How to Move Beyond Rorty?

CKD classification: time to move beyond KDOQI.

The number of patients with ESRD is increasing worldwide. Despite recent advances in our understanding of the uremic state and improvements in the science and technology of renal replacement therapy, the morbidity and mortality of these patients is unacceptably high: More than 20% per year. Moreover, the health care cost of treating ESRD exceeds $17 billion annually in the United States alone.1...

Where the Linked Dependence Assumption Fails and How to Move Beyond It

The linked dependence assumption, a widely used simpli cation in probabilistic retrieval, is brie y reviewed and its validity is investigated. We show that the linked dependence assumption is violated particularly if the query features are good discriminators between relevant and non-relevant documents. We then propose the manual concept generation method, which takes into account the dependenc...

Foucault's Move beyond the Theoretical

How to move an electromagnetic field?

As a first principle, it is the basic assumption of the standard relativistic formulation of classical electrodynamics (ED) that the physical laws describing the electromagnetic phenomena satisfy the relativity principle (RP). According to the standard view, this assumption is absolutely unproblematic, and its correctness is well confirmed, at least in a hypotheticodeductive sense, by means of ...

Reproductive rights: how to move forward?

One way of addressing ethical issues in reproductive health is to look at the consequences of current laws, policies and practices and see whether the existing situation gives rise to a preponderance of good or bad consequences. If the bad consequences outweigh the good ones, there is an ethical obligation to seek to change the laws, policies or practices. The data on maternal mortality and mor...