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Are life-extending treatments for terminal illnesses a special case? Exploring choices and societal viewpoints [PDF]
Criteria used by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to assess life-extending, end-of-life (EoL) treatments imply that health gains from such treatments are valued more than other health gains.
Baker, Rachel +6 more
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Characteristics of an Insert Product Placement as a Part of Marketing Communication
The paper defined saturation of an insert product placement as a part of marketing communication. Product placement is known as a modern tool of marketing communication and so that product placement and its types and forms are not so casual used in the ...
Jan Kramoliš, Martina Kopečková
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QUALIFICATION OF ANC9 GENERIC INSERT METHODOLOGY (GIM) [PDF]
Discrete burnable poisons like the Wet Annular Burnable Absorber and Pyrex have been used in PWR core to improve core power distribution and provide more negative moderator temperature coefficient.
Zhang Baocheng +4 more
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The role of viral population diversity in adaptation of bovine coronavirus to new host environments. [PDF]
The high mutation rate of RNA viruses enables a diverse genetic population of viral genotypes to exist within a single infected host. In-host genetic diversity could better position the virus population to respond and adapt to a diverse array of ...
Monica K Borucki +8 more
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The working gas type had an important effect on the heat transfer performance of the turbulence device in the heater of Stirling engine, but the related researches were scarce, especially under the oscillatory flow.
Feng Xin +4 more
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Type-Based Detection of XML Query-Update Independence [PDF]
This paper presents a novel static analysis technique to detect XML query-update independence, in the presence of a schema. Rather than types, our system infers chains of types.
Bidoit-Tollu, Nicole +2 more
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Recent advances in imaging technology and additive manufacturing have led to the introduction of customized unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) that can potentially improve functional performance due to customized geometries, including customized ...
Yong-Gon Koh +2 more
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Summary: Background: There is a gradual increase in the number of patients for total knee arthroplasty (TKA), and TKA demonstrates reliable clinical outcomes. The orthopaedic biomaterials community continuously attempted over the past decades to improve
Yong-Gon Koh +4 more
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Update Consistency for Wait-free Concurrent Objects [PDF]
In large scale systems such as the Internet, replicating data is an essential feature in order to provide availability and fault-tolerance. Attiya and Welch proved that using strong consistency criteria such as atomicity is costly as each operation may ...
Jard, Claude +2 more
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A Simulation of Displacement of Cutting Tool Holders Used for Turning
This paper gives a comparison of the deformation and deflection of two types of tool holders used in turning processes. Comparison of the deflection and stresses has been performed on the location where the highest value of deflection ...
Viktor Mautner +3 more
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