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The Life Of Rev. C. F. Swartz, The American Tract Society

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A Narrative Of The Establishment And Progress Of The Mission To Ceylon And India, W. M. Harvard

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The Mechanics And Fixed Operations Of Human Experience, James Dominick Di Netta

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This paper will use the natural laws of the universe and amassed evidence to support a dynamic systems theory approach to explain the mechanics and fixed operations of the human experience taking place inside a causally determined universe without the possibility of free will. By reductionary methods, the universe and all its’ contents, including human agents, will be exemplified as complex dynamic systems. In so doing, the human experience is reduced to being comprised of information acting and reacting with other information existing in the universe, specifically ideas. Allowing ideas to take on a physical manifestation shows how the feedback …

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Comparison Of Schema And Strategies Of Topic Selection Between Thai And Japanese People For The Conversation With People Met For The First Time(การเปรียบเทียบโครงสร้างความรู้ (Schema) และกลยุทธ์การเลือกหัวข้อสนทนา เมื่อพบกันเป็นครั้งแรกของผู้พูดชาวไทยกับผู้พูดชาวญี่ปุ่น), ยุพวรรณ โสภิตวุฒิวงศ์

Journal of Letters

The conversation between people who first meet each other is important because of both parties have good feelings towards each other, they can build further relationship. Therefore, the objective of this study is to explore the schema that appears in the conversation between people meeting each other for the first time by comparing the cases of Thai students and the cases of Japanese students. The total number of the participants of each nationality is 8 pairs. All participants are the female. The conversation of each pair is recorded without any adjustment. The findings from the study reveal that the schema …

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Game Localisation: A Process Overview And Translation Issues(การแปลวิดีโอเกม: ภาพรวมของกระบวนการและประเด็นศึกษาด้านการแปล), ฐานันดร วงศ์กิตติธร

Journal of Letters

At the present time, messages, information, and texts that need to be translated with the purposes of distribution and communication are drastically increasing both in form and number. From the traditional printed material translation to audio-visual media translation, now it is the era of multimedia translation: website and software localisation. This article aims to study the translation of a new type of interactive entertainment software, namely video game. Video game is a new marked entertainment media which has a significant influence, parallels to movie, on current media and entertainment industry; this fact encourages all other relevant parties to develop their …

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Common Lexical Hedges And Their Functions In Medical Research Articles On Oncology: A Comparative Study Of Thai And Native Writers Of English(รูปและหน้าที่ของรูปเบี่ยงบังระดับคำที่พบบ่อยในบทความวิจัยทางการแพทย์ด้านมะเร็งวิทยา: การศึกษาเปรียบเทียบในผู้เขียนที่เป็นเจ้าของภาษาและที่ไม่ใช่เจ้าของภาษา), Worawanna Petchkij

Journal of Letters

This study examined and compared the frequencies and functions of common lexical hedges used by non-native (Thai) and native writers in the discussion sections of medical research articles in the area of oncology. A corpus of sixty research articles written in English by both groups were selected and analyzed through descriptive statistics in terms of frequency and a standardized size of 1000 words was employed to provide a basis for comparison. The list of common lexical hedges suggested by Hyland (2005) was used as a guideline. Their frequencies reflect the different preferences of both groups and may also indicate the …

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The Factors Of Prosodic Phrasing In Thai(ปัจจัยในการสร้างหน่วยประกอบทางสัทสัมพันธ์ในภาษาไทย), มนต์ชัย เดชะพิพัฒน์สกุล, พิทยาวัฒน์ พิทยาภรณ์

Journal of Letters

This paper aims to investigate the factors which influence prosodic phrasing in Thai. The data comprise 107 utterances consist of simple, compound, and complex sentences. The complex sentences are structurally different among thîi or wâa verb-complement clause constructions, thîi noun-complement clause constructions, thîi or sɨ̂ŋ relative clause constructions, hâi or thamhâi causative constructions, and clauses preceded by sɨ̂ŋ or dooj discourse markers. To find prosodic constituent boundaries in each utterance, an online experimental test was conducted. 37 informants were asked to phrase the utterance by assigning a pause or pauses in certain positions in the utterances. The finding shows that …

