scholarly journals Pure Retributivism and the Problem of Psychopathy: A Preliminary Investigation / Retributivismo Puro e o Problema da Psicopatia: Uma Investigação Preliminar

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Nadelhoffer
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Limited Range ◽  
Primary Task ◽  
Mixed Theory ◽  
Genetic Components ◽  
Philosophy Of Punishment ◽  
Made In ◽  
Forward Looking

Abstract: My present goal is to explore some possible responses pure (or strict) retributivists might have to the gathering of empirical data on psychopaths. In addressing this issue, I will first briefly examine the strides researchers have recently made in understanding the nature of psychopathy, paying particular attention to work on the neural and genetic components of the disorder (§1). Then, I will survey several ways that a pure retributivist might respond to this data (including giving up on pure retributivism altogether and adopting instead a mixed theory of punishment that incorporates both forward-looking and backward-looking elements). (§2). As we will see, the retributivist has a fairly limited range of appealing options in this context. But my primary task here isn't to somehow refute retributivism (which comes in too many varieties to adequately address in a single paper). Rather, I am mainly interested in showing that the problem of psychopathy is relevant when it comes to our philosophical theorizing about punishment. In this sense, my over-arching task is methodological. I survey the interdisciplinary terrain and highlight some interesting and important connections between the research on the philosophy and the psychology of psychopathy.Keywords: Retributivism; Philosophy of punishment; PsychopathyResumo: O objetivo deste artigo é explorar possíveis respostas que retributivistas puros podem ter à coleta de dados empíricos sobre psicopatas. Ao tratar deste assunto, primeiro examinarei brevemente os recentes avanços de pesquisadores em relação ao entendimento da natureza da psicopatia, dando atenção especial ao trabalho acerca dos components neurais e genéticos da doença (§1). Após, demonstrarei diversas maneiras pelas quais um retributivista puro poderia enfrentar essas novas questões (incluindo desistir do retributivismo puro para adotar uma teoria punitiva mista que incorpora ambos elementos voltados para o futuro quanto para o passado) (§2). Como veremos, o retributivista tem uma gama bastante limitada de opções que sejam atraentes neste contexto. Mas a minha tarefa primordial não é a de refutar o retributivismo (que vem em variedades muito numerosas para serem trabalhadas em um único artigo). Em vez disso, estou preocupado em demonstrar que o problema da psicopatia é relevante quando pensamos sobre a nossa teorização filosófica acerca da punição. Nesse sentido, minha tarefa é metodológica. Eu avalio o terreno interdisciplinar e enfatizo algumas conexões importantes e interessantes entre a pesquisa na filosofia e na psicologia da psicopatia.Palavras-chave: Retributivismo; Filosofia da punição; Psicopatia

scholarly journals Islamic Friday Sermon in Italy: Leaders, Adaptations, and Perspectives

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 312
Author(s):  
Youssef Sbai
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
North Central ◽  
The North ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Friday Prayer

The focus of this article is to spotlight the ritual frame of the canonical Friday prayer that is organized weekly around midday in places of Islamic worship in Italy. I verify how the Muslim communities in Italy, as a “cognitive minority”, use different strategies related to the performance of the Friday prayer ritual, and I analyze its continuous reframing. During the preliminary investigation I selected seventeen places of worship located in major cities and provincial towns located in the North, Central and South of Italy including Sicily. I have only considered spaces run by Sunni Arabs because they are the majority of Muslims in Italy. In these places I performed the participant observation from October 2016 to July 2017 collecting empirical data and more than a hundred sermons that I analyzed later. I also relied on interviews with preachers and people in charge of these places.

scholarly journals Strain crossing in mrigal (Cirrhinus cirrhosus): An avenue to persuade heterosis in F1 generation of wild×hatchery hybrid

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 245
Author(s):  
Md. Ashkar Bin Sayeed
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Hybrid Vigor ◽  
Surplus Production ◽  
Specific Hybridization ◽  
Boosting Technique ◽  
Special Priority ◽  
Growing Population ◽  
F1 Generation ◽  
Made In ◽  
Hatching Rates

