Factors associated with wife beating in Egypt: Analysis of two surveys (1995 and 2005) [PDF]
Background Wife beating is an important public health problem in many developing countries. We assessed the rates of wife beating and examined factors associated with wife beating in 1995 and 2005 in Egypt.
Dhaher Enas +4 more
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Robot-Assisted Repair of Atrial Septal Defect: A Comparison of Beating and Non-Beating Heart Surgery
Background: Robot-assisted repair of atrial septal defect (ASD) can be performed under either beating-heart or non-beating-heart conditions. However, the risk of cerebral air embolism (i.e., stroke) is a concern in the beating-heart approach.
Taeyoung Yun +5 more
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Clinical assessment of Renal Ischaemic Injury and the Role of Cryopreservation; Peritoneal Cooling an Non-Heart-Beating Donation and Topical Cooling for Laparoscopic Surgery [PDF]
The project aims focussed on three main areas of study; ischaemic injury assessment, laparoscopic renal cryopreservation and peritoneal cooling for non-heart-beating organ donation.
Navarro, Alex
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Beat-to-beat determinants of the beat-to-beat temporal and spatial variability of repolarization [PDF]
The goal of this study was to compare the time series predictors of beat-to-beat variability in repolarization in healthy individuals.Spatial QRS- and T-vector amplitudes, spatial QRS-T, RR' and TT' angles, RR' and QT intervals, and QRS- and T-loop roundness were measured on 453 consecutive sinus beats in 168 healthy subjects (mean age 39.8±15.6years ...
Albert Feeny, Larisa G. Tereshchenko
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To Beat or Not to Beat: Beat Gestures in Direction Giving [PDF]
Research on gesture generation for embodied conversational agents (ECA’s) mostly focuses on gesture types such as pointing and iconic gestures, while ignoring another gesture type frequently used by human speakers: beat gestures. Analysis of a corpus of route descriptions showed that although annotators show very low agreement in applying a ‘beat ...
Mariët Theune, Chris J. Brandhorst
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Analysis of Papers Physical Properties Made from Mixing LbL-treated and Refined Pulp by Response Surface Method [PDF]
In this study, the effect of using Layer-by-Layer (LbL) treated pulp as mixed with refined OCC recycled pulp was investigated on paper physical properties.
Hamid reza Rudi, Morteza Nazeryan
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Background The World Health Organization (WHO) has cited domestic violence as an urgent global maternal and child health priority. Gender differences in the acceptance of wife-beating have not been explored at the multi-country level in sub-Saharan ...
Jones Arkoh Paintsil +4 more
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Background Globally, intimate partner violence is one of the most common forms of gender-based violence, and wife beating is one component of intimate partner violence, with the problem being more severe among women living in rural settings.
Betregiorgis Zegeye +4 more
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Treatment of Bruises (Welts) from Beating in Light of Ancient Egyptian Medical Recipes [PDF]
Punishment by beating was famously known in ancient Egypt and was documented in many scenes and texts. In addition, Ancient Egyptian medical papyri described the treatment of bruises (welts) that resulted from beating and how the injury affected the ...
Abdou Youssef, Gehad Bakr
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Cardiomyocyte regeneration is limited in adults. The adipose tissue-derived stromal vascular fraction (Ad-SVF) contains pluripotent stem cells that rarely transdifferentiate into spontaneously beating cardiomyocyte-like cells (beating CMs).
Shinichiro Takashima +11 more
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