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Randomized Comparison of Two Internet-Supported Natural Family Planning Methods (Preliminary Findings) [PDF]

, 2012
The aims of this study were to determine and compare efficacy, satisfaction, ease of use, and motivation in using an internet-based method of Natural Family Planning (NFP) that utilizes either electronic hormonal fertility monitoring (EHFM) or cervical ...
Fehring, Richard J., Schneider, Mary
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Behavioral Patterns of Zoo‐housed Lowland (Tapirus terrestris) and Malayan tapirs (Tapirus indicus), With a Focus on Sleeping Behavior

Zoo Biology, EarlyView.
A behavioral study of the nocturnal activity budget and rhythmicity reveals the relationship between lying cycle (LC) duration and time spent in the REM‐sleep posture (“lying – head down”, LHD) in zoo‐housed Lowland tapirs (Tapirus terrestris) and Malayan tapirs (Tapirus indicus). ABSTRACT To ensure and optimize husbandry conditions, zoo management and
Melina Kurzawe, Yannis König, Isabel Seyrling, Max Hahn‐Klimroth, Gaby Schneider, Paul Wilhelm Dierkes   +5 more
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Associations between depression and risk of cardiometabolic multimorbidity among middle-aged and older Chinese adults

Scientific Reports
Numerous studies have performed the association between depression and increased risk of cardiometabolic diseases (CMDs). However, there is limited understanding regarding the impact of the depression on cardiometabolic multimorbidity (CMM), particularly
Yao Xiao, Youliang Zhou, Linli Xu, Liping Yu   +3 more
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Impact of vitamins A, D, and homocysteine on cardiometabolic multimorbidity in Northwest China

Nutrition & Metabolism
Objective To investigate the impact of vitamin A (VA), vitamin D (VD), and homocysteine (Hcy) on cardiometabolic multimorbidity (CMM). Methods This study is a cross-sectional study conducted in Ningxia Province, China.
Juan Li, Xiaowei Liu, Xiaolong Yang, Yalong Cheng, Lan Liu, Yuhong Zhang, Yi Zhao   +6 more
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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
wiley   +1 more source

Dinosaur bone beds and mass mortality: Implications for the K-T extinction [PDF]

Mass accumulations of fossilized large terrestrial vertebrate skeletons (bone beds: BB) provide a test for K-T catastrophic extinction hypotheses. The two major factors contributing to BB formation are mode of death and sedimentation rate.
Carpenter, Kenneth
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BIEN: A biodiversity informatics ecosystem advancing open and reproducible workflows for plant observation, plot and trait data

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract The rapid expansion of biodiversity data presents new opportunities to understand and forecast biosphere dynamics. However, disparate and dispersed data, taxonomic and geographic inconsistencies, pervasive quality issues, and a lack of reproducable workflows hinder synthesis, introduce biases and limit accurate assessment of biodiversity ...
Brian J. Enquist, Brad Boyle, Brian S. Maitner, Cory Merow, Ben S. Carlson, Xiao Feng, Gabriel M. Moulatlet, Erica A. Newman, Daniel S. Park, Michiel Pillet, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Josep M. Serra‐Diaz, Rethvick S. Y. Babu, George G. C. Barbosa, Nathan Casler, John C. Donoghue II, Daniel Guaderrama, Rohith K. Sajja, Thomas L. P. Couvreur, Matthew B. Jones, Peter M. Jørgensen, Nathan J. B. Kraft, Pablo A. Marquet, Brian J. McGill, Nirav Merchant, Naia Morueta‐Holme, Danilo M. Neves, Ary Oliveira‐Filho, Robert K. Peet, Oliver Phillips, Brody Sandel, Mark Schildhauer, Irena Simova, Hans ter Steege, Jens‐Christian Svenning, Barbara Thiers, Cyrille Violle, Jan J. Wieringa, Susan K. Wiser   +38 more
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Characteristics and overall survival in patients with T1 melanoma: A nationwide matched cohort study. [PDF]

Int J Cancer
What's New? Thin cutaneous malignant melanoma has an excellent ten‐year melanoma‐specific survival of 93%–97%. Moreover, the incidence of melanoma is higher among individuals with high socioeconomic status, which may protect them from other diseases. This nationwide matched cohort study found that patients with thin cutaneous malignant melanoma have a ...
Naeser Y, Mikiver R, Isaksson K, Lambe M, Ullenhag GJ.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Manipulation of Majorana fermion, Andreev reflection and Josephson current on topological insulators

, 2009
We study theoretically charge transport properties of normal metal (N) / ferromagnet insulator (FI) / superconductor (S) junction and S/FI/S junction formed on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulator (TI), where chiral Majorana mode (CMM ...
G. E. Volovik, Naoto Nagaosa, Takehito Yokoyama, X. G. Wen, Yukio Tanaka   +4 more
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Extending the firm versus industry debate into social enterprises: A multilevel analysis on Spanish cooperatives 2008–2023

Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract An important debate in the field of strategy and industrial organization economics has long focused on whether the industry environment or firm idiosyncrasies have a greater impact on firm performance. However, cooperatives have been excluded from this inquiry, despite profits being the primary means to achieve their social objectives.
Pablo Doucet, Marta Solórzano‐García
wiley   +1 more source