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Applied to the definition used in (30) above, an argument of N can be merged outside NP if N (abstractly) incorporates into the head of the projection where the argument is merged. While this works in case the NP is in a complement position – N then incorporates into V and XP can...
Because of this fact, we can clearly demonstrate that the sign in itself of any given value could not have an absolute meaning, since its very meaning and existence is relative to some other definition (where the zero value lies within the same system of coordi...
This broad definition, stemming from landscape ecology and social–ecological systems literature1, encompasses structural (e.g., physical infrastructure) and non-structural (e.g., policy and planning) actions2,3,4, such as the construction of green infrastructure5, the sustainable management of ...
Specifically, we offer a contextualised definition of docile bodies that consider both the imposing institutional power (such as the state) and the productive power (such as discursive discipline and normalisation from plat- forms and consumers) where erotic entrepreneurs emerge. In the first volume ...
Tellingly, the life-stories of leaders described in the literature portray a number of leadership qualities that are of vital importance if leaders are to cope with grounded–detachment and other paradoxes; characteristics such as personal stability, self-directedness towards personal wholeness, self-re...
I turn the conversation to Goop’s infamous jade eggs. They are for sale that day in the pharmacy shop, and I got to hold one in my hand. It was smaller than I expected, not the size of a chicken egg but more like a grape tomato. Both the jade and rose quartz eggs...
According to Moss' (2014b) analysis, using this definition, the Anglophone countries do not rate well. Only the UK and NZ provide some weeks of 'well-paid' leave for mothers. None provide well-paid leave for fathers. The Australian situation is slightly different, as the payment level is ...
To answer the concern that prokaryote cell diversity might be better expressed in terms of numbers of cell parts (organelle-like structures: prokaryotes by definition do not have true organelles), rather than numbers of cell types, the number of types of cell parts for each prokaryote was also...
a field which did not then intersect with the literature on environmental security that was advancing in security studies. Yu positioned security as a response to existential threats, drawing on Jerzy Kozlowski’s concept of ultimate environmental thresholds (which mark the point at which irreversible...