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Kaanthii- And Khwaamthii- As Clausal Nominalizers In Thai(การที่- และ ความที่- ในฐานะตัวบ่งชี้นามวลีแปลงเชิงอนุประโยคในภาษาไทย), ภีมพสิษฐ์ ภีมพสิษฐ์, อมรา ประสิทธิ์รัฐสินธุ์

Journal of Letters

In previous studies, there have been disagreements over the analyses on kaanthii- and khwaamthii- constructions which are analyzed as 5 different types of constructions. This article aims to examine these two constructions on two unsettled major issues. The first is whether kaan/khwaam and thii are two separated units as [kaan/khwaam][thii-], i.e., the head nouns kaan/khwaam modified by the thii- noun-modifying clause, or are counted as a single grammatical morpheme as [kaanthii-] and [khwaamthii-]. The other issue is what grammatical functions of kaanthii- and khwaamthii- truly are, in other words, what kinds of constructions the clauses preceded with kaanthii- and khwaamthii- …

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Her Serene Highness Princess Philai-Lekha Diskul And Modern Art In Thailand(หม่อมเจ้าหญิงพิไลยเลขา ดิศกุล กับศิลปะสมัยใหม่ในประเทศไทย), สิทธิธรรม โรหิตะสุข

Journal of Letters

Her Serene Highness Princess Philai-lekha Diskul (B.E.2440-2528) was a Thai elite lady who had great interest in work of arts. This research is a historical study during the Princess's lifetime from art studying, art creating, pattern and influence of arts including her role in Modern Art of Thailand.The study presents that Her Serene Highness Princess Philai-lekha Diskul had studied arts from Italian architect and artisan who served king and the government of Thailand. Her remarkable teachers were Prince Narisara Nuvadtivongs and Mr. Corrado Feroci or Silpa Bhirasri who inspired her to study Academic Art both in Thai Traditional Art; Western …

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From The Art Of Textiles To The Literary Techniques Of Love: The Significance Of Textiles In Sepha Rueang Khun Chang Khun Phaen(ศิลปะแห่งผ้า วรรณศิลป์แห่งรัก: ความสำคัญของผ้าในเสภาเรื่องขุนช้างขุนแผน), ธานีรัตน์ จัตุทะศรี

Journal of Letters

This paper aims to examine the significance of textiles related to characters' love lives in Sepha Rueang Khun Chang Khun Phaen. The study finds that the textiles in the story have wide-ranging significance as regards love. The textiles are used as symbols of the beloved; to emphasize and develop feelings of love; to remind the character of his past love; to reflect and foreshadow love lives, and to be metaphors of love. The significance of textiles in Sepha Rueang Khun Chang Khun Phaen demonstrates the role of the minor arts as literary techniques to express various dimensions of love in …

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Dying To Live Forever Sophia Harris Journal 1860 To 1861, Shirley Ilene Davis

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Sophia Harris’s journal is a window into one woman’s experiences in an area that transformed from a frontier outpost to a market-oriented and increasingly urbanized society. It also sheds light on how she made sense of the meaning of these changes in her personal life: specifically how her religious understandings of death shaped her understanding of the world she lived in.

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Animal Mourning: Précis Of How Animals Grieve (King 2013), Barbara J. King

Animal Sentience

Abstract: When an animal dies, that individual’s mate, relatives, or friends may express grief. Changes in the survivor’s patterns of social behavior, eating, sleeping, and/or of expression of affect are the key criteria for defining grief. Based on this understanding of grief, it is not only big-brained mammals like elephants, apes, and cetaceans who can be said to mourn, but also a wide variety of other animals, including domestic companions like cats, dogs, and rabbits; horses and farm animals; and some birds. With keen attention placed on seeking where grief is found to occur and where it is absent …

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Death In The Family, Maria Botero

Animal Sentience

Barbara King presents grief as the result of the capacity of human and non-human animals for social and affectionate bonds. This is a novel approach that provides a context for interpreting behavioral evidence of grief. The book also offers thought-provoking insights into the relationship between emotion and the expression of emotion. The most surprising element of King’s approach is that, throughout the book, her account of non-human animal grief forces us to reassess the way we treat them.

