Marathe, Megh
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Social studies of science
This article examines the value of medical technology through the case of electroencephalograms (EEGs), devices used to visualize brain activity and diagnose seizures. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, the article shows that EEGs are valued differently by patients and medical practitioners. While practitioners value EEGs for their clinical utility...
medina-bautista, francisco morgaz, juan domínguez, juan manuel navarrete-calvo, rocío de medina, antonia sánchez quirós-carmona, setefilla granados, maría del mar
Recovery from general anaesthesia is risky in horses. Alpha2-agonist administration after anaesthesia enhances the quality of recovery but may prolong this phase. Recovery time and quality were investigated after medetomidine administration at the end of general anaesthesia in a prospective, randomised, masked and clinical study. Horses underwent m...
Meseret, Fentahun Keneni, Mulualem Alemu, Ayichew Tizazu, Diribsa Alemayehu, Tesfaye Asfaw Mossie, Yalew Teshager, Tilahun Wondimneh, Fenta
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Frontiers in Nutrition
Background Early recovery is a performance indicator of quality care for children under five admitted due to severe acute malnutrition (SAM) at therapeutic feeding centers. Despite the available interventions to tackle such nutritional problems, there is limited information on the time to recovery and its predictors among children with severe acute...
lagunas, david lara, aline
The aim of this article is to provide an ethnographic investigation on how community consciousness is forged through daily rituals of encounter and sociability among the Calós of Buenos Aires. The research method used was ethnography based on participant observation. The daily encounters and the intensive frequency of repetition are posed as ritual...
Ip, Nathanael Scarrott, Kendra Conklin, Annalijn I.
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Frontiers in Medicine
Background General medical practitioners are responsible for promoting and prescribing lifestyle modification and serve as role models for healthy behaviors. We aimed to assess self-reported knowledge, adherence, barriers and time spent on all recommended health behaviors among medical students. Methods A cross-sectional online survey of eight beha...
steiner, thomas n.
This article examines the influence of Augustinian thought in the development of Arthur Prior’s tense logic. In particular, the article investigates Prior’s use of the 11th chapter of Confessiones and debates whether Augustinian temporality can correctly be characterized as a form of presentism. The investigation follows two distinct paths: The fir...
gusev, alexander o. martyushev, leonid m.
The simplest evolutionary model for catching prey by an agent (predator) is considered. The simulation is performed on the basis of a software-emulated Intel i8080 processor. Maximizing the number of catches is chosen as the objective function. This function is associated with energy dissipation and developmental time. It is shown that during Darwi...
Ceravolo, Vito Junior
International audience
blavakis, emmanouil kecik, mateusz panos, georgios d. thumann, gabriele massa, horace
Background: Techniques for the preparation of grafts for Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK) can be classified into those that involve the manual dissection of the Descemet membrane (DM) and those that use an injection of a liquid or a gas to achieve a separation of the DM from the posterior corneal stroma. The purpose of this study w...
Stephenson, Jamie
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Open Philosophy
Immanuel Kant is often conveyed as a Platonic or Newtonian thinker of the temporal, expressing time as an absolute and continuous repository wherein all objects occur. However, employing themes from his aesthetic writings, what happens when Kantian “sublime” time is reoriented towards a more discontinuous temporal register? This essay employs just ...
