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Livestock plants and COVID-19 transmission
Policy responses to the COVID-19 outbreak must strike a balance between maintaining essential supply chains and limiting the spread of the virus. Our results indicate a strong positive relationship between livestock-processing plants and local community transmission of COVID-19, suggesting that these plants may act as transmission vectors into the surrounding population and accelerate the spread of the virus beyond what would be predicted solely by population risk characteristics. We estimate the total excess COVID-19 cases and deaths associated with proximity to livestock plants to be 236,000 to 310,000 (6 to 8% of all US cases) and 4,300 to 5,200 (3 to 4% of all US deaths), respectively, as of July 21, 2020, with the vast majority likely related to community spread outside these plants. The association is found primarily among large processing facilities and large meatpacking companies. In addition, we find evidence that plant closures attenuated county-wide cases and that plants that received permission from the US Department of Agriculture to increase their production-line speeds saw more county-wide cases. Ensuring both public health and robust essential supply chains may require an increase in meatpacking oversight and potentially a shift toward more decentralized, smaller-scale meat production.
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The language animal : the full shape of the human linguistic capacity
\"In this book, Charles Taylor explains linguistic holism to people who believe language needs to be thought of as bits of information. According to one influential view of language, one that originated with Hobbes, Locke, and Condillac, language serves to encode information and to communicate it. This theory has been rendered more sophisticated over the last two centuries, but it still gives a central place to the encoding of information. The thesis of Taylor's new book is that this view neglects crucial features of our language capacity. Sometimes language serves not just to encode information, but also shapes what it purports to describe. This language is more than merely 'descriptive;' it plays a 'constitutive' role.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Wetlands, Flooding, and the Clean Water Act
In 2020 the Environmental Protection Agency narrowed the definition of “waters of the United States,” significantly limiting wetland protection under the Clean Water Act. Current policy debates center on the uncertainty around wetland benefits. We estimate the value of wetlands for flood mitigation across the United States using detailed flood claims and land use data. We find the average hectare of wetland lost between 2001 and 2016 cost society $1,840 annually, and over $8,000 in developed areas. We document significant spatial heterogeneity in wetland benefits, with implications for flood insurance policy and the 50 percent of “isolated ” wetlands at risk of losing federal protection.
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Dilemmas and connections : selected essays
Here, Taylor talks in detail about thinkers who are his allies and interlocutors, such as Iris Murdoch, Alasdair MacIntyre, Robert Brandom, and Paul Celan. He offers major contributions to social theory, expanding on the issues of nationalism, democratic exclusionism, religious mobilizations, and modernity.
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Tipping point dynamics in global land use
Agricultural land use has recently peaked, both globally and across country income groups, after centuries of expansion and intensification. Such shifts in the evolution of global land use have implications for food security, biodiversity loss, and carbon emissions. While economic growth and land use are closely linked, it is difficult to determine the extent to which the relationship is causal, deterministic, and unidirectional. Here we utilize gridded datasets to study long-term global land use change from 1780 to 2010. We find evidence for an economic tipping point, where land use intensifies with economic development at low income levels, then reverses after incomes reach a critical threshold. Cropland peaks around $5000 GDP per capita then declines. We utilize a Markov model to show that this reversal emerges from a variety of divergent land use pathways, in particular the expansion of protected areas and a reduction in land use lock-in. Our results suggest that economic development remains a powerful driver of land use change with implications for the future of natural ecosystems in the context of continued population and income growth.
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أخلاقيات الأصالة
يدعو المفكر الكندي تشارلز تايلر في كتابه «أخلاقيات الأصالة» إلى مواجهة الأزمات الأخلاقية والسياسية في عصرنا، والاستفادة من تحديات الحداثة إلى أقصى حد كما يناقش تايلر أنه وفي قلب الشعور بالضيق، يكمن مفهوم الأصالة وتحقيق الذات، هذه التي اعتبر كثير من المنظرين أنها قد تهمش تقليد القيم المشتركة والالتزام الاجتماعي، على الرغم من إدراك تايلر للمخاطر المرتبطة بدافع الحداثة نحو تحقيق الذات، إلا أنه خالف المتخوفين منها، ولم يكن سريعا مثل الآخرين في رفضها، بل إنه يدعو إلى «تجميد التشاؤم الثقافي» يناقش المؤلف الأفكار والأيديولوجيات بدءا من الفيلسوف الألماني فريدريك نيتشه إلى الكاتبة الأمريكية غايل شيهي، ومن المفكر الأمريكي آلان بلوم إلى الفرنسي ميشيل فوكو.
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Social media and international advertising: theoretical challenges and future directions
Purpose - The primary aim of this article is to identify theoretical foundations that can be used in research on social media in the context of international advertising research. An additional objective is to identify future research directions for theory building in this research area.Design methodology approach - The article draws on the extant literature to identify three key theoretical foundations that can be used in research on advertising in media from an advertising perspective: networking capability; image transferability; and personal extensibility. For each of these perspectives, the current state of knowledge, theoretical challenges, and future research directions are summarized.Findings - The three key theoretical perspectives (networking capability, image transferability, and personal extensibility) provide strong potential for better understanding the advantages and disadvantages of social media use for advertisers. They are also useful for identifying important research gaps that need to be filled in the future.Research limitations implications - Research on social media advertising in an international context is still in its infancy, and needs further attention. As few cross-cultural studies have been conducted, the theories and their application will likely evolve in the future.Originality value - A review and conceptual framework pertaining to theoretical perspective used in social media research in an international advertising context has been practically non-existent. Thus, this article is designed to serve as a solid starting point for future research endeavors.
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عصر علماني
يتناول كتاب (عصر علماني) والذي قام بتأليفه (تشارلز تايلور) في حوالي (1087) صفحة من القطع المتوسط موضوع (العلمانية من الناحية الدينية) مستعرضا المحتويات التالية : الفصل الأول : حصون الإيمان، الفصل الثاني : نشأة المجتمع المنضبط، الفصل الثالث : الانعتاق العظيم، الفصل الرابع : المتخيلات الاجتماعية الحديثة، الفصل الخامس : شبح المثالية، الفصل السادس : مذهب العناية الإلهية.
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The ethical implications of resonance theory
In the first part of this paper, I want to look at the ethical implications of Hartmut Rosa’s Resonance theory for a critical theory of society. I know that this widening of the scope of critical theory is an important objective which Hartmut has pursued. Then I will look at some of the sources of resonance theory in the poetry of the Romantic period. These still provide the basis for important Resonanzachsen today. At the end of this essay, I deal with the issue of the epistemic status of the convictions this poetry inspires.
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