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Participatory design of a continuous care ontology : towards a user-driven ontology engineering methodology [PDF]

, 2011
The patient room of the future would be able to sense the needs and preferences of the patients and nurses and adapt itself accordingly by combining all the heterogeneous data offered by the different technologies. This goal can be achieved by developing
Ackaert, Ann, Bleumes, Lizzy, De Turck, Filip, De Zutter, Saar, Jacobs, An, Ongenae, Femke, Sulmon, Nicky, Van Gils, Mieke, Verhoeve, Piet, Verstraete, Mathijs   +9 more
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What really matters? The elusive quality of the material in feminist thought [PDF]

, 2003
The concept of the 'material' was the focus of much feminist work in the 1970s. It has always been a deeply contested one, even for feminists working within a broadly materialist paradigm of the social.
Rahman, Momin, Witz, A.
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Macrophage Membrane‐Cloaked, ROS‐Triggered Quercetin Nanocarriers Target Ovarian Lesions to Treat Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
The synthesis process of MM@PCD@QNPs and its potential mechanism for treating PCOS. (A) Assembly steps of MM@PCD@QNPs. (B) Synthesis and decomposition of MM@PCD@QNPs. (C) Potential therapeutic mechanisms of MM@PCD@QNPs for PCOS. PCD, PABP conjugated with DEX polymer; QUR, quercetin; CDI, N, N′‐carbonyldiimidazole; DEX, dextran; PABP, 4‐(hydroxymethyl ...
Wenzhu Li, Yu Guan, Nan Song, Feng Zhang, Zhimin Deng, Tailang Yin, Yanbing Yang, João Conde, Wenyi Jin, Zhinang Yin   +9 more
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Ontology, methodological individualism, and the foundations of the social sciences [PDF]

, 2016
This is a review essay, based on a critical assessment of The Ant Trap by Brian Epstein. Epstein argues that models in the social sciences are inadequate because they are based on a false ontology of methodological individualism, and proposes a new model
Mäki Uskali, Robert Sugden
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Extracellular Vesicles Modulation by an Adiponectin Receptor Agonist Provides Cardioprotection for Myocardial Ischemic Injury

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This study demonstrates that ALY688, a drug mimicking the heart‐protective hormone adiponectin, reduces myocardial ischemia injury. ALY688 increases the production of extracellular vesicles, which carry protective cargo including adiponectin itself.
Jialing Tang, Wing Yan Chung, Serena M. Pulente, Yubin Lei, Khang Nguyen, Eddie Tam, Nadya M. Morrow, Ilka Lorenzen‐Schmidt, Fengxia Xiao, Augusto Zani, Dylan Burger, Hye Kyoung Sung, Erin E. Mulvihill, Gary Sweeney   +13 more
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Ecosystem integration: the use of ontologies in integrating knowledge across manufacturing value networks

Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology
One of the greatest challenges in creating effective decision-making systems for connected enterprises is the management of cross-domain information.
Michela Magas, Dimitris Kiritsis, María Poveda-Villalón, Lan Yang, Sten-Erik Björling, Andreas Rudenå   +5 more
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Systemic Materialist Realist Ontology, Epistemology, Semantics, Axiology and Ethics: Why Pearl’s Counterfactuals and Pawson’s methods are insufficient to Causation in Social Epidemiology and Public Health

, 2021
Carles Muntaner
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Ontological imagination: transcending methodological solipsism and the promise of interdisciplinary studies [PDF]

, 2013
This text is a presentation of the notion of ontological imagination. It constitutes an attempt to merge two traditions: critical sociology and science and technology studies - STS.
Nowak, Andrzej W.
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Opinion: Gavage Administration of MXene as a Route‐Specific Alternative to Intravenous Injection into the Bloodstream of Laboratory Animals for Reducing Systemic Nanotoxicity Risks in Immunosuppression and Post‐Transplantation Models with Bile Acid Modification

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Recent studies reported immunosuppressive properties of specific MXene nanomaterials. Their intravenous injection into the bloodstream of laboratory animals has been a common delivery method to suppress systemic inflammation and prevent transplant rejection.
Alireza Rafieerad, M. Akif Rahman, Ahmad Amiri   +2 more
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\u3cem\u3eSapere Aude\u3c/em\u3e: Critical Ontology and the Case of Child Development [PDF]

, 2004
This paper argues that Foucault’s proposed positive program of practical critique in his later work, which he calls ‘critical ontology,’ provides a response to his critics.
Wong, James
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