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Michael Walzer’s Humanitarian Intervention Theory Applied to Multisided Conflicts: A Discussion of Intervention and Self-Determination in the Syrian Civil War

Social Sciences, 2020
Humanitarian interventions have often been employed to promote the intervener’s political and economic interests. Given the issues around intervention’s morality, this article explores Michael Walzer’s humanitarian intervention theory in order to unravel
Miguel Paradela-López, Alexandra Jima-González   +1 more
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Mobile phone access and preferences among medical inpatients at an urban Canadian hospital for post-discharge planning: A pre-COVID-19 cross-sectional survey

Frontiers in Digital Health, 2022
BackgroundDigital health interventions are increasingly used for patient care, yet little data is available on the phone access type and usage preferences amongst medical ward inpatients to inform the most appropriate digital interventions post-discharge.
Maryam AboMoslim, Abdulaa Babili, Niloufar Ghaseminejad-Tafreshi, Matthew Manson, Fanan Fattah, Samia El Joueidi, John A. Staples, John A. Staples, Penny Tam, Richard T. Lester   +9 more
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Validation of survey effort measures of grit and self-control in a sample of high school students.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Personality traits such as grit and self-control are important determinants of success in life outcomes. However, most measures of these traits, which rely on self-reports, might be biased when used for the purpose of evaluating education policies or ...
Gema Zamarro, Malachi Nichols, Angela L Duckworth, Sidney K D'Mello   +3 more
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Foreign Exchange Intervention: A Dataset of Public Data and Proxies

IMF Working Papers, 2021
Foreign exchange intervention (FXI) is a highly debated topic. Yet, comprehensive and comparable data on FXI is hard to find. This paper provides a new dataset of FXI covering a large number of countries over the period 2000-20 at monthly and quarterly frequencies.
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Japanese Foreign Exchange Interventions, 1971-2018: Estimating a Reaction Function Using the Best Proxy

Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2020
Abstract We analyze the history of Japanese foreign exchange interventions from 1971 to 2018. First, we provide the best proxy for monthly interventions for the period from 1971 to 1990, when the intervention timings and amounts were not officially disclosed.
Takatoshi Ito, Tomoyoshi Yabu
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Recruitment interventions for trials involving adults lacking capacity to consent: methodological and ethical considerations for designing Studies Within a Trial (SWATs)

Trials, 2022
Background The number of interventions to improve recruitment and retention of participants in trials is rising, with a corresponding growth in randomised Studies Within Trials (SWATs) to evaluate their (cost-)effectiveness. Despite recognised challenges
Victoria Shepherd, Fiona Wood, Katie Gillies, Abby O’Connell, Adam Martin, Kerenza Hood   +5 more
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Motivational Interviewing Conversational Agent for Parents as Proxies for Their Children in Healthy Eating: Development and User Testing

JMIR Human Factors, 2022
BackgroundIncreased adoption of off-the-shelf conversational agents (CAs) brings opportunities to integrate therapeutic interventions. Motivational Interviewing (MI) can then be integrated with CAs for cost-effective access to it.
Diva Smriti, Tsui-Sui Annie Kao, Rahil Rathod, Ji Youn Shin, Wei Peng, Jake Williams, Munif Ishad Mujib, Meghan Colosimo, Jina Huh-Yoo   +8 more
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Identifying barriers in telesurgery by studying current team practices in robot-assisted surgery [PDF]

, 2013
This paper investigates challenges in current practices in robot-assisted surgery. In addition, by using the method of proxy technology assessment, we provide insights into the current barriers to wider application of robot-assisted telesurgery, where ...
Duysburgh, Pieter, Elprama, Shirley, Jacobs, An, Kilpi, Katarina, Van Looy, Jan, Vermeulen, Lotte   +5 more
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Hospital stay as a proxy indicator for severe injury in earthquakes: a retrospective analysis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
INTRODUCTION: Earthquakes are the most violent type of natural disasters and injuries are the dominant medical problem in the early phases after earthquakes.
Lu-Ping Zhao, Martin Gerdin, Lina Westman, Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Llanes, Qi Wu, Barbara van den Oever, Liang Pan, Manuel Albela, Gao Chen, De-Sheng Zhang, Debarati Guha-Sapir, Johan von Schreeb   +11 more
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60/30: 60% of the Morbidity-Associated Multiple Sclerosis Disease Burden Comes From the 30% of Persons With Higher Impairments

Frontiers in Neurology, 2020
Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common chronic, non-traumatic, neurologic disease in young adults. While approximate values of the disease burden of MS are known, individual drivers are unknown.Objective: To estimate the age-, sex-, and ...
Marco Kaufmann, Milo Alan Puhan, Anke Salmen, Christian P. Kamm, Christian P. Kamm, Zina-Mary Manjaly, Zina-Mary Manjaly, Pasquale Calabrese, Sven Schippling, Sven Schippling, Stefanie Müller, Jens Kuhle, Caroline Pot, Claudio Gobbi, Claudio Gobbi, Nina Steinemann, Viktor von Wyl, Swiss Multiple Sclerosis Registry (SMSR)   +17 more
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