While the increase of the yield of commercially trendy farmed fishes are of special priority in aquaculture, a number of handy technologies are indispensable to realize the surplus production aiming to feed the growing population. As a genetic means of doing this, hybridization technology has been being used for years, because it can produce hybrid vigor through inducing heterosis. Similar attempt was made in mrigal, Cirrhinus cirrhosus, by crossing the hatchery strain with the riverine strain to investigate the heterotic effect in the progeny the species could generate through such intra-specific hybridization. Mean fertilization and hatching rates in hybrids were found to be lower by 7% and 4% respectively than that in purebreds, which envisioned to be trivial to impact the purpose of crossing. Comparative growth test between purebreds and hybrids showed significant differences (p< 0.05) in weight and length, and resulted 30.51% heterosis in hybrid mrigal. This experiment can be considered as a preliminary investigation to motivate the application of strain crossing in mrigal farming and the result found thereof can be used as a clue to optimize this growth boosting technique for the species through further research.

Superalloys—Retrospect and Future Prospects

2002 ◽  
pp. 339-351
Keyword(s):  
Process Modeling ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Production Techniques ◽  
Operating Temperatures ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Made In ◽  
Forward Looking

Abstract This chapter discusses the progress that has been made in the development of superalloy operating temperatures, properties, and performance. It also provides forward-looking projections based on advances in process modeling, alloying, and production techniques.

Influence of Web Attributes on Consumer Purchase Intentions

2021 ◽  
pp. 337-356
Author(s):  
Rama Mohana Rao Katta ◽  
Chandra Sekhar Patro
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Online Shopping ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Purchase Intentions ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Widespread Acceptance ◽  
Made In

The rise in the number of households possessing computers and the ease of internet access has led to widespread acceptance of B2C e-commerce, and has rapidly evolved into a global phenomenon. The competition among e-commerce vendors is getting intensified year by year and all of them are adopting innovative and creative approaches to attract, satisfy and retain customers. Web attributes are considered as one of the key influencers of consumer purchase intentions. With the support of existing literature, an attempt is made in this research paper to identify the list of attributes of online shopping websites that influence consumers' purchase intentions. The findings of the study are based on empirical data collected using online survey method.

I sistemi di alert per le imprese del settore moda: un'analisi preliminare nel nuovo contesto normativo

2020 ◽  
pp. 41-64
Author(s):  
Carmen Gallucci ◽  
Rosalia Santulli ◽  
Michela De Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Sono State ◽  
Sulla Base ◽  
Made In ◽  
Forward Looking

La pubblicazione in Gazzetta Ufficiale del Nuovo Codice della Crisi d'Impresa e dell'Insolvenza ha introdotto rilevanti novità in materia di procedure di allerta e di composizione assistita della crisi che, dall'entrata in vigore, avranno effetti immediati sul tessuto imprenditoriale italiano. Obiettivo del presente lavoro è quello di testare le possibili ripercussioni che l'introduzione di indicatori di allerta avrà nel settore moda, simbolo del made in Italy. A tal fine, su un campione di 281 imprese italiane, nell'orizzonte temporale 2009-2017, sono state condotte una Cluster k-means analysis, sull'intero campione e su sotto campioni ripartiti per età, dimensione e attività merceologica, e l'analisi dei percentili. I principali risultati, rilevando differenze significative tra i sotto campioni e mostrando l'andamento della distribuzione campionaria sulla base di ipotetici cut-off, evidenziano una oggettiva difficoltà nell'individuazione di valori soglia validi tout court. La discussione conclusiva, inoltre, sottolinea l'importanza di adottare un approccio forward looking, al fine di esprimere un giudizio in merito alle effettive capacità prospettiche delle imprese, e la necessità di ripensare le strutture di governance e i sistemi di pianificazione e monitoraggio.

