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HIV Knowledge Among Cisgender Female Sex Workers of Haitian Descent Working at the Border of Haiti and Dominican Republic

Frontiers in Reproductive Health, 2021
In this brief report, we aim to assess levels of HIV mis-information among cisgender Haitian female sex workers engaged in sex work at the Haiti and Dominican Republic border.
Henna Budhwani, Kristine R. Hearld, Julia Hasbun, John Waters   +3 more
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An Intelligent Radiomic Approach for Lung Cancer Screening

Applied Sciences, 2022
The efficiency of lung cancer screening for reducing mortality is hindered by the high rate of false positives. Artificial intelligence applied to radiomics could help to early discard benign cases from the analysis of CT scans.
Guillermo Torres, Sonia Baeza, Carles Sanchez, Ignasi Guasch, Antoni Rosell, Debora Gil   +5 more
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Effect of MPV and β₂-microglobulin on cardiac valve calcification in patients on maintenance hemodialysis [PDF]

Xin yixue, 2023
Objective To investigate the relationship between mean platelet volume （MPV） and β2-microglobulin and cardiac valve calcification （CVC） in maintenance hemodialysis patients， aiming to provide a basis for clinical prediction and diagnosis of CVC.
Yao Zhuan’ e, Wang Pengbo, Fu Qinjuan, Wang Wei, Song Qiong, Li Huan, Liu Ai, Zhang Peng
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The impact of platform corporate venture capital vs. traditional corporate venture capital on internet initial public offering underpricing: Evidence from Chinese-listed internet firms

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
PurposePlatform firms are playing an increasingly major role in venture investment. Based on the motivation perspective and signaling theory, this paper examines the effects of platform corporate venture capital (CVC) versus traditional CVC on Internet ...
Feng Fu, Shuangying Chen
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Contextual Word Spotting in Historical Handwritten Documents

ELCVIA Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis, 2015
There are countless collections of historical documents in archives and libraries that contain plenty of valuable information for historians and researchers.
David Fernández
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The efficacy of a non-leaching antibacterial central venous catheter - a prospective, randomized, double-blind study

Biomedical Papers, 2020
Background: Antimicrobial coatings of central venous catheters (CVC) have the potential to reduce the risk of infectious complications. The aim of this study was to examine the efficacy of a catheter with a non-leaching antimicrobial coating against ...
Ivo Krikava, Martin Kolar, Barbora Garajova, Tomas Balik, Alena Sevcikova, Ingolf Roschke, Pavel Sevcik   +6 more
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International good practices on central venous catheters' placement and daily management in adults and on educational interventions addressed to healthcare professionals or awake/outpatients. Results of a scoping review compared with the existent Italian good practices

Frontiers in Medicine, 2022
This scoping review aims to check the existing international literature related to the placement and management of central venous catheters (CVCs) in adults and compare them with the Good Practices published by the Italian Society of anesthesiology ...
Giovanni Mastrandrea, Giovanni Mastrandrea, Rachele Giuliani, Elisabetta A. Graps   +3 more
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Harnessing Polygenic Risk Scores to Refine Venous Thromboembolism Risk Stratification. [PDF]

Eur J Haematol
ABSTRACT Background Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a major cause of morbidity in patients of all ages. Despite growing interest in polygenic risk scores (PRS) for VTE, their utility remains understudied. Our objective was to evaluate the independent impact of a PRS on VTE susceptibility in adults and children.
McKay KG, Zhao OS, Badrieh SS, Bastarache L, Niu X, He J, Kannankeril PJ, Robinson JR.   +7 more
