberal humanism of Western civilization—in particular, to the globalization of the war between religion and science—and with what problematic moral, cultural, and spiritual consequences? Liberal-humanist and Heideggerian perspectives on this issue are considered. The latter is chosen because it constitutes an enduring philosophical and political challenge to liberal humanism. For Heidegger, liberal humanism, far from providing a solution to the problems of global technology, is (...) an inherent part of the problem. A case in point is liberal democracy’s use of technology to produce and purvey a humanly degrading mass culture which it also uses technology to export abroad, in effect, to globalize. The author sets forth a defense of liberal humanism against these criticisms. (shrink)No categories
- Recruiting Minority Research Subjects.Boris M. Astrachan -1986 -IRB: Ethics & Human Research 8 (2):11.
- Dialectic proof procedures for assumption-based, admissible argumentation.P. M. Dung,R. A. Kowalski &F. Toni -2006 -Artificial Intelligence 170 (2):114-159.
- An abstract, argumentation-theoretic approach to default reasoning.A. Bondarenko,P. M. Dung,R. A. Kowalski &F. Toni -1997 -Artificial Intelligence 93 (1-2):63-101.
- Existentially closed fields with finite group actions.Daniel M. Hoffmann &Piotr Kowalski -2018 -Journal of Mathematical Logic 18 (1):1850003.We study algebraic and model-theoretic properties of existentially closed fields with an action of a fixed finite group. Such fields turn out to be pseudo-algebraically closed in a rather strong sense. We place this work in a more general context of the model theory of fields with a group scheme action.
- Towards an evolutionary framework for human cognitive neuroscience.Boris M. Velichkovsky -2007 -Biological Theory 2 (1):3-6.
- Consciousness in a multilevel architecture: Evidence from the right side of the brain.Boris M. Velichkovsky,Olga A. Krotkova,Artemy A. Kotov,Vyacheslav A. Orlov,Vitaly M. Verkhlyutov,Vadim L. Ushakov &Maxim G. Sharaev -2018 -Consciousness and Cognition 64:227-239.
- 'I04 cogito: Spring 1994'.R. M. Chomsky &P. Kowalski -1994 -Cogito 8:103.Export citation
Bookmark - In search of the ultimate evidence: The fastest visual reaction adapts to environment, not retinal locations.Boris M. Velichkovsky &Sebastian Pannasch -2001 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (5):1008-1009.The sensorimotor account of perception is akin to Gibsonian direct realism. Both emphasize external properties of the world, challenging views based on the analysis of internal visual processing. To compare the role of distal and retinotopic parameters, distractor effect – an optomotor reaction of midbrain origin – is considered. Even in this case, permanence in the environment, not on the retina, explains the dynamics of habituation.
- The birth and development of new knowledge: Oliver heaviside.Boris M. Bolotovsky -1987 -International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 1 (2):143 – 175.
- Consciousness in a multilevel architecture: What causes the lateralization of effective connectivity under resting state?Boris M. Velichkovsky,Vadim L. Ushakov &Maxim G. Sharaev -2019 -Consciousness and Cognition 73:102755.
- From intra- to interpsychological analysis of cognition: Cognitive science at a developmental crossroad.Boris M. Velichkovsky -1993 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (3):537-538.
- On the variety of “deictic codes”.Boris M. Velichkovsky -1997 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (4):757-757.Eye movements play a variety of roles in perception, cognition, and communication. The roles are revealed by the duration of fixations reflecting the quality of processing in the first line. We describe possible roles of eye fixations in different temporal diapasons. These forms of processing may be specific to sensorimotor coordinations. Any generalization to other domains should be cautious.
- Space as reference signal? Elaborate it in depth!Boris M. Velichkovsky &A. H. C. Van der Heijden -1994 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (2):337-338.
- The “mesh” approach to human memory: How much of cognitive psychology has to be thrown away?Boris M. Velichkovsky -1997 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (1):39-39.While sharing the author's interest in the development of an action-based framework for memory research, I think the present version is neither new nor particularly productive. More differentiation is needed to describe memory functioning in a variety of domains and on the many levels of activity regulation. Above all, Glenberg's proposals seem to contradict empirical data.
