Evidence-based medicine has been defined as the conscientious and judicious use of current best evidence in making clinical decisions. This paper will attempt to explicate the terms “conscientious” and “judicious” within the evidence-based medicine definition. It will be argued that “conscientious” and “judicious” represent virtue terms derived from virtue ethics and virtue epistemology. The id...

...............................................................................................................v 1 The Problem of Understanding Program Behavior....................................1 2 Background: Function-Theoretic Foundations of FSQ Flow Structures..3 3 Function-Theoretic Calculation of Program Behavior ...............................6 4 The Architecture of an Abstraction Engin...

statement of problem: condylar hyperplasia of the mandible is a self limiting abnormality which can cause facial asymmetry, temporomandibular joint (tmj) dysfunction and esthetic problems. treatment planning is based on the results of isotope scanning, clinical findings and patient age. single photon emission tomography (spect) is considered to be a sensitive method in the calculation of condyl...

during 2009-10, real time rt-pcr and conventional rt-pcr techniques used for detecting btvs rna in 310 blood samples. for real time and gel based rt-pcr segment-1 and segment-10 selected as conserve genes to search any btv strains. using these methods, 58 (%18.7) and 14 (%4.5) positive samples were detected among the clinically suspected sheep. sensitivity of both molecular techniques evalua...

Seeds of the castor bean plant Ricinuscommunis L (CB) contain ricin toxin (RT), one of the most poisonous naturally-occurring substances known. Ricin toxin, a water-soluble glycoprotein that does not partition into the oil extract, is a ribosome-inactivating toxin composed of two chains, labeled A and B. Severity of the toxicity varies depending on the route of exposure to the toxin. Inhalation...