First consider pure science. Science is the body of knowledge about the world we live in which has been found by the activity we call research. Note that in considering the nature of science or research we are in no way concerned with the formalisms or techniques we have discussed. These are merely means to an end a set of man-made tools from which we each make our own selections when we do res...

This paper provides a sketch of a contractarian approach to punishment, according to a version of contractarianism one might call “rational contractarianism,” by contrast with the normative contractarianism of John Rawls. Rational contractarianism suggests a model according to which rational agents, with maximal, rather than minimal, knowledge of their life circumstances, would agree to the out...

OBJECTIVES The increasing prevalence of resistant bacteria such as fluoroquinolone-resistant or extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing strains in pathogens causing acute uncomplicated cystitis has been of concern in Japan. Faropenem sodium is a penem antimicrobial that demonstrates a wide antimicrobial spectrum against both aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. It is stable against a number of β-lac...

Radiative transfer is one of the most important physical processes in the atmosphere and must be treated accurately in numerical weather prediction (NWP) and climate models. In recent decades there have been many efforts aimed at improving the accuracy of radiation measurements and modelling (for example Murcray et al. 1996; Edwards and Slingo 1996; Mlawer et al. 1997; Sun and Rikus 1999; Li an...

Methods A questionnaire based on attitude-social norms-self efficacy model was administered to a convenience sample of critical care HCWs (n = 77 physicians, n = 100 nurses; response rate 81%). Eighty-eight nurses and fifty-six physicians completed a 51-item and 56-item questionnaire respectively, working in four ICUs located in two universities and one urban hospital in Greece. Data were colle...

Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 7.8 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 8.3 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 7.9 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 6.8 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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Rev. Bras. Farmacogn., v. 12, supl., p. 81-82, 2002. ISSN: 0102-695X Extração e isolamento: dos tubérculos da H. ampla foi obtido um extrato etanólico bruto (2,8 g), o qual foi fracionado em subextratos hexânico, cloroformico e acetoetílico. O Humirianthol (56 mg) e o Acrenol (98 mg) foram isolados do subextrato cloroformico ( 570 mg), após ter sido submetido a cromatografía de coluna usando co...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2015.02.028 0006-3207/ 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author at: Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, CH-8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland. Tel.: +41 62 213 81 56. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (E. Bader), [email protected] (K. Jung), [email protected] (R.A. Page), [email protected] (R. Rodriguez), thomas. sat...