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Objective. The disadvantages of retrograde intramedullary nailing are the necessity of explanting the nail through the knee and the occasional difficulties with proximal interlocking. The new retrograde intramedullary nail includes the following innovatio

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Why, despite his enormous influence in the latter part of the twentieth century, has Kuhn left no distinctively Kuhnian legacy? I argue that this is because the development of Kuhn's own thought was in a direction opposite to that of the mainstream of th

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The Ancient Egyptian has an important role in developing the use of the underground especially in the construction of. tombs, warehouses, water passages, and tunnels which were used as accesses to tombs, worshipping rooms and the warehouses. These tunnels

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A summary of the influence of positivistic philosophy and empiricism on the field of psychology is followed by a critique of the empirical method. The dialectic process is advocated as an alternative method of inquiry. The main advantage of the dialectic

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In this paper the main features of the OMITRON and MODEL OMITRON proposed high field tokamak experiments are illustrated. Of the two, OMITRON is an ambitious device aimed at D-T ignition and beyond that at gathering some first experimental information of

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This paper discusses the rationale for the development of tissue engineering and associated therapies and provides observations on the emerging developments in these areas.

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Since humans began fishing (at least 90 000 years ago), fishing technology has developed with the objective of trying to catch the greatest quantities of fish possible, of an ever-increasing variety. Fishing technology has evolved from simple harpoons and

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This article argues for two theses. The first is that many of the sociological factors endemic in the philosophical community function as barriers to the recruitment of members of minority groups in the profession and to their functioning as public intell

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The problem of 'seemingly impeccable trials' that produce unbelievable results is approached from basic notions of the philosophy of science: facts and theory are interdependent, and 'crucial experiments' do not exist. This does not lead to an 'anyth

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Aim. This paper presents our journey through a contemplation of the philosophical origins of constructivism to consider its role as an active methodology in qualitative research. Method. The first part of the paper summarizes the philosophical background

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Purpose: To examine the current debate over the right to die specific to the rational suicide of terminally ill patients. Methods: Literature was reviewed for information concerning historical end-of-life practices and the past acceptance of suicide. Anot

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This contribution gives an overview of current research in applying object oriented programming to scientific computing at the computational mechanics laboratory (LABMEC) at the school of civil engineering - UNICAMP. The main goal of applying object orien

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The peculiarities characterising the traditional approach used in calculational vibrational spectroscopy and the approach based on using scaled quantum mechanical force fields are considered. Some results on the determination of the equilibrium geometry o

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Science historian Ronald Numbers once remarked that the two most influential historians of science of the 20th century were Thomas Kuhn and Stephen Jay Gould. All historians are deeply familiar with Kuhn's work and influence, and most know of the remarka

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While the recent publication of the Hannah Arendt-Martin Heidegger correspondence confirms that there existed a close personal tie between these two thinkers, the relation between their philosophies is far more problematic. This article argues that Arendt