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The Synovial Lining and Synovial Fluid Properties after Joint Arthroplasty

open access: yesLubricants, 2015
The lubrication of the cartilaginous structures in human joints is provided by a fluid from a specialized layer of cells at the surface of a delicate tissue called the synovial lining.
Michael Shang Kung   +3 more
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Beginner’s Luck [PDF]

open access: yesCell, 2015
On June 5, 1944, I discovered a radiation-resistant mutant of E. coli in my first experiment at the Cold Spring Harbor laboratories. That’s where the new field of bacterial genetics was germinating. I was a Columbia University graduate student, there to learn how to handle E. coli so I could do my doctoral research with bacteria.
openaire   +2 more sources

A normative theory of luck

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
Psychologists have identified heuristics and biases that can cause people to make assumptions about factors that contribute to the success of individuals and firms, whose outcomes may have actually resulted primarily from randomness.
Chengwei Liu   +2 more
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Lessons learnt from early failure of a patient trial with a polymer-on-polymer resurfacing hip arthroplasty

open access: yesActa Orthopaedica, 2018
Background and purpose — Hip resurfacing (HR) is a treatment option promoted for hip arthritis in young and active patients. However, adverse reactions to metal are a concern and the search for non-metallic bearing options proceeds.
Job L C Van Susante   +6 more
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“I’M LUCKY” . . . TO HAVE FOUND CHILD CARE: EVOKING LUCK WHILE MANAGING CHILD CARE NEEDS IN A CHANGING ECONOMY

open access: yesInternational Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies, 2012
This research1 looks at the impact of the rise of women’s non-standard, service sector employment on gender roles, identities and relations, and compares the complex task of finding and managing formal and informal non-parental child care in rural and ...
Patrizia Albanese, Tanya Farr
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Benefiting from injustice and brute luck [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Many political philosophers maintain that beneficiaries of injustice are under special obligations to assist victims of injustice. However, the examples favored by those who endorse this view equally support an alternative luck egalitarian view, which ...
Knight, C.
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The Role and Value of Happiness in the Work of Paul Ricoeur

open access: yesOpen Philosophy, 2023
The role and value of happiness in the work of Paul Ricoeur remains an understudied theme. It is especially Ricoeur’s unique dialectical understanding of happiness, unhappiness, and chance which brings a crucial and much-needed insight and correction ...
Verhoef Anné Hendrik
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The Gettier Problem [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In this chapter, we will explore the luck at issue in Gettier-styled counterexamples and the subsequent problem it poses to any viable reductive analysis of knowledge.
Church, Ian M.
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Endenese Fisheries: Exploratory Findings on Environmental Perceptions, Fish Effort, and Overfishing in Eastern Indonesia

open access: yesEthnobiology Letters, 2013
Fishing fleets in South East Asia have recently experienced unprecedented expansion. Consequently, catches and regional diversity have dramatically decreased throughout the Indian Ocean. Regional governments and conservation organizations blame the local
Victoria C. Ramenzoni
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Load Sharing in the Femur Using Strut Allografts: A Biomechanical Study

open access: yesArthroplasty Today, 2022
Background: Femoral strut allografts are used in revision hip arthroplasty for management of bone loss associated with implant failure or periprosthetic fractures.
Frances E. Sharpe, MD   +3 more
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