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Human Sperm Testicular Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Helps Determine Human Embryo Quality
(Wolters Kluwer Medknow, 2018-06-05)
Angiotensin-converting enzyme functions in the male reproductive system, but the extent of its function in reproduction is not fully understood. The primary objective of this work was to investigate the relationship between ...
Big Data y Psicopolítica. Vía de escape: de la vida calculable a la vida como obra de arte
(Dilemata, 2017)
[ES]El Big Data es un elemento fundamental para la constitución de eso que autores como Byung-Chul Han denominan “psicopolítica”. Según Han, la sociedad en que vivimos tiene dos fundamentales características que se ...
Modeling habits as self-sustaining patterns of sensorimotor behavior
(Frontiers Research Foundation, 2014-08-08)
In the recent history of psychology and cognitive neuroscience, the notion of habit has been reduced to a stimulus-triggered response probability correlation. In this paper we use a computational model to present an ...
The Prayer to Pan of Plato’s Phaedrus (279b8–c3): An Exhortation to Exercise the Philosophical Virtue
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-04-04)
The current article offers a new reading of Socrates’ prayer to Pan in Plato’s Phaedrus. By means of a comprehensive approach, the paper shows that the prayer not only gathers together the most relevant topics dealt with ...
Percepción, descripción y explicación en la obra de Alexander von Humboldt
(Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2017-09-01)
Es recurrente la tendencia a considerar a Alexander von Humboldt como autor romántico-naturalista, dada la combinación del método científico de análisis empírico de la naturaleza con su visión estético-subjetiva que posee ...
Conceptual Basis for William Wordsworth’s Rejection to Science. Computational Analysis of the Lexicon in The Prelude
(UNED, 2019-11-01)
Much of the literary criticism devoted to interpreting the work of W. Wordsworth tries, on the one hand, to overcome and moderate, or, on the other hand, to directly accept the manifest opposition against science and ...
Charles Darwin y el 'desencantamiento' weberiano
(Universidad de Murcia, 2017-07-18)
Este artículo pretende poner de manifiesto una interrelación permanente entre dos metáforas darwinianas como “la orilla enmarañada”, presente en On the Origin of Species, y la relativa al “daltonismo”, mencionada en ...
What does Culture mean for the UNDP? The implicit cultural logic within the human development framework
(Routledge, 2015-03-25)
‘Culture’ is one of those concepts so widely used that it tends to fall into ambiguity and vagueness. Institutions dealing with power use them quite often in order to produce profuse, but somehow vacuous, discourses. That ...
Power relations? What power relations? The de-politicising conceptualisation of development of the UNDP
(Routledge, 2017-03-14)
The UN′s Sustainable Development Goals agenda points far into 2030, which shows that its post-war development endeavour is not functioning effectively. This article implements a discourse analysis of the UN Development ...
Responsible Innovation in the contexts of the European Union and China: Differences, challenges and opportunities
(Elsevier, 2019-12-14)
The European Union (EU) has increasingly promoted “Responsible Innovation” (RI) policies in order to better harmonize technological progress with societal interest. RI has also triggered the attention of China, where it ...