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Pandemic influenza control in Europe and the constraints resulting from incoherent public health laws
(2010)Background: With the emergence of influenza H1N1v the world is facing its first 21st century global pandemic. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and avian influenza H5N1 prompted development of pandemic preparedness ... -
Panel Discussion: Star Formation in Early-Type Galaxies
(Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 1999)A panel discussion on past and current star formation in early-type galaxies was held on the second day of the conference. The panelists were Luc Binette, Elias Brinks, Paul Goudfrooij, Lisa Young, George Hau, Rick Pogge ... -
Panpsychism and Neutral Monism: How to Make Up One's Mind
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016-11-03)With reference to Chalmers's taxonomy of combination problems, I argue that while the subject combination problem reveals panpsychism as ultimately theoretically unmotivated, a rival neutral monist/panprotopsychist theory ... -
Panpsychism and Russellian Monism
(Routledge, 2019-12-16)Russellian monist positions such as panpsychism are widely believed to have crucial advantages over mainstream physicalist and dualist positions. Physicalism disregards or distorts the distinctive features of consciousness, ... -
Paper and electronic versions of HM-PRO, a novel patient-reported outcome measure for hematology: an equivalence study.
(2019-04-30)Aim:To determine measurement equivalence of paper and electronic application of the hematologi-cal malignancy-patient-reported outcome (HM-PRO), a specific measure for the evaluation of patient-reported outcomes in ... -
Paper imbibition for timing of multi-step liquid handling protocols on event-triggered centrifugal microfluidic lab-on-a-disc platforms
(2015)Rotational microfluidic platforms have attracted swiftly growing interest over the last decade due to their suitability for integration and automation of sample preparation and detection. Valving is of pivotal importance ... -
PAR-1 antagonist vorapaxar favorably improves global thrombotic status in patients with coronary disease
(2014-11)To assess the effect of vorapaxar on global thrombotic and thrombolytic status. The propensity for thrombus formation is determined by the balance between prothrombotic factors and endogenous thrombolysis. Impaired ... -
Para-cresol production by Clostridium difficile affects microbial diversity and membrane integrity of Gram-negative bacteria
(2018-09-12)Clostridium difficile is a Gram-positive spore-forming anaerobe and a major cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea. Disruption of the commensal microbiota, such as through treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics, is a ... -
A paradigm shift in enteric coating : achieving rapid release in the proximal small intestine of man
(2010)The in vivo performance of a novel enteric double-coating technology designed to accelerate release in the proximal small intestine of humans was investigated. Tablet cores were coated with a double layer formulation ... -
The Paradox of freedom in Everyday Leadership Practice - an Inquiry into the Identity Work of Developing Leadership in the Public Sector in Denmark
(2022-03-03)This thesis is an autoethnographic inquiry into the identity work of leaders working in the public sector in Denmark. The research is about how degrees of freedom can be experienced when it is acknowledged that leaders are ... -
The Paradox of Stability and Change : Elias’ Processual Sociology
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2015-03)The chapter explores the contribution of the process sociologist Norbert Elias to processual organisational scholarship -
Le Paradoxe de l’incertitiude : Quand moins signife plus
(2009-12)Le récent écroulement de Wall Street et d’autres places financières illustre le revers de la médaille des opportunités et des potentialités. Le 29 septembre 2008, à la suite de quelques liquidations mineures dans les bourses ... -
The Paradoxes of Project Management: a Project Management Consultant’s Inquiry into the Social Reality of Technology-Driven Change Projects
(2018-08-22)This thesis is a practice-based inquiry into project management. It adds to the critique of more traditional discourse in project management literature (PMI 20013, IPMA 2010, Prince2 2009, Agile Alliance Organisation 2001) ... -
The paradoxes of the ‘everyday’: scrutinising the local turn in peace building
(2016-08-02)With the advent of the local turn in the mid-2000s, critical approaches have attempted to rethink peace building from the bottom up, placing local agents at the centre of the debate, declaring the end of top-down governance ... -
The Paradoxical Position of Self-reflection in Teaching and Assessment in Higher Education : How the application of blogging challenges learning habits
(2008-03-26)The main aim of the paper is to observe how blogging affects self-reflection. The application of blogs is discussed, based on the case study from a Year One module. A process of implementing and delivering this method ...