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The Evolution of Autonomy [PDF]

The New Bioethics, 2015
There can be little doubt, at least in the Western world, that autonomy is theruling principle in contemporary bioethics. In spite of its 'triumph' however,the dominance of the utilitarian concept of autonomy is being increasinglyquestioned. In this paper, I explore the nature of autonomy, how it came todisplace the Hippocratic tradition in medicine ...
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P-49 CONCENTRATION OF IL-12 AND CXCL-10 IN CHRONIC LIVER DISEASES

Annals of Hepatology, 2023
Introduction and Objectives: Chronic liver diseases are characterized by persistent inflammation related to high production of cytokines such as IL-12 and chemokine CXCL-10/IP-10 that attract activated Th1 lymphocytes that increase the production of IFN ...
Marisela Hernandez-Santillan, Moisés Martínez-Castillo, Zaira Medina-Ávila, Abigail Hernández-Barragan, María Lemus-Peña, Daniel Montes de Oca-Ángeles, José Luis Pérez-Hernández, Fátima Higuera-De la Tijera, Daniel Santana-Vargas, Eduardo Montalvo-Jave, Paula Cordero-Pérez, Linda Muñoz-Espinoza, Jacqueline Córdova-Gallardo, Aldo Torre-Delgadillo, Gabriela Gutiérrez-Reyes   +14 more
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Implicit Life Event Discovery From Call Transcripts Using Temporal Input Transformation Network

IEEE Access, 2019
Customer-agent conversations (i.e. call transcripts) are invaluable source for companies as they convey direct information from their customers implicit and explicit behaviour. Identifying customer-related events is an important task in customer services
Nima Ebadi, Brandon Lwowski, Mehrad Jaloli, Paul Rad   +3 more
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P- 80 DIFFERENTIAL EXPRESSION OF MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASE 7 IN CHRONIC LIVER DISEASES

Annals of Hepatology, 2023
Introduction and Objectives: We recently published that in the serum of patients with chronic Hepatitis C, there are high concentrations of inactive Matrix Metalloproteinases (MMP). However, the MMP has not been studied in other liver diseases.
Daniel Montes de Oca-Angeles, M. Lemus-Peña, A. Hernandez-Barragan, M. Hernández-Santillán, Moisés Martinez-Castillo, Z. Medina-Avila, D. Santana-Vargas, A. Torre-Delgadillo, J.L. Pérez-Hernández, F. Higuera-De la Tijera, P. Cordero-Pérez, L. Muñoz-Espinosa, D. Kershenobich, G. Gutiérrez-Reyes   +13 more
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Quantum Communications Feasibility Tests over a UK-Ireland 224 km Undersea Link

Entropy, 2023
The future quantum internet will leverage existing communication infrastructures, including deployed optical fibre networks, to enable novel applications that outperform current information technology.
Ben Amies-King, Karolina P. Schatz, Haofan Duan, Ayan Biswas, Jack Bailey, Adrian Felvinti, Jaimes Winward, Mike Dixon, Mariella Minder, Rupesh Kumar, Sophie Albosh, Marco Lucamarini   +11 more
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Validity, reliability and feasibility of commercially available activity trackers in physical therapy for people with a chronic disease: a study protocol of a mixed methods research

Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2017
Background For older people and people with a chronic disease, physical activity provides health benefits. Patients and healthcare professionals can use commercially available activity trackers to objectively monitor (alterations in) activity levels and ...
Emmylou Beekman, Susy M. Braun, Darcy Ummels, Kim van Vijven, Albine Moser, Anna J. Beurskens   +5 more
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Human Action Performance Using Deep Neuro-Fuzzy Recurrent Attention Model

IEEE Access, 2020
A great number of computer vision publications have focused on distinguishing between human action recognition and classification rather than the intensity of actions performed.
Nihar Bendre, Nima Ebadi, John J. Prevost, Peyman Najafirad   +3 more
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P-48 EVALUATION OF IL-1β AND IL-1RA IN PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC LIVER DISEASES

Annals of Hepatology, 2023
Introduction and Objectives: IL-1β is a proinflammatory key cytokine that participates in the progression of liver disease. Its antagonist IL-1RA mediates damage limitation; its increase is associated with positive effects on chronic liver diseases. This
Abigail Hernandez-Barragan, Z. Medina-Avila, D. Montes-de-Oca-Angeles, M. Lemus-Peña, M. Hernandez-Santillan, M. Martínez-Castillo, J.L. Pérez-Hernández, F. Higuera-De la Tijera, D. Santana-Vargas, E. Montalvo-Jave, P. Cordero-Pérez, L. Muñoz-Espinosa, J. Córdova-Gallardo, A. Torre-Delgadillo, D. Kershenobich, G. Gutiérrez-Reyes   +15 more
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COvid-19 and high-dose VITamin D supplementation TRIAL in high-risk older patients (COVIT-TRIAL): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials, 2020
Background With the lack of effective therapy, chemoprevention, and vaccination against SARS-CoV-2, focusing on the immediate repurposing of existing drugs gives hope of curbing the COVID-19 pandemic. A recent unbiased genomics-guided tracing of the SARS-
Cédric Annweiler, Mélinda Beaudenon, Jennifer Gautier, Romain Simon, Vincent Dubée, Justine Gonsard, Elsa Parot-Schinkel, on behalf of the COVIT-TRIAL study group   +7 more
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Methods for Controlling Electrostatic Discharge and Electromagnetic Interference in Materials

Foundations
Methods for controlling electromagnetic fields in materials are presented that mitigate effects such as electrostatic discharge and electromagnetic/radio frequency interference.
Aris Alexopoulos, David Neudegg
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