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One‐Year Changes in Frailty Components After Curative Minimally Invasive Surgery for Colorectal Cancer in Older Patients

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Frailty predicts outcomes after colorectal cancer surgery, but postoperative changes remain unclear. We previously reported improvement in FRAIL Scale‐based frail/pre‐frail status 1 year after curative minimally invasive surgery (MIS).
Hajime Ushigome   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Doorstep interactions and interviewer effects on the process leading to cooperation or refusal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article presents an analysis of interviewer effects on the process leading to cooperation or refusal in face-to-face surveys. The focus is on the interaction between the householder and the interviewer on the doorstep, including initial reactions ...
Gabriele B. Durrant   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Current Standards of Monitoring Models in Healthcare Settings

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
AI/ML‐enabled medical devices are entering clinical practice faster than monitoring standards mature. This review highlights gaps in postmarket surveillance, limited use of predetermined change‐control plans, and the need for ongoing performance tracking, drift detection, explainability, and workflow‐aware governance to support safer, more reliable ...
Alan Kay   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Survival of the Gift: An Enchanted Interpretation of Early Quakerism

open access: yesReligions, 2018
Since Max Weber’s ground-breaking study, The Protestant Ethic, and the Spirit of Capitalism, it has become something of a scholarly trope to treat the rise of secular modernity and the formation of Quakerism as going readily together.
Benjamin J. Wood
doaj   +1 more source

AI‐Based Immortality: The Ethical Advantage of the Aretai Approach

open access: yesAI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The convergence of artificial intelligence, digital identity technologies, and biogerontological ambitions has produced a novel set of philosophical problems that have not yet been adequately addressed within mainstream bioethical discourse. Digital life extension—encompassing AI‐generated avatars, neural data preservation, mind uploading, and
Mirko Daniel Garasic
wiley   +1 more source

Young children's perspectives of time: New directions for co‐constructing understandings of quality in ECEC

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Children's relationship with time in preschools is an under‐researched area. Young children rarely know how to measure time using a clock, but their experiences of time may contribute to understanding children's well‐being and debates about quality in preschools.
Kristín Dýrfjörð   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

REFUSAL EXPRESSIONS AMONG CHARACTERS IN THE FILM ENTITLED KNOWING (Based on Socio-Pragmatics Approach) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This research was conducted to know about the refusal strategies employed by characters in the film entitled Knowing. It is also carried out to explain how the refusals are performed by the characters and to know why each type of refusal is employed ...
Widowati, Ridho
core  

Female Effigies and Performances of Desire: A Consideration of Identity Performance in Lars and the Real Girl.

open access: yesForum, 2008
The female sex doll allows for the projection of uninhibited sexual fantasy and is animated through that fantasy in the mind of her partner. In this way, she can be seen to function as a performative effigy of desire, maintaining heteronormative male ...
Kate E. O’Neill
doaj   +3 more sources

Improving access to new technologies: An experiment with Kenyan input sellers

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Agrodealers play a critical role in rural economies, selling essential inputs for agricultural production, stocking new products, and providing farmers with technical advice. However, uncertainty can discourage them from stocking newer, less familiar products, limiting the availability of innovative technologies and leading to market failures ...
Sarah W. Kariuki   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The rain feels different under the same umbrella: Experiences with poverty across LGBTQ subgroups

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Population‐based survey data have demonstrated that LGBTQ communities report varying rates of economic insecurity, yet very little research directly assesses how pathways into and experiences with poverty look different among subgroups at the intersections of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI).
Bianca D. M. Wilson, Lillian Nguyen
wiley   +1 more source

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