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Towards an off-grid fecal sludge treatment unit: demonstrating energy positive thermal treatment [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Gates Open Research, 2019
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, Lars Schoebitz, Stuart Woolley, Jaime Sanchez Ferragut, Jimmy Thostenson, Kathy Jooss, Jeffery Piascik, August Frechette, Nico Hotz, Brian R. Stoner, Jeffery Hallowell   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rufus Putnam draft letter to Robert Howe

, 2008
Putnam informs General Howe of enemy ...
Putnam, Rufus, 1738-1824
core   +4 more sources

Brains in a VAT and memory: How (not) to respond to Putnam's argument [PDF]

Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2020
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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Testing the Social Investment Principle Around Childbirth: Little Evidence for Personality Maturation Before and After Becoming a Parent

European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract In line with the social investment principle, becoming a parent should lead to more mature behaviour and an increase in conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability. However, previous research provided mixed results that do not support this idea.
Eva Asselmann, Jule Specht, Christian Kandler   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Frederic Ward Putnam [PDF]

Science, 1915
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openaire   +4 more sources

How social media could teach us to be better citizens

Je-LKS: Journal of E-Learning and Knowledge Society, 2022
In 1995, social scientist Robert Putnam proposed a broad and wide-ranging critique of American civic life. (Putnam, 1995) Further developed in his influential book Bowling Alone (Putnam, 2000), Putnam argued that America was experiencing a sustained ...
Ethan Zuckerman
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Impact of TAK-003 on epidemiologic, economic and quality-of-life burden of dengue: comparison of the results from a dynamic transmission model and a static model with a dynamic component

International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Introduction: Dynamic transmission models are commonly used to evaluate the impact of vaccination as they capture both direct and indirect effects; however, they tend to be complex and computationally intensive.
Elizaveta Kharitonova, Dr Jing Shen, Anna Tytula, Justyna Zawieja, Yaneth Gil Rojas, Samuel Aballea, Riona Hanley   +6 more
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A dicotomia fato/valor e sua significação para as ciências da natureza

Revista de Filosofia, 2021
A dicotomia fato/valor nomeia o entendimento segundo o qual fatos e valores são de domínios diferentes que jamais se encontram. De acordo com Hilary Putnam, essa dicotomia — que tem raízes na filosofia do empirismo lógico — merece uma investigação ...
César Fernando Meurer
doaj   +1 more source

İDEALDEN REALİTEYE BİLGİ: BİLGİYE SOSYAL EPİSTEMOLOJİK YAKLAŞIMLARA DAİR

Felsefe Dünyası, 2023
Toplumsal bir varlık olarak insanın, bilgi edinme hususunda sosyal süreçlerden ayrı değerlendirilemeyeceğini ve bu süreçlerde edinilen bilginin de geleneksel epistemolojinin standartlarıyla değerlendirilemeyeceğini öne süren yaklaşım olarak sosyal ...
Ramazan Yılmaz
doaj   +1 more source

Estimating the minimally important difference for the EQ-5D-5L and EORTC QLQ-C30 in cancer

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
Background The minimal important difference (MID) is a useful tool to interpret changes in patients’ health-related quality of life. This study aims to estimate MIDs for interpreting within-patient change for both components of the EQ-5D-5L questionnaire
Siobhan Bourke, Bryan Bennett, Yemi Oluboyede, Tara Li, Louise Longworth, Sian Bissell O’Sullivan, Julia Braverman, Ioana-Alexandra Soare, James W. Shaw   +8 more
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