- (1 other version)Materialistic Dialectics and Modern Physics.Boris M. Hessen -2019 -Epistemology and Philosophy of Science 56 (1):209-215.The report of B. M. Hessen at the I All-Union Congress of physicists. The Congress was held in Odessa from 19 to 24 August 1930. At the plenary meeting B. M. Hessen, made a report on methodological issues of quantum physics, the relationship of physics and philosophy. Mechanistic materialism in his time came to replace the scholastic physics. But he could not solve the problems of development and specificity of forms of movement. B. M. Hessen believed that the development of (...) the basic concepts of natural science (matter, space and time, motion, wave and particle, pattern and randomness) coincides with the approach of dialectical materialism. (shrink)No categories
- Mechanical materialism and modern physics.Boris M. Hessen -2021 -Science in Context 34 (1):155-186.No categories
- Marian Smoluchowski (On the tenth anniversary of his death).Boris M. Hessen -2021 -Science in Context 34 (1):137-141.No categories
- On Comrade Timiryazev’s attitude towards contemporary science.Boris M. Hessen &Vasiliy P. Egorshin -2021 -Science in Context 34 (1):143-153.No categories
- Levels-of-Processing Effects on a Variety of Memory Tasks: New Findings and Theoretical Implications.Bradford H. Challis,Boris M. Velichkovsky &Fergus I. M. Craik -1995 -Consciousness and Cognition 5 (1-2):142-164.Three experiments investigated level of processing effects on a variety of direct and indirect memory tasks, in the context of a processing theory of dissociations. Subjects studied words in five encoding conditions and received one of ten memory tests. In Experiment 1, four tests previously classified as conceptual showed a robust LOP effect, as did a direct perceptual test of graphemic cued recall. An indirect perceptual word fragment completion test was unaffected by LOP. Experiment 2 showed that a new indirect (...) version of a graphemic cued test was not affected by LOP. In Experiment 3, guided by a generation/recognition model, we constructed three new direct tests in which subjects identified words that were graphemically, phonologically, or semantically similar to studied words. The three tests differed in their sensitivity to study conditions, but LOP had no effect in any case, despite the involvement of deliberate conscious recollection. Contemporary explanatory frameworks couched as dichotomies do not provide an adequate account of the results. It seems necessary instead to specify the types of information activated by each encoding condition, the types of information required by each test, and how encoding and retrieval processes are modified by task instructions. (shrink)
- Fifth special issue in the seriesCognition and Technology Cognitive Research in the Light of Technological Developments: Advances and New Challenges. [REVIEW]Boris M. Velichkovsky &Itiel Dror -2008 -Pragmatics and Cognition 16 (1):1-2.
- How our world remains stable despite disturbing influences.Bruce Bridgeman,A. H. C. Van der Heijden &Boris M. Velichkovsky -1994 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (2):282-292.
- A theory of visual stability across saccadic eye movements.Bruce Bridgeman,A. H. C. Van der Heijden &Boris M. Velichkovsky -1994 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 17 (2):247-258.We identify two aspects of the problem of maintaining perceptual stability despite an observer's eye movements. The first, visual direction constancy, is the (egocentric) stability of apparent positions of objects in the visual world relative to the perceiver. The second, visual position constancy, is the (exocentric) stability of positions of objects relative to each other. We analyze the constancy of visual direction despite saccadic eye movements.Three information sources have been proposed to enable the visual system to achieve stability: the structure (...) of the visual field, proprioceptive inflow, and a copy of neural efference or outflow to the extraocular muscles. None of these sources by itself provides adequate information to achieve visual direction constancy; present evidence indicates that all three are used.Our final question concerns how information processing operations result in a stable world. The three traditionally suggested means have been elimination, translation, or evaluation. All are rejected. From a review of the physiological and psychological evidence we conclude that no subtraction, compensation, or evaluation need take place. The problem for which these solutions were developed turns out to be a false one. We propose a “calibration” solution: correct spatiotopic positions are calculated anew for each fixation. Inflow, outflow, and retinal sources are used in this calculation: saccadic suppression of displacement bridges the errors between these sources and the actual extent of movement. (shrink)
- Relationship of saccadic suppression to space constancy.Bruce Bridgeman,A. H. C. Van der Heijden &Boris M. Velichkovsky -1996 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (3):553-554.
