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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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Development of DEMQOL-U and DEMQOL-PROXY-U: generation of preference-based indices from DEMQOL and DEMQOL-PROXY for use in economic evaluation. [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Dementia is one of the most common and serious disorders in later life and the economic and personal cost of caring for people with dementia is immense. There is a need to be able to evaluate interventions in dementia using cost-effectiveness
Chua, K-C, M Knapp, Tait, R.; id_orcid, Lamping, D., Mulhern, B., Loftus, V., Knapp, M, Chua, KC, Chua, Kia-Chong; id_orcid, V Loftus (16171634), K-C Chua (16171631), R Romeo, S Smith (7655660), C Watchurst, D Rowen (12372013), Mulhern, B, R Howard, Smith, S., Brazier, J., Loftus, V, B Mulhern (13379154), Howard, R, J Brazier (12372016), R Romeo (13294005), Banerjee, S., Watchurst, C, Brazier, J, Sube Banerjee (4464202), Rowen, D, Rowen, D., R Tait, T Young (7742429), D Lamping (16171637), S Smith, Smith, S, Knapp, M., J Brazier, C Watchurst (16171628), Young, T., Banerjee, S, Lamping, D, Tait, R, Young, T, D Lamping, Howard, R., B Mulhern, T Young, V Loftus, M Knapp (7807856), Romeo, R, R Howard (13732888), Romeo, R., K-C Chua, R Tait (13658923), S Banerjee, Watchurst, C., D Rowen, Knapp, Martin, Romeo, Renee, Young, Tracey, Mulhern, Brendan, Brazier, John, Smith, Sarah Christine, Rowen, Donna, Tait, R., Chua, K. C., Loftus, Vanessa, Lamping, Donna L., Banerjee, Sube Preeya   +68 more
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Indirect Interventions in Civil Wars

Czech Journal of International Relations, 2019
Current research on motivational sources of military interventions in civil wars frequently assumes that states intervene due to direct interests in the civil war country.
Kamil Klosek
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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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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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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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التدخلات الأمريكية في امريكا اللاتينية والحرب بالوكــــــالـــة دراسة حالة "كوبــــــا " [PDF]

مجلة العلوم الادارية والسياسية
شكلت دول أمريكا اللاتينية ما يُعرَف بـ (الحديقة الخلفية) للولايات المتحدة الأمريكية،التي سعت دوما لأن تكون هذه الدول اللاتينية تحت سيطرتها، أو على الأقل تحكمها أنظمة موالية لها باعتبارها دول على تماس منها، ولضمان مجال الأمن القومي الأمريكي جاء (مبدأ ...
عمرو ممدوح الخولي
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Forecasting the Dialysis Burden in Japan: Validation‐Based Projections of Prevalence and Incidence Through 2050

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Japan has one of the highest dialysis prevalence rates worldwide and a shrinking, aging population. Whether dialysis burden has entered a sustained post‐peak phase or whether recent declines partly reflect pandemic‐related disruptions remains uncertain.
Hatice Şahin, Berrak Itır Aylı, Nüket Paksoy   +2 more
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