Building on ideas developed in ‘The semiotic stance’ (2005), this essay outlines a social and semiotic theory of four seemingly human-specific and individual-centric capacities that, while essential for understanding modern social processes, are often confused and conflated. Loosely speaking, agency is a causal capacity: say, the relatively flexible wielding of means towards ends. Subjectivity ...

Abouraddy,Ayman F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21, 26 Accardi,Anthony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Adalsteinsson, Elfar . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

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In this paper I will be primarily concerned with doings or activities rather than with the more specific case of actions. Many things we do in our daily lives are not actions. A person caught in her thoughts might smile, scratch her head, stand up and walk around. Under normal circumstances these activities are not actions, they are only doings. Doings are often done without reason. The author ...

adipocyte fatty acid-binding protein Contribution of serum adipocyte fatty acid-binding protein levels to the presence of microalbuminuria in a Chinese hyperglycemic population, Hu 582–589 adult-onset autoimmune diabetes Chronic hepatitis B virus infection status is more prevalent in patients with type 2 diabetes, Lu 619–625 advanced glycation end-products Advanced glycation end-products are a ...

The teaching of compiler construction and language theory is absent from many current computing degrees, the rationale being that they are now irrelevant to modern software engineering practice. In this paper a case is made for the inclusion of at least certain aspects of compiler construction and language theory in computing degrees to support and reinforce the acquisition of software developm...

Introduction Librarians collect and bibliographers list documents in whatever media and genres (books, journals, data sets, movies, etc.) are expected to be most useful for the communities and the purposes to be served. Once collected, documents need to be made accessible in an organized way. In part this is a matter of scale. A collection of one or very few documents can simply be placed in a ...

A ?semigroup is a semigroup whose lattice of congruences is a chain with respect to inclusion. Schein 9] and Tamura 11] have investigated commutative ?semigroups, Trotter 13] exponential, Nagy 4] weakly exponential and Bonzini and Cherubini Spoletini 2] nite ?semigroups. The pupose of the present paper is to investigate archimedean weakly commutative and H?commutative ?semigroups. 1 Weakly comm...

Heart disease is the major causes of hospitalization, morbidity and mortality worldwide. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are proposed to contribute to the deterioration of cardiac function in patients with heart diseases. ROS are increased in the failing heart and involved in atherosclerosis, myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury, and heart failure. Increased production of ROS directly or indire...