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university of toronto press the problem of evil in early modern philosophy dec 2001
... dicusssion of the problem of evil to the problem of error, or a problem concerning the trustworthiness of clear and distinct ideas Of course, this restriction of the problem cannot hold, since error ... his theories of contingency and of individuation His genius is in bringing together in synthesis his own idiosyncratic metaphysical doctrines and the classical themes of Augustinan theodicy, including ... the traditional reading of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus through the lenses of the Ethics, and examines Spinoza's dicta in the Tractatus concerning the spirit of Christ, the essentials of...
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Chapter 064. The Practice of Genetics in Clinical Medicine (Part 1) pptx
... though they may be seeing other specialists The internist has an important role in educating patients about the indications, benefits, risks, and limitations of genetic testing in the management of ... also influence the severity of infirmity, effect of treatment, and progression of disease The primary care clinician is now faced with the role of recognizing and counseling patients ... in monozygotic twins ranges between 50 and 90% Diabetes or impaired glucose tolerance occurs in 40% of siblings and in 30% of the offspring of an affected individual Despite the fact that diabetes...
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Chapter 064. The Practice of Genetics in Clinical Medicine (Part 2) pptx
... the relative risk ranges from two- to fivefold, underscoring the importance of family history for these prevalent disorders Pending further advances in genetic testing, the key to assessing the ... individual will vary depending on the size of the pedigree, the number of unaffected relatives, and the types of diagnoses, as well as the ages of disease onset within the family For example, a ... disease-causing mutations are more prevalent in certain ethnic groups For instance, >2% of the Ashkenazi population carry one of three specific mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes The prevalence of the...
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Chapter 064. The Practice of Genetics in Clinical Medicine (Part 3) potx
... cancer, representing another confounding variable in the pedigree analysis Some of the aforementioned features of the family history are illustrated in Fig 64-1 In this example, the proband, a ... found, then it is possible to test for this particular alteration in the proband and other family members, if they so desire In the example shown, if the proband's father has the BRCA1 mutation, there ... whether based on family history, characteristic physical findings, or biochemical testing Careful clinical assessment can define the phenotype, thereby preventing unnecessary testing and directing...
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Chapter 064. The Practice of Genetics in Clinical Medicine (Part 4) potx
... analysis of the gene of interest In addition, PCR enables genetic testing on minimal amounts of DNA extracted from a wide range of tissue sources including leukocytes, fibroblasts, epithelial cells in ... established disease, genetic testing for susceptibility to chronic disease is being increasingly integrated into the practice of medicine In most cases, however, the discovery of disease-associated genes ... (Chap 63) Protein truncation tests (PTTs) are used to detect mutations that result in the premature termination of a polypeptide occurring during protein synthesis In this assay, the isolated complementary...
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Chapter 064. The Practice of Genetics in Clinical Medicine (Part 5) pptx
... of their personal likelihood of disease in preparing pretest educational strategies Often, patients harbor unwarranted fear or denial of their likelihood of genetic risk Genetic testing has the ... concern that testing during childhood violates a child's right to make an informed decision regarding testing upon reaching adulthood On the other hand, testing should be offered in childhood for disorders ... mechanics of testing Most molecular testing for hereditary disease involves DNA-based analysis of peripheral blood In the majority of circumstances, test results should be given only to the individual,...
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Chapter 064. The Practice of Genetics in Clinical Medicine (Part 6) pot
... issues; Assist in determining the role of genetic testing for the individual and family; Ensure that the patient is aware of the indications, process, risks, benefits, and limitations of the various ... prevention Finally, patients should understand the natural history of the disease as well as the potential options for intervention, including screening, prevention, and in certain circumstances— ... understanding of these genetic diseases and as more is learned about the functions of the gene products involved Individuals who test negative for a mutation in a disease-associated gene identified in...
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Chapter 064. The Practice of Genetics in Clinical Medicine (Part 7) pdf
... based testing for presymptomatic diagnosis of the disorder However, up to onethird of individuals who are homozygous for the HFE mutation not have evidence of iron overload Consequently, in the absence ... assessment of phenotypic expression awaits further studies In contrast to the issue of population screening, it is important to test and counsel other family members when the diagnosis of hemochromatosis ... in the absence of a positive family history, current recommendations include phenotypic screening for evidence of iron overload followed by genetic testing Whether genetic screening for hemochromatosis...
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Chapter 064. The Practice of Genetics in Clinical Medicine (Part 8) pot
... used in the clinical setting, predictive testing holds the promise of allowing earlier and more targeted interventions that can reduce morbidity and mortality We can expect the availability of ... intensive clinical screening, as it remains very challenging to predict disease penetrance, expression, or clinical course Although genetic diagnosis of these and other disorders is only beginning to ... distinct genetic abnormalities by the time they acquire invasive or metastatic potential (Chaps 79 and 80) Consequently, the major impact of genetic testing in these cases is to allow more intensive...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Ethics review: Dark angels – the problem of death in intensive care" potx
... 94:389-394 Guidelines for the determination of death Report of the medical consultants on the diagnosis of death to the President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical ... irrelevant to the diagnosis of life or death because it fails the test of integration The heart’s only purpose is to pump blood to the brain, generally considered the integrator of the rest of the body ... of the atoms that make up the brain are irrevocably destroyed If the atomic structure of the brain is disturbed but the structural integrity of the brain is maintained, there is no fundamental...
