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7The Development of Explicit and Implicit Game-Based Digital Behavioral Markers for the Assessment of Social AnxietyFrontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.Social relationships are essential for humans; neglecting our social needs can reduce wellbeing or even lead to the development of more severe issues such as depression or substance dependency. Although essential, some individuals face major challenges in forming and maintaining social relationships due to the experience of social anxiety. The burden of social anxiety can be reduced through accessible assessment that leads to treatment. However, socially anxious individuals who seek help face ma…Read more
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6Dossier: Fundamentos físicos y metafísicos del pensamiento político medieval. Antecedentes antiguos y proyecciones modernasCuadernos de Filosofía 74 5-6. 2021..
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7Potestas papae. Alcances y límites de la jurisdicción papal en De concordantia catholica de Nicolás de CusaCuadernos de Filosofía 74 41-49. 2021.The aim of this paper is to present the way in which the Nicholas of Cusa understands the nature, scope and limits of papal power in the two considerations of the Priesthood in De concordantia catholica. Thus, the treatment of the Petrine office is presented separately from a monarchical perspective and from a conciliarist one. This will make it possible to clarify some common problems among the interpreters of the political thought of Nicolás de Cusa that affect the coherence of the ecclesiolog…Read more
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26Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing for “Non-Medical” Traits: Ensuring Consistency in Ethical Decision-MakingAmerican Journal of Bioethics 23 (3): 3-20. 2021.The scope of noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) could expand in the future to include detailed analysis of the fetal genome. This will allow for the testing for virtually any trait with a genetic contribution, including “non-medical” traits. Here we discuss the potential use of NIPT for these traits. We outline a scenario which highlights possible inconsistencies with ethical decision-making. We then discuss the case against permitting these uses. The objections include practical problems; incr…Read more
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11Sound sleep: Lullabies as a test case for the neurobiological effects of musicBehavioral and Brain Sciences 44. 2021.Music is part of the cultural practice and, at the same time, is interwoven with biology through its effects on the brain and its likely evolutionary origin. Studies on music, however, are traditionally based on the humanities and often carried out in a purely historical context, without much input from neuroscience and biology. Here, we argue that lullabies are a particularly suited test case to study the biological versus cultural aspects of music.
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17Genetic discrimination in life insurance: a human rights issueJournal of Medical Ethics 47 (7): 484-485. 2021.In this issue of Journal of Medical Ethics, Pugh1 offers a pluralist justice-based argument in support of the spirit, if not the precise letter, of the UK approach to the use of genetic test results to underwrite life insurance. We agree with Dr Pugh’s general contention that there is ethical and philosophical support for curtailment of insurers’ access to, and use of, applicants’ GTR in underwriting. However, we disagree with the contention that broad revisionary implications of certain theorie…Read more
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14Study protocol: the Australian genetics and life insurance moratorium—monitoring the effectiveness and response (A-GLIMMER) projectBMC Medical Ethics 22 (1): 1-14. 2021.BackgroundThe use of genetic test results in risk-rated insurance is a significant concern internationally, with many countries banning or restricting the use of genetic test results in underwriting. In Australia, life insurers’ use of genetic test results is legal and self-regulated by the insurance industry (Financial Services Council (FSC)). In 2018, an Australian Parliamentary Inquiry recommended that insurers’ use of genetic test results in underwriting should be prohibited. In 2019, the FS…Read more
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10Tuning Frontiers of Efficiency in Tissue P Systems with Evolutional Communication RulesComplexity 2021 1-14. 2021.Over the last few years, a new methodology to address the P versus NP problem has been developed, based on searching for borderlines between the nonefficiency of computing models and the presumed efficiency. These borderlines can be seen as frontiers of efficiency, which are crucial in this methodology. “Translating,” in some sense, an efficient solution in a presumably efficient model to an efficient solution in a nonefficient model would give an affirmative answer to problem P versus NP. In th…Read more
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3Sobre a noção de transparência em Byung-Chul Han e a defesa de nossa desacreditada opacidadeGriot : Revista de Filosofia 20 (3): 342-361. 2020.A transparência é um velho ideal moderno que as novas tecnologias rejuvenesceram e tornaram onipresente nas discussões atuais sobre poder, cultura digital e controle. Neste artigo, propomos uma análise da noção de transparência ao longo de quatro obras do filósofo contemporâneo Byung-Chul Han: Sociedade do cansaço, Topologia da violência, Sociedade da transparência e Psicopolítica. Este percurso nos permitirá sugerir uma genealogia desta noção na obra de Han. A noção de transparência será analis…Read more
