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Evaluating exposure-response relationship in 1,3-butadiene and leukemia studies [PDF]

International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health
Objectives 1,3-Butadiene (BD) exposure’s link to leukemia is under regulatory scrutiny. The assessment methods for BD exposure risks have evolved from early animal and limited human studies to advanced exposure-response modelling with comprehensive ...
Evangelia E. Antoniou, Chris Kirman
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Non-Epicurean Desires [PDF]

Filosofia Unisinos, 2016
In this paper, it is argued that there can be necessary and non-natural desires. After a discussion about what seems wrong with such desires, Epicurus’ classification of desires is treated similarly to Kripke’s treatment of the Kantian table of ...
Fabien Schang
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Childhood PFAS exposure and immunotoxicity: a systematic review and meta-analysis of human studies [PDF]

Systematic Reviews
Background Exposure to poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) may affect infant and childhood health through immunosuppression. However, the findings of epidemiological literature examining relationships between prenatal/childhood PFAS exposure and ...
Evangelia E. Antoniou, Wolfgang Dekant
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Happiness in the Garden of Epicurus [PDF]

Journal of Happiness Studies, 2007
Epicurus was a philosopher who lived in Greece in the 3rd century B.C. Like his contemporaries, he was much concerned with the question of how to live a good life. In his view the Chief Good is to decrease pain and increase pleasure. Though Epicurus is reputed for advocating the pursuit of refined sensorial pleasures, he recognized the need for ...
Ad Bergsma
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Epicurus [PDF]

, 2015
Epicurus (b. c. 341–d. 271 bce) was one of the most influential philosophers of the Hellenistic period, the two centuries or so following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 bce. Epicureanism, alongside Stoicism and Academic Skepticism, was one of the predominant systems of thought competing for the allegiance of people in the Greek- and Latin ...
O\u27Connell, Quinn
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Epicurus and Euthanasia [PDF]

The Linacre Quarterly, 1994
Groarke, Louis
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PERGESERAN MAKNA HEDONISME EPICURUS DI KALANGAN GENERASI MILLENIAL [PDF]

Jurnal Yaqzhan: Analisis Filsafat, Agama dan Kemanusiaan, 2022
Hedonisme mengalami pergeseran makna seiring dengan perkembangan zaman. Dewasa ini, paham hedonisme sudah jauh berbeda dari paham etika hedonisme Epicurus.
Tri Padila Rahmasari
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Epicurus’ Swerve and the Randomness Objection to Free Will

Literatūra (Vilnius), 2022
Modern opponents of free will often aim to demonstrate its unviability by employing the standard argument against free will, which claims that either determinism or randomness is true, and that both options preclude free will.
Matas Keršys
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Du rien-pour-nous que la mort: Derrida Épicure

Síntesis. Revista de Filosofía, 2021
Derrida's Seminar “Life Death” operates, as if in advance motivated by its aftermath and as if countersigned by this name that does not appear—the name of Epicurus—a turn towards a non-productive, non-representational materialism, deprived in some way of
Jacques Lezra
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ANCORA SULLO STATUTO VERITATIVO DELLA SENSAZIONE IN EPICURO

Lexicon Philosophicum, 2018
The main goals of this article are, on the one hand, to show the peculiar features of the Epicurean view of sense-perception (aisthesis), the first criterion of truth of Epicurus’ canonic; and, on the other hand, to critically discuss a recent ...
Francesco Verde
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