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Considering Animals’ Feelings: Précis Of Sentience And Animal Welfare (Broom 2014), Donald M. Broom

Animal Sentience

The concept of sentience concerns the capacity to have feelings. There is evidence for sophisticated cognitive concepts and for both positive and negative feelings in a wide range of nonhuman animals. All vertebrates, including fish, as well as some molluscs and decapod crustaceans have pain systems. Most people today consider that their moral obligations extend to many animal species. Moral decisions about abortion, euthanasia, and the various ways we protect animals should take into account the research findings about sentience. In addition, all animal life should be respected and studies of the welfare of even the simplest invertebrate animals should …

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Is Sentience Only A Nonessential Component Of Animal Welfare?, Ian J.H. Duncan

Animal Sentience

According to Broom (2014), animal welfare is a concept that can be applied to all animals, including single-celled organisms that are obviously not sentient. Such a stance makes it difficult to draw a connection between welfare and sentience, and that is the book’s downfall. Some excellent points are made about sentience and there are very good discussions on animal welfare. However, unless sentience is considered the essential component of welfare, any attempt to link the two phenomena will be unsuccessful — and that, indeed, is the case with this book.

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Sentience And Animal Welfare: New Thoughts And Controversies, Donald M. Broom

Animal Sentience

Sentience involves having some degree of awareness but awareness of self is not as complex as some people believe. Fully functioning vertebrate animals, and some invertebrates, are sentient but neither humans nor non-humans are sentient early in development or if brain-damaged. Feelings are valuable adaptive mechanisms and an important part of welfare but are not all of welfare so the term welfare refers to all animals, not just to sentient animals. We have much to learn about what non-human animals want from us, the functioning of the more complex aspects of their brains and of our brains and how we …

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Why Fish Do Not Feel Pain, Brian Key

Animal Sentience

Only humans can report feeling pain. In contrast, pain in animals is typically inferred on the basis of nonverbal behaviour. Unfortunately, these behavioural data can be problematic when the reliability and validity of the behavioural tests are questionable. The thesis proposed here is based on the bioengineering principle that structure determines function. Basic functional homologies can be mapped to structural homologies across a broad spectrum of vertebrate species. For example, olfaction depends on olfactory glomeruli in the olfactory bulbs of the forebrain, visual orientation responses depend on the laminated optic tectum in the midbrain, and locomotion depends on pattern generators …

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Why Human Pain Can’T Tell Us Whether Fish Feel Pain, Victoria A. Braithwaite, Paula Droege

Animal Sentience

In his target article, Key (2016) reviews the neuroanatomy of human pain and uses what is known about human pain to argue that fish cannot experience pain. We provide three reasons why the conclusions reached by Key are unsupported. They consider (i) why it is not sufficient to conclude that only human neural structures can process conscious pain, (ii) why an understanding of pain in humans and non-human animals needs to be based within a framework of consciousness, and (iii) evidence already exists that fish treated with noxious stimuli lose the ability to perform normal behaviours: This was a behavioral …

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An Invertebrate Perspective On Pain, Jennifer A. Mather

Animal Sentience

Although Key (2016) argues that mammals feel pain and fish do not, from an invertebrate perspective, it is obvious that the pain experience is shared by animals from a number of different animal groups.

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Could Fish Feel Pain? A Wider Perspective, Yew-Kwang Ng

Animal Sentience

Key’s (2016) target article provides some strong arguments but also makes some logical mistakes. The arguments are not sufficient to support a definite conclusion that fish cannot feel pain. A multi-faceted perspective taking into account brain structure, chemical secretion in brain, animal behavior, and evolutionary biology may be useful and appears, at least in some aspects, to suggest the opposite conclusion from that of the target article.

