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Optimal predictive control of water transport systems: Arrêt-Darré/Arros case study [PDF]

, 2009
This paper proposes the use of predictive optimal control as a suitable methodology to manage efficiently transport water networks. The predictive optimal controller is implemented using MPC control techniques.
Ayesa, Eduardo, Cardona, Claudia, Castro, Alain, Charbonnaud, Philippe, Chiron, Pascale, Irizar, Ion, Lujan, Mathias, Puig, Vicenc, Quevedo, Joseba, Romera, Juli, Salterain, Antonio, Trouvat, Jean-Luc   +11 more
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Risk Factors for Primary Clostridium difficile Infection; Results From the Observational Study of Risk Factors for Clostridium difficile Infection in Hospitalized Patients With Infective Diarrhea (ORCHID)

Frontiers in Public Health, 2020
Background: There are inconsistent data on the risk factors for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) in the literature.Aims: To use two C. difficile infection (CDI) case-control study groups to compare risk factors in hospitalized patients with diarrhea
Kerrie Davies, Jody Lawrence, Claire Berry, Georgina Davis, Holly Yu, Bing Cai, Elisa Gonzalez, Ida Prantner, Andrea Kurcz, Ioana Macovei, Hanna Pituch, Elena Nováková, Otakar Nyč, Barbara Gärtner, Fabian K. Berger, Monica Oleastro, Oliver A. Cornely, Maria J. G. T. Vehreschild, Louise Pedneault, Mark Wilcox   +19 more
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Migraine and vascular disease biomarkers: A population-based case-control study. [PDF]

, 2018
Background The underpinnings of the migraine-stroke association remain uncertain, but endothelial activation is a potential mechanism. We evaluated the association of migraine and vascular disease biomarkers in a community-based population.
Ferrari, Michel D., Herial, Nabeel, Khubchandani, Jagdish, Koppen, Hille, Kruit, Mark C., Launer, Lenore J., Palm-Meinders, Inge H., Terwindt, Gisela M., Tietjen, Gretchen E., van Buchem, Mark A.   +9 more
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The association between environmental factors and the development of Crohn's disease with focusing on passive smoking: A multicenter case-control study in Japan.

PLoS ONE, 2019
BackgroundThe number of patients with Crohn's disease (CD) in Japan has recently been increasing. We examined the association between environmental factors and the development of CD in Japanese focusing on passive smoking.MethodsWe conducted a ...
Kyoko Kondo, Satoko Ohfuji, Kenji Watanabe, Hirokazu Yamagami, Wakaba Fukushima, Kazuya Ito, Yasuo Suzuki, Yoshio Hirota, Japanese Case-Control Study Group for Crohn's disease   +8 more
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Persistent Contaminants and Herpesvirus OtHV1 Are Positively Associated With Cancer in Wild California Sea Lions (Zalophus californianus)

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020
The prevalence of cancer in wild California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) is one of the highest amongst mammals, with 18–23% of adult animals examined post-mortem over the past 40 years having urogenital carcinoma. To date, organochlorines, genotype
Frances M. D. Gulland, Frances M. D. Gulland, Ailsa J. Hall, Gina M. Ylitalo, Kathleen M. Colegrove, Tenaya Norris, Pádraig J. Duignan, Barbie Halaska, Karina Acevedo Whitehouse, Karina Acevedo Whitehouse, Linda J. Lowenstine, Alissa C. Deming, Alissa C. Deming, Teresa K. Rowles   +13 more
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Risk factors associated with loss to follow-up from tuberculosis treatment in Tajikistan: a case-control study

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2017
Background There are very few studies on reasons for loss to follow-up from TB treatment in Central Asia. This study assessed risk factors for LTFU and compared their occurrence with successfully treated (ST) patients in Tajikistan.
Jessica Wohlleben, Mavluda Makhmudova, Firuza Saidova, Shahnoza Azamova, Christina Mergenthaler, Suzanne Verver   +5 more
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a case–control seroprevalence study [PDF]

, 2015
Background Infection with Toxoplasma gondii can be acquired via the ingestion of undercooked or raw meat containing tissue cysts, or via ingestion of water contaminated with oocysts.
Alvarado-Esquivel, Cosme, Berumen-Segovia, Luis Omar, Hernández-Tinoco, Jesús, Liesenfeld, Oliver, Pacheco-Vega, Sandy Janet, Rábago-Sánchez, Elizabeth, Salcedo-Jáquez, Misael, Sánchez-Anguiano, Luis Francisco   +7 more
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Designing Case-Control Studies [PDF]

Environmental Health Perspectives, 1979
Identification of confounding factors, evaluation of their influence on cause-effect associations, and the introduction of appropriate ways to account for these factors are important considerations in designing case-control studies. This paper presents designs useful for these purposes, after first providing a statistical definition of a confounding ...
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Motor skills in children with primary headache: A pilot case-control study [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Headache is the most common painful manifestation in the developmental age, often accompanied by severe disability such as scholastic absenteeism, low quality of academic performance and compromised emotional functioning. The aim of the study
Cerroni F., Chisari M. G., D'Oro L., Di Folco A., Gallai B., Geraci D., Lavano F., Lavano S. M., Magliulo R. M., Marotta R., Marsala G., Murabito P., Parisi L., Picciocchi E., Polito A. N., Romano P., Russo D., Salerno M., Salerno M., Sorrentino M., Testa D., Tripi G.   +21 more
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Combining controls can improve power in two-stage association studies

BMC Genetics, 2018
Background High dimensional case control studies are ubiquitous in the biological sciences, particularly genomics. To maximise power while constraining cost and to minimise type-1 error rates, researchers typically seek to replicate findings in a second ...
James Liley
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