Modeling the Public Health Impact of Introducing 4CMenB Vaccination for Infants in the Brazilian National Immunization Program [PDF]
Introduction Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) caused by meningococcal serogroup B (MenB) is a rare but serious illness with potentially life-threatening outcomes, particularly in infants.
Thatiana Pinto +9 more
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Beyond Cost: Faricimab as a Driver of Service Efficiency and Quality in Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration Care [PDF]
Introduction Neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) is a chronic, vision-threatening condition requiring ongoing anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) injections.
Yaneth Gil-Rojas +4 more
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Treatment Patterns in Patients with Late-Onset Myasthenia Gravis in Japan: An Insurance Claims Database Study [PDF]
Background and Objective This study evaluated treatment patterns and oral corticosteroid (OCS) use in Japanese patients with myasthenia gravis, comparing late-onset (mean age 79.8 years) and early/adult-onset (mean age 61.3 years) cohorts.
Akiyuki Uzawa +9 more
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Putnam's Meaning-Based Version of Ontological Pluralism [PDF]
In the discussion of ontological pluralism, little attention has been paid to Putnam. However, he can be considered one of the leaders of this approach.The following article pursues Putnam's view on ontological pluralism,that is, pursuing the procedure ...
Mohammad Hossein Esfandiari
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Putnam; Fact/Value Dichotomy and Fact Constructivism [PDF]
Hillary Putnam is one of the contemporary philosophers who study the fact/value dichotomy. In his thoughts, these two concepts are interpretation and even conceptually not separate, a notion named instructive pragmatism.
Ahmad Ebadi, Mohammad Emdadi Masouleh
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Critical Evaluation of Reductionism in Nigel and Oppenheim-Putnam Models of Science Unity [PDF]
The unity or non-unity of science has been one of the most important philosophical issues in the twentieth century. One of the most important answers to the question of the unity of science has been suggested by reductionists. The present article focuses
Mohammad Mahdi Hatami
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Ivabradine in patients with heart failure: a systematic literature review
Background: Heart failure is a chronic disease linked with significant morbidity and mortality, and uncontrolled resting heart rate is a risk factor for adverse outcomes. This systematic literature review aimed to assess the efficacy, safety, and patient-
Zeba M. Khan +4 more
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Background: There is an unmet demand for community-scale fecal sludge treatment units (FSTUs) that serve communities of between 1,000 and 50,000 people and are able to operate in non-sewered and off-grid environments.
Taylor Myers +10 more
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Examining the Possibility of Refuting Philosophical Skepticism by Accepting Semantic Externalism [PDF]
According to semantic externalism, the meaning of some words and thus the content of some of our mental states is determined at least partly by features of the external world. For the first time, Putnam has tried to argue that accepting externalism leads
Hamid Alaeinejad
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Brains in a VAT and memory: How (not) to respond to Putnam's argument [PDF]
Putnam's argument that we are not brains in a VAT has recently seen a resurgence in interest. Although objections to it are legion, an emerging consensus seems to be that even if it successfully refutes one version of the brain in a VAT scenario ...
Kraft Tim
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