- Effective Connectivity within the Default Mode Network: Dynamic Causal Modeling of Resting-State fMRI Data.Maksim G. Sharaev,Viktoria V. Zavyalova,Vadim L. Ushakov,Sergey I. Kartashov &Boris M. Velichkovsky -2016 -Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 10.
- The architecture is not exactly parallel: Some modules are more equal than others.Boris B. Velichkovsky,Andrej A. Kibrik &Boris M. Velichkovsky -2003 -Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26 (6):692-693.Despite its computational elegancy, Jackendoff's proposal to reconcile competing approaches by postulating a parallel architecture for phonological, syntactic, and semantic modules is disappointing. We argue that it is a pragmatic version of the leading module which Jackendoff would probably prefer, but which he does not explicitly acknowledge. This internal conflict leads to several shortcomings and even distortions of information presented in the book.
- Differential changes in self-reported aspects of interoceptive awareness through 3 months of contemplative training.Boris Bornemann,Beate M. Herbert,Wolf E. Mehling &Tania Singer -2014 -Frontiers in Psychology 5.
- A cut-free sequent calculus for relevant logic RW.M. Ili &B. Bori I. -2014 -Logic Journal of the IGPL 22 (4):673-695.
- Priority waiting lists: Is there a clinically ordered queue?Boris G. Sobolev,Peter M. Brown,David Zelt &Mark FitzGerald -2005 -Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 11 (4):408-410.
- Integration of Social Information by Human Groups.Boris Granovskiy,Jason M. Gold,David J. T. Sumpter &Robert L. Goldstone -2015 -Topics in Cognitive Science 7 (3):469-493.We consider a situation in which individuals search for accurate decisions without direct feedback on their accuracy, but with information about the decisions made by peers in their group. The “wisdom of crowds” hypothesis states that the average judgment of many individuals can give a good estimate of, for example, the outcomes of sporting events and the answers to trivia questions. Two conditions for the application of wisdom of crowds are that estimates should be independent and unbiased. Here, we study (...) how individuals integrate social information when answering trivia questions with answers that range between 0% and 100%. We find that, consistent with the wisdom of crowds hypothesis, average performance improves with group size. However, individuals show a consistent bias to produce estimates that are insufficiently extreme. We find that social information provides significant, albeit small, improvement to group performance. Outliers with answers far from the correct answer move toward the position of the group mean. Given that these outliers also tend to be nearer to 50% than do the answers of other group members, this move creates group polarization away from 50%. By looking at individual performance over different questions we find that some people are more likely to be affected by social influence than others. There is also evidence that people differ in their competence in answering questions, but lack of competence is not significantly correlated with willingness to change guesses. We develop a mathematical model based on these results that postulates a cognitive process in which people first decide whether to take into account peer guesses, and if so, to move in the direction of these guesses. The size of the move is proportional to the distance between their own guess and the average guess of the group. This model closely approximates the distribution of guess movements and shows how outlying incorrect opinions can be systematically removed from a group resulting, in some situations, in improved group performance. However, improvement is only predicted for cases in which the initial guesses of individuals in the group are biased. (shrink)
