Medical tourism was portrayed as an exercise of economically-rational consumer choice, but with no attention given to its consequences for the commodification of health or broader political, medical and ethical implications.
RA is thus associated with major consequences for the individual, causing loss of function and work disability, and poses significant challenges to society, given its economic consequences.
Given its wide use and occurrence, the conceivable harmful potential of aluminium for negative biological consequences in humans is high.
In this paper, a deterministic analysis of one of the ITER reference accident scenarios, the so-called "Ex-Vessel Loss-of-Coolant Accident", and of its consequences for system integrity is given.
Given the consequences for the 2,000 people in indefinite detention on Manus Island and Nauru, many would find that understandable.
Given the consequences for children of domestic violence including for children below 4 years (ACE-study 2013)—this stands out as an alarmingly low rate.
Given potential consequences for infection of parasite-negative pregnant women, further research is warranted on the association of human toxoplasmosis with a diet of country foods in northern regions.
Of course, these are primarily questions for linguistics proper, but the answers we give certainly have consequences for computational linguistics.
Regarding the first, Peirce (1998/1992, in 'How to Make Our Ideas Clear', for instance, originally published in 1878) holds that the meaning of a proposition is given by its 'practical consequences' for human experience, such as implications for observation or problem-solving.
Given the potential consequences for the economy of trying to return inflation to the target rapidly, there is a powerful argument that such "one-off" influences on the inflation rate should simply be accommodated, and inflation allowed to rise temporarily above the target.
