Measuring the Impact of Armed Conflict on Population Health: A Guide for Researchers
Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract The humanitarian impact of armed conflict remains a significant international issue, with an estimated 2 billion people residing in fragile or conflict‐affected settings. Despite increasing attention and study of armed conflict and its impact on human populations, few studies have evaluated the methods necessary to assess such relationships ...
Maya Luetke +2 more
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The problematic history of randomised controlled trials Part 3: Mainland, Hill and the future of RCTs. [PDF]
J R Soc MedMatthews RA.
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Is Capitalism Bad for Democracy? A Review of Lisa Herzog's The Democratic Marketplace
Philosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In The Democratic Marketplace, Lisa Herzog offers a damning indictment of democratic capitalism. Among other things, she argues that capitalism has led to increased inequality, fosters an unhealthy culture of competition, that it is bad for the environment, and that it is ultimately bad for democracy itself.
Adam F. Gibbons
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Concerns Regarding Masataka et al.'s "Revisiting the Gateway Drug Hypothesis for Cannabis: A Secondary Analysis of a Nationwide Survey Among Community Users in Japan". [PDF]
Neuropsychopharmacol RepNarita ZC.
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Apparent Paradoxes Are Paradoxes and the Problem of Change Is an Apparent Paradox
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we argue that, under certain conditions, if something is, apparently, a paradox, then it is a paradox. We then apply this claim to a recent discussion on the so‐called “Problem of Change.” Throughout the history of Philosophy, many authors have viewed change as a paradoxical phenomenon. More recently, some have defended that the
Sergi Oms, Marta Campdelacreu
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Mortality Trends Associated With Acute Myocardial Infarction and Psychoactive Substance Use in Older Adults: A US Nationwide Analysis (1999-2020). [PDF]
Clin CardiolAini NA, Pirzada H.
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The Power of Renewal: Status Quo Bias Impacts Voter Approval of School Spending Referendums
Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.Abstract Status quo bias often impacts decisions about private goods and is hypothesized to influence voter choice. This paper offers a clean, direct, real‐world test of status quo bias's effect on voter support for school spending. We take advantage of a unique Minnesota rule that requires ballot language to disclose and distinguish between new and ...
Corey Lang, Rachel Ricchio
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Simulations All the Way Up! An Atheist's Response to the Fine‐Tuning Argument
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT So the Fine‐tuning Argument goes, because it is so unlikely for the physical constants of the laws of nature to have taken the values that they in fact take, we should significantly raise our credence that God exists. Simulation Arguments argue that our world might be (or, in stronger versions, that it probably is) a mere computer simulation ...
Nikk Effingham
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From tiers to truth - a biomarker-based framework for clinically relevant immunogenicity assessment. [PDF]
BioanalysisStevenson LF.
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Sunk Cost Fallacy in Driving the World's Costliest Cars
Management Sciences, 2017 Teck-Hua Ho, I. Png, Sadat Reza
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