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The Poverty of Empiricism [PDF]
InSITE Conference, 2005 Many researchers - and their advisors on research method - adopt a doctrine called empiricism, which claims that researchers may only use empirical methods. This restrictive doctrine impoverishes any academic discipline where it is dominant. The main reason is that a discipline only qualifies for the status of a science after it has progressed beyond ...
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
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, 2011 As part of the Irish National programme for the 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, a series of five regional seminars were organised by the Community Workers’ Co-operative, the European Anti-Poverty Network and the Community ...
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BMC Public HealthBackground Disparities in avoidable mortality have never been evaluated in Italy at the national level. The present study aimed to assess the association between socioeconomic status and avoidable mortality.
Alessio Petrelli +5 more
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A local government authority leading action research: Impacts and replicability
Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2010 The paper explores whether the institutional model of the IDRC Colombo Focus City Project has had an impact on overcoming challenges associated with research based learning designed to influence policy and implementation processes of local government ...
Neranjana Gunetilleke
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Plasma membranes contain dynamic nanoscale domains that organize lipids and receptors. Because viruses operate at similar scales, this architecture shapes early infection steps, including attachment, receptor engagement, and entry. Using influenza A virus and HIV‐1 as examples, we highlight how receptor nanoclusters, multivalent glycan interactions ...
Jan Schlegel, Christian Sieben
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People, poverty & participation
, 2009 The policy discussion paper is structured in four chapters: • Chapter 2 briefly discusses the relationship between participative and representative democracy. It also describes a number of participation models.
Combat Poverty Agency (CPA)
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Poverty Alleviation in the Subsistence Fisheries Sector: A Microeconometric Analysis [PDF]
, 2001 This working paper applies the Foster Greer and Thorbecke (FGT) (1984) index of poverty measures to the subsistence fishing industry in South Africa in order to evaluate the impact of resource transfers on poverty.
Daniels, Reza
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Living wages across the Pacific Rim: A localised replication study from China
Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 2020 Theoretically, a living wage is a threshold that, once crossed, may transform qualities of work life, including from wage injustice to justice, organizational disengagement to commitment, and life dissatisfaction to satisfaction. Initial studies from New
Yuting Hu, Stuart C. Carr
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Measurement of Poverty and Poverty of Measurement [PDF]
IDS Bulletin, 1994 Summary Conventional measures of poverty relate household per capita income or expenditure estimates to a poverty line derived from a nutrition‐based estimate of minimum income or expenditure. There is widespread criticism of this approach on the grounds that it fails to capture important dimensions of poverty and that it often fails to reflect ...
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