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Endoscopic‐Assisted Posterior Atlantoaxial Fusion: Technical Innovation and Clinical Experience

open access: yesOrthopaedic Surgery, EarlyView.
Endoscopic‐assisted posterior atlantoaxial lateral mass fusion is introduced as a novel minimally invasive technique for treating atlantoaxial instability. The approach enables direct visualization, precise fixation, and effective bone fusion while minimizing muscle dissection, blood loss, and postoperative pain, achieving rapid neurological and ...
Jichong Zhu   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Philanthropy for the Disenfranchised

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Philanthropy has an uneasy relationship with democracy. It distributes decision‐making power plutocratically, in proportion to wealth. It allows unelected, unaccountable, and often untrustworthy individuals to shape social outcomes. And it does so in domains where democracy should be authoritative. Yet, at the same time, philanthropy does much
Jacob Barrett
wiley   +1 more source

Expression of the vault RNA protects cells from undergoing apoptosis

open access: yes, 2014
Non-protein-coding RNAs are a functionally versatile class of transcripts found in all domains of life exerting their biological role at the RNA level. Recently, we demonstrated that the vault-associated RNAs (vtRNAs) were significantly up-regulated in ...
Nachbauer, Birgit
core  

Fittingness and Bioethics

open access: yesRatio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In bioethics, two sorts of normative categories are commonly used. These can be split into two families: the deontic categories, such as ‘right’, ‘ought to’ and ‘requirement’, and the evaluative categories, including ‘good’, ‘bad’, ‘better than’ and ‘the best’. While other normative concepts such as ‘virtue’ and ‘vice’ have also been discussed,
Ronan Ó Maonaile, James Hart
wiley   +1 more source

Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
wiley   +1 more source

Morphology of the Palatal Vault of Primary Dentition in Transverse View

open access: yes, 2011
The purpose of this study was to investigate the transverse view of the morphology of the palatal vault in the primary dentition at the primary second molar level.
TSAI, HUNG-HUEY   +3 more
core  

Reading Dürer in Late Sixteenth‐Century Padua: Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582), His Library and the Annotated Institutionum geometricarum (Paris, 1535)

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article contributes to the history of material culture and intellectual biography by definitively identifying the Paduan scholar Matteo Macigni (ca. 1510–1582) as the author of the annotations found in a 1535 copy of Albrecht Dürer’s Institutionum geometricarum currently preserved in Vicenza.
Laura Moretti
wiley   +1 more source

The Hinges of On Certainty

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some commentators argue that the notes collected as Wittgenstein's On Certainty provide the basis for a groundbreaking epistemological theory and response to scepticism. This theory pertains to the role of what some have called the hinge propositions of our inquiry, following Wittgenstein's metaphor of hinges of a door. This paper examines one
David Veldran
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic Changes in Implantable Collamer Lens Vault and Anterior Chamber Angle Under Varying Lighting Conditions

open access: yesClinical Ophthalmology
Matthew Hirabayashi,1,2 Eric C Cantu,1 Andrew J Abramson,3 Gurpal Virdi,4 Taj Nasser,5 Gregory Parkhurst1,2 1Parkhurst NuVision LASIK Eye Surgery, San Antonio, TX, USA; 2Amarillo NuVision, Amarillo, TX, USA; 3Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA ...
Hirabayashi M   +5 more
doaj  

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