Digital citizen science for ethical surveillance of physical activity among youth: mobile ecological momentary assessments vs. retrospective recall [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Physical inactivity is the fourth leading risk factor of mortality globally. Hence, understanding the physical activity (PA) patterns of youth is essential to manage and mitigate non-communicable diseases. As digital citizen science approaches utilizing citizen-owned smartphones to ethically obtain PA big data can transform PA surveillance, this study ...
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THE EFFECTS OF THE UTILIZATION OF INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT POST OF MEDICAL FACULTY OF MULAWARMAN UNIVERSITY ON RISK INDICATORS OF NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE [PDF]
, 2020 Non-communicable diseases have become a major public health problem in the last decade. In Indonesia, it was more than 36 million people dying from non-communicable diseases related to several risk factors including behavioral, metabolic and social risk ...
Bakhtiar, Rahmat +3 more
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Cerebral organoids were employed as a novel model to explore the neurotoxicity of soman. Soman inhibited acetylcholinesterase activity, increased cell apoptosis and upregulated endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress markers glucose‐regulated protein 78 (GRP78), activating transcription factor 6 (ATF6) and C/EBP homologous protein (CHOP).
Yue Wei +7 more
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State model for partly undetected non-communicable diseases (NCDs) [PDF]
arXiv, 2014 This article proposes an age-structured compartment model for irreversible diseases with a pre-clinical state of undiagnosed cases that precedes the diagnosis. The model is able to cope with mortality rates differing between the pre-clinical and the clinical state (differential mortality).
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Optimal control of diseases in prison populations through screening policies of new inmates [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 In this paper, we study an optimal control problem of a communicable disease in a prison population. In order to control the spread of the disease inside a prison, we consider an active case-finding strategy, consisting on screening a proportion of new inmates at the entry point, followed by a treatment depending on the results of this procedure.
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Recurrent skull vault actinomycosis: A case report and review of literature
IDCases, 2021 Actinomycosis is an uncommon cause of central nervous system infection. A case of skull bone osteomyelitis with epidural empyema is presented. A 44-year-old man presented with chronic osteomyelitis of skull vault with epidural and subgaleal collection ...
Abdur Rehman Mohamad +4 more
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Controlling malaria in Africa: progress and priorities [PDF]
"This work was supported ... by the Africa Bureau, Office of Operation and New Initiatives (ONI) and the Office of Analysis, Research and Technical Support (ARTS), United States Agency for International Development (A.I.D.) through the Africa Child ...
Africa Child Survival Initiative - Combatting Childhood Communicable Diseases
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Market Structure and Communicable Diseases [PDF]
Communicable diseases pose a formidable challenge for public policy. Using numerical simulations, we show under which scenarios a monopolist’s price and prevalence paths converge to a nonzero steady-state.
Stéphane Mechoulan
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Knowledge and History of Non Communicable Diseases Among Housewives in the Year 2013 Ogan Ilir-south Sumatera-Indonesia [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Indonesia as a developing country experiencing epidemiologic transition in which communicable diseases are still main concern in Indonesia, while non-communicable diseases (degenerative) is starting to increase and to be major cause of death.
Mutahar, R. (Rini) +2 more
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A Systematic Review on Travel Medicine Practice to Control Transmission of Communicable Diseases [PDF]
, 2019 Background: The number of international travelers is estimated at 900 million per year and is projected to reach 1.6 billion per year in 2020. Travel medicine is devoted to the health of travelers who visit foreign countries.
Bachtiar, A. (Adang ) +1 more
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