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The Epistemological Status of Autobiographical Accounts or How to Treat Personal Narratives
Full text linkThe purpose of this article is to show how different understandings of truth-correspondence, consensual, subjective, and fictional, as well as the truth of a particular interest group, affect the treatment and interpretation of autobiographical accounts. At the same time, these accounts are understood here as personal narratives told from the perspective of the narrator's personal experience, presenting events in a specific temporal and causal order. An autobiographical account captures a person's life in terms of a story about himself, but also about those whom the story depicts. The article opens with a discussion of the epistemological status of autobiographical data most often cited in the literature, which amounts to treating narratives as objective events or merely subjective accounts of them. Moving beyond this dichotomous division is presented in the remainder of the article, which discusses the meaning of truth in the four views of social reality and how this affects the treatment of life stories. The analytical areas identified provide an understanding of how to treat empirical data and what cognitive results should be expected if one adopts a given understanding of truth
The Laws of Nature, and the Nature of Law: Climate Change and Ancient Wisdom in the Post-Modern World
Full text linkCo-teaching in Contracts: Integrating Theory and Practice in University Legal Education
Full text linkEntrepreneurship in uncertain times
No full textWe live in an age of uncertainty, an inevitable part of our existence. Suggesting its elimination is like the endless weaving of Penelope’s web. In the face of uncertainty, with its differences and nuances of meaning, patience, cunning, and hope are irrelevant.
Uncertainty refers to the state of not knowing what awaits us, leading to worry about the unknown. This differs from insecurity, which arises from a threat that actually materializes. While uncertainty represents the difficulty in predicting outcomes—especially over the long term—volatility contrasts with this by focusing on the dispersion of short-term shocks around a long-term average. Moreover, uncertainty can also be viewed as the subjective perception of the unpredictability of the context. Instead, precarity refers to an objective and persistent state of insecurity, characterized by a lack of control over one’s future
Literary Representations of the Drive-Through Province: Vehicles, Identities, and Imaginaries in I Am A Truck, “A Field Our Own”, and “Freight”
Full text linkThis article explores the thematic significance of vehicles in contemporary New Brunswick literature to show how the processes of identity formation are influenced by vehicles. Since trucks and cars enable their users to inhabit certain ways of being, this symbiotic relationship communicates aspects of class, gender, mobility, ability, education, and income. Employing affect theory and such critics as Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Jane Bennett, this article discusses how the novel I Am a Truck and the short stories “Freight” and “A Field Our Own” explore the influence of vehicles on identity formation
Evaluation of SDB data for near shore mapping around Agatti Island, India: a comparative study with echo sounder survey
No full textBathymetric data acquisition in shallow nearshore waters is often constrained by safety risks and limited access for conventional survey vessels. Satellite-derived bathymetry (SDB) offers a non-intrusive, wide-coverage alternative, particularly effective in coral reef environments. This study evaluates the accuracy of physics-based SDB, processed by EOMAP GmbH & Co. KG using Sentinel-2 imagery, over Agatti Island in the Lakshadweep archipelago. Groundtruth validation was carried out using single beam echo sounder data collected from shallow water crafts and multibeam echo sounder data acquired from survey motorboats and a hydrographic ship. The analysis showed that while SDB provided reliable depth patterns across all zones, vertical uncertainties scaled to the 95% confidence level (LE95 = 1.96 σ) exceeded the IHO S-44 Order 1a TVU limits in all depth bands. These findings, consistent with guidance in IHO B-13 (IHO, 2024), highlight the operational value of SDB for reconnaissance and coastal planning, while underscoring the need for careful statistical treatment of uncertainties when evaluating SDB against hydrographic standards
“To ship her to the West Indies, and there dispose of her as a Slave”: Connections of Enslaved People to the Loyalist Maritimes and the West Indies
No full textHistorical evidence of enslaved people and Black Loyalists testifies to how slavery linked the Maritime and Caribbean colonies. These sources sometimes offer evidence about the emotions, attitudes, and actions of Black people who faced and confronted extreme violence. Free and enslaved Black people grappled with their own unfreedom as well as the oppression of their West Indian counterparts. The variations among their lives underscore the swath of outcomes and struggles that Black people endured within the transatlantic networks of slavery, but they also testify to the opportunities they seized for autonomy and the hopes and values they carried with them
Magmatisme ordovicien dans les hautes terres d’Antigonish, Nouvelle-Écosse, Canada: modèle tectonique
No full textThe Antigonish Highlands form part of Avalonia in mainland Nova Scotia and are predominantly underlain by ca. 620–600 Ma low grade Neoproterozoic arc-related volcanic and sedimentary rocks and coeval plutons. The highlands also preserve a record of magmatism that spans much of the Ordovician (ca. 495–455 Ma), during which time Avalonia drifted from the northern Gondwanan margin and migrated as a microcontinent ca. 2000 km northward before becoming involved in collisions with Baltica and Laurentia in the Silurian to Devonian. The longevity of Ordovician magmatism (ca. 50 Ma) is consistent with a subduction-related environment, a setting that is compatible with most paleogeographic reconstructions. However, the continental tholeiitic-alkalic within-plate affinity of the mafic rocks and the A-type signature of the felsic rocks is more typical of a back-arc setting, rather than that of a typical arc. Furthermore, the A-type felsic rocks were derived from a hotter, drier lower crust than is typical for felsic arc magmas.