- Standard-Based Entitlement: How Relative Performance Disclosure Affects Pay Requests.Boris Maciejovsky,Gunyawee Teekathananont,Patricia Chen &Stephen M. Garcia -forthcoming -Journal of Business Ethics:1-16.The decision to disclose employee compensation has implications for workplace ethics, motivation, and performance. Pay transparency reduces pay disparity, fostering fairness, and ethical equity. Conversely, pay secrecy can maintain disparity but may drive increased effort. This study proposes a theoretical framework—standard-based entitlement—that explains the non-linear effects of pay disclosure. Our theory predicts that people’s compensation requests are not only a function of the information about their peers’ pay but also depend on individuals' proximity to the #1 ranking position (and other (...) meaningful standards). The results of four experiments across three studies reveal that pay transparency has heterogeneous impacts: It amplifies salary demands from top performers while dampening those of lower-ranked individuals. These results raise ethical concerns about the potential for pay transparency to exacerbate feelings of inequity and demotivation among lower-ranked employees, offering important insights for designing equitable compensation systems and organizational reward structures. (shrink)
- Preliminary insights into the constitution of a tibetan buddhist monastery through autoethnographic reflections on the dual/nondual mind duality.Boris H. J. M. Brummans -2008 -Anthropology of Consciousness 19 (2):134-154.In this autoethnographic essay, I reflect on my brief personal experiences of conducting field research on ways in which way a small group of Tibetan Buddhist monks enact a monastic total institution in Ladakh, India. More specifically, I analyze my experiences in view of the relationship between dual and nondual mind, as discussed by Henry Vyner (2002) in Anthropology of Consciousness, and use this analysis to develop preliminary insights into the ways in which a Tibetan Buddhist monastery is constituted.
- Stability of Risk Perception Across Pandemic and Non-pandemic Situations Among Young Adults: Evaluating the Impact of Individual Differences.Melissa T. Buelow,Jennifer M.Kowalsky &Amy B. Brunell -2022 -Frontiers in Psychology 13.Previous research suggests a higher perceived risk associated with a risky behavior predicts a lower likelihood of involvement in that behavior; however, this relationship can vary based on personality characteristics such as impulsivity and behavioral activation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, individuals began to re-evaluate the level of risk associated with everyday behaviors. But what about risks associated with “typical” risk-taking behaviors? In the present study, 248 undergraduate student participants completed measures of impulsivity, behavioral activation and inhibition, propensity to take risks, (...) numeracy, and perceptions of and involvement in both risk-taking behavior and health promoting behavior. Our study revealed that higher behavioral inhibition and greater propensity to take risks predicted greater likelihood of involvement in COVID-19-related risk behaviors, even after accounting for perceived risks and benefits of the behavior. Greater likelihood of involvement in social risk behaviors was predicted by greater numeracy and risk-taking propensity. Identifying as male, a greater propensity to take risks, and greater impulsivity predicted increased health/safety risk behaviors. Younger age, lower risk-taking propensity, and lower impulsivity were associated with a greater likelihood of donating blood. For the likelihood of registering to become an organ donor, increasing risk perception, both before and during the pandemic, was associated with greater likelihood of registering, but greater risk-taking propensity was associated with a decreased likelihood of organ donation registration. For flu vaccination, a greater propensity to take risks was associated with a greater likelihood of flu vaccination during the 2020–2021 flu season. Both cognitive and personality factors can predict involvement in risk-taking and health-promotion behaviors, warranting their continued examination. (shrink)
- Abbri, F.–Segala, M., Segni e percorsi della modernità. Saggi in onore di Paolo Rossi, Arezzo, Università degli Studi di Siena, Dipartimento di studi storico-sociali e filosofici, 2000. Addante, P., La centralità della persona in Antonio Rosmini. Filoso-fia, etica, politica, diritto, Milazzo (Me), Edizioni Spes, 2000. [REVIEW]L. Bonesio,P. C. Bori,C. Carrara,F. Milano,E. Castellani,E. A. Colombo,P. Colonnello,Fm–Loche Crasta,A. Lussu &M. –Marcialis Mt -2000 -Rivista di Filosofia 91 (3).No categories
- Review of Nugayev's book "Reconstruction of Scientific Theory Change". [REVIEW]Boris Rosenfeld &Rinat M. Nugayev -1994 -Physis (3):924-925.This book is a monograph aimed at an analysis of the reasons for fundamental theory change in science. The book was written and published in the last years of the Soviet Union, this fact explains the ‘dialectico-materialistic’ terminology used by the author.
