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An education module for enhancing clinical awareness of Chagas disease [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
BACKGROUND: Although Chagas disease is not an endemic health concern in the United States, it is prevalent with estimates of approximately 300,000 infected individuals.
Bernardo, Nathaniel
core  

Impact of migration on the occurrence of new cases of Chagas disease in Buenos Aires city, Argentina [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Chagas disease, also known as American Trypanosomiasis, is endemic in the Americas, especially Central and South America. Chagas disease is a zoonotic disease caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi.
Altcheh, Jaime Marcelo   +12 more
core   +2 more sources

Motherhood amidst reprimands and advice: Parenting and class in Rio de Janeiro

open access: yesEthos, EarlyView.
Abstract The article explores how the moralization of women mothers in contemporary Brazil reinforces structural inequalities. The analysis focuses on two forms of communication: reprimands and advice directed from experts toward mothers or circulated between mothers of young children in two different social contexts in the city of Rio de Janeiro ...
Laura Lowenkron, Camila Fernandes
wiley   +1 more source

Population models with singular equilibrium [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2006
A class of models of biological population and communities with a singular equilibrium at the origin is analyzed; it is shown that these models can possess a dynamical regime of deterministic extinction, which is crucially important from the biological standpoint.
arxiv  

A numerical method for a class of nonlinear fractional advection-diffusion equations [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2020
In this note, a numerical method based on finite differences to solve a class of nonlinear advection-diffusion fractional differential equation is proposed. The fractional operator considered here is the fractional Riemann-Liouville derivative or the fractional Riesz derivative of order $\alpha$.
arxiv  

Contemporary characteristics and outcomes in chagasic heart failure compared with other nonischemic and ischemic cardiomyopathy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Background: Chagas’ disease is an important cause of cardiomyopathy in Latin America. We aimed to compare clinical characteristics and outcomes in patients with heart failure (HF) with reduced ejection fraction caused by Chagas’ disease, with other ...
Claudio R. Gimpelewicz   +17 more
core   +3 more sources

Difficulties Associated With Spiritual Care According to the Nursing Staff at an Oncology Clinic: A 20‐Year Longitudinal Mixed Method Case Study

open access: yesJournal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim(s) To replicate a study conducted twenty years ago regarding difficulties associated with spiritual care at an oncology clinic. Compare the results against societal changes, educational changes and changes at the clinic. Design Mixed‐method, longitudinal, descriptive and comparative design.
Mikael Lundmark
wiley   +1 more source

Freqüência da hipertensão arterial em chagásicos crônicos e sua repercussão no coração: estudo clínico e anatomopatológico Frequency of hypertension in patients with chronic chagas’ disease and its consequences on the heart: a clinical and pathological study

open access: yesArquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2007
FUNDAMENTO: Dados da literatura sobre a concomitância da doença de Chagas e hipertensão arterial são controversos e, quando presentes, não se referem à repercussão da simultaneidade na história natural da doença de Chagas ou na hipertensão.
Cristina Brandt Friedrich Martin Gurgel   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

e-Science initiatives in Venezuela [PDF]

open access: yesProcceedings Spanish Conference on e-Science Grid Computing, J. Casado, R. Mayo y R. Munoz (Editors) CIEMAT, Madrid Spain (2007), pp 45 - 52, 2007
Within the context of the nascent e-Science infrastructure in Venezuela, we describe several web-based scientific applications developed at the Centro Nacional de Calculo Cientifico Universidad de Los Andes (CeCalCULA), Merida, and at the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas (IVIC), Caracas.
arxiv  

Ants can orienteer a thief in their robbery [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2020
The Thief Orienteering Problem (ThOP) is a multi-component problem that combines features of two classic combinatorial optimization problems: Orienteering Problem and Knapsack Problem. The ThOP is challenging due to the given time constraint and the interaction between its components.
arxiv  

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