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Are NREM sleep characteristics associated to subjective sleep complaints after mild traumatic brain injury?
Sleep after mild TBI
(Elsevier, 2015-04)
Sleep complaints are common after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). While recent find-ings suggest that sleep macro-architecture is preserved in mTBI, features of non-rapid eye movement(NREM) sleep micro-architecture ...
Regional cerebral blood flow during wakeful rest in older subjects with mild to severe obstructive sleep apnea
Cerebral perfusion in OSA
(Oxford University Press, 2015)
Objectives: To evaluate changes in regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) during wakeful rest in older
subjects with mild to severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and healthy controls, and to identify
markers of OSA severity ...
Ethical and Legal Implications of Whistleblowing: A View from United Arab Emirates
(Centre de recherche en éthique, 2018-08-03)
The paper seeks to dissect the meaning, people’s understanding, effects and consequences of whistleblowing. It also tries to define the implications the act has as laid down in United Arab Emirates (UAE) law. It spells out ...
Actigraphy data in pediatric research : the role of sleep diaries
Actigraphy and sleep diary
(Elsevier, 2018-01)
Background. When assessing children's sleep using actigraphy, researchers usually rely on a sleep diary completed by a parent as an aid in scoring actigraphic data. However, parental nonadherence in completing the sleep ...
The Perils of Not Thinking Like an Economist: How to Assess Value
(Centre de recherche en éthique, 2018-08-03)
It is common to muse over the perils of thinking like an economist. There is, we are told, something missing when we only weigh the costs and benefits of some options before us, and then choose the one that will lead to ...
Sleep-wake disturbances in hospitalized patients with traumatic brain injury: association with brain trauma but not with an abnormal melatonin circadian rhythm
(Oxford University Press, 2019-09-28)
Study Objectives: To test whether the sleep-wake cycle disruption in patients hospitalized with
traumatic brain injury (TBI) 1) is also found in patients with traumatic injuries other than TBI (nonTBI); and 2) is associated ...
Pierre Bourdieu, Anthropologie Economique. Cours au Collège de France 1991-1993, Paris, Seuil, 2017
(Centre de recherche en éthique, 2018-02-21)
On the shoulders of students? The contribution of PhD students to the advancement of knowledge
(Springer, 2011-09-06)
Using the participation in peer reviewed publications of all doctoral students in Quebec over the 2000–2007 period, this paper provides the first large scale analysis of their research effort. It shows that PhD students ...
Towards a better understanding of increased sleep duration in the chronic phase of moderate to severe traumatic brain injury : an actigraphy study
(Elsevier, 2018-11-28)
Introduction
Most adults with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) report persistent sleep-wake disturbances. Whether these complaints are either associated with abnormal sleep-wake patterns or can be explained ...
Do universities have moral duties with regard to a human right to health? In defense of some proposals by UAEM 1 (Universities Allied for Essential Medicines)
(Centre de recherche en éthique, 2018-02-19)
This article argues that universities have duties to negotiate contracts with the pharmaceutical industry that are favourable to the world’s poor, and to do more research into diseases which disproportionately strike the ...