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Should Fish Feel Pain? A Plant Perspective, František Baluška

Animal Sentience

Key (2016) claims fish that fish do not feel pain because they lack the necessary neuronal architecture: their responses to noxious stimuli, according to Key, are executed automatically without any feelings. However, as pointed out by many of his commentators, this conclusion is not convincing. Plants might provide some clues. Plants are not usually thought to be very active behaviorally, but the evidence suggests otherwise. Moreover, in stressful situations, plants produce numerous chemicals that have painkilling and anesthetic properties. Finally, plants, when treated with anesthetics, cannot execute active behaviors such as touch-induced leaf movements or rapid trap closures after localizing …

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A Single Strand Of Argument With Unfounded Conclusion, Robert W. Elwood

Animal Sentience

Key (2016) describes the neural system involved in human pain experience in an excellent fashion but then suggests that only that complete system can generate the experience of pain. Thus animals without all components will not feel pain. This argument has been refuted in the past by analogy to vision where it is clear that a broad range of taxa, vertebrate and invertebrate, have good visual abilities albeit with completely different central nervous systems and receptors. This known counterargument to Key’s main idea is not mentioned in the target article. Further criteria that might indicate pain and studies examining these …

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What Would The Babel Fish Say?, Monica Gagliano

Animal Sentience

Starting with its title, Key’s (2016) target article advocates the view that fish do not feel pain. The author describes the neuroanatomical, physiological and behavioural conditions involved in the experience of pain in humans and rodents and confidently applies analogical arguments as though they were established facts in support of the negative conclusion about the inability of fish to feel pain. The logical reasoning, unfortunately, becomes somewhat incoherent, with the arbitrary application of the designated human criteria for an analogical argument to one animal species (e.g., rodents) but not another (fish). Research findings are reported selectively, and questionable interpretations are …

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Pain And Fish Welfare, Eliane Gonçalves-De-Freitas

Animal Sentience

The evolutionary approach of Key’s (2016) target article, generically comparing humans with fish of all kinds, is simplistic. The author ignores published research on structural and molecular aspects of pain in fish. The target article reads more like a selective polemic against fish welfare than an even-handed analysis.

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Brain Processes For “Good” And “Bad” Feelings: How Far Back In Evolution?, Jaak Panksepp

Animal Sentience

The question of whether fish can experience pain or any other feelings can only be resolved by neurobiologically targeted experiments. This commentary summarizes why this is essential for resolving scientific debates about consciousness in other animals, and offers specific experiments that need to be done: (i) those that evaluate the rewarding and punishing effects of specific brain regions and systems (for instance, with deep-brain stimulation); (ii) those that evaluate the capacity of animals to regulate their affective states; and (iii) those that have direct implications for human affective feelings, with specific predictions — for instance, the development of new treatments …

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Pain In Fish: Weighing The Evidence, James D. Rose

Animal Sentience

The target article by Key (2016) examines whether ﬁsh have brain structures capable of mediating pain perception and consciousness, functions known to depend on the neocortex in humans. He concludes, as others have concluded (Rose 2002, 2007; Rose et al. 2014), that such functions are impossible for ﬁsh brains. This conclusion has been met with hypothetical assertions by others to the effect that functions of pain and consciousness may well be possible through unknown alternate neural processes. Key's argument would be bolstered by consideration of other neurological as well as behavioral evidence, which shows that sharks and ray are ﬁshes …

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Why Is Fish “Feeling” Pain Controversial?, E. Don Stevens

Animal Sentience

In his excellent target article, Key (2016) develops a mechanistic argument in an attempt to show why it is unlikely that fish can “feel” pain or for that matter, “feel” anything. The topic is controversial and likely to achieve the goal of getting many hits for the inaugural issue of the new journal, Animal Sentience. In my view, the question is unlikely to be answered, for two reasons. First, because the proponents of the “fish feel pain” controversy are untrained and unskilled in the details and jargon of neurophysiology and/or neuroanatomy, and the opponents of the controversy, like Key, …

