Kinematics nomenclature for physiological accelerations with special reference to vestibular applications

Kinematics nomenclature for physiological accelerations and special reference to vestibular apparatu

Elicitation of horizontal nystagmus by periodic linear acceleration

Horizontal nystagmus elicitation in man by periodic linear acceleratio

Plutarque Éditions Traductions Paratextes

Le panorama humaniste se définit par la réception de l’héritage de l’Antiquité Classique, fondé sur la méthode philologique de la multiplex imitatio et de l’æmulatio avec les auteurs gréco-latins. Cette contaminatio gnoséologique construit un tout nouveau scénario dans la réalité de la genèse et de la création littéraires aux XVème et XVIème siècles, aboutissant à la production de nombre de Collectaneas, Florilegia, Adagia comme sources encyclopédiques des sententiae, exempla et apophthegmes, qui favorisent le dialogue entre les trois domaines du savoir que sont Philosophie, Morale et Rhétorique. Ces oeuvres, disposées par loci communes, ont une teneur didactique et c’est ainsi que la rhétorique s’allie à la pédagogie, à la philosophie et à la morale, pour l’éducation et la formation intégrale de l’ethos de; l’individu. André Rodrigues de Évora - Andreas Eborensis - a été divulgateur de Plutarque. Dans les Loci communes sententiarum et exemplorum (1569), qu’il a rassemblés à partir des Moralia, on examinera trois questions : 1) Quels sont les traités moraux qu’il retient ? 2) Quel type de sentences trouve-t-on et quel type d’organisation a-t-il choisi ? 3) Quelles sont les (possibles) éditions de Plutarque qu’il a utilisées

Kounis Syndrome Associated With Selective Anaphylaxis to Cefazolin.

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Perceptions of the self and most people’s reactions towards innocent and noninnocent victims

Research has shown that: individuals positively distinguish themselves from most other people; being consistent is positively valued; injunctive and descriptive norms are perceived to protect victims. Joining these findings, we argue that individuals present themselves as following injunctive and descriptive norms towards victims to a higher extent and more consistently than most people. In an experimental study 273 university students of both sexes indicated what they and most other people would approve of (injunctive norm) or typically do (descriptive norm) regarding various reactions towards either an innocent or a noninnocent victim. The reactions involved secondary victimization (devaluation/derogation, avoidance, suffering minimization, blaming the victim) and non secondary victimization (valuation, contact, suffering acknowledgment, not blaming the victim). Participants perceived themselves and most people as approving of more non secondary than secondary victimization reactions, except for blaming the noninnocent victim. Participants indicated they approved of most of the normative reactions to a higher extent than most people, which is interpreted as a new instance of the Primus Inter Pares effect. Participants also indicated they would show more consistency between their injunctive and descriptive norms, especially towards the innocent victim. Results suggest that individuals perceive themselves as more immune to perverse norms than most people.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

The buffering-boosting hypothesis of the expression of general and personal belief in a just world

WOS:000327736700004Although past research on the expression of belief in a just world (BJW) identified such statements as judgment norms, it has not ascertained whether their social value holds when individuals refer to good and bad outcomes. We investigated whether this is the case - a more stringent test of the "BJW as judgment norms" view. Participants judged the targets on two dimensions of social value: social desirability and social utility. We hypothesized, and found, that high versus low BJW buffered the negativity of the associated negative dimension(s) of discourses and boosted the positivity of the associated positive dimension(s) of discourses. This buffering-boosting pattern is discussed as revealing the system justification functions of the expression of BJW.info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersio

Transitions of care management in CKD: critical thinking and improving strategies

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) has a high clinical and socioeconomic impact and is often associated with multimorbidity. Improved treatment has allowed an increase in patient survival, but patient life expectancy remains limited. The disease course has a continuum of lesion, stage and treatment transitions. The focus is often placed on treatment modality, disregarding the course of a CKD patient’s disease. In addition, patient management in transitions of modalities of renal replacement therapy (RRT) can also be a vector for improving clinical outcomes. The transition between different types of CKD treatment and the transition of care from paediatric to adult team are critical processes throughout the life of a CKD patient. In the therapeutic transition, there is the need to identify better predictors of success in allocating patients with stage 5 CKD to their first dialytic modality in. There is a risk of early mortality in the induction period of dialysis, particularly of the elderly in extracorporeal dialysis regimens. Doubt remains in decision making about the ideal timing to establish the transition to renal replacement therapy and its most appropriate type. Transfer between dialytic modalities also calls for opportune and integrated policies protecting vascular resources. Renal transplantation is considered the optimal renal replacement therapy; however, transplant failure or the side effects of immunosuppression are threats to consider, which may redirect these patients back to dialysis and involves a re‑evaluation of the patient’s status. Also, end‑of‑life care and decision making between initiating renal replacement therapy or maintaining conservative management are a challenge in the elderly. This review identifies the main challenges in these transitional processes, raising awareness of areas in need of improvement in patient care. The aim should be to achieve a more comprehensive and appropriate health management than a limited focus on CKD modality treatment.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Effective Actions for Heterotic M-Theory

We discuss the moduli space approximation for heterotic M-theory, both for the minimal case of two boundary branes only, and when a bulk brane is included. The resulting effective actions may be used to describe the cosmological dynamics in the regime where the branes are moving slowly, away from singularities. We make use of the recently derived colliding branes solution to determine the global structure of moduli space, finding a boundary at which the trajectories undergo a hard wall reflection. This has important consequences for the allowed moduli space trajectories, and for the behaviour of cosmological perturbations in the model.Comment: 21 pages, 4 figures. References added and some discussions clarifie

Organizational justice, professional identification, empathy, and meaningful work during COVID-19 pandemic: are they burnout protectors in physicians and nurses?

Burnout has been recognized as a serious health problem. In Portugal, before COVID-19 Pandemic, there were strong indicators of high prevalence of burnout in physicians and nurses. However, the Portuguese Health Care Service was able to efficiently respond to the increased demands. This study intends to understand how psychosocial variables might have been protective factors for burnout in physicians and nurses in Portugal. Specifically, we considered several psychosocial variables that have been found to be protective factors for burnout in previous research and we compared their predictive and unique impact in the prediction of burnout. These variables are perceptions of justice (distributive, procedural, justice from colleagues, justice from patients, and their families), professional identification, meaningful work and empathy. We also included workload, as a risk factor, and controlled other variables that can be confounds for burnout, such as socio-demographic variables, ideological variables (religiosity, political orientation), and specific variables related with COVID-19 pandemic. The sample of the present study is composed by 229 physicians (aged between 23 and 70 years old, M = 36.54; SD = 10.72; 48% male and 52% female) and 268 nurses (aged between 22 and 69 years old, M = 34.96; SD = 9.52; 27% male and 73% female). An online survey was created using Qualtrics and participants were recruited via Facebook and LinkedIn. The data were collected during 29 days (between the 45th and the 74th days after the first diagnosed case of COVID-19 in Portugal). The results showed that workload was a significant risk factor, except for disengagement in physicians. The most consistent protectors across samples were procedural justice (for both dimensions of burnout, both in physicians and nurses) and professional identification (for disengagement, both in physicians and nurses; for exhaustion only in physicians). This study suggests that decreasing workload and promoting procedural justice and professional identification are key factors that might be simultaneously and independently addressed in interventions for reducing the risk of burnout or preventing it from occurring in the first place.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio