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Lifestyle Behaviors and Cardiotoxic Treatment Risks in Adult Childhood Cancer Survivors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Higher doses of anthracyclines and heart‐relevant radiotherapy increase cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. This study assessed CVD and CVD risk factors among adult childhood cancer survivors (CCSs) across cardiotoxic treatment risk groups and examined associations between lifestyle behaviors and treatment risks.
Ruijie Li, Raquel Revuelta Iniesta, Alan R. Barker, Dimitris Vlachopoulos, Tomáš Sláma, Christina Schindera, Fabiën N. Belle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Response to critics of Open and Inclusive: Fair Processes for Financing Universal Health Coverage

Health Economics, Policy and Law
In response to our critics, we clarify and defend key ideas in the report Open and Inclusive: Fair Processes for Financing Universal Health Coverage. First, we argue that procedural fairness has greater value than Dan Hausman allows.
Alex Voorhoeve, Elina Dale, Unni Gopinathan   +2 more
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The Art of Memory and the Growth of the Scientific Method [PDF]

Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2015
I argue that European schools of thought on memory and memorization were critical in enabling growth of the scientific method. After giving a historical overview of the development of the memory arts from ancient Greece through 17th century Europe, I ...
Gopal P. Sarma
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Sociology and Science: The Making of a Social Scientific Method

, 2018
Criticism against quantitative methods has grown in the context of “big-data”, charging an empirical, quantitative agenda with expanding to displace qualitative and theoretical approaches indispensable to the future of sociological research. Underscoring
Anson Au
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Scientific Method, Anti-Foundationalism, and Public Decision-making [PDF]

, 1990
An examination of the legitimacy of attacks on lay assessments of environmental or other technological Risk. The case is made that rational policy requires an epistemology in which what we believe about Risk is bootstrapped onto how we should act ...
Shrader-Frechette, Kristin
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Risks, alternative knowledge strategies and democratic legitimacy: the conflict over co-incineration of hazardous industrial waste in Portugal. [PDF]

, 2011
The decision to incinerate hazardous industrial waste in cement plants (the socalled ‘co-incineration’ process) gave rise to one of the most heated environmental conflicts ever to take place in Portugal. The bitterest period was between 1997 and 2002,
Alam T., Alexander J.C., Barker A., Beck U., Boehmer-Christiansen S., Cohen B., Collingridge D., Edelstein M.R., Fischer F., Formosinho S., Gigerenzer G., Godard O., Hacking I., Hacking I., Helena Mateus Jerónimo, Hilgartner S., Jasanoff S., Jerónimo H.M., Jerónimo H.M., José Luís Garcia, Kasperson R.E., Kasperson R.E., Keynes J.M., Knight F.H., Krüger L., Lacey H., Lacey H., Larson M.S., Liberatore A., Martins H., Mazur A., Nelkin D., Nowotny H., Petts J., Porter T.M., Primack J., Roqueplo P., Rosanvallon P., Rosanvallon P., Roy A., Tilly C., Vari A.   +41 more
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Cerebrospinal Fluid Liquid Biopsy Enables Targeted Therapy Without Tissue Diagnosis in Pediatric Low‐Grade Gliomas With BRAF V600E Mutation

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We present two pediatric cases of pediatric low‐grade gliomas (PLGG) with BRAF V600E mutations diagnosed and monitored using cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) liquid biopsy analyzed via digital droplet PCR (ddPCR), without tissue biopsy. Both patients were treated with dabrafenib and trametinib and monitored through clinical assessments, magnetic ...
Hannah Sultan, Damien Faury, Alexander G. Weil, Harrison J. Westwick, Nada Jabado, Sébastien Perreault   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Boltzmann Equation and Its Place in the Edifice of Statistical Mechanics

Entropy
It is customary to classify approaches in statistical mechanics (SM) as belonging either to Boltzmanninan SM (BSM) or Gibbsian SM (GSM). It is, however, unclear how the Boltzmann equation (BE) fits into either of these approaches. To discuss the relation
Charlotte Werndl, Roman Frigg
doaj   +1 more source

Translated in Translation Studies

transLogos: Translation Studies Journal, 2018
The current article aims to test conceptual borders and explanatory potential of intralingual translation. It takes up from the findings of the author’s previous research questioning differing approaches toward intralingual translation published in a ...
Alper Zafer Güneş
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Beyond Kuhnian paradigms: Normal science and theory dependence in ecology

Ecology and Evolution, 2023
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn has influenced scientists for decades. It focuses on a progression of science involving periodic, fundamental shifts—revolutions—from one existing paradigm to another.
Craig A. Layman, Andrew L. Rypel
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