Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of gastroesophageal reflux disease: an evidence-based consensus Diretrizes para o diagnóstico e tratamento da doença do refluxo gastroes... by Joaquim Prado P. Moraes-Filho, Tomas Navarro-Rodriguez, Ricardo Barbuti, Jaime Eisig, Decio Chinzon, Wanderley Bernardo

“…In the topic Treatment only publications grade A were accepted: answers supported by publications grade B were submitted to the voting by the Consensus Group. The present publication presents the most representative studies that responded to the proposed questions, followed by pertinent comments. …”
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A market of opinions: the political epistemology of focus groups by Lezaun, J

“…Provoking a conversation among a small group of people gathered in a room has become a widespread way of generating useful knowledge.1 The focus group is today a pervasive technology of social investigation, a versatile experimental setting where a multitude of ostensibly heterogeneous issues, from politics to economics, from voting to spending, can be productively addressed.2 Marketing is the field in which the focus group has acquired its most visible and standardized form, as an instrument to probe and foretell economic behaviour by anticipating the encounter of consumers and products in the marketplace.3 But whether they are used to anticipate consumer behaviour in a laboratory-like setting, or to produce descriptions of political attitudes, conversations elicited in the 'white room' of the focus group are relevant to a striking range of objects of social-scientific inquiry.4 The observation of contrived groupings of research subjects in 'captive settings' is of course a familiar source of knowledge in the social sciences, but there is something peculiar to the focus group as a research technology. …”

Individual Factors, Personality and Perception: How Legislators Make Decisions by Elham Heydari

“…They claimed that they never voted for any bills or plans without having sufficient information. …”
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Clientelas y amistades femeninas en Plinio El Joven by Juan Luis POSADAS SÁNCHEZ

“…Therefore, it is the characterization of women voting in Pliny as’ client, given that all indications seem to respond to the premises of the relationship between friends, members of the senatorial circles, or clients and employers. …”
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LES FRANCHISES UNIVERSITAIRES AU SÉNÉGAL : ENTRE AUTONOMIE ET SERVITUDE by Omar DIA

“…Ainsi, une loi -cadre sur les universités et une loi d’orientation de l’enseignement supérieur ont été votées ou sont en cours de l’être. Cependant la révocation du doyen de la faculté de Médecine, élu par ses pairs, par décret présidentiel en fin 2014 ainsi que le recrutement des étudiants par le ministre de l’enseignement supérieur depuis 2013-2014 pose la question de l’autonomie des universités sénégalaises. …”
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Is journalism failing on climate? by Stefan Rahmstorf

“…taken by politicians and the voting public who are not usually scientific experts. …”
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Moral and religious changes in an urban village of Bangalore, south India by Holmström, M

“…Forms of organization for common action are compromises between two types: the traditional pancaayat or council, where decisions are taken by consensus and 'big men' respected for their 'prestige' take the initiative, and the modern association, where decisions are voted on and men respected for their personal moral qualities take the initiative. …”

The relation of socialist principles to British Labour foreign policy, 1945-51 by Rose, R, Rose, C. Richard

“…Since the trade unions commanded the majority of votes in the NEC and in Annual Conference, these organs did not challenge the Government's foreign policy. …”

“The Identity Problem” in Prenatal Testing by Nina Beguš

“…Physicians might view this choice as voting for non-health over health, thus going against the essence of medicine.…”
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Editorial: Partizipationschancen im Kulturraum Internet nutzen und gestalten: Das Beispiel Web 2.0 by Kerstin Mayrberger, Heinz Moser

“…Nach Ausführungen zu Formen von eGouvernment, eParticipation und eVoting mit Bezug zu bestehenden sozialwissenschaftlichen Ansätzen im Kontext von eDemokratie folgt die Zusammenfassung einer empirischen Untersuchung von politischer Partizipation am Beispiel von politischen Gruppen aus der Schweiz, die sich auf Facebook gebildet haben. …”
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(Mis)treating Substance Use Disorder With Prison by Kaitlin Puccio

“…Sentencing Commission Votes Unanimously to Apply Amendment Retroactively for Crack Cocaine Offenses,” news release, Dec. 11, 2007, http://www.ussc.gov/about/news/press-releases/december-11-2007; Kim Steven Hunt and Andrew Peterson, “Recidivism Among Offenders Receiving Retroactive Sentence Reductions: The 2007 Crack Cocaine Amendment” (2014), U.S. …”
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Root Cause Analysis (RCA) of Factors Limiting the Success of the Project of Water Pumping Station in Ghomsheh Faraman Village, Kermanshah County by parvin Amirkhani, , Farahnaz Rostami, shahpar geravandi

“…Implementation of this strategy would give hope to the villagers to realize their rights with the help of the authorities, better accept legal votes by the relevant institutions in this area, and have less opposition in launching and reviving the project. …”
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Heart of America Annual Survey: A Call for Unity and the Power of Racial Healing by Gail Christopher, Susan Eaton

“…Examples include In June 2021, the American Medical Association's House of Delegates, representing their peers from all corners of medicine, voted to adopt guidelines addressing systemic racism in medicine, including discrimination, bias, and abuse, including expressions of prejudice known as microaggressions. …”
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An Analysis of New York State's Medical Aid in Dying Act (A. 2383A S. 3151) by Michael Dauber

“…default_fld=&leg_video=&bn=A10059&term=2015&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y&Memo=Y&Text=Y. The page contains the full text of the proposed bill…”
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Treatment of Hidradenitis Suppurativa Evaluation Study: the THESEUS prospective cohort study by John R Ingram, Janine Bates, Rebecca Cannings-John, Fiona Collier, Angela Gibbons, Ceri Harris, Kerenza Hood, Laura Howells, Rachel Howes, Paul Leighton, Muhammad Riaz, Jeremy Rodrigues, Helen Stanton, Kim S Thomas, Emma Thomas-Jones

“…The workshop was preceded by two meetings for patients and a pre-workshop survey asked for initial voting on interventions to investigate in future HS RCTs. …”
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Problem wolności w Internecie / The problem of freedom in Internet by Iwona Gleisner

“…Recently, the dispute between the supporters of the full freedom and the ones voting for limiting the resources of the global network with legal means has been becoming more fierce. …”
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Marketing madness by Anne Zimmerman

“…Linking data points through voting registration or hospital stays can lead to other personal information.…”
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Development and evaluation of a de-escalation training intervention in adult acute and forensic units: the EDITION systematic review and feasibility trial by Owen Price, Cat Papastavrou Brooks, Isobel Johnston, Peter McPherson, Helena Goodman, Andrew Grundy, Lindsey Cree, Zahra Motala, Jade Robinson, Michael Doyle, Nicholas Stokes, Christopher J Armitage, Elizabeth Barley, Helen Brooks, Patrick Callaghan, Lesley-Anne Carter, Linda M Davies, Richard J Drake, Karina Lovell, Penny Bee

“…These were reduced to 11 final components once the voting process according to the APPEASE criteria (affordability, practicability, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness, acceptability, side effects/safety and equity) had been concluded. …”
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