A Singular Value Decomposition-based Factorization and Parsimonious Component Model of Demographic Quantities Correlated by Age: Predicting Complete Demographic Age Schedules with Few Parameters [PDF]
arXiv, 2015 BACKGROUND. Formal demography has a long history of building simple models of age schedules of demographic quantities, e.g. mortality and fertility rates. These are widely used in demographic methods to manipulate whole age schedules using few parameters. OBJECTIVE.
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Important Factors on Sidewalks with Vendor Activities Based on Pedestrian Perception by Gender and Age [PDF]
, 2012 This paper presents an investigation of important factors relating sidewalk performance based on pedestrian perceptions by gender and age. Exploratory factor analysis technique and reliability test of the variables are performed on 45 items of sidewalk ...
Choocharukul, K. (Kasem) +2 more
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Scatter of Journals and Literature Obsolescence Reflected in Document Delivery Requests [PDF]
, 2005 In this paper we investigate the scattering of journals and literature obsolescence reflected in more than 137,000 document delivery requests submitted to a national document delivery service.
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Glutaredoxin (Grx) 3 proteins contain a thioredoxin domain and one to three class II Grx domains. These proteins play a crucial role in iron homeostasis in eukaryotic cells. In human Grx3, at least one of the two Grx domains, together with the thioredoxin domain, is essential for its function in iron metabolism.
Laura Magdalena Jordt +4 more
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The predictive value of the CONUT score combined with the A2DS2 scale for post-ischemic stroke infection [PDF]
Vojnosanitetski PregledBackground/Aim. Stroke-associated infection is the most common and most serious complication of ischemic stroke (IS), which is the most important cause of death and disability in humans.
Zhang Yongqing, Zhang Wei, Zhou Yiwu
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The characteristics and effects of motivational music in exercise settings: The possible influence of gender, age, frequency of attendance, and time of attendance [PDF]
, 2004 Background: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the characteristics and effects of motivational music in British gymnasia. The secondary purpose was to determine whether the characteristics and effects of motivational music were invariant
Karageorghis, CI, Priest, DL, Sharp, NCC
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Urine is a rich source of biomarkers for cancer detection. Tumor‐derived material is released into the bloodstream and transported to the urine. Urine can easily be collected from individuals, allowing non‐invasive cancer detection. This review discusses the rationale behind urine‐based cancer detection and its potential for cancer diagnostics ...
Birgit M. M. Wever +1 more
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The relationship between BRCA-associated breast cancer and age factors: an analysis of the Japanese HBOC consortium database. [PDF]
J Hum Genet, 2021 Okano M +9 more
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Cancer‐associated fibroblasts (CAFs) promote cancer growth, invasion (metastasis), and drug resistance. Here, we identified functional and diverse circulating CAFs (cCAFs) in patients with metastatic prostate cancer (mPCa). cCAFs were found in higher numbers and were functional and diverse in mPCa patients versus healthy individuals, suggesting their ...
Richell Booijink +6 more
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A Unified Gender-Aware Age Estimation [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 Human age estimation has attracted increasing researches due to its wide applicability in such as security monitoring and advertisement recommendation. Although a variety of methods have been proposed, most of them focus only on the age-specific facial appearance.
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