From Aid Dependency to Self-Reliance: Lessons From Sierra Leone and Rwanda's Strategies for Eliminating Preventable Blindness in Africa: A Perspective Study. [PDF]
Health Sci RepABSTRACT Background and Aims Preventable blindness remains a leading cause of disability in low‐income countries (LICs), with 91.5% of cases in Sierra Leone and 83.9% in Rwanda considered avoidable. Reliance on foreign aid has supported eye care development in Africa, yet has also fostered systemic dependency.
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Are autistic traits in the general population stable across development? [PDF]
, 2011 There is accumulating evidence that autistic traits (AT) are on a continuum in the general population, with clinical autism representing the extreme end of a quantitative distribution.
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page i-xiv., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
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Estudio experimental y controlado en farmacia comunitaria: influencia de la administración de un complemento alimenticio de ajo en la evolución de la hipercolesterolemia [PDF]
, 2018 Introducción: Las dislipemias son alteraciones de las lipoproteínas que transportan el colesterol y los triglicéridos, siendo consideradas factor de riesgo de enfermedades cardiovasculares. La eficacia de la utilización de productos vegetales cono el ajo
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Perception, history, and science: coherence or disparity in the timing of the Little Ice Age maximum in southeast Iceland? [PDF]
, 2005 In Iceland, studies that integrate local perceptions about the landscape with scientific evidence of change have been few. This article presents a case study from southeast Iceland that has two main objectives.
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Stability and Formation of the Resonant System HD 73526 [PDF]
, 2007 Based on radial velocity measurements it has been found recently that the two giant planets detected around the star HD 73526 are in 2:1 resonance. However, as our numerical integration shows, the derived orbital data for this system result in chaotic ...
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page i-xiv., 2020 This book is Open Access. A digital copy can be downloaded for free from Wiley Online Library.
Explores the behavior of carbon in minerals, melts, and fluids under extreme conditions
Carbon trapped in diamonds and carbonate-bearing rocks in subduction zones are examples of the continuing exchange of substantial carbon ...
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Algorithms for adaptive control of two-arm flexible manipulators under uncertainty [PDF]
, 1988 A nonlinear extension of model reference adaptive control (MRAC) technique is used to guide a double arm nonlinearizable robot manipulator with flexible links, driven by actuators collocated with joints subject to uncertain payload and inertia.
Skowronski, J. M.
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Tecnología en Marcha, 2021 El ajo (Allium sativum), presenta propiedades medicinales y culinarias, así como propiedades repelentes aprovechables en la agricultura orgánica, que lo hace un cultivo con alta demanda en nuestro país y en el resto del mundo.
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Movement Disorders, EarlyView.Abstract Background Parkinson's disease (PD) is characterized by predominantly neuronal α‐synuclein pathology and dopaminergic dysfunction. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) seeding amplification assays (SAA) detect α‐synuclein aggregates in vivo, but not all patients with PD have a positive SAA.
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