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Defending the Good Dog Picture of Virtues [PDF]

Organon F, 2020
I consider and reject a specific criticism advanced by Korsgaard against virtue ethics and epistemology when these are conceived with the help of what she calls the image of the “Good Dog.” I consider what virtue ethics and epistemology would look like ...
Andrei Ionuţ Mărăşoiu
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Human and Nature: Developing Virtues for Environmental Responsive Behaviour

Problemy Ekorozwoju, 2023
The environmental issues such as deforestation, climate change, ozone layer depletion, greenhouse effect and pollution of air, water and soil rises due to unethical activity of human beings and behaviour of humankind.
Anita Jena, Sarita Kar
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Ethics and the Perfect Moral Law

Tyndale Bulletin, 2000
This paper examines contemporary virtue ethics and the claim that Christian ethics is a virtue ethic. Three central theses are identified as being central to virtue ethics: a priority thesis, a perfectionist thesis and a communitarian thesis.
Harry Bunting
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Biphasic Clinical Course of Pediatric Cytomegalovirus‐Associated Immune Thrombocytopenia: Early Poor Treatment Response but Favorable Long‐Term Outcomes

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a recognized trigger of immune thrombocytopenia (ITP); however, its incidence and impact on disease course in children remain controversial. Therefore, we aimed to characterize the clinical course of pediatric patients with CMV‐associated ITP.
Oded Gilad, Ohad Atia, Osama Tanous, Dafna Brik Simon, Michal Dvori, Miriam Cohen, Tracie A. Goldberg, Efraim Bilavsky, Joanne Yacobovich, Orna Steinberg‐Shemer   +9 more
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Virtue-based Approaches to Professional Ethics: a Plea for More Rigorous Use of Empirical Science

Ethic@: an International Journal for Moral Philosophy, 2017
Until recently, the method of professional ethics has been largely principle-based. But the failure of this approach to take into sufficient account the character of professionals has led to a revival of virtue ethics.
Georg Spielthenner
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The Vice of Social Comparison in Kierkegaard: Nature, Religious Moral Psychology, and Normativity

Religions, 2023
This paper argues for the thesis that social comparison is, for Kierkegaard, a vice. The first part of this article reconstructs Kierkegaard’s understanding of the nature of social comparison.
Wojciech Kaftanski
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Characterization of therapeutic antibodies targeting lymphatic and vascular resistance factor for the treatment of hypervascularized and highly metastatic cancers

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
LVRF (lymphatic and vascular resistance factor) is a VEGFA splice variant upregulated in response to anti‐angiogenic therapy that fosters tumor adaptation through enhanced vascularization, lymphangiogenesis, and metastatic dissemination. Targeting LVRF with fully human neutralizing antibodies disrupts these processes and limits resistant tumor growth ...
Marion David, Arthur Karaulic, Audrey Bennetot, Clémence Fournier, Quentin Odet, Arthur Gouraud, Isabelle Bourget, Cédric Gaggioli, Sandy Giuliano, Frédéric Luciano, Olivier Léger, Zaki Sellam, Gilles Pagès   +12 more
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Virtue ethics: Beyond moral theory

South African Journal of Bioethics and Law, 2015
In December 2013, a 52 year old man and a practising Jehovah’s Witness  was admitted to Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital (CHBAH), Soweto, Johannesburg.
Karen Koch, Colin Menezes
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Dactolisib outperforms Rapamycin in potentiating apoptosis induced by XPO1, Bcl‐2 and Mcl‐1 blockade in preclinical glioblastoma models

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
The PAM pathway and its impact on cellular metabolism. Color‐coded key symbols represent Rapamycin (R, orange, targeting mTOR) and Dactolisib (D, green, targeting PI3K/mTOR), indicating their sites of action. Created with BioRenders.com. Glioblastoma resists therapy through interconnected survival programs.
Kai Zhao, Leonie Meyer, Madita Braun, Katharina Otte, Celine Bitter, Maite Pawlik, Hartmann Raifer, Frederik Helmprobst, Axel Pagenstecher, Hans Urban, Michael C. Burger, Michael W. Ronellenfitsch, Joachim P. Steinbach, Jarmila Jedelská, Shamim Bagheri, Behrooz H. Yousefi, Pietro Di Fazio, Markus Luster, Andreas H. Mahnken, Andreas Neubauer, Andreas Burchert, Christopher Nimsky, Jörg W. Bartsch, Tillmann Rusch   +23 more
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Ethical Foreground and Background in Adult Educator Work

New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Adult educators work in a complex ethical environment. The very act of contributing to the learning of another is fraught with moral overtones. In this paper we consider the ethical dimensions of adult educator practice by distinguishing the ethical features of the context or ‘background’ of practice from the ethical capabilities and decision ...
Steven Hodge, Sonal Nakar
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