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Freedom and Viruses [PDF]

open access: yesEthics, 2022
A common argument against lockdowns is that they restrict freedom. On this view, lockdowns might be effective in protecting public health, but their impact on freedom is purely negative. This article challenges that view. It argues that while lockdowns restrict freedom, so too do viruses.
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A random effects variance shift model for detecting and accommodating outliers in meta-analysis. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
BACKGROUND: Meta-analysis typically involves combining the estimates from independent studies in order to estimate a parameter of interest across a population of studies. However, outliers often occur even under the random effects model.
Gumedze, Freedom N, Jackson, Dan
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The Guarantees of Freedom [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2002
Hayek (1960) distinguishes the institutions of English freedom, which guarantee the independence of judges from political interference in the administration of justice, from those of American freedom, which allow judges to restrain law-making powers of the sovereign through constitutional review.
Rafael La Porta   +6 more
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The dinosaur and banding of the main pulmonary trunk in the heart with functionally one ventricle and transposition of the great arteries: A saga of evolution and caution [PDF]

open access: yes, 1987
Constitution for the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management as amended by the Board of Trustees on January 24, 1997. The constitution is in English and contains eighteen articles and one annex containing the Board mission ...
Freedom, Robert M.
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On Freedom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This is an English translation of Emilie Du Châtelet's "Sur la liberté." This 18th century text discusses freedom of the will, determinism, and divine foreknowledge. Translated from French by Julia Jorati, with the help of Julie Roy.
du Châtelet, Émilie
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Freedom of Information [PDF]

open access: yes, 1971
OBJECTIVE: It has previously been shown that a combination of inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) and intravenous (IV) steroid attenuates endotoxin-induced organ damage in a 6-hour porcine endotoxemia model.
Albert, Johanna   +9 more
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Freedom Fries [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010
Do firms always choose the cheapest suitable inputs, or can group attitudes affect their choices? To investigate this question, we examine the deterioration of relations between the United States and France from 2002–2003, when France's favorability rating in the US fell by 48 percentage points.
Guy Michaels, Xiaojia Zhi
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Freedom in nature [PDF]

open access: yesGeneral Relativity and Gravitation, 2009
The paper starts with the proposal that the cause of the apparent insolubility of the free-will problem are several popular but strongly metaphysical notions and hypotheses. To reduce the metaphysics, some ideas are borrowed from physics. A concept of event causality is discussed.
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Privatisasi Badan USAha Milik Negara [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
BUMN merupakan pelaku ekonomi yang sangat vital perannya dalam Pembangunan Nasional. Peran BUMN yang sangat vital tersebut ternyata tidak diikuti dengan kinerja BUMN yang membaik justru sebaliknya, kinerja BUMN malah mengecewakan.
Siahaan, F. A. (Freedom)
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Freedom of the Land and Freedom of the Seas

open access: yesThe Virginia Law Register, 1918
"And the paths of the sea must alike in law and in fact be free. The freedom of the seas is the sine qua non of peace, equality and co-operation. No doubt a somewhat radical reconsideration of many of the rules of international practice hitherto thought to be established may be necessary in order to make the seas indeed free and common in practically ...
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