- Risky Decisions in a Lottery Task Are Associated with an Increase of Cocaine Use.Amrei Wittwer,Lea M. Hulka,Hans R. Heinimann,Matthias Vonmoos &Boris B. Quednow -2016 -Frontiers in Psychology 7:188496.Cocaine use disorder is associated with maladaptive decision-making behavior, which strongly contributes to the harmful consequences of chronic drug use. Prior research has shown that cocaine users exhibit impaired neuropsychological test performances, particularly with regard to attention, learning, and memory but also in executive functions such as decision-making and impulse control. However, to what extent cocaine users show impaired decision-making under risk without feedback has not yet been investigated systematically. Therefore, to examine risk-taking behavior, 31 chronic cocaine users and 26 (...) stimulant-naïve healthy controls who were part of the Zurich Cocaine Cognition Study, performed the Randomized Lottery Task (RALT) with winning lotteries consisting of an uncertain and a certain prospect. Results revealed that risky decisions were associated with male sex, increased cocaine use in the past year, higher cocaine concentrations in the hair, and younger age. In addition, higher levels of cocaine in the hair and cumulative lifetime consumption were associated with risky decisions, whereas potentially confounding factors including cognition and psychiatric symptoms had no significant effect. Taken together, our results indicate that cocaine users who increased their consumption over a period of 1 year show deficits in the processing of risky information accompanied with increased risk-taking. Future research should analyse whether risky decisions could potentially serve as a prognostic marker for cocaine use disorder. (shrink)
- Дисциплінарне релігієзнавство. Тезовий виклад матеріалу.Anatolii M. Kolodnyi,Vitaliy Volodymyrovych Shevchenko,Oksana Gorkusha,Oleksandr V. Sarapin,Hanna M. Kulagina-Stadnichenko,N. Gavrilova,Mykhailo Yu Babiy,Liudmyla O. Fylypovych,Oleg Vasyliovych Buchma,Valentyna Anatoliyivna Bodak,Borys O. Lobovyk,Valeriy Volodymyrovych Klymov &R. Trachuk -2009 -Ukrainian Religious Studies 49:5-82.Department of Philosophy of Religion The Department of Religious Studies of IF NASU during 2006-2008 carried out the specified planned theme. Below we present its sections in the summary. The full study material will be published in the monograph under the same title, which will be published by the end of 2009. The book can be used as a textbook on religious studies.No categories
- The Association Between Video Gaming and Psychological Functioning.Juliane M. von der Heiden,Beate Braun,Kai W. Müller &Boris Egloff -2019 -Frontiers in Psychology 10.
- The Neurobiology and Psychology of Pedophilia: Recent Advances and Challenges.Gilian Tenbergen,Matthias Wittfoth,Helge Frieling,Jorge Ponseti,Martin Walter,Henrik Walter,Klaus M. Beier,Boris Schiffer &Tillmann H. C. Kruger -2015 -Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9.
