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British Journal of General Practice, 2009 Jean* stared past us into the hereafter, barely moving except to gasp. Pale and emaciated, her breathing noisy, shallow, and fast, she clung to life by a thinning thread. The receiving casualty officer in A&E had given the 90 year old an intravenous line, started antibiotics, and referred to the on-call medics.
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Aristotle’s views on chance and their contemporary relevance [PDF]
SCHOLE, 2018 In this article I first set out Aristotle's explanation of chance as a term that refers to an event that occurs unusually and that appears significant in the context of the human search to achieve a goal. On this basis Aristotle argues against Democritus
John Dudley
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Chance, Credence and Circles [PDF]
, 2017 This is a discussion of Richard Pettigrew's book "Accuracy and the Laws of Credence". I target Pettigrew's application of the accuracy framework to derive chance-credence principles.
Cariani, Fabrizio
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Chance-Constrained Efficiency Analysis [PDF]
, 1990 Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is extended to the case of stochastic inputs and outputs through the use of chance-constrained programming. The chance-constrained envelope envelops a given set of observations "most of the time." We show that the chance ...
Land, Kenneth C. +2 more
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The Philosophical Review, 2015 This article offers a new argument for the claim that there can be nondegenerate objective chance in a deterministic world. Using a formal model of the relationship between different levels of description of a system, the article shows how objective chance at a higher level can coexist with its absence at a lower level.
List, Christian, Pivato, Marcus
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Caso e formazione. Note di pedagogia leopardiana
Studi sulla Formazione, 2023 Leopardi has examined the influence of the case on human life. Fortune and circumstances have a great influence on everything: health, genius, courses of life, study and education.
Michele Zedda
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Nature Communications, 2016 High-throughput imaging methods for brain-wide connectome mapping with precise location reference have been lacking. Here authors report a method that allows simultaneous acquisition of fluorescently labelled neurons and cytoarchitectural landmarks in ...
Hui Gong +17 more
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From Conflict Zones to Europe: Syrian and Afghan Refugees’ Journeys, Stories, and Strategies
Social Inclusion, 2022 This article explores the journeys of Syrian and Afghan refugees to Europe, looking at two of the largest and politically most salient flows of asylum seekers during the 2010s. Following political disturbances in their home countries, millions of Syrians
Souhila Belabbas +3 more
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Single-axon level morphological analysis of corticofugal projection neurons in mouse barrel field
Scientific Reports, 2017 Corticofugal projection neurons are key components in connecting the neocortex and the subcortical regions. In the barrel field, these neurons have various projection targets and play crucial roles in the rodent whisker sensorimotor system.
Congdi Guo +9 more
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, 2015 In the article, first I present the atheistic argument from pointless evil and the argument from chance. The essence of the argument from chance consists in the incompatibility of the existence of purposeless events and the existence of a God who planned
Łukasiewicz, Dariusz
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