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Autonomous offender ships and international maritime security law
The question, therefore, is no longer whether the turn to automation in shipping takes place, but rather at what pace and in what form it will occur. The view that autonomous ships are not “technologies of passing interest”3 receives strong support from the fact that the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has invested significant resources in better understanding the legal impli…
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Artistic Research: Defining the Field
While the pragmatic character of an expanded research definition obviously reflects policy efficiencies, the intellectual justification for this tendency in “liberalization” owes much of its origin to the academic disciplines of education and psychology
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Campaign Finance and Political Polarization
Efforts to reform the U.S. campaign finance system typically focus on the corrupting influence of large contributions. Yet, as Raymond J. La Raja and Brian F. Schaffner argue, reforms aimed at cutting the flow of money into politics have unintentionally favored candidates with extreme ideological agendas and, consequently, fostered political polarization. Drawing on data from 50 states and the …
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Anticipating Prevention
Despite emerging possibilities for using knowledge of the two well-known inherited susceptibly genes, BRCA 1 and 2, in the treatment of sporadic cancers (see Bourrett, Keating & Cambrosio, 2014), this promise has been limited for the most part to the possibility of providing a personalized risk susceptibility estimate based on genetic testing to detect mutations on these genes.
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Antarctic Marine Biodiversity
Animals living in the Southern Ocean have evolved in a singular environment. It shares many of its attributes with the high Arctic, namely low, stable temperatures, the pervading effect of ice in its many forms and extreme seasonality of light and phytobiont productivity. Antarctica is, however, the most isolated continent on Earth and is the only one that lacks a continental shelf connecti…
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Analytical Sociology amidst a Computational Social Science Revolution
As CSS and AS have matured, obvious connections between them have emerged. Both are keenly interested in complexity and emergence, whereby “the behavior of entities at one ‘scale’ of reality is not easily traced to the properties of the entities at the scale below” (Watts, 2013, p. 6; see also Anderson, 1972)
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Chapter 13 The value of the imagined biological in policy and society
Attending the World Economic Forum this past week, I was struck by two trends. The first was that brain research has emerged as a hot topic. Not only was brain science or brain health a new theme at the meeting, research on the brain emerged in discussions about next generation computing, global cooperation, and even models of economic development as well as being linked to mental health or min…
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Chapter 13 The Swedish way
This chapter examines public belief formation in Sweden during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on theories of sociotropic belief formation, we analyze how citizens’ ideology, personal experience, interpersonal talk and media use influence their beliefs about how the coronavirus affects the Swedish society. The findings from analyses of three waves of panel survey data sug…
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Chapter 13 The social organization of (in-)attention
“Attention” is a primordial topic throughout Goffman’s work. Already his dissertation thesis (1953) includes a separate chapter on “the organization of attention”. In his later studies he developed various concepts related to attention, such as focused/unfocused interaction or “civil inattention”. Although attention is evidently a crucial dimension of the interactional order, Goff…
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Chapter 13 The Single-Celled Ancestors of Animals
Among the most important innovations in the history of life is the transition from single-celled organisms to more complex, multicellular organisms. Multicellularity has evolved repeatedly across the tree of life, resulting in the evolution of new kinds of organisms that collectively constitute a significant portion of Earth’s biodiversity and have transformed the biosphere. This volume exami…
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