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Knowing With
(2022-03-31)This dissertation comprises four chapters. Its goal is to defend a thoroughly social epistemic framework and to explore some important normative implications of it. In Chapter 1, entitled “Epistemic Communities and Epistemic ... -
Knowledge about Tuberculosis and Infection Prevention Behavior: A Nine City Longitudinal Study from India
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018-10-30)Background Improving patients’ tuberculosis (TB) knowledge is a salient component of TB control strategies. Patient knowledge of TB may encourage infection prevention behaviors and improve treatment adherence. The purpose ... -
Knowledge and Awareness of HPV Vaccine and Acceptability to Vaccinate in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review
(Public Library of Science, 2014)Objectives: We assessed the knowledge and awareness of cervical cancer, HPV and HPV vaccine, and willingness and acceptability to vaccinate in sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. We further identified countries that fulfill ... -
Knowledge and perceptions of risk for cardiovascular disease: Findings of a qualitative investigation from a low-income peri-urban community in the Western Cape, South Africa
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015)Background: South Africa currently faces an increasing burden of cardiovascular disease. Although referred to clinics after community screening initiatives, few individuals who are identified to be at high risk for developing ... -
Knowledge and Representation through Baroque Eyes: Literature and Optics in France and Italy ca. 1600-1640
(2016-05-16)The scientific discoveries and inventions of the early seventeenth century, which include Johannes Kepler’s inverted retinal image, the refinement of lenses, and the invention of the telescope, transformed the status of ... -
Knowledge as a public good
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Knowledge Diffusion in the Network of International Business Travel
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-08-10)We use aggregated and anonymized information based on international expenditures through corporate payment cards to map the network of global business travel. We combine this network with information on the industrial ... -
Knowledge in Action
(2013-08-12)It is widely acknowledged that an agent is doing A intentionally only if she knows she is doing A. It has proved difficult, however, to reconcile two natural thoughts about this knowledge. On the one hand, the agent seems ... -
Knowledge Matters: Policy Cross-Pressures and Black Partisanship
(Springer Verlag, 2014)Black Americans are a core Democratic constituency, despite holding views on social issues that put them in conflict with the party. Conventional wisdom attributes this partisan commitment to the salience of race and ... -
Knowledge of blood loss at delivery among postpartum patients
(PeerJ, 2016)Background: Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is a leading cause of obstetric morbidity. There is limited understanding of patients’ knowledge about blood loss at delivery, PPH, and PPH-related morbidities, including transfusion ... -
Knowledge systems for sustainable development
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2003)The challenge of meeting human development needs while protecting the earth's life support systems confronts scientists, technologists, policy makers, and communities from local to global levels. Many believe that science ... -
Knowledge Unbound: Selected Writings on Open Access, 2002–2011
(MIT Press, 2016)Peter Suber has been a leading advocate for open access since 2001 and has worked full time on issues of open access since 2003. As a professor of philosophy during the early days of the internet, he realized its power and ... -
Knowledge, Action, and the Ultimate Goal of Human Life: A Hindu-Muslim Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion in the Early Modern Era: Gadādhara (d.1660) and Mullā Ṣadrā (d.1635)
(2023-05-16)This dissertation focuses on a specific inquiry within the writings of two 17th-century philosophers: Gadādhara (d. 1660) and Mullā Ṣadrā (d. 1635). The question under investigation is the roles that knowledge and action ... -
Knowledge, Beliefs and Practices Regarding Antiretroviral Medications for HIV Prevention: Results from a Survey of Healthcare Providers in New England
(Public Library of Science, 2015)Background: Antiretroviral treatment for HIV-infection before immunologic decline (early ART) and pre-exposure chemoprophylaxis (PrEP) can prevent HIV transmission, but routine adoption of these practices by clinicians has ... -
Knowledge, Knowledge … Knowledge for My Economy
(KDI Journal of Economic Policy, 2015)The creation of S&T knowledge and development of S&T- based innovation has spread worldwide from traditionally advanced countries to traditionally developing countries, often under the direction of governments. Korea is ... -
Knowledge-Based Reconstruction of mRNA Transcripts with Short Sequencing Reads for Transcriptome Research
(Public Library of Science, 2012)While most transcriptome analyses in high-throughput clinical studies focus on gene level expression, the existence of alternative isoforms of gene transcripts is a major source of the diversity in the biological functionalities ... -
The Known and the Lived. Studies in Techno-Scientific 'Experience'
(2013-02-19)There are few doubts about the significance of science and technology for modern human culture and society. But as historians, we are still struggling to find appropriate descriptive terms to capture the broad processes ... -
Kondo Screening Cloud and the Charge Staircase in One-Dimensional Mesoscopic Devices
(American Physical Society, 2008)We propose that the finite size of the Kondo screening cloud, ξK , can be probed by measuring the charge quantization in a one-dimensional system coupled to a small quantum dot. When the chemical potential μ in the system ...