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Maneuvers in the oeuvre the problem of confession in the works of foucault, mishima and winterson
... one in which the painter is represented in the act of painting When we look at the painter in the painting, we are positioned similarly to the model of the represented painter We are, on the ... discovering and exposing it, the fascination of seeing it and telling it, of captivating and capturing others by it the specific pleasure of the true discourse on pleasure (71) The proliferation of ... function, according to Foucault, are the the idea of the work and the notion of writing (écriture)” (11) Without referring to the author, the idea of the work inevitably implies that it is created...
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The Problem of Identity in Writing by Paul Auster
... all? The difficulty of the quest for identity, notably of naming what you consist of inside, is contrasted with the easiness of naming objects in our surrounding at the very beginning of the novel ... essence of their own being Finally, the narrator undermines the importance of words and rather highlights the struggle: The story is not in the words; it‟s in the struggle” (294) Through gathering ... to their metaphysical questions through writing They are involved in the process of writing as the act of insight Additionally, all the works question the identity of the author and treat the...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " An exploratory investigation of the influence of publication on translational medicine research" pot
... phase clinical studies with the aim of establishing proof of concept in humans The efficacy category includes all research which aims to establish definitive proof of efficacy for an intervention ... reader and the author along the translational medicine pathway Even in this small sample of journals the positioning of the journal in the translational pathway is likely to affect the chance of an ... article falling within the first gap in translation being published in the journal of choice The general medical journals The Lancet and the NEJM publish a wide range of research that reflects the wide...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "HOW DO WE COUNT? THE PROBLEM OF TAGGING PHRASAL VERBS IN PARTS" docx
... narrow-down close-down The first step in testing this hypothesis was to evaluate the current performance of PARTS in handling the phrasal verb construction To this a set of 94 pairs of Verb+Particle/Preposition ... adjectives This confirms my hypothesis that PARTS will have a problem solving the N/V ambiguity in cases where the lexical probability of the word points to a noun These are the very cases that should ... second, and the results of assuming a verbal tag in the third (The "choice" colunm is explained below.) The average performance of PARTS for this task is 89%, which is lower than the general...
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the problem of evil the gifford lectures delivered in the university of st andrews in 2003 aug 2006
... non-contingent being is intelligible’ seems no more implausible than the thesis ‘If the concept of a thinking being is intelligible, the concept of a non-thinking being is intelligible’.) Of course, ... ‘‘sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof’’ That is to say, the meaning that ‘evil’ has in the phrase the problem of evil’ is one of its ordinary meanings ‘‘An evil’’ in this sense of the word is ... then, is the relationship of my discussion of the apologetic problem to the problem of evil in its other forms—to personal problems of evil, or pastoral problems of evil? The answer is that the...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " The prevalence of polypharmacy in elderly attenders to an emergency department - a problem with a need for an effective solution" doc
... close level of monitoring of therapeutic anticoagulation in dedicated anticoagulation clinics in the hospital, and of wider awareness of the potential for drug interactions with warfarin • Hospital ... Banerjee et al International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011, 4:22 http://www.intjem.com/content/4/1/22 Page of We extracted the following information, using a structured form, in patients aged ... as the use of five or more prescription medications, as this definition is used in the North Central London region hospitals as the working definition for identifying risk factors for falls clinic...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article On the Problem of Bandwidth Partitioning in FDD Block-Fading Single-User MISO/SIMO Systems" docx
... downlink, uplink, and feedback such that the overall system performance in terms of the sum of the throughputs of the downlink and the uplink is maximized In this way, we can also maintain a ... SNR in the downlink Since the obtainable beamforming gain depends on the quantization resolution, RDL is a function of the number b of feedback bits per antenna The original optimization problem ... signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) The index of the chosen vector is then fed back to the transmitter There are different ways of designing codebooks for vector quantization [4] By extending the work in [5], a design...
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Báo cáo y học: "Effectiveness of a Chinese herbal medicine preparation in the treatment of cough in uncomplicated upper respiratory tract infection: a randomised double-blinded placebo-control trial" docx
... associated with the utilization of traditional Chinese medicine in a small town in Hong Kong American Journal of Chinese Medicine 1997:367-373 Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China Pharmacopoeia ... those in the control group On the other hand, a recent study found the popular Echinacea to be ineffective in treating URTI in children age from to 11 years old in the USA [21] In all these studies, ... extract granules had been formulated into uniform tablets under the supervision of the Institute of Chinese Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong The dosage of study drug was tablets (500...
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In silico approaches in the study of traditional chinese herbal medicine
... elements) Another important doctrine in TCM is the Wu Xing Theory (the theory of five elements) According to Wu Xing theory every process in this world is cyclic and is maintained in a kinetic balance ... body and to guide the diagnosis and treatment 1.2.1 The Yin-Yang Theory One of the most influential doctrines is the establishment of the Yin-Yang theory that had helped in the use of herbal materials ... Brief Introduction of TCM Principles from Traditional Point of Views 1.2.1 The Yin-Yang theory 1.2.2 The Wu Xing theory (the theory of five elements) .7 1.2.3 The Zhang Fu theory...
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