- Philosophy of education in a new key: On radicalization and violent extremism.Mitja Sardoč,C. A. J. Coady,Vittorio Bufacchi,Fathali M. Moghaddam,Quassim Cassam,Derek Silva,Nenad Miščević,Gorazd Andrejč,Zdenko Kodelja,Boris Vezjak,Michael A. Peters &Marek Tesar -2022 -Educational Philosophy and Theory 54 (8):1162-1177.This collective paper on radicalization and violent extremism part of the ‘Philosophy of education in a new key’ initiative by Educational Philosophy and Theory brings together some of the leading contemporary scholars writing on the most pressing epistemological, ethical, political and educational issues facing post-9/11 scholarship on radicalization and violent extremism. Its overall aim is to move beyond the ‘conventional wisdom’ associated with this area of scholarly research best represented by its many slogans, metaphors and other thought-terminating clichés. By providing (...) conceptual lenses on issues previously compartmentalized primarily [or even exclusively] in security and intelligence studies or at the fringes of scholarly interest, radicalization and violent extremism turn out to be much more complex than ‘radicalization studies’ has been eager to acknowledge. (shrink)
- Petra M. Sijpesteijn: Shaping a Muslim State. The World of a Mid-Eighth-Century Egyptian Official. Maged S. A. Mikhail: From Byzantine to Islamic Egypt. Religion, Identity and Politics after the Arab Conquest. [REVIEW]Boris Liebrenz -2016 -Der Islam: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East 93 (1):320-325.Name der Zeitschrift: Der Islam Jahrgang: 93 Heft: 1 Seiten: 320-325.No categories
- Mass-Observation, surrealist sociology, and the bathos of paperwork.Boris Jardine -2018 -History of the Human Sciences 31 (5):52-79.British social survey movement ‘Mass-Observation’ (M-O) was founded in 1937 by a poet, a film-maker and an ornithologist. It purported to offer a new kind of sociology – one informed by surrealism and working with a ‘mass’ of Observers recording day-to-day interactions. Various commentators have debated the importance and precise identity of M-O in its first phase, especially in light of its combination of social science and surrealism. This article draws on new archival research, in particular into the ‘paperwork’ practices (...) of Charles Madge, arguing that M-O is best understood as an attempt to define a new relationship between the survey subject and information organiser. The latter – as sociologist, planner or artist – was a distinctive interwar persona, central to ‘scientific humanism’. Bathos, as a formal strategy in modernist aesthetics, is introduced as an explanation of the failure of this particular part of the M-O project. Questions of subjectivity and data link M-O to a longer history of heterodox sociological inquiry. This analysis resolves some of the apparent paradoxes that have been prominent in studies of M-O, and draws attention to the unfulfilled promise of a vast archive of social data. (shrink)
- The Nietzschean Subject: Toward a Praxis of Becoming: by Brook M. Blair, Lanham, MD, Lexington Books, 2018, xlvii + 411 pp., $108.00 (cloth), $30.95.Boris Gubman -2021 -The European Legacy 26 (7-8):850-852.In the debates on “post-metaphysical” philosophy, Nietzsche’s philosophical legacy has been widely seen as contributing to the understanding of human creativity and its role in constructing an imag...No categories
- Congruence of ultrafilters.Boris Šobot -2021 -Journal of Symbolic Logic 86 (2):746-761.We continue the research of the relation $\hspace {1mm}\widetilde {\mid }\hspace {1mm}$ on the set $\beta \mathbb {N}$ of ultrafilters on $\mathbb {N}$, defined as an extension of the divisibility relation. It is a quasiorder, so we see it as an order on the set of $=_{\sim }$ -equivalence classes, where $\mathcal {F}=_{\sim }\mathcal {G}$ means that $\mathcal {F}$ and $\mathcal {G}$ are mutually $\hspace {1mm}\widetilde {\mid }$ -divisible. Here we introduce a new tool: a relation of congruence modulo an (...) ultrafilter. We first recall the congruence of ultrafilters modulo an integer and show that $=_{\sim }$ -equivalent ultrafilters do not necessarily have the same residue modulo $m\in \mathbb {N}$. Then we generalize this relation to congruence modulo an ultrafilter in a natural way. After that, using iterated nonstandard extensions, we introduce a stronger relation, which has nicer properties with respect to addition and multiplication of ultrafilters. Finally, we introduce a strengthening of $\hspace {1mm}\widetilde {\mid }\hspace {1mm}$ and show that it also behaves well with respect to the congruence relation. (shrink)
