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Hydroxychloroquine Associated With Lower Glomerular Filtration Rate Decline in Lupus Nephritis

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) protects kidney function in lupus nephritis (LN) by preventing flares, yet some cohort studies show no significant benefit in kidney function with HCQ. Clarifying these conflicting findings by showing early and long‐term benefits of HCQ on kidney function preservation is critical.
Shivani Garg   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Old Dog Rants Backwards: 1

open access: yesAesthetic Investigations, 2017
Those familiar with my more general views will be unsurprised to find me ranting about the need to find philosophical room for the normative, as well as the causal.
Graham McFee
doaj   +1 more source

Norm-Establishing and Norm-Following in Autonomous Agency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Living agency is subject to a normative dimension (good-bad, adaptive-maladaptive) that is absent from other types of interaction. We review current and historical attempts to naturalize normativity from an organism-centered perspective, identifying two ...
Barandiaran, Xabier, Egbert, Matthew
core  

Folk teleology drives persistence judgments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Two separate research programs have revealed two different factors that feature in our judgments of whether some entity persists. One program—inspired by Knobe—has found that normative considerations affect persistence judgments. For instance, people are
Rose, David   +2 more
core  

Long‐Term Opioids in Gout: A Matched Cohort Study From the Veterans Health Administration

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Though used frequently to treat flare, risk of long‐term opioid exposure in gout has not been well defined. In this study, we examined the hypothesis that people with gout are more likely than individuals without gout to be prescribed long‐term opioids over time.
Lindsay N. Helget   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Legal and normative frameworks [PDF]

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2008
How the legal and normative frameworks are addressed will be critical to the security of people threatened by climate change.
Roger Zetter
doaj  

Physician Referral Patterns to Physical Therapists for Managing Knee Osteoarthritis: A Retrospective Analysis of Electronic Health Records From an Integrated Health System

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective This study aims to describe the frequency and timing of physician referrals to physical therapists (PTs) and other treatments prescribed over 12 months in patients with recent onset of knee osteoarthritis (KOA). The study also aims to identify determinants of early PT referrals.
Samannaaz S. Khoja   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Considering Bernard Williams's Slogan 'belief aims at truth' [PDF]

open access: yesMetaphysics, 2014
There are two rival accounts about belief in the literature of philosophy, one is the teleological account and the other is the normative account. Defenders of the teleological account and most defenders of the normative one typically take the accounts ...
A Kalantari
doaj  

Promoting wildlife health or fighting wildlife disease: Insights from History, Philosophy, and Science

open access: yesWildlife Society Bulletin, 2012
Although healthy wildlife populations are often a goal of wildlife management, ambiguity over the meaning of the term health may limit its effectiveness in guiding management objectives. Health is a complex concept with empirical and normative qualities;
Shauna L. Hanisch   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Normative beliefs, attitudes, and social norms: People reduce waste as an index of social relationships when spending leisure time

open access: yes, 2017
This study has adopted and refined Ajzen’s theory of planned behavior, theory of reasoned action, and the value–belief–norm theory by Stern et al.
W. Fang   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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