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Ulceratiye Colitis: Surgical Indications and Alternatives
Southern Medical Journal, 1994Ulcerative colitis is a surgically curable mucosal disease of the colon and rectum. Optimal management of this chronic condition requires close coordination between the patient, surgeon, and primary care provider or gastroenterologist. Knowledge of surgical indications and the operative alternatives available helps to individualize therapy.
Beck, David E., GathrightT, J. Byron
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Industry-Based Alternative Equity Indices
Financial Analysts Journal, 2013The authors examined five alternative equity indices (AEIs) in the United States using industries instead of individual stocks as building blocks to form portfolios and compared their performance with that of the capitalization-weighted equity benchmark for the period 1964–2011.
Frank Leclerc +3 more
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Alternative indices of resilience
Water Resources Research, 1982The concept of resilience of a water resource system is explored, and a few definitions are suggested and compared. These are based on the time required to pass from one system state to another and involve the passage to or from a state defined as failure.
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Urban gentrification: Evaluating alternative indicators
Social Indicators Research, 1986The study seeks to ascertain whether the operational definition of “gentrification” has an impact on the apparent extent, location and causal factors associated with the phenomenon. Four alternative definitional criteria are specified, based on areal changes in: proportion black, proportion college-educated, real incomes and real property values.
George Galster, Stephen Peacock
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Indicators and Alternate Indicators of Growing Water Quality
1991The coliform group of indicator bacteria has traditionally been the basis for the microbiological growing area standard for shellfish waters since the early 1900s. Since that time researchers have identified deficiencies in its use as an indicator of fecal contamination or potential health risk in aquatic systems (e.g., Berg 1978; Cabelli 1978b; Dutka ...
Howard Kator, Martha W. Rhodes
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Alternative indicators of metabolic control
Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, 2006Abstract This brief review will focus on indicators of metabolic control alternative to glucose, ketone body and lactate measurements, specifically reviewed in other articles of this issue. The effects of insulin on protein metabolism are summarized and, the potential clinical relevance of monitoring energy expenditure in diabetic subjects is ...
DE FEO, Pierpaolo +6 more
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Prophylactic Mastectomy: Indications, Options, and Reconstructive Alternatives
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2005Prophylactic mastectomy continues to be a controversial procedure as a preventive tool against breast cancer. Recent research and other scientific advances, however, have refocused attention on better risk estimation, evidence of efficacy, and improvements in reconstruction.
Scott L, Spear +2 more
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Indications and alternatives to hysterectomy.
Bailliere's clinical obstetrics and gynaecology, 1997Hysterectomy is the commonest major operation performed by gynaecologists and is the definitive cure for many of it's indications which include dysfunctional uterine bleeding, fibroids, utero-vaginal prolapse, endometriosis and adenomyosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, pelvic pain, gynaecological cancers and obstetric complications.
A, Davies, A L, Magos
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Hysterectomy: indications, alternatives and predictors.
American family physician, 1997Hysterectomy, the most common major nonobstetric operation, is performed in more than 570,000 women in the United States each year. Although the number of hysterectomies has decreased in recent years, many authorities believe that hysterectomy is often unnecessary and unjustified.
M G, Kramer, R C, Reiter
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‘Indicator frenzy’ : the ‘economicist’ tendency of public policy and alternative indicators
2017The craze for quantitative data has become a hallmark of public policy on both national and local levels. Exploring the limits of quantification allows us to better understand the importance of developing alternative indicators.
Ottaviani, Fiona, Le Roy, Anne
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