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Attrition from antiretroviral treatment services among pregnant and non-pregnant patients following adoption of Option B+ in Haiti

Global Health Action, 2017
Background: Access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) has expanded in Haiti because of the adoption of Option B+ and the revision of treatment guidelines.
Jean Wysler Domercant, Nancy Puttkammer, Paul Young, Krista Yuhas, Kesner François, Reynold Grand’Pierre, David Lowrance, Michelle Adler   +7 more
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‘I Just Stopped Going’: A Mixed Methods Investigation Into Types of Therapy Dropout in Adolescents With Depression

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
What does it mean to ‘drop out’ of therapy? Many definitions of ‘dropout’ have been proposed, but the most widely accepted is the client ending treatment without agreement of their therapist.
Sally O’Keeffe, Sally O’Keeffe, Peter Martin, Peter Martin, Mary Target, Nick Midgley, Nick Midgley   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Digital twins to accelerate target identification and drug development for immune‐mediated disorders

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Digital twins integrate patient‐derived molecular and clinical data into personalised computational models that simulate disease mechanisms. They enable rapid identification and validation of therapeutic targets, prediction of drug responses, and prioritisation of candidate interventions.
Anna Niarakis, Philippe Moingeon
wiley   +1 more source

JM: An R Package for the Joint Modelling of Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data

Journal of Statistical Software, 2010
In longitudinal studies measurements are often collected on different types of outcomes for each subject. These may include several longitudinally measured responses (such as blood values relevant to the medical condition under study) and the time at ...
Dimitris Rizopoulos
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Towards a conceptual framework in higher education anchored on social learning and social integration: transition, retention and graduation

Cogent Education
The global increase in enrolment in higher education (HE) has increased the diversity of students who access HE, which poses a challenge because we have a limited understanding of the way students experience HE institutions.
Nokuthula Tlalajoe-Mokhatla
doaj   +1 more source

Kinetic-growth self-avoiding walks on small-world networks

, 2007
Kinetically-grown self-avoiding walks have been studied on Watts-Strogatz small-world networks, rewired from a two-dimensional square lattice. The maximum length L of this kind of walks is limited in regular lattices by an attrition effect, which gives ...
Adamic, Albert, Albert, Barabási, Barrat, C. P. Herrero, Callaway, Costa, Gitterman, Guimerà, Guttmann, Hemmer, Hemmer, Herrero, Herrero, Herrero, Herrero, Herrero, Herrero, Jespersen, Kim, Kremer, Kuperman, Lago-Fernández, Lahtinen, Latora, Lee, Lima, Majid, McKenzie, Moore, Newman, Newman, Newman, Newman, Noh, Pandit, Rapaport, Santra, Strogatz, Tadić, Watts, Watts   +42 more
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Cutaneous Melanoma Drives Metabolic Changes in the Aged Bone Marrow Immune Microenvironment

Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.
Melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, increasingly affects older adults. Our study reveals that melanoma induces changes in iron and lipid levels in the bone marrow, impacting immune cell populations and increasing susceptibility to ferroptosis.
Alexis E. Carey, Murilo Ramos Rocha, Cheyenne Palm, Vania Wang, Denys Balandin, Ethan Black, Kevin Y. Zhang, Fan Huang, Daniel J. Zabransky, Yash Chhabra, Mareike Peters, Gabriel Ghiaur, Ashani Weeraratna   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predictors of Successful Telephone Contact After Emergency Department-based Recruitment into a Multicenter Smoking Cessation Cohort Study

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2013
Introduction: Emergency department (ED) studies often require follow-up with subjects to assess outcomes and adverse events. Our objective was to identify baseline subject characteristics associated with successful contact at 3 time points after the ...
Edwin D Boudreaux, Carlos A Camargo Jr, Steven L Bernstein, Ashley F Sullivan, Adit A Ginde   +4 more
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The reasons for attrition: we (still) haven't got a clue [PDF]

, 2010
This paper describes a small survey (attrition survey) undertaken to ascertain reasons of attrition and non-response in questionnaire responses from student participants as part of a larger longitudinal survey (longitudinal study). Due to difficulties in
Harte, VA, Stewart, J
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Examining undergraduate student retention in mathematics using network analysis and relative risk [PDF]

, 2018
Higher education faces challenges in retaining students who require a command of numeracy in their chosen field of study. This study applies an innovative combination of relative risk and social network analysis to enrolment data of a single cohort of ...
Chamberlain, Dan, Galligan, Linda, Whannell, Robert, Woolcott, Geoff   +3 more
core   +1 more source