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Open AccessClosing Data Gaps and Paving the Way for Pan-European Fire Safety Efforts: Part II—Terminology of Fire Statistical Variables
A well-defined terminology of fire-related variables is important for correct analyses and supporting knowledge-based decisions regarding the evaluation of building fires at the European level. After developin...
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Open AccessClosing Data Gaps and Paving the Way for Pan-European Fire Safety Efforts: Part I—Overview of Current Practices for Fire Statistics
The analysis of the current state of fire statistics and data collection in Europe and other countries is needed to increase awareness of how fire incidents affect buildings and to support pan-European fire pr...
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Open AccessSimilar risk of cardiovascular events in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy and rheumatoid arthritis in the first 5 years after diagnosis
To estimate the incidence of cardiovascular (CV) events in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) compared to patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and the general population. To explore the contribution of ...
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Using OSHA Investigation Summaries to Profile Fatal Work Injuries Involving Fire
Research into workplace injuries traditionally focuses upon discrete injury events, such as falls, violence, contact with machinery and other traumatic events. By comparison, research literature on work-relate...
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Posterior Instability/Posterior Labral Injury in an Overhead Athlete
Posterior shoulder instability is less common than anterior instability, comprising 2% to 12% of shoulder instability patients (Wolf and Eakin, Arthroscopy 14:153–163, 1998). While acute posterior dislocation ...
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That Anselm’s God Exists and Gaunilo’s Island Does Not
Scholars were greatly indebted to Max Charlesworth for publishing in 1965 the Latin text of Anselm’s Proslogion, together with his own translation and commentary. The intense discussion this argument has received...
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The long-term effect of erythropoiesis stimulating agents given to preterm infants: a proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy study on neurometabolites in early childhood
Erythropoiesis stimulating agents (ESAs) are neuroprotective in cell and animal models of preterm birth. Prematurity has been shown to alter neurometabolite levels in children in studies using proton magnetic ...
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U.S. Firefighter Injuries on the Fireground, 2010–2014
Firefighting is a hazardous occupation and the fireground is the location for many firefighter injuries, making information about firefighter injury events critical for injury prevention efforts. This study us...
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Open AccessFinding and engaging patients and the public to work collaboratively on an acute infection microbiology research public panel
In 2015 a microbiology team in Bristol joined a European research project that aims to develop new antibiotics to fight drug resistant infections. The microbiology team were convinced of the benefits of patien...
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Neuroimaging in former preterm children who received erythropoiesis stimulating agents
In premature children, erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) may improve developmental outcome. It is not clear which of the several potential mechanisms are responsible for this improvement. High-resolutio...
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Paper #12: Wound Complication Risk Stratification in VEPTR Surgery
Wound complication is a significant concern with VEPTR implantation. This study retrospectively analyzes wound complication risk parameters in the largest available single institution series of VEPTR complicat...
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Open AccessStudy design and protocol for moving forward: a weight loss intervention trial for African-American breast cancer survivors
Breast cancer survival rates are significantly lower among African-American women compared to white women. In addition, African-American women with breast cancer are more likely than white women to die from co...
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Processes and Entities
The prevailing cosmological theory today is that everything in the universe has emerged, in some sense, since the Big Bang, about 13.8 billion years ago. This theory is supported by the evidence that the unive...
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The Mental Activity of Human Beings
Physicalism is an attempt to explain how we are to understand ourselves and our place in the world. Its failure leaves that question still hanging. The way our metaphysical taxonomy treats the emergence and de...
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Conceptual Shifts in Physics
For one and a half millennia the metaphysics of Plato and Aristotle powerfully influenced the intellectual tradition of the West through being fused with the develo** Christian theology and injections of Isl...
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Identity Through Change
According metaphysical priority to the category of entity throws up a fundamental problem which still troubles that philosophical tradition. It has to do with their identity through change. The failure of cont...
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An Evolutionary Taxonomy of Types of Action and Life
One of the striking features of living creatures is that they perform actions. Even in the case of bacteria, we have to speak of what they are doing; they swim and tumble. More ‘advanced’ creatures perform many d...
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The World According to Physicalism
At various points in the preceding chapters I have touched on the metaphysical doctrine known as physicalism. Expressed simply, physicalism is the thesis that everything is physical, or as contemporary philoso...
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Further Reflections
The challenge to explain how stable and enduring entities emerge from basic processes, as self-organizing cohesive process systems, becomes explicable once we adopt a process-based metaphysics. That metaphysic...
