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1 Citations
6,929 Views
16 Pages

29 December 2018

Attempts to refine or update definitions of pluralism in political theology and philosophy often, implicitly or explicitly, entail an account of the roots of social conflict, which pluralism is meant to address. Using the influential work of John Raw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,211 Views
22 Pages

In this paper, I present the suggestion that a suitable theory of “justice as fairness” could offer a consistent path for solving many issues related to the actual crisis of the classical liberal model of economy and democracy, by substit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,266 Views
23 Pages

One Justice for All? Social Dilemmas, Environmental Risks and Different Notions of Distributive Justice

  • Ulf Liebe,
  • Heidi Bruderer Enzler,
  • Andreas Diekmann and
  • Peter Preisendörfer

1 July 2024

A just or fair distribution of environmental bads and goods is important for solving environmental social dilemmas and is a core idea of environmental justice politics and research. Environmental justice is mostly associated with egalitarianism as th...

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  • Open Access
3,892 Views
12 Pages

3 August 2019

John Rawls’ well-known device of representation (his terminology) that he names the “original position” is put into play by the veil of ignorance. This imaginative device, found in both his early and late works, is often dismissed b...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
17,605 Views
12 Pages

25 January 2010

This essay explores a specific aspect of the role of attitude in design. The design of the built environment requires us constantly to make aesthetic and ethical judgments; every design decision has to be satisfactorily justified. Surprisingly perhap...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,067 Views
8 Pages

28 December 2022

A Catholic pope and a Rawlsian statesman respectively represent religious and political leaders who confront the reality of war and face the challenge of responding to it. A political decision during conflict based exclusively on religious or secular...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,655 Views
20 Pages

21 February 2022

Various contemporary phenomena of social regression and authoritarianism are related to religious actors, movements, and beliefs. This text, however, seeks to follow this up with the political–theoretical argumentation that New Atheism has to b...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,180 Views
13 Pages

Myxomavirus Serp-1 Protein Ameliorates Inflammation in a Mouse Model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

  • Alexander B. Andre,
  • Liqiang Zhang,
  • Jalen D. Nix,
  • Nora Elmadbouly,
  • Alexandra R. Lucas,
  • Jeanne Wilson-Rawls and
  • Alan Rawls

Duchenne muscular dystrophy is an X-linked disease afflicting 1 in 3500 males that is characterized by muscle weakness and wasting during early childhood, and loss of ambulation and death by early adulthood. Chronic inflammation due to myofiber insta...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,722 Views
31 Pages

Pharmacotherapeutic Approaches to Treatment of Muscular Dystrophies

  • Alan Rawls,
  • Bridget K. Diviak,
  • Cameron I. Smith,
  • Grant W. Severson,
  • Sofia A. Acosta and
  • Jeanne Wilson-Rawls

17 October 2023

Muscular dystrophies are a heterogeneous group of genetic muscle-wasting disorders that are subdivided based on the region of the body impacted by muscle weakness as well as the functional activity of the underlying genetic mutations. A common featur...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,566 Views
15 Pages

The Transcription Factor Mohawk Facilitates Skeletal Muscle Repair via Modulation of the Inflammatory Environment

  • Cherie Alissa Lynch,
  • Sofia A. Acosta,
  • Douglas M. Anderson,
  • Gavin E. Rogers,
  • Jeanne Wilson-Rawls and
  • Alan Rawls

Efficient repair of skeletal muscle relies upon the precise coordination of cells between the satellite cell niche and innate immune cells that are recruited to the site of injury. The expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines such as T...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
12,477 Views
44 Pages

Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator Receptor (uPAR) in Inflammation and Disease: A Unique Inflammatory Pathway Activator

  • Mostafa Hamada,
  • Kyle Steven Varkoly,
  • Omer Riyadh,
  • Roxana Beladi,
  • Ganesh Munuswamy-Ramanujam,
  • Alan Rawls,
  • Jeanne Wilson-Rawls,
  • Hao Chen,
  • Grant McFadden and
  • Alexandra R. Lucas

The urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR) is a unique protease binding receptor, now recognized as a key regulator of inflammation. Initially, uPA/uPAR was considered thrombolytic (clot-dissolving); however, recent studies have demonst...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,921 Views
17 Pages

17 May 2023

South Africa, although a “young” democracy, has quickly become one of the most economically uneven nations due to its history of segregation and discrimination as contributing factors. South Africans have seen an increase in the number of...

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  • Open Access
2,107 Views
13 Pages

30 June 2022

Polymerization shrinkage and associated stresses are the main reasons for dental restorative failure. We developed a series of liquid crystal diacrylates and dimethacrylates which have markedly low polymerization shrinkage. In order to fully understa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,046 Views
16 Pages

ODO: Design of Multimodal Chatbot for an Experiential Media System

  • Ravi Bhushan,
  • Karthik Kulkarni,
  • Vishal Kumar Pandey,
  • Connor Rawls,
  • Brandon Mechtley,
  • Suren Jayasuriya and
  • Christian Ziegler

This paper presents the design of a multimodal chatbot for use in an interactive theater performance. This chatbot has an architecture consisting of vision and natural language processing capabilities, as well as embodiment in a non-anthropomorphic m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,092 Views
21 Pages

Contextual Variation in External and Internal Workloads across the Competitive Season of a Collegiate Women’s Soccer Team

  • Lauren E. Rentz,
  • William Guy Hornsby,
  • Wesley J. Gawel,
  • Bobby G. Rawls,
  • Jad Ramadan and
  • Scott M. Galster

8 December 2021

As sports technology has continued to develop, monitoring athlete workloads, performance, and recovery has demonstrated boundless benefits for athlete and team success. Specifically, technologies such as global positioning systems (GPS) and heart rat...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,210 Views
11 Pages

E-Cigarette Quit Attempts and Experiences in a Convenience Sample of Adult Users

  • Meagan A. Bluestein,
  • Geronimo Bejarano,
  • Alayna P. Tackett,
  • Jaimie C. Duano,
  • Shelby Grace Rawls,
  • Elizabeth A. Vandewater,
  • Jasjit S. Ahluwalia and
  • Emily T. Hébert

Most e-cigarette users report planning to quit, but there is a paucity of evidence-based interventions for e-cigarette cessation. In the absence of interventions for e-cigarette cessation, we sought to understand how and why e-cigarette users attempt...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,880 Views
14 Pages

Inequalities in expectations to receive care permeate social structures, reinforcing racialized and gendered hierarchies. Harming the people who are overburdened and disadvantaged as caregivers, these inequalities also shape the subjectivities and co...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,630 Views
15 Pages

Functional Evaluation of Digital Soil Hydraulic Property Maps through Comparison of Simulated and Remotely Sensed Maize Canopy Cover

  • Mulenga Kalumba,
  • Stefaan Dondeyne,
  • Eline Vanuytrecht,
  • Edwin Nyirenda and
  • Jos Van Orshoven

22 April 2022

Soil maps can usefully serve in data scarce regions, for example for yield (gap) assessments using a crop simulation model. The soil property estimates’ contribution to inaccuracy and uncertainty can be functionally evaluated by comparing model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,268 Views
15 Pages

24 August 2022

The educational equality policies vary in terms of different spatial, cultural, economic, and social dynamics. Despite a great deal of discussion on how to implement equality policies into the Chinese education system, very little research has explor...

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  • Open Access
31 Citations
11,421 Views
19 Pages

21 February 2014

The article aims to provide some ethical orientation on how sustainability might be actualized by institutions. Since institutionalization is about rules and organization, it presupposes ideas and concepts by which institutions can be substantiated....

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,044 Views
27 Pages

10 June 2021

In public decisions with long-term implications, decisions of the present generation will affect long-term welfare, including future generations. However, only the present generation is able to participate in such decision-making processes. In this s...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,484 Views
13 Pages

In contemporary times, bike sharing programs are gaining importance as an influential transportation mode in both urban and rural areas. They are also used as a vital transportation mode on university campuses which serve as a healthy and environment...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
10,246 Views
19 Pages

16 August 2024

The Great Reset (GR) has been presented by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2022 as a model through which a “stakeholder economy” would achieve “resilient, equitable, and sustainable” soci...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,070 Views
20 Pages

Development of Pedotransfer Functions to Predict Soil Physical Properties in Southern Quebec (Canada)

  • Simon Perreault,
  • Anas El Alem,
  • Karem Chokmani and
  • Athyna N. Cambouris

20 February 2022

Pedotransfer functions (PTFs) are empirical fits to soil property data and have been used as an alternative tool to in situ measurements for estimating soil hydraulic properties for the last few decades. PTFs of Saxton and Rawls, 2006 (PTFs’S&a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,111 Views
21 Pages

Soil Fungal Activity and Microbial Response to Wildfire in a Dry Tropical Forest of Northern Colombia

  • Eliana Martínez Mera,
  • Ana Carolina Torregroza-Espinosa,
  • Ana Cristina De la Parra-Guerra,
  • Marielena Durán-Castiblanco,
  • William Zapata-Herazo,
  • Juan Sebastián Rodríguez-Rebolledo,
  • Fernán Zabala-Sierra and
  • David Alejandro Blanco Alvarez

1 August 2025

Wildfires can significantly alter soil physicochemical conditions and microbial communities in forest ecosystems. This study aimed to characterize the culturable soil fungal community and evaluate biological activity in Banco Totumo Bijibana, a prote...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,129 Views
14 Pages

11 October 2024

Recently, political philosophers have debated the role of religious reasons in public deliberations, such as appealing to religious convictions and religious classics. Exclusivists, such as Rawls, Quong, Hartley, and Watson, argue that democratic gov...

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  • Open Access
2,686 Views
22 Pages

11 January 2024

Businesses are actively integrating sustainability principles into their operations by pursuing goals that go beyond reputation management, which all help companies capture value through growth and return on investment. This study aimed to investigat...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,080 Views
12 Pages

Evaluation of Pedotransfer Functions for Estimating Soil Water Retention Curve of Ap Horizon Soils for Various Soil Series of Reclaimed Tidal Flat Soil

  • Kyo-Suk Lee,
  • Dong-Sung Lee,
  • Hyun-Gyu Jung,
  • Sang-Phil Lee,
  • Jin-Hee Ryu,
  • Woo-Jung Choi,
  • Jae-Eui Yang and
  • Doug-Young Chung

23 June 2022

This investigation was to evaluate the applicability and prediction accuracy of pedotransfer function (PTF) to estimate the water retention curves of Ap horizon soils for five soil series which cannot be directly used to cultivate upland crops other...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,661 Views
42 Pages

Between Public Justification and Civil Religion: Shared Values in a Divided Time

  • Eric V. Morrow,
  • Boleslaw Zbigniew Kabala and
  • Christine Dalton Hartness

17 January 2023

Civil religion as formulated in Robert Bellah’s seminal 1967 article, recalling Rousseau’s Social Contract, has recently been proposed to build shared values and bridge deep partisan divides. A competing approach to shared values, based o...