Two studies published in the early 80s, namely the Nocturnal Oxygen Therapy Trial (NOTT) and the Medical Research Council Trial (MRC), laid the foundations for modern home oxygen therapy. Since then, little progress has been made in terms of therapeutic indications, and several prescription-associated problems have come to light. Advances in technology have gone hand in hand with growing disreg...

In this essay, Heidegger's theses on art, as he develops them in the text "On Origin of Work Art," are reconstructed, interpreted, and critically evalua- ted. doing so, we pursue a threefold goal. First, his art put relation to main theme philosophy: question being. Second, different ways which Heidegger takes be epistemically valuable dif- ferentiated reconstructed detail. Third, related conte...

The goal of this paper is methodological. It offers a comprehensive mapping of the theoretical positions on the ethical criticism of art, correcting omissions and inadequacies in the conceptual framework adopted in the current debate. Three principles are recommended as general guidelines: ethical amenability, basic value pluralism, and relativity to ethical dimension. Hence a taxonomy distingu...

Because the art of communication is central to the art of democracy, it is fundamental to economic development. Specifically, freedom and the ability to participate fully in economic governance, and in the corresponding democratic knowledge and learning processes, would reflect and be reflected by a parallel freedom and ability in communication. The issues are explored by comments on art, and o...

This paper is focused on one of the key questions constituting medieval debate about ontological status artefacts, which has to do with productivity art. We ordinarily speak such as statues or chairs, produced by their artificers, and Aristotle describes art in general a productive habit. In first part paper, I look at how proponents realist view artefacts argue that can only be explained if we...

Although in Italy any School of Medicine is prompted to introduce students into the highly structured system of scheduled courses and train-ings with equipped tutorials (1), undergraduate medical students are quite never introduced into the scientific debate of the expert community, i.e. how to read and write a scientific paper (2), and therefore they are poorly educated to use the scientific l...

Over the last years, digital preservation has become a particularly active research area. While several initiatives are dealing with the preservation of standard document formats, the challenges of preserving multimedia objects and pieces of electronic art are still to be tackled. This paper presents the findings of a pilot project for preserving born-digital interactive multimedia art. We desc...

Purpose: This paper evaluates the connections between art and marketing in order to develop enhanced insight into how art and the art world can inform marketing theory and practice. Design/Methodology/Approach: An in-depth analysis of a wide range of relevant literatures is carried out in order to heighten our understanding of art as a way of knowing within the marketing discipline. A range of ...

BACKGROUND There is debate over using tenofovir or zidovudine alongside lamivudine in second-line antiretroviral therapy (ART) following stavudine failure. We analysed outcomes in cohorts from South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe METHODS Patients aged ≥16 years who switched from a first-line regimen including stavudine to a ritonavir-boosted lopinavir-based second-line regimen with lamivudine or...