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Irrational use of medicine in Arab countries: findings from a systematic review of literature (2000–2019)
Ashraf Abdulrahim Mhadi and others
International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, Volume 31, Issue 2, April 2023, Pages 165–175, https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpp/riac082
Published: 03 January 2023
... and distributed under the terms of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights ) The irrational use of medicines can lead to detrimental health outcomes including an increase in adverse drug reactions,[ 6...
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Chemtrails in the skies of Indonesia: are they conspiracies to cause prolonged COVID-19?
Dominikus David Biondi Situmorang and others
Journal of Public Health, Volume 45, Issue 1, March 2023, Pages e144–e145, https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdac054
Published: 20 May 2022
... Tunggal Ika chemtrails conspiracies COVID-19 Indonesia irrational beliefs Through this article, we would like to provide a response to the last article which discusses coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is tailor-made for populist governments and actions to distribute counterfeit medical information...
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Testing for moderate explosiveness
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Gangzheng Guo and others
The Econometrics Journal, Volume 22, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 73–94, https://doi.org/10.1111/ectj.12120
Published: 22 December 2018
... indexes are only mildly explosive, or not
explosive at all. The pre-2008-financial-crisis bout of irrational rise did not seem so
serious as previously thought. This is consistent with the perception of Greenspan ( 2008 ) that the financial bubble was not so large. The rest of the paper...
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Mission-Critical Systems, Paradox of Hamming Code, Row Hammer Effect, ‘Trojan Horse’ of the Binary System and Numeral Systems with Irrational Bases
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Alexey Stakhov
The Computer Journal, Volume 61, Issue 7, July 2018, Pages 1038–1063, https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/bxx083
Published: 10 October 2017
... of the Hamming code, the ‘row hammer effect’, the ‘Trojan horse’ of the binary system. It is discussed the issue of the use of numeral systems with irrational bases (Bergman’s system, ternary mirror-symmetric arithmetic, Fibonacci p-codes and codes of the golden p-proportions) for the design...
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In Pursuit of Good Karma: When Charitable Appeals to Do Right Go Wrong
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Katina Kulow and Thomas Kramer
Journal of Consumer Research, Volume 43, Issue 2, August 2016, Pages 334–353, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcr/ucw018
Published: 10 May 2016
... karmic beliefs are driven by a shift from other-focused to self-focused attention following appeals that cue self-gains, as compared to appeals that do not. Results imply that marketers need to take into account consumers’ karmic beliefs when seeking to incentivize prosocial behavior. karma irrational...
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Fourier Invariant Partially Approximating Subalgebras of the Irrational Rotation C*-Algebra
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S. Walters
Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Volume 88, Issue 2, March 2004, Pages 505–525, https://doi.org/10.1112/S0024611503014503
Published: 01 March 2004
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SUBALGEBRAS OF THE IRRATIONAL ROTATION
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For each irrational number #18;, the irrational...
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Rationality in Medicine: An Explication
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Bernard Gert and K. Danner Clouser
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Volume 11, Issue 2, May 1986, Pages 185–205, https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/11.2.185
Published: 01 May 1986
... of rationality are
shown to be able to explain most uses of "rational": the "cool moment" account
and a more objective account. The former is examined and modified, but still
found inadequate. The objective account of rational is developed, taking
"irrational" as the basic concept. "Irrational" is given...
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Defining Irrational Action in Medical and Psychiatric Contexts
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Michael Martin
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine, Volume 11, Issue 2, May 1986, Pages 179–184, https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/11.2.179
Published: 01 May 1986
...Michael Martin MICHAEL MARTIN
DEFINING IRRATIONAL ACTION IN
MEDICAL AND PSYCHIATRIC CONTEXTS
ABSTRACT. In their book Culver and Gert define irrational action in the
context of medicine and psychiatry. This definition is used to define other key
concepts including Malady...
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Published: 21 April 2022
... an alternative and less distressing perspective. The primary purpose of cognitive techniques is to re-evaluate cognitive factors and not rid the individual of all irrational thoughts. There are different stages of re-evaluating thoughts, which begin with eliciting what the relevant thoughts are before choosing...
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Published: 20 April 2022
... a motivational approach to emotion kinds, which predicts and explains various familiar patterns of irrational behaviour better than rival theories. References Adolphs, Ralph. 2017 . How should neuroscience study emotions? By distinguishing emotion states, concepts, and experiences. Social ...
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Evolved to Be Irrational? Evolutionary and Cognitive Foundations of Pseudosciences
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Stefaan Blancke and Johan De Smedt
Published: 16 August 2013
...This chapter examines how an evolutionary and cognitive perspective might shed light on the pervasiveness and popularity of irrational beliefs that make up pseudosciences. It first sets up the general theoretical framework, explaining what an evolutionary and cognitive approach entails. Second...
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Hearing the Irrational
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Peter Pesic
Published: 03 July 2014
... +, –, and √. 5 Stifel begins by reviewing “the nature and species of abstract numbers [numerorum abstractorum ].” From the beginning, he embeds his novel term “irrational numbers” (numerici irrationales ) in an extensive discussion of music. 6 In Book 1...
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Imagination Incorporated
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Philip Gerrans
Published: 29 August 2014
..., and that the idea of action based on default thought explains not only delusion but many cases of behavior based on apparently irrational beliefs. The chapter considers the cognitive phenomenon of incorporation, the progression from imagination to belief as a natural way to reconstruct belief fixation...
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Behavioral Economics and the Credit-Crisis Novel
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Annie McClanahan
Published: 23 November 2016
... economics. Behavioral economists understand the financial crisis as a consequence of individual choices and cultural climates: from excessive optimism and irrational exuberance to greed and overweening self-interest. At once mirroring and refuting these explanations, the post-credit-crisis novel reveals...
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Conceptualizing the Collective: The Mob, the Crowd, the Mass, and the Audience
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P. David Marshall
Published: 15 August 2014
... in Western culture in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. This relationship between the crowd and democracy is critical for understanding the divisions in modern society between the rational and the irrational, because it is instrumental in the conceptualization of the twentieth-century mass...
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The Babylonians and the Rational: kullat ṭupšarrūti “Everything Pertaining to the Scribal Art”
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Francesca Rochberg
Published: 01 January 2017
... A Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man irrational Needham Rodney rationality Aristotle cuneiform world episteme Geller Markham myth mythopoeic Posterior Analytics Aristotle scientific imagination Sigerist Henry Betti Arianna de Jong Willem R Gellner Ernest magic models Morton Samuel George...
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Published: 01 February 2019
... of demands for recognition in general, and proceeds by applying this to the specific case of Mad identity. It explores three features of identities that can deflate a demand for recognition of its normative force: the identity for which recognition is demanded is trivial, morally objectionable, or irrational...
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Countercultrue
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Terry H Anderson
Published: 16 March 1995
... that made them “Sixties People,” different from the cold war generation. “Remember,” Tuli Kupferberg told the emerging new culture: “The first revolution (but not of course the last) is in yr own head. Dump out their irrational goals, desires, morality.” empowerment...
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The Equality of Mercy
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Ross Harrison
Published: 06 August 1992
...; that is, should be such that they can be supported by reason. States are different in this respect from individual people. Individuals are normally allowed some areas of absolute discretion, in which they are permitted to act in a completely arbitrary or irrational manner. But in states there should be nothing...
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Information and Self-Control
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Isabelle Brocas and Juan D Carrillo
Published: 13 February 2003
... hopeless or absurd. On the other hand, labeling as irrational any conduct for which the explanation is not immediate, seems also a quite unsatisfactory strategy. In this essay, we show that if we keep the traditional ingredients of economic analysis and enrich these models in a few (and fairly natural...
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