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Empowerment or Engagement? Digital Health Technologies for Mental Healthcare [PDF]
, 2020 We argue that while digital health technologies (e.g. artificial intelligence, smartphones, and virtual reality) present significant opportunities for improving the delivery of healthcare, key concepts that are used to evaluate and understand their ...
A Nelson +59 more
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On the beneficent thickness of water [PDF]
Interface Focus, 2019 In the 1930s, Lars Onsager published his famous ‘reciprocal relations’ describing free energy conversion processes. Importantly, these relations were derived on the assumption that the fluxes of the processes involved in the conversion were proportional to the forces (free energy gradients) driving them.
E. Branscomb, M. J. Russell
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Mapping the “Supply–Demand–Flow” of Ecosystem Services for Ecosystem Management in China
Advanced Science, EarlyView.This study develops a “supply–demand–flow” framework clarifies how ecosystem services move between regions by distinguishing potential and actual supply and demand. Using integrated biophysical–socioeconomic modeling, nine services in China were mapped.
Yikun Zhang +3 more
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Robotics, 2019 Background: There has been a rapid increase in the population of senior citizens in many countries. The shortage of caregivers is becoming a pressing concern. Robots are being deployed in an attempt to fill this gap and reduce the workload of caregivers.
Margo A. M. van Kemenade +2 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia +4 more
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Rational Beings with Emotional Needs: The Patient-Centered Grounds of Kant's Duty of Humanity [PDF]
, 2015 Over the course of the past several decades, Kant scholars have made significant headway in showing that emotions play a more significant role in Kant's ethics than has traditionally been assumed.
Paytas, Tyler
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross +2 more
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Quality of medicines in resource-limited settings: need for ethical guidance
Global Bioethics, 2018 The quality of medicines is generally adequately assured by manufacturers and regulatory authorities for well-resourced settings, while the implementation of existing quality standards is challenged in many low- and middle-income countries.
Raffaella Ravinetto +2 more
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Doctors and strike action: Can this be morally justifiable?
South African Family Practice, 2009 Strikes are rare events in the history of medicine. Mainly their occurrences have been initiated by junior doctors as is the case in South Africa. In the most recent strike action by South African doctors, the root cause appears to be the long-overdue ...
Gboyega A. Ogunbanjo +1 more
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Semantics of “Beneficence’’ in Quran [PDF]
پژوهش نامه معارف قرآنی, 2015 Semanticsdeals withthestudy ofmeaning.“Meaning’’ is awarenessofcultural context and the relationship between a word with other words in a text.
Alireza Dehghanpour +1 more
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