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Protecting Personhood: A Classic Grounded Theory

, 2023
The importance of perceiving and considering patients as healthcare partners has been increasingly promoted. Healthcare systems around the world are now highly interested in patient engagement, participation, collaboration, and partnership.
Susanne Look, Amélia Didier, Nathaniel, Alvita, Maya Zumstein-Shaha, Scott, Helen, Lazare Benaroyo, Helen Scott, Alvita Nathaniel, Didier, Amélia, Zumstein-Shaha, Maya, Look, Susanne, Benaroyo, Lazare   +11 more
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Design and analysis strategies for robust microbiome ageing research

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The gut microbiome changes with age and associates with age‐related morbidity and mortality, establishing it as a potential biomarker and intervention target for ageing. Realising this potential requires methodological rigour, yet distinguishing biological signals from methodological artefacts remains challenging across cohorts. This review provides an
Mark Olenik, İsmail Güderer, Yi Wang, Tayyaba Alvi, Prasoon Pandey, Handan Melike Dönertaş   +5 more
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The heterodimeric amino acid transporters (HAT) of the SLC7/SLC3 family: A structure−function relationships and relevance to human pathology

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Heterodimeric amino acid transporters consist of SLC7 and SLC3 family proteins arranged in a conserved structural organization. They regulate nutrient transport across cell membranes, supporting essential cellular functions. These transporters also contribute to xenobiotic/drug uptake and distribution.
Mariafrancesca Scalise, Tiziano Mazza, Raffaella Scanga, Lara Console, Michele Galluccio, Cesare Indiveri   +5 more
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Understanding mentoring relationships between mentees, peer and senior mentors

BMC Medical Education, 2023
Background Mentoring relationships play a critical but poorly understood role in mentoring’s overall success. To overcome these knowledge gaps, a study of mentee experiences in the Palliative Medicine Initiative, a structured research-based mentoring ...
Vaishnavi Venktaramana, Yun Ting Ong, Jun Wei Yeo, Anushka Pisupati, Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna   +4 more
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Puppet Theory: The Mechanical Infrastructure of Personhood [PDF]

, 2022
This dissertation begins from a rather simple observation: puppets, with varying degrees of success, replicate people. As a predominantly anthropomorphic project, American puppetry in the 20th and 21st centuries borrows from various conceptions of what a
Fenley, Marissa
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Attitudes of cancer patients toward ctDNA‐based liquid biopsy for follow‐up

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This mixed‐methods study explored cancer patients' experiences, knowledge, and preferences regarding ctDNA‐based liquid biopsy for follow‐up. Awareness of ctDNA was low and recall of previous liquid biopsy was imperfect, yet acceptance was high.
Siddharth Chhajlani, Laura Mariën, Caro De Weerdt, Sanne Wouters, Laure‐Anne Teuwen, Hans Prenen, Katleen Janssens, Timon Vandamme   +7 more
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The ethics at the intersection of artificial intelligence and transhumanism: a personhood-based approach

Data & Policy
In this article, I will consider the moral issues that might arise from the possibility of creating more complex and sophisticated autonomous intelligent machines or simply artificial intelligence (AI) that would have the human capacity for moral ...
Amara Esther Chimakonam
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Determinants of undergraduate bioscience engagement: Validating attendance barriers and classroom spatial behaviour across institutions

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Student engagement extends beyond simple attendance. Across 891 bioscience students from three universities, attendance behaviour was associated mainly with structural influences, whereas classroom spatial behaviour reflected affective and sensory factors.
Nigel Page, Rachel J. Hunt, Lauren J. Albee, Daniel Berwick, Alison Snape   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rights for and with animals

(Des)troços
Drawing from Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of the body, care ethics, and philosophy of ethology, this interdisciplinary article depicts beyond-human animals not as more or less like typical adult human beings, but rather as embodied, vulnerable ...
Anna Caramuru Pessoa Aubert
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Personhood, Critical Interests, and the Moral Imperative of Advance Directives in Alzheimer’s Cases

Voices in Bioethics, 2021
Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash INTRODUCTION The moral authority of advance directives (ADs) is contingent on one of two metaphysical concepts of personhood common in the West.
Samuel Dale
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