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Searching for safety: Working conditions and policing in a US emergency department

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract In the United States, emergency departments aren't supposed to turn anyone away. They are the safety‐net of the safety‐net providing life‐saving care. Yet, what happens to healthcare when conditions are so strained that patients and staff lash out at each other? What happens when the safety net becomes a carceral net?
Fabián Luis C. Fernández
wiley   +1 more source

Clinical and epidemiological features of definitive and presumed loxoscelism in São Paulo, Brazil

open access: yesRevista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2002
A retrospective study analysed 359 proven or presume cases of loxoscelism seen at the Hospital Vital Brazil, Instituto Butantan, São Paulo, Brazil, between 1985 and 1996. The spider was identified in 14%.
Ceila Maria Sant'Ana MÁLAQUE   +5 more
doaj  

Lag Effects in L2 Phonetic Training: Longer Intersession Intervals Compensate for Auditory Individual Differences

open access: yesThe Modern Language Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In cognitive psychology, longer intersession intervals are thought to enhance long‐term retention (i.e., lag effects). Recently, scholars have begun to test the generalizability of the lag effect to L2 vocabulary and grammar acquisition. Following their step, the present study not only replicated the lag effect but also provided a more fine ...
Xiang Li, Kazuya Saito‐van Poeteren
wiley   +1 more source

Ischemic Brain Injury Secondary to Severe Systemic Loxoscelism

open access: yesSouthwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles, 2014
Systemic loxoscelism is a rare complication from the bite of spiders in the genus Loxosceles.These bites usually cause painful indurated skin reactions, including necrosis,and occasionally cause systemic complications, such as rhabdomyolysis, acute ...
Matthew P Soape   +3 more
doaj  

Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
wiley   +1 more source

Being Biased and Knowing How to Reason

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explains how reasoning is action and not reflex. It then uses that theory to explain one form of knowing how to reason. Reasoning is thinking biased by knowledge. Drawing on Louise Antony's emphasis on bias as critical for dealing with underdetermination in induction, I show that underdetermination confronts all forms of reasoning ...
Wayne Wu
wiley   +1 more source

What's in a Promise?

open access: yesNoûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many, perhaps even most, philosophers hold that, in order to promise someone something, the promisor must intend to communicate what they are promising. I argue against this claim, explain why it matters to the nature of promising, and sketch an alternative picture of normatively powerful speech acts.
Eliot Michaelson
wiley   +1 more source

Your friendly neighborhood spider bite - Or not: A fishy case of <i>Mycobacterium marinum</i>. [PDF]

open access: yesIDCases
Cadiz B   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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