Whole-rock Sm-Nd isotopic data for both mafic and felsic compositions lie within previously delineated tightly constrained envelopes that define, respectively, the evolution of the Avalonian and sub-continental lithospheric mantle (SCLM), and crustal sources. These data imply that (i) the crust remained coupled to SCLM from the rifting of Avalonia from Gondwana to its accretion to Baltica in the Silurian and to Laurentia in the Early Devonian, and (ii) the Antigonish Highlands were located far from the subduction zone(s) that closed the Iapetus Ocean as it migrated northward, and so were only mildly affected by the resulting collisions.Les hautes terres d’Antigonish font partie d’Avalonia dans la section continentale de la Nouvelle-Écosse et elles reposent principalement sur des roches volcaniques et sédimentaires d’arc du Néoprotérozoïque, à faible teneur, d’environ 620 à 600 MA ainsi que sur des plutons du même âge. Les hautes terres préservent par ailleurs des traces du magmatisme qui a duré la majeure partie de l’Ordovicien (environ 495 à 455 Ma), période pendant laquelle Avalonia s’est détaché de la marge septentrionale de Gondwana pour migrer sous les traits d’un microcontinent sur environ 2 000 km vers le nord avant d’entrer en collision avec Baltica et Laurentia au cours du Silurien jusqu’au Dévonien. La longévité du magmatisme de l’Ordovicien (environ 50 Ma) correspond à un environnement de subduction, un milieu compatible avec la majorité des reconstitutions paléogéographiques. L’affinité intraplaque tholéiitique-alcaline continentale des roches mafiques et de la signature de type A des roches felsiques est toutefois plus caractéristique d’un milieu d’arrière-arc que d’un arc typique. Les roches felsiques de type A proviennent en outre d’une croûte plus basse et plus sèche que celle caractéristique des magmas d’arc felsiques.Les données isotopiques du Sm-Nd sur roche totale des compositions mafiques et felsiques se situent à l’intérieur des enveloppes strictement restreintes précédemment délimitées qui définissent, respectivement, l’évolution du manteau avalonien et lithosphérique subcontinental (MLS), ainsi que des sources crustales. Ces données laissent supposer que (i) la croûte est demeurée juxtaposée au MLS depuis le détachement d’Avalonia de Gondwana à son accrétion à Baltica au cours du Silurien, puis à Laurentia au cours du Dévonien précoce, et que (ii) les hautes terres d’Antigonish étaient éloignées de la ou des zones de subduction qui ont refermé l’océan Iapetus durant la migration vers le nord, de sorte qu’elles ont été peu affectées par les collisions consécutives
International hydrographic survey standards
Full text linkThis manuscript is a reprint of the original paper previously published in 1998 in The International Hydrographic Review (IHR, https://ihr.iho.int/): Mills, G. B. (1998). International hydrographic survey standards. The International Hydrographic Review, 75(2), 97–105. https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/ihr/article/view/2295