Abstract Subjectivity is a widely explored topic in dementia studies, both the humanities and social sciences. Persistent discourses of “a loss self” have been challenged by scholars, who argue for need continued recognition person with that subjectivity may be sustained. So far, however, there lack discussion about significance gender, how being recognised as subject overall closely intertwine...

Catholicism is the only major world religion that unequivocally bans the use of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Nevertheless, in Ecuador, Catholic IVF practitioners declare God's dominion over their IVF laboratories and clinics in explaining pregnancy outcomes. My analysis of this routine combination of spiritual and material causal models in Ecuadorian IVF contributes to two ongoing discussions ...

Are inferences, theoretical and practical, subject to requirements of rationality? If so, are these of the form ‘if ... ought ...’, or ‘ought ... if ...’? If the latter, how are we to understand the ‘if’? It seems that, in all cases, we get unintuitive implications if ‘ought’ connotes having reason. It is difficult to formulate such requirements, and obscure what they explain. There might also ...

Economic Dynamics From a linear, perfectly rational view towards bounded rationality, non-linearity and complex adaptive systems Global challenges of capital markets integration Modern economics in action in poor countries An interview with development economist Economic Dynamics From a linear, perfectly rational view towards bounded rationality, non-linearity and complex adaptive systems Globa...

Subjectivity and sentiment analysis (SSA) is an area that has been witnessing a flurry of novel research. However, only few attempts have been made to build SSA systems for morphologically-rich languages (MRL). In the current study, we report efforts to partially bridge this gap. We present a newly labeled corpus of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) from the news domain manually annotated for subjec...

Abstract This chapter explores the meaning fundraisers give to their work. For first wave of Canadian fundraising executives and consultants, was not merely a job or career but vocation. Many wished make mark by raising money for worthy causes contributing caring capitalism, an economic system that combines investor profit social responsibility. The most donor-centric also found calling spiritu...