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Civilizational Choice: Structural Components and Implementation Mechanisms

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Philosophy
The research is devoted to the study of the category of “civilizational choice”, which in the 21st century is reflected in both scientific and public discourse, as well as in official documents.
Stanislav A. Malchenkov
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Is the Veil of Ignorance Transparent?

open access: yesŒconomia, 2011
Theories of justice in the spirit of Rawls and Harsanyi argue that fair-minded people should aspire to make choices for society as if in the original position, that is, behind a veil of ignorance that prevents them from knowing their own social positions.
Gaël Giraud, Cécile Renouard
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Health‐Related Social Needs in Children With Sickle Cell Disease Are Associated With Worse Health‐Related Quality of Life

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) face multiple acute and chronic medical complications that may impact their quality of life as reported by patients themselves. Health‐related social needs (HRSNs), such as food and housing insecurity, are common in people with SCD, but the association between HRSNs and patient‐reported ...
Sarah J. Marks   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

L’invisibilisation du commun

open access: yesDroit et Cultures
This paper describes from an analytical and normative perspective how economics reduces what’s common to its individual components only. The ignorance by welfare economics of its normative challenge results from “welfarism”, the framework according to ...
Antoinette Baujard
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The Combined Effect of Obesity and Contraceptive Use on Pulmonary Embolism in Adolescent Females Residing in the United States

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Combined oral contraceptive (COC) use in obese adult women dramatically increases the relative risk of developing a pulmonary embolism (PE). The risk of a PE in obese adolescent females taking contraceptives is currently unknown. The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effect of body mass index (BMI) and contraceptive
John Puetz, Joanne Salas
wiley   +1 more source

Multi-criteria evaluation model to face phytosanitary emergencies: The case of citrus fruits farming in Italy

open access: yesAgricultural Economics (AGRICECON), 2016
In the last decade, citrus fruits farming, at the international level, revealed an upward trend changing the traditional scenarios of the offer, with the exchange of products coming from all areas of the world, thanks to the progressive abrogation of ...
Alessandro SCUDERI, Luisa STURIALE
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Freedom of choice and expected compromise [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article develops a new measure of freedom of choice based on the proposal that a set offers more freedom of choice than another if, and only if, the expected degree of dissimilarity between a random alternative from the set of possible alternatives ...
Gustafsson, Johan E.,
core   +1 more source

THE NATIONS OF EUROPE BETWEEN IMPOSED GLOBALIZATION AND THE NEED OF AUTHENTIC [PDF]

open access: yesChallenges of the Knowledge Society, 2017
In the present consumer society, we are alike creators as well as addressees, of an impressive number of options. Of these, we need to choose what is relevant to their own social needs.
Mirela Cristiana NILĂ - STRATONE   +1 more
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Aménagement durable des territoires : quel apport d’un outil multimédia d’aide à la délibération ?

open access: yesNetcom, 2008
Deliberative decision-making approaches are being increasingly favoured for regional development as they assist in overcoming difficulties associated with complexity and uncertainty.
Aurèlie Chamaret   +2 more
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Social Choice Methods for Database Aggregation [PDF]

open access: yesElectronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, 2019
Knowledge can be represented compactly in multiple ways, from a set of propositional formulas, to a Kripke model, to a database. In this paper we study the aggregation of information coming from multiple sources, each source submitting a database ...
Francesco Belardinelli, Umberto Grandi
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