XII.—Heusler's Magnetic Alloy

1907 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 88-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander D. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Magnetic Alloy ◽  
Physical Laboratory ◽  
Copper Manganese ◽  
Made In

Since the discovery by Heusler in 1903 of a magnetic alloy of copper, manganese, and aluminium, considerable interest has been aroused by the peculiarities of its properties and the difficulty of their explanation. In the summer of 1905 a preliminary investigation of a sample of the alloy was made in the Physical Laboratory of Glasgow University, and the results obtained have been published in a paper by Professor A. Gray.

scholarly journals Interferometric evidence for the observation of ground backscatter originating behind the CUTLASS coherent HF radars

1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. E. Milan ◽  
T. B. Jones ◽  
T. R. Robinson ◽  
E. C. Thomas ◽  
T. K. Yeoman
Keyword(s):  
Antenna Arrays ◽  
Direction Of Arrival ◽  
Mirror Image ◽  
Field Of View ◽  
Made In ◽  
Forward Looking

Abstract. Interferometric techniques allow the SuperDARN coherent HF radars to determine the elevation angles of returned backscatter, giving information on the altitude of the scatter volume, in the case of ionospheric backscatter, or the reflection altitude, in the case of ground backscatter. Assumptions have to be made in the determination of elevation angles, including the direction of arrival, or azimuth, of the returned signals, usually taken to be the forward look-direction (north) of the radars, specified by the phasing of the antenna arrays. It is shown that this assumption is not always valid in the case of ground backscatter, and that significant returns can be detected from the backward look-direction of the radars. The response of the interferometer to backscatter from behind the radar is modelled and compared with observations. It is found that ground backscatter from a field-of-view that is the mirror image of the forward-looking field-of-view is a common feature of the observations, and this interpretation successfully explains several anomalies in the received backscatter.

scholarly journals The Market for Leadership in Corporate Litigation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica M. Erickson
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Data ◽  
Corporate Law ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Private Ordering ◽  
Class Actions ◽  
The World ◽  
Corporate Litigation ◽  
Leadership Decisions ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Ideal

Conventional wisdom has long held that leadership decisions in corporate litigation are best left to the lawyers. Even as the world of corporate litigation has changed dramatically, courts have consistently relied on the lawyers themselves to decide who among them will control litigation decisions. As a result, leadership decisions in corporate litigation are almost always made in private negotiations and back room deals. This Article pulls back the curtain on these decisions, using empirical data to conduct the first in-depth examination into the market for leadership in corporate litigation. This examination reveals a market that bears little resemblance to the ideal imagined by courts and commentators. The reliance on private ordering forces lawyers to agree to overly complicated leadership structures. These structures in turn cause lawyers to underinvest in litigation, encouraging holdouts and opportunism at the negotiating table. It need not be this way. Other types of complex litigation,from small-scale consumer class actions to multidistrict securities class actions, have successfully avoided such problems. The time has come for corporate law to draw on these insights and develop a new market for leader- ship in corporate litigation. In the end, leadership is far too important to be left to the lawyers.

scholarly journals Recent advances in understanding regulation of the Arabidopsis circadian clock by local cellular environment

F1000Research ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J. Hearn ◽  
Alex A.R. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Circadian Clock ◽  
Small Molecules ◽  
Circadian Oscillator ◽  
Cellular Mechanisms ◽  
Environmental Signals ◽  
The Past ◽  
Genetic Components ◽  
Cellular Environment ◽  
Specific Regulation ◽  
Made In

Circadian clocks have evolved to synchronise an organism’s physiology with the environmental rhythms driven by the Earth’s rotation on its axis. Over the past two decades, many of the genetic components of the Arabidopsis thaliana circadian oscillator have been identified. The interactions between these components have been formulized into mathematical models that describe the transcriptional translational feedback loops of the oscillator. More recently, focus has turned to the regulation and functions of the circadian clock. These studies have shown that the system dynamically responds to environmental signals and small molecules. We describe advances that have been made in discovering the cellular mechanisms by which signals regulate the circadian oscillator of Arabidopsis in the context of tissue-specific regulation.

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