... limitations of both medical statistics and clinical practice.93Chapter 11: Aphilosophyof statistics of “material implication.” Russell argued that if A causes B, we are saying that A “materiallyimplies” ... sug-gests a way of thinking about causation that entails that the idea is not a matter of purelysymbolic logic, but perhaps an empirical matter. A nal way of thinking about causation – besides ... EBM. at is the core of EBM, and the rationale for the levels of evidence whererandomized data are more valid than observational data (Soldani et al., 2005). ese are newmethods and major advances...
... reconciliation is, for Sami, a source of transformation and healing. Sami Awad has dedicated his life to pursuing nonviolence as a means of exposing the occupation, human rights violations and injustices ... the bread.” And she said, “I’m afraid that when the bread is finished, I will be hungry again.” So small, she was afraid of being hungry again. She has already experienced the pain of hunger. ... Missionaries of Charity Sisters in Calcutta, India.4 When asked about her personal history, Mother Teresa said: “By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic...
... called the encouragement of seamanship an act of worship[13] but was not able to make India, a maritime power. Akbar had an especial interest in artillery, and with it a particular gift for the ... 572. was a passionate and violent man, as ambitious and avaricious as his mother, and behaved himself in Mâlwâ as if he were an independent prince. As soon as Akbar learned this he advanced ... parents LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Akbar Directing the Tying-up ofa Wild Elephant (Frontispiece) Akbar, Emperor of India Mausoleum of Akbar's Father, Humâyun View of Fathpur Akbar's...
... moleculee is a typical example ofa head-and-tail phage (see Figure 2. 5a) . The DNA is containedin the polyhedral head structure and the tail serves to attach the phage to the bacterialsurface and to ... double-strandedreplicative form of M13, which is prepared from E. coli cells in the same way as a bacterial plasmid.3.1 Preparation of total cell DNAThe fundamentals of DNA preparation are most easily understood ... required as a source of material from whichto obtain genes to be cloned. Total cell DNA may be DNA from a culture of bacteria,from a plant, from animal cells, or from any other type of organism that...
... the values of human sharing and solidarity. The political realm was more a question of management and manipulation than of the communal shaping ofa common life. Reason itself had been debased ... the more eagerly as the public domain itself became increasingly drained of meaning. Fact and value seemed to have split apart, leaving the former a public affair and the latter a private one.2The ... between real questions and phoney ones. A piece of language can have the grammatical form ofa question but not actually be one. Or our grammar can mislead 2 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus...
... disorder: a randomized, placebo-controlled,dose-response study. Pediatrics 108:e83–e91Montoya A, Hervas A, Cardo E, Artigas J, Mardomingo MJ, Alda JA,Gastaminza X, Garcı´ a- Polavieja MJ, Gilaberte ... that affects between 3 and 7% of school-ageTrial registration: This is a combined analysis of five alreadypublished clinical trials.Preliminary results of this analysis have been presented at ... based on a psychiatric andnot a physical condition. A similar profile of floor andceiling effects was seen in an observational study inADHD patients (Riley et al. 2006b). The RA domain hadalso...
... she is aware of being of[ 81] the magnificent German people, and shares a part of the national ambition to excel. It's this that we haven't got in America and can't well have under ... inclinations that quite naturally haunted him after a wearying day of travel and as nightfall drew down about his loneliness. He was bound for the home ofa strange family, speaking a tongue ... fishing. Playtime was spent in martial exercise, in evenings at the opera or seeing the classical dramas of all races and epochs on the stage. Gard became aware that the Bucher children had carried...
... the accumulation andproliferation of cultural capital is more becoming a matter of practice: eating at particular restaurants,staying at particular hotels or choosing particular means of transportation. ... tourists and organizations. In the words of Barbara Czarniawska, today’s organizations are facedwith thefrantic production of images which are circulated; a frantic translation of incoming images ... col-lages of ‘ideal companies’; less frantic but steady attempts to translate those images into the localpractices and vice-versa; and once again a production of self-images to be sent around...
... state of São Paulo,Brazil: a population-based studyMargareth Guimarães Lima,1Marilisa Berti de Azevedo Barros,1Chester Luiz Galvão César,2Moisés Goldbaum,3Luana Carandina,4and Rozana ... J Public HealthMed 2001;233(3):179–86.39. Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde. En-velhecimento ativo: uma política de saúde.Brasília: Organização Pan-Americana daSaúde; 2005.Manuscript received ... diversos aspectos de la calidad de vida relacionada con la salud(HRQOL) en adultos mayores de São Paulo, Brasil.Métodos. Se empleó la encuesta de salud SF-36®para evaluar el impacto de las en-fermedades...
... lite-rature review, data analysis and drafting of the manus-cript. M. B. A. Barros acted as adviser for the article pro-posal, data analysis and drafting the manuscript. M. B. A. Barros, ... Sugahara S. Comparação de infor-mações sobre saúde das populações brasileira e norte-americana baseada em dados da PNAD/98 e USA NHIS/96. Ciênc Saúde Coletiva 2002; 7:841-67.23. Barros MBA. ... relacionada à saúde em idosos, avaliada com o uso do SF-36 em estudo de base populacional1 Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Brasil.2 Faculdade de Saúde...
... DOI:10.1046/j.1360-0443.2000.9512183312.x20. Saito I, Okamura T, Fukuhara S, Tanaka T, Suzukamo Y, Okayama A, et al. A cross-sectional study of alcohol drinking and health-related quality oflife among male workers in Japan. J Occup ... Lima MG, Barros MBA, César CLG, Carandina L, Goldbaum M. Impact of chronic disease on quality of life among the elderly in the state of São Paulo, Brazil: a population-based study. Rev Panam ... 2011;45(3):485-93Margareth Guimarães LimaIMarilisa Berti de Azevedo BarrosIIChester Luiz Galvão CésarIIIMoisés GoldbaumIVLuana CarandinaVMaria Cecília Goi Porto AlvesVII Programa de Pós-Graduação...