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Animal Sentience: The Other-Minds Problem, Stevan Harnad

Animal Sentience

The only feelings we can feel are our own. When it comes to the feelings of others, we can only infer them, based on their behavior — unless they tell us. This is the “other-minds problem.” Within our own species, thanks to language, this problem arises only for states in which people cannot speak (infancy, aphasia, sleep, anaesthesia, coma). Our species also has a uniquely powerful empathic or “mind-reading” capacity: We can (sometimes) perceive from the behavior of others when they are in states like our own. Our inferences have also been systematized and operationalized in biobehavioral science …

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Animal Welfare Cannot Adequately Protect Nonhuman Animals: The Need For A Science Of Animal Well-Being, Marc Bekoff, Jessica Pierce

Animal Sentience

A focus on animal welfare in the use of nonhuman animals in the service of human economic and scientific interests does not and cannot adequately protect (nonhuman) animals. It presupposes that using other animals for human ends is acceptable as long as we try our best to improve the welfare of the animals we use. We argue instead for a “science of animal well-being” in which the protection of animal needs is not subordinated to human economic or scientific interests.

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What’S The Common Sense Of Just Some Improvement Of Some Welfare For Some Animals?, Liv Baker

Animal Sentience

The goal of Animal Welfare Science to reduce animal suffering is commendable but too modest: Suffering animals need and deserve far more.

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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities

The Life Of Rev. C. F. Swartz, The American Tract Society

Books

A Narrative Of The Establishment And Progress Of The Mission To Ceylon And India, W. M. Harvard

Books

The Mechanics And Fixed Operations Of Human Experience, James Dominick Di Netta

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Journal of Letters

Game Localisation: A Process Overview And Translation Issues(การแปลวิดีโอเกม: ภาพรวมของกระบวนการและประเด็นศึกษาด้านการแปล), ฐานันดร วงศ์กิตติธร

Journal of Letters

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Journal of Letters

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Dying To Live Forever Sophia Harris Journal 1860 To 1861, Shirley Ilene Davis

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Animal Mourning: Précis Of How Animals Grieve (King 2013), Barbara J. King

Animal Sentience

Death In The Family, Maria Botero

Animal Sentience

Considering Animals’ Feelings: Précis Of Sentience And Animal Welfare (Broom 2014), Donald M. Broom

Animal Sentience

Is Sentience Only A Nonessential Component Of Animal Welfare?, Ian J.H. Duncan

Animal Sentience

Sentience And Animal Welfare: New Thoughts And Controversies, Donald M. Broom

Animal Sentience

Why Fish Do Not Feel Pain, Brian Key

Animal Sentience

Why Human Pain Can’T Tell Us Whether Fish Feel Pain, Victoria A. Braithwaite, Paula Droege

Animal Sentience

An Invertebrate Perspective On Pain, Jennifer A. Mather

Animal Sentience

Could Fish Feel Pain? A Wider Perspective, Yew-Kwang Ng

Animal Sentience

Should Fish Feel Pain? A Plant Perspective, František Baluška

Animal Sentience

A Single Strand Of Argument With Unfounded Conclusion, Robert W. Elwood

Animal Sentience

What Would The Babel Fish Say?, Monica Gagliano

Animal Sentience

Pain And Fish Welfare, Eliane Gonçalves-De-Freitas

Animal Sentience

Brain Processes For “Good” And “Bad” Feelings: How Far Back In Evolution?, Jaak Panksepp

Animal Sentience

Pain In Fish: Weighing The Evidence, James D. Rose

Animal Sentience

Why Is Fish “Feeling” Pain Controversial?, E. Don Stevens

Animal Sentience

Animal Sentience: The Other-Minds Problem, Stevan Harnad

Animal Sentience

Animal Welfare Cannot Adequately Protect Nonhuman Animals: The Need For A Science Of Animal Well-Being, Marc Bekoff, Jessica Pierce

Animal Sentience

What’S The Common Sense Of Just Some Improvement Of Some Welfare For Some Animals?, Liv Baker

Animal Sentience