- Three Conditions of Contemporary Social Philosophy Criticism.Boris Podoroga -2018 -Russian Journal of Philosophical Sciences 6:135-139.In this article we reveal the common conditions of modern social philosphy, which theoretical discourse is subordinated to critical discourse, as distinguished from the canonical I. Kant’s, G. Hegel’s, M. Heidegger’s, M. Sheller’s J.-P. Sartre’s philosophical theories, which are bonded with the development of positivist epistemological, historical, ontological or anthropological presuppositions. We will talk about tree main conditions: 1) decline of theological definition of subject, 2) mechanism of repetition, 3) interdisciplinarity. In the first case, we will discuss transition from subject (...) definition through the God to his definition through the figure of Other, which allows philosophers as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche or Sheller expose metaphysics with consistent methodological criticism. In the second case, we will talk about forming of critical discourse establishing itself as the extended analog of psychoanalytical revealing of unconsciousness content. In the third case, we will examine interdisciplinary approach, assuming combination of different methods possible to increase this criticism and put empirical borders of its theoretical presuppositions. (shrink)No categories
- Effects of social network factors on information acquisition and adoption of improved groundnut varieties: the case of Uganda and Kenya.Mary Thuo,Alexandra A. Bell,Boris E. Bravo-Ureta,Michée A. Lachaud,David K. Okello,Evelyn Nasambu Okoko,Nelson L. Kidula,Carl M. Deom &Naveen Puppala -2014 -Agriculture and Human Values 31 (3):339-353.Social networks play a significant role in learning and thus in farmers’ adoption of new agricultural technologies. This study examined the effects of social network factors on information acquisition and adoption of new seed varieties among groundnut farmers in Uganda and Kenya. The data were generated through face-to-face interviews from a random sample of 461 farmers, 232 in Uganda and 229 in Kenya. To assess these effects two alternative econometric models were used: a seemingly unrelated bivariate probit model and a (...) recursive bivariate probit model. The statistical evaluation of the SUBP shows that information acquisition and adoption decisions are interrelated while tests for the RBP do not support this latter model. Therefore, the analysis is based on the results obtained from the SUBP. These results reveal that social network factors, particularly weak ties with external support, partially influence information acquisition, but do not influence adoption. In Uganda, external support, gender, farm size, and geographic location have an impact on information acquisition. In Kenya, external support and geographic location also have an impact on information acquisition. With regard to adoption, gender, household size, and geographic location play the most important roles for Ugandan farmers, while in Kenya information from external sources, education, and farm size affect adoption choice. The study provides insight on the importance of external weak ties in groundnut farming, and a need to understand regional differences along gender lines while developing agricultural strategies. This study further illustrates the importance of farmer participation in applied technology research and the impact of social interactions among farmers and external agents. (shrink)No categories
- Crystal growth and intrinsic magnetic behaviour of Sr2IrO4.N. H. Sung,H. Gretarsson,D. Proepper,J. Porras,M. Le Tacon,A. V. Boris,B. Keimer &B. J. Kim -2016 -Philosophical Magazine 96 (4):413-426.
- Crime and punishment in the life and work of F. M. Dostoevsky. To mark the 200th anniversary of the writer's birth and the 155th anniversary of his novel "Crime and Punishment". [REVIEW]Boris Vladimirovich Emelianov &Olga Borisovna Ionaitis -2021 -Kant 40 (3):127-131.The purpose of the study is to consider the concept of "philosopheme", which allows analyzing such basic categories of philosophical and legal reflections of the writer and thinker F.M. Dostoevsky as crime and punishment and correlating their interpretation with his personal life experience. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that through the disclosure of the content of the philosophems "crime" and "punishment", the existential aspects of F.M. Dostoevsky's anthropological and philosophical-legal reflections are revealed. As a result (...) of the analysis of Dostoevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment", his other works, the writer's letters, autobiographical testimonies, it becomes clear that the core of these philosophies for Dostoevsky is a moral code that allows a person to overcome the" disconnection "and" disconnection " of modern man's being both with himself and with society. (shrink)No categories
- Murray W.M. The Age of the Titans: the Rise and Fall of the Great Hellenistic Navies. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xxviii + 356, illus. £30. 9780195388640. [REVIEW]Boris Rankov -2013 -Journal of Hellenic Studies 133:238-238.
- Roman(?) Britain M. Millett: English Heritage Book of Roman Britain . Pp. 144, 86 ills, 12 colour pls. London: B. T. Batsford/English Heritage, 1995. Paper, £15.99. ISBN: 0-7134-7793-. [REVIEW]Boris Rankov -1999 -The Classical Review 49 (01):225-.
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