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Time scale in concrete fracture: a model based on partitions of unity [PDF]

, 2001
Intense research efforts have been put in the formulation of theories for crack initiation and propagation in concrete. Yet, little attention has been paid to the time-dependence of fracture, despite evidence of its significance.
Van Zijl, GPA, Wells, GN
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Nietzsche, selfhood, and the limitations of the transcendental reading [PDF]

, 2015
The Nietzschean conception of selfhood has been the subject of considerable debate in the Anglophone commentary. This debate has been focused on what Sebastian Gardner coined as ‘the lack of fit’ between Nietzsche’s theoretical and practical remarks on ...
Sahaj, Violi, Vandenabeele, Bart
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Development and usability testing of an online support tool to identify models and frameworks to inform implementation

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Background Theories, models and frameworks (TMFs) are useful when implementing, evaluating and sustaining healthcare evidence-based interventions. Yet it can be challenging to identify an appropriate TMF for an implementation project.
Lisa Strifler, Christine Fahim, Michael P. Hillmer, Jan M. Barnsley, Sharon E. Straus   +4 more
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Patient perspectives on the implementation of routinised syphilis screening with HIV viral load testing: Qualitative process evaluation of the Enhanced Syphilis Screening Among HIV-positive Men trial

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Syphilis infections have been on the rise, affecting men living with HIV in urban centres disproportionately. Since individuals in HIV care undergo routine blood testing, HIV clinics provide practical opportunities to conduct regular and ...
Kinnon R MacKinnon, Ramandip Grewal, Darrell HS Tan, Rodney Rousseau, John Maxwell, Sharon Walmsley, Paul A MacPherson, Anita Rachlis, Nisha Andany, Sharmistha Mishra, Vanessa G Allen, Ann N. Burchell   +11 more
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Innovation and jobs: evidence from manufacturing firms [PDF]

, 2004
This paper is aimed at structurally assessing the employment effects of the innovative activities of firms. We estimate firm level displacement and compensation effects in a model in which the stock of knowledge capital raises firm relative efficiency ...
García, A., Jaumandreu, Jordi, Rodríguez, César   +2 more
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Kant, race, and natural history [PDF]

, 2018
This article presents a new argument concerning the relation between Kant’s theory of race and aspects of the critical philosophy. It argues that Kant’s treatment of the problem of the systematic unity of nature and knowledge in the Critique of Pure ...
Atran Scott, Bernasconi Robert, Bernasconi Robert, Bernasconi Robert, Blum Laurence, Buffon Georges-Louis Leclerc, Cassirer Ernst, Eze Emmanuel Chukwudi, Eze Emmanuel Chukwudi, Fisher Mark, Girtanner Christoph, Hill Thomas E., Huneman Philippe, Huneman Philippe, Kant Immanuel, Kant Immanuel, Kant Immanuel, Kant Immanuel, Kant Immanuel, Kant Immanuel, Kant Immanuel, Kant Immanuel, Kant Immanuel, Lagier Raphaël, Mensch Jennifer, Mikkelsen Jon M., Mills Charles, Morrison Margaret, Quarfood Marcel, Sandford Stella, Serequeberhan Tsenay, Sloan Phillip R., Sloan Phillip R., Sloan Phillip R., Sloan Phillip R., Smith Justin E.H., Stella Sandford, Watkins Eric, Zammito John H., Zuckert Rachel   +39 more
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The experience of feeling old after a fragility fracture

BMC Geriatrics
Background There has been little exploration of the effect of fragility fractures on patient perceptions of their age. The common assumption is that fractures “happen to old people”.
Joanna E.M. Sale, Lucy Frankel, Earl Bogoch, Gabriel Carlin-Coleman, Sean Hui, Jessica Saini, Jennifer McKinlay, Lynn Meadows   +7 more
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Using newly linked hospital and population data to identify opportunities to reduce harms from sedative-hypnotic prescribing at population scale

International Journal of Population Data Science
Objective and Approach Sedative-hypnotic medications are associated with harms such as delirium and falls, and may be overprescribed in hospitals. Measuring potentially inappropriate in-hospital sedative-hypnotic prescriptions requires distinguishing ...
Surain B Roberts, Mohammad A Imrit, Marwa F Ismail, Trong Shen, Christine Soong, Barbara Liu, Denise YF Mak, Vladyslav Kushnir, Laura C Rosella, Fahad Razak, Amol A Verma   +10 more
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Konsep Pengetahuan Dalam the Idea of a University Dari John Henry Newman [PDF]

, 2003
For Newman, knowledge is an exercise of the intellect to develop the habit of viewing the objects as a unity, like an encyclopaedia, or a circle or a concert.
Balela, Y. S. (Yoseph)
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Evolving Medical Imaging Techniques for the Assessment of Delayed Graft Function: A Narrative Review

Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease, 2021
Purpose of review: Delayed graft function (DGF) is a significant complication that contributes to poorer graft function and shortened graft survival. In this review, we sought to evaluate the current and emerging role of medical imaging modalities in the
Eno Hysi, Harmandeep Kaur, Ann Young
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