Luis G. Melo, Alok S. Pachori, Deling Kong, Massimiliano Gnecchi, Kai Wang, Richard E. Myocardium : Reasons for Cautious Optimism Molecular and Cell-Based Therapies for Protection, Rescue, and Repair of Ischemic Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online ISSN: 1524-4539 Copyright © 2004 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Aven...

Objective: The present study examines the relationships among reasons for drinking, alcohol consumption, and alcohol-related consequences in two college-aged samples. Personal motivators such as mood enhancement and coping (tension reduction) have consistently been shown to predict problematic alcohol use, but because of the salient nature of social drinking in college, we hypothesized that soc...

Practical reasons play a central role in our everyday discourse about action and there is no major ethical theory into which the concept of reasons for action does not play a crucial role. However, the nature of reasons for acting is not well understood. Th e aim of the present essay is therefore to clarify the notion of justifi catory reasons for action. To accomplish this, I start, after some...

What is it to be inclined or disposed to do something? What is it to incline, dispose, or incite the will? Do things that incline or incite the will do so by providing reasons for acting? Do they influence the will by serving as efficient causes of acts of will? Both? Neither? In this essay I will conduct a preliminary exploration into various medieval and early modern accounts of being incline...

Bone Joint J 2013;95-B, Supple:148–52. Received 7 September 2013; Accepted after revision 8 September 2013 Satisfaction is increasingly employed as an outcome measure for a successful total knee replacement (TKR). Satisfaction as an outcome measure encompasses many different intrinsic and extrinsic factors related to a person’s experience before and after TKR. The Swedish Knee Arthroplasty Regi...