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A self-determination theory perspective on parenting
(Canadian Psychological Association, 2008-08)
This article describes research on parenting that supports children's need for autonomy. First, the authors define parental autonomy support and distinguish it from permissiveness or independence promotion. The authors ...
Controlling parenting and physical aggression during elementary school
(Wiley, 2008-03)
The goal of the present study was to examine whether controlling parenting contributes to the problem of physical aggression. Developmental trajectories of children’s physical aggression were modeled from yearly teachers’ ...
The logopenic/phonological variant of primary progressive aphasia
(American Academy of Neurology, 2008)
Objective: Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is characterized by isolated decline in language
functions. Semantic dementia and progressive nonfluent aphasia are accepted PPA variants. A
“logopenic” variant (LPA) has also ...
Fichte and the universality of the moral law
(Philosophy documentation center, 2008)
In his lectures of 1806 On the Way to the Blessed Life, Fichte draws a distinction between lower and higher morality. According to him, the paradigm of the lower morality is to be found in Kant’s ethics insofar as it ...
A Classification of Feminist Theories
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2008-09)
In this paper I criticize Alison Jaggar’s descriptions of feminist political theories. I propose an alternative classification of feminist theories that I think more accurately reflects the multiplication of feminist ...
Landscape all'Antica and Topographical Anachronism in Roman Fresco Painting of the Sixteenth Century
(2008)
Anachronistic topographical landscapes of the 16th century can be understood as “symptoms” of a “way of seeing” affected by the human psyche and by memory. Many topographical landscapes all'antica in fresco paintings of ...
The effect of university–industry collaboration on the scientific impact of publications : the Canadian case, 1980–2005
(Oxford University Press, 2008)
Previous research on university-industry collaboration in Canada concluded, using mean impact
factors as a proxy, that the scientific impact of such research is not inferior to that of university
research. Using ...
The effects of aging on researchers’ publication and citation patterns
(Public library of science, 2008-03-29)
The average age at which U.S. researchers receive their first grant from NIH has increased from 34.3 in 1970, to 41.7 in 2004.
These data raise the crucial question of the effects of aging on the scientific productivity ...
The Trouble with Inversion: an Examination of Science Sexual Orientation
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2008-09)
Although some are excited about the possibility of using current scientific research into the biological causes of sexual orientation to ground rights claims, I argue that basing rights claims on this research is unwise ...