28 Result(s)

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Response—Forty-Seven Years Later: Further Studies in Disappointment?

This paper provides a commentary on “Vascular amputees: A study in disappointment” (Little et al. 1974) and its significance in the development of the disability rights movement, as well as the movements for valu...

Michael Loughlin in Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (2022)

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Shielding Design for Activated First Wall Transferring in ITER Hot Cell Building

The hot cell building is a part of the hot cell complex which is located to the north of the main ITER tokamak building. It would provide a controlled area for the preparation, transfer and repair-refurbishmen...

Shengpeng Yu, Qi Yang, Chao Chen, Liqin Hu, Yican Wu… in Journal of Fusion Energy (2015)

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Shielding Analysis for ITER Equatorial Port Cell During Blanket Replacement

ITER port cells are located outside the bio-shield of the Tokamak. During shutdown, the shielding blanket may be replaced and the radioactive blankets will be transported through equatorial port cells, increa...

Qi Yang, Bin Li, Chao Chen, Jieqiong Jiang, Shengpeng Yu… in Journal of Fusion Energy (2015)

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Science, Practice and Mythology: A Definition and Examination of the Implications of Scientism in Medicine

Scientism is a philosophy which purports to define what the world ‘really is’. It adopts what the philosopher Thomas Nagel called ‘an epistemological criterion of reality’, defining what is real as that which ...

Michael Loughlin, George Lewith, Torkel Falkenberg in Health Care Analysis (2013)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Incorporating PGMs into a BDI Architecture

In this paper, we present a hybrid BDI-PGM framework, in which PGMs (Probabilistic Graphical Models) are incorporated into a BDI (belief-desire-intention) architecture. This work is motivated by the need to ad...

Yingke Chen, Jun Hong, Weiru Liu, Lluís Godo… in PRIMA 2013: Principles and Practice of Mul… (2013)

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Management, Science and Reality: A Commentary on ‘Practically Useless? Why Management Theory Needs Popper’

Moss is right to state that management theory needs to address its epistemological foundations by considering questions in epistemology and the philosophy of science. Whether management theory needs Popper is ...

Michael Loughlin in Philosophy of Management (2004)

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Riposte

Michael Loughlin, Alison Pritchard in Health Care Analysis (1998)

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Critique

Michael Loughlin, Alison Pritchard in Health Care Analysis (1997)

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Memory repression and recovery: A postmodern problem?

Although the paper points to many critical issues in the repressed memory debate, it does not adequately portray its full complexity. Focusing attention on the simplistic question of whether repressed memories...

Michael Loughlin, Richard A. Bryant in Health Care Analysis (1997)

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Promoting confusion

Michael Loughlin in Health Care Analysis (1996)

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Will there be a philosophy of health promotion

Michael Loughlin in Health Care Analysis (1996)

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Rationing, barbarity and the economist's perspective

Michael Loughlin in Health Care Analysis (1996)

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Bioethics and the mythology of liberalism

Michael Loughlin in Health Care Analysis (1995)

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The Wall paper re-examined

Michael Loughlin in Health Care Analysis (1995)

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Dworkin, rawls and reality

Michael Loughlin in Health Care Analysis (1995)

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Critique

Michael Loughlin in Health Care Analysis (1994)