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28The Sense of Self Over Time: Assessing Diachronicity in Dissociative Identity Disorder, Psychosis and Healthy Comparison GroupsFrontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.Dissociative experiences have been associated with diachronic disunity. Yet, this work is in its infancy. Dissociative identity disorder is characterized by different identity states reporting their own relatively continuous sense of self. The degree to which patients in dissociative identity states experience diachronic unity has not been empirically explored. This study examined the degree to which patients in dissociative identity states experienced diachronic unity. Participants were DID adu…Read more
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13E-Banking Adoption: An Opportunity for Customer Value Co-creationFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2021.The development of information and communication technologies offers innovative opportunities to establish business strategies focused on customer value co-creation. This situation is especially notable in the banking industry. e-Banking activities can support competitive advantages. However, the adoption of e-banking is not yet well-established among consumers. In this sense, the technology acceptance model is considered essential in studying consumer behavior applied to adopt a particular tech…Read more
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19Scrutinizing Social Identity Theory in Corporate Social Responsibility: An Experimental InvestigationFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.Corporate social responsibility is widely established by companies that aim to contribute to society and minimize their negative impact on the environment. In CSR research, employees’ reactions to CSR have extensively been researched. Social identity theory is often used as a theoretical background to explain the relationship between CSR and employee-related outcomes, but until now, a sound empirical examination is lacking, and causality remains unclear. CSR can unfold its effect mainly because …Read more
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2Parameter der Antiqui-Moderni-Thematik in der Frühen NeuzeitIn Herbert Jaumann (ed.), Diskurse der Gelehrtenkultur in der Frühen Neuzeit: Ein Handbuch, De Gruyter. pp. 157-178. 2010.
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24Intuitions about the epistemic virtues of majority votingThinking and Reasoning 1-19. forthcoming.The Condorcet Jury Theorem, along with empirical results, establishes the accuracy of majority voting in a broad range of conditions. Here we investigate whether naïve participants (in the U.S. and...
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8Cardiovascular Disease and Obesity Prevention in Germany: An Investigation into a Heterogeneous Engineering ProjectScience, Technology, and Human Values 36 (5): 723-751. 2011.Cardiovascular diseases present the leading cause of death worldwide. Over the last decade, their preventio has become not only a central medical and public health issue but also a matter of political concern as well as a major market for pharma, nutrition, and exercise. A preventive assemblage has formed that integrates diverse kinds of knowledges, technologies, and actors, from molecular biology to social work, to foster a specific healthy lifestyle. In this article, the authors analyze this p…Read more
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4Habit, the Criminal Body and the Body Politic in England, c. 1700–1800Body and Society 19 (2-3): 83-106. 2013.This article explores the role that ‘habit’ played in discourses on crime in the 18th century, a subject which forms an important part of the history of ‘the social’. It seeks to bridge the division between ‘liberal’ positions which see crime as a product of social circumstance, and the conservative position which stresses the role of will and individual responsibility, by drawing attention to the role habit played in uniting these conceptions in the 18th century. It argues that the Lockean idea…Read more
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9Effects of Muscle Fatigue, Creep, and Musculoskeletal Pain on Neuromuscular Responses to Unexpected Perturbation of the Trunk: A Systematic ReviewFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 10. 2017.
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2Influence of Lumbar Muscle Fatigue on Trunk Adaptations during Sudden External PerturbationsFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 10. 2016.
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90Predictive genetic testing in minors for late-onset conditions: a chronological and analytical review of the ethical arguments: Figure 1Journal of Medical Ethics 38 (9): 519-524. 2012.Predictive genetic testing is now routinely offered to asymptomatic adults at risk for genetic disease. However, testing of minors at risk for adult-onset conditions, where no treatment or preventive intervention exists, has evoked greater controversy and inspired a debate spanning two decades. This review aims to provide a detailed longitudinal analysis and concludes by examining the debate's current status and prospects for the future. Fifty-three relevant theoretical papers published between …Read more