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Financial Distress and Its Determinants in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective To quantify the degree of financial distress and identify its determinants in adults with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) given the frequent prolonged use of expensive disease‐modifying therapies. Methods We identified adults enrolled in the FORWARD databank with either RA or noninflammatory musculoskeletal disease (NIMSKD) completing the ...
Amber Brown Keebler, Yunju Im, Sofia Pedro, Ted R. Mikuls, Edward S. Peters, Kaleb Michaud   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Postural And Eye-Positional Effects On Human Biting Force: An Experimental Study

Sakarya Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2012
Muscle groups affected on biting force are called temporal muscle as a major and masseter muscle as a minor. According to the human posture stability, forces of these muscles vary with the force directions.
Altay Tabancacı, Gözde Yordanlı, K. Şefik Demirsoy, M. Güney Töke, Hamza Erdoğan, Mehmet Yetmez   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Anopheles arabiensis and Anopheles funestus biting patterns in Dielmo, an area of low level exposure to malaria vectors

Malaria Journal, 2020
Background In Dielmo, Senegal, the widespread use of long-lasting insecticidal nets has decreased both the incidence of malaria and the density of the Anopheles population.
Souleymane Doucoure, Omar Thiaw, Amélé N. Wotodjo, Charles Bouganali, Nafisatou Diagne, Philippe Parola, Cheikh Sokhna   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Convolutional and tail-biting quantum error-correcting codes

, 2005
Rate-(n-2)/n unrestricted and CSS-type quantum convolutional codes with up to 4096 states and minimum distances up to 10 are constructed as stabilizer codes from classical self-orthogonal rate-1/n F_4-linear and binary linear convolutional codes ...
Forney, Jr., G. David, Grassl, Markus, Guha, Saikat   +2 more
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Consistently high estimates for the proportion of human exposure to malaria vector populations occurring indoors in rural Africa. [PDF]

, 2013
BACKGROUND: Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) and indoor residual spraying (IRS) are highly effective tools for controlling malaria transmission in Africa because the most important vectors, from the Anopheles gambiae complex and the A.
Abdulla, Salim, Bayoh, Nabie, Briët, Olivier, Diallo, Diadier, Gimnig, John, Huho, Bernadette, Killeen, Gerry, Okumu, Fredros, Seyoum, Aklilu, Sikaala, Chadwick, Smith, Thomas   +10 more
core   +4 more sources

Biting Force and chewing efficiency of Conventional and CAD/CAM complete dentures. A Cross-over Study [PDF]

, 2021
Nourhan Ahmed Ragheb, Wafaa Ibrahim
openalex   +1 more source

Testing A Personalized Approach to Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Older Veterans

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective We aimed to test the efficacy of personalized treatment of older Veterans with chronic low back pain (CLBP) delivered by Aging Back Clinics (ABC) as compared with usual care (UC). Methods Two hundred ninety‐nine Veterans age 65‐89 with CLBP from 3 VA medical centers underwent baseline testing, randomization to ABC or UC and 12 months follow ...
Debra K. Weiner, Angela Gentili, Meika A. Fang, Edward Garay, Laura Lawson, Lenore Joseph, Cathy C. Lee, Michelle I. Rossi, Beverly Thorn, Subashan Perera   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Youth with Childhood‐Onset Lupus: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective Our objective was to determine the feasibility and acceptability of the Treatment and Education Approach for Childhood‐onset Lupus (TEACH), a six‐session cognitive behavioral intervention addressing depressive, fatigue, and pain symptoms, delivered remotely to individual youth with lupus by a trained interventionist.
Natoshia R. Cunningham, Thea Senger‐Carpenter, Jocelyn Zuckerman, Michelle Adler, Mallet R. Reid, Ashley Danguecan, Luana Flores Pereira, Sarah I. Mossad, Samantha L. Ely, Khalid Abulaban, Elizabeth A. Kessler, Natalie Rosenwasser, Tamar B. Rubinstein, Ekemini A. Ogbu, Emily A. Smitherman, Alaina Miller, Taylor Abounader, Elizabeth Ross, Livie Timmerman, Dhriti Sharma, Jennifer N. Stinson, Stacy Allen, Kabita Nanda, Tala El Tal, Deborah M. Levy, Linda T. Hiraki, Hermine I. Brunner, Mathew Reeves, Steven J. Pierce, Andrea Knight   +29 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aquatic Invertebrates as Unlikely Vectors of Buruli Ulcer Disease

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2008
Buruli ulcer is a necrotizing skin disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans and associated with exposure to aquatic habitats. To assess possible transmission of M. ulcerans by aquatic biting insects, we conducted a field examination of biting water bugs (
M. Eric Benbow, Heather Williamson, Ryan Kimbirauskas, Mollie D. McIntosh, Rebecca Kolar, Charles Quaye, Felix Akpabey, D. Boakye, Pam Small, Richard W. Merritt   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

On the Minimum Distance of Generalized Spatially Coupled LDPC Codes [PDF]

, 2013
Families of generalized spatially-coupled low-density parity-check (GSC-LDPC) code ensembles can be formed by terminating protograph-based generalized LDPC convolutional (GLDPCC) codes.
Costello Jr, Daniel J., Lentmaier, Michael, Mitchell, David G. M.   +2 more
core   +2 more sources