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In Canada and the United States, the incident use of an arteriovenous fistula is 16% and 14% and the prevalent use of fistula is 44% and 55%, respectively ([1][1],[2][2]). The fistula is considered the vascular access of choice for patients with ESRD because of its decreased risk for complications,
Charmaine E. Lok, Deborah Zimmerman
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The accessibility of an access structure [PDF]
In secret sharing, different access structures have different difficulty degrees for acceding to the secret. We give a numerical measure of how easy or how difficult is to recover the secret, depending only on the structure itself and not on the particular scheme used for realizing it. We derive some consequences.
Francesc Carreras+2 more
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Access to Medicines, Access to Markets [PDF]
This article explores some uses by the pharmaceutical industry of language from the "access to medicines" movement in global health, sometimes for goals almost completely opposite to those of the movement. Important in the context of extremely expensive treatments, the industry draws on the idealistic discourse around access to medicines to create a ...
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Registered access: authorizing data access [PDF]
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) proposes a data access policy model—“registered access”—to increase and improve access to data requiring an agreement to basic terms and conditions, such as the use of DNA sequence and health data in research.
Bartha Maria Knoppers+49 more
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This paper discussed if a powered attendant propelled wheelchairs (PAPW) with assist-as-needed control reduces energy consumption and maximise attendant's physical activity in powered system use.
Tatsuto SUZUKI+5 more
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Book Review: A Handbook of User Experience Research & Design in Libraries by Andy Priestner
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Meg McMahon
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The presence of cadmium (Cd) in cocoa crops is currently a serious problem for farmers and producers in various regions of South America. Because its exports of cocoa and derivatives to European markets are threatened by possible signs of contamination ...
Jimmy Aurelio Rosales-Huamani+8 more
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Putting Access to Veterinary Care on the Map: A Veterinary Care Accessibility Index
Access to veterinary care is a complex problem that sits at the intersection of a number of societal factors including income inequality, access to transportation, language and cultural differences as well as the spatial distribution of veterinary care ...
Sue M. Neal+2 more
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Objectives Mitral Valve Prolapse (MVP) is a common valvular abnormality accounting for 2% of the population. There is a reported association between pes planus (PP) and MVP in some syndromes such as Marfan.
Antoine AbdelMassih+14 more
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The National Health Commission of the People′s Republic of China and six other departments jointly released the Second Catalog of Rare Diseases, which expanded the definition of rare diseases in China. The expansion of the catalog means greater attention
LI Kexin+4 more
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