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 | Adler, Frederick R.; Jackson, Brian Richard; Carroll, Karen C.; Samore, Matthew H. | Use of strain typing data to estimate bacterial transmission rates in healthcare settings | OBJECTIVE: To create an affordable and accurate method for continuously monitoring bacterial transmission rates in healthcare settings. DESIGN: We present a discrete simulation model that relies on the relationship between in-hospital transmission rates and strain diversity. We also present a proof... | Strain typing; Infection control; Transmission model | 2005 |
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 | Haber, Matthew | Coherence, consistency, and cohesion: Clade selection in Okasha and beyond | Samir Okasha argues that clade selection is an incoherent concept, because the relation that constitutes clades is such that it renders parent-offspring (reproduction) relations between clades impossible. He reasons that since clades cannot reproduce, it is not coherent to speak of natural selection... | Biological classification; Cladistics; Taxonomy | 2005-12 |
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 | Plutynski, Anya | Explanation in classical population genetics | The recent literature in Philosophy; of biology has drawn attention to the different sorts of explanations proffered in the biological sciences--we have molecular, biomedical, and evolutionary explanations. Do these explanations all have a common structure or relation that they seek to capture? This... | Biology, Philosophy;; Explanation; Genetics; Life sciences; Population genetics; Science | 2005-12 |
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 | Francis, Leslie | Justice through trust: disability and the Outlier problem in Social Contract Theory | The article focuses on the flaws of the social contract theory. It explores how hostile the social contract as a bargaining process has been thought to distance disabled people from contract-based justice. It analyzes the argument that the history of social contract theory exclude the people with di... | Consensus, social sciences; Discrimination; Social contract; Social ethics; Sociology of disability | 2005-10 |
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 | Haber, Matthew | Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: a philosophical study of biological taxonomy (book review) | The article reviews the book "The Poverty of the Linnaean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological Taxonomy," by Marc Ereshefsky. | Biology, classification; Books, reviews; Nonficiton | 2005-12-15 |
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