Moving beyond a limited follow-up in cost-effectiveness analyses of behavioral interventions [PDF]
, 2012 Background Cost-effectiveness analyses of behavioral interventions typically use a dichotomous outcome criterion. However, achieving behavioral change is a complex process involving several steps towards a change in behavior.
Braakman-Jansen, Louise M.A. +5 more
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Self-medication: initial treatments used by patients seen in an ophthalmologic emergency room
Clinics, 2009 OBJECTIVE: This study seeks to identify practices of self-medication in the treatment of ocular emergencies. We examine patients' use of both homemade preparations and manufactured products before seeking specialized care.
Regina Souza Carvalho +4 more
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The relationship between adipokine levels and bone mass—A systematic review
Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, 2023 Introduction Adipose tissue is the source of a broad array of signalling molecules (adipokines), which mediate interorgan communication and regulate metabolic homeostasis. Alterations in adipokine levels have been causally implicated in various metabolic
Darren Mangion +2 more
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Suspect screening of maternal serum to identify new environmental chemical biomonitoring targets using liquid chromatography-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry. [PDF]
, 2017 The use and advantages of high-resolution mass spectrometry (MS) as a discovery tool for environmental chemical monitoring has been demonstrated for environmental samples but not for biological samples.
Friesen, Matthew M +5 more
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Evaluating the Performance of the WHO International Reference Standard for Osteoporosis Diagnosis in Postmenopausal Women of Varied Polygenic Score and Race [PDF]
, 2020 Background: Whether the bone mineral density (BMD) T-score performs differently in osteoporosis classification in women of different genetic profiling and race background remains unclear.
Wu, Qing, Xiao, Xiangxue, Xu, Yingke
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The strongest gravitational lenses: IV. The order statistics of the largest Einstein radii with cluster mergers [PDF]
, 2014 Based on techniques developed in the previous papers of this series, we investigate the impact of galaxy-cluster mergers on the order statistics of the largest Einstein radii.
Bartelmann, Matthias +2 more
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Jurnal Ilmiah Kesehatan, 2018 A woman looking at pregnancy as a natural result marital relationship, intended and unintended. Most of the other women received a pregnancy as a natural desire and even some women, including teens, the pregnancy is the result of sexual experimentation ...
Nur Hidaayah
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The Cluster Mass Function from Early SDSS Data: Cosmological Implications
, 2002 The mass function of clusters of galaxies is determined from 400 deg^2 of early commissioning imaging data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey; ~300 clusters in the redshift range z = 0.1 - 0.2 are used.
Bode P. +27 more
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Simulating spin-boson dynamics with stochastic Liouville-von Neumann equations
, 2003 Based on recently derived exact stochastic Liouville-von Neumann equations, several strategies for the efficient simulation of open quantum systems are developed and tested on the spin-boson model.
Braun +33 more
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Acute glucoregulatory and vascular outcomes of three strategies for interrupting prolonged sitting time in postmenopausal women: A pilot, laboratory-based, randomized, controlled, 4-condition, 4-period crossover trial. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Prolonged sitting is associated with cardiometabolic and vascular disease. Despite emerging evidence regarding the acute health benefits of interrupting prolonged sitting time, the effectiveness of different modalities in older adults (who sit the most ...
Jacqueline Kerr +18 more
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