This dissertation examines the views of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 1210) as advanced in his two major philosophical works, al-Mabāḥith al-Mashriqiyya and al-Mulakhkhaṣ fī al-Ḥikma. It argues that Rāzī seeks to develop a philosophical programme that provides an alternative to…

For most of the 20th century transportation planning goals were almost entirely mobility-based; transportation systems were primarily seen as a means to efficiently, safely, and quickly connect people and freight to desired destinations. However, as the century progressed, cultural, societal…

This dissertation presents a user-centred, interdisciplinary study on information use strategies. In complex learning contexts such as ill-structured-domains, there are three ways of using information. The first is to make sense of the information fragments to construct a cohesive whole.…

Inappropriate complementary feeding (CF) practices and inadequate nutrient intakes contribute to the high level of malnutrition among children 6-24 months of age in Ghana. In communities where the economy is agricultural-based, interventions aimed at addressing malnutrition among infants and young…

In late gestation, fetal endogenous glucocorticoids increase exponentially. This dramatic increase in glucocorticoids acts to mature several organ systems. As a result, synthetic glucocorticoids (sGCs) are administered to pregnant women at risk of delivering pre-term (>10% of all pregnancies). While…

Background: Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is recognized as an independent risk factor for squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) of the head and neck, and the presence of HPV DNA is associated with a better prognosis. Recent evidence indicates a broader role…

The question of rationality and modernity has played a key role in defining the West’sunderstanding of itself in relation to “the other.” Much of this self-defining was done in a waythat privileged a western model of rationality, which itself was…

This article explores commercial, academic, and national initiatives aimed at usingsequencing technologies to generate “actionable” genomic results that can beapplied to the clinical management of oncology patients. We argue that the term“actionable” is not merely a buzzword, but signals the…

Researchers and clinicians in the field of oncology have now entered the second decadeof targeted therapy, widely held to be a revolutionary new form of cancer therapyresearch. The present era is regarded as the end of brute empiricism: as laboratoryresearchers…

This article traces the history of research on resistance to drug therapy in oncology using scientometric techniques and qualitative analysis. Using co-citation analysis, we generate maps to visualize subdomains in resistance research in two time periods, 1975–1990 and 1995–2010. These…