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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Sentience"”.
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Sentience and Site
A contemporary understanding of site is integral towards the proper implementation of an architectural intervention which reconciles itself amongst the landscape. This thesis is situated at the convergence of technology and nature, investigating a constructive engagement of site in order to inform …
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Environmental sentience of residential end-users towards design attributes.
Environmental sentience of end-users on quality living environment is felicitously reflected from their preference on design attributes. Without the knowledge of the environmental sentience and the preference of end-users on the design attributes there would be likely a situation of mismatch …
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Nico's bubbles : the story of a whale, some crows, and the search for sentience
Humans have long been drawn to the study of nonhuman animal cognitive and emotional intelligence, but have long come up short. Cognitive scientists look for signs of a sense of self, the ability to solve problems, and the capacity for communication in a vast array of nonhuman species, from …
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The Moral Status of Nonhuman Animals
… arbitrary. I use DeGrazia to make the case for sentience as being essential for moral consideration. Sentience is necessary and sufficient for having interests, and having interests is sufficient for being worthy of moral consideration. From this, I conclude that because there are many sentient …
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Proof: A Collection
… repressed." "The Lombard" explores suspense, the sentience of non-living things, particularly an old building, perversity, the return of the repressed, the creation of an overall mood, and an overall questioning of reason. "Proof' explores a more dialogue-driven narrative, and while it does …
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Utilizing Cinematic Stories to Shift Fear Into Compassion Towards Pit Bull Type Breeds
… of pit bulls, “scary” dog breeds, and animal sentience after watching the film Kitbull, emotional cinematic stories and the content within those stories matter. We as animal welfare scientists and media professionals must work in collaboration to create truthful yet compelling stories …
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Occupational Engagement Scale for Creative Students: Initial Validation and Development
… PI-R; Costa & McCrae, 1992); and Achievement and Sentience (as measured by the Personality Research Form; Jackson,1974). Openness to Experience and Achievement account for 19.4% of the variance in Global OES-CS scores. This study contributes to the construct validity for occupational engagement …
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Preposthuman : an architectural propaedeutic for the digitally-enhanced
… and autonomy are no longer antonyms-and our sentience is allowed to flicker between the various realities to which it is tethered. Here, architecture serves as the suture between our digital and physical lives, creating a truly networked body from the scale of the global to the microbial. …
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Othas and environment in animal ethics and environmental philosophy : ontology and ethical motivation beyond the dichotomies of anthropocentrism.
… heavily anthropocentric concepts such as reason, sentience, and rights. Second, it investigates the possibility of ontology and ethics beyond anthropocentrism, in which relationships between beings are based on neither identity nor difference alone, but rather on ‘indistinction’. There is a …
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Advancing PSS with complex urban systems sciences and scalable spatio-temporal models
… applications of PSS including Smart Cities, sentience, resilience, and environmental planning processes and their role in improving PSS usefulness in the practice of planning. PSS improvements will be presented in terms of multi-directional spatio-temporal processes and scenario planning. …
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Sacrifice or Salvation: How can Animal Lives be Spared and Human Health Improved by Toxics Reform?
… in light of the most current research on animal sentience and the ethics of responsibility, a reorientation of chemical testing at a theoretical, ethical and practical level could spare animal suffering and improve human health outcomes. Its starting point is the unfolding scientific research on …
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The Everyday Life Experiences of Three to Six-Year-Old Children with Comforting Possessions
… characteristics of gender and the capacity for sentience, mobility, role-taking, and communication and interaction. A conceptualization of comforting possessions was derived from these patterns which may be useful in stimulating further exploration of the phenomenon. In addition, the …
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Embryo Adoption: Implications of Personhood, Marriage, and Parenthood
… I offer my own claim that consciousness and sentience as well as the potential to be self-conscious mark the beginning of personhood. Embryo adoption raises several questions surrounding the institution of marriage. Due to its untraditional method of procreation, embryo adoption calls into …
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Born free and equal?: on the ethical consistency of animal equality
… part also tackles the predation problem and the sentience problem in animal ethics. The end result of this work is a pluralist principlist ethical system that can be captured in a metaphor of five moral fingers working together as the moral hand. This moral hand is a constructed, coherent ethical …
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Subject and Aesthetic Interface - an inquiry into transformed subjectivities
… subjectivity. Here I build the concept Extended Sentience, and the concept of an Ideal User. The Ideal User functions as a conceptual frame, which allows me to gradually add more elements to a theory of an altered human subject and knower. The third part presents new ontologies under three basic …
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Plateaus of freedom : nationality, culture and state security in Canada, 1927-1957
… attuned to the nation's need for protective sentience. Painter A. Y. Jackson's 1927 Arctic Patrol marked a limit in that subjective construction; Grey Owl's residencies in National Parks gestured towards an alternative cultural inhabitation of landscape, questing beyond aboriginal or settler …
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The Relationship Between Need Trait and Temperament Type
… <br />+ Nurturance <br />+ Play <br />+ Sentience <br />+ Social Recognition (TABLE ENDS)</p> <p>Conclusions. (1) Theory and past empirical findings regarding the relationship of need and temperament lend support to the correlational relationships identified, although past findings are …
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I Was Not Born
… and resonances around the body and the sonic sentience it can invoke. Submerged in an individual history, these pieces explore concerns with feminism, trust, confrontation, and faith. I intend a persistent, rhythmic, nuanced investigation of relationships central to both poetics and the …
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Sacred Plant, Sentient Earth: A Vegetal Geography of Healing in a More-Than-Human World
… species boundaries and take seriously vegetal sentience and human-plant kinship. However, such healing traditions and practices have been increasingly marginalised in the contemporary era. This is because in its current form, ‘medicine’ is largely viewed through a singularly biomedical lens and …
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Do humans have special duties and moral obligations towards, rather than ‘rights’ over, nonhuman animals? And if such duties exist, what does our collective treatment of nonhumans say about human morality?
… distinction between humans and other species. As sentience underpins the baseline moral requirement of non-harm, it is consistent to apply this principle to all beings with this capacity. This entails an obligation not to abuse our power over others, but to use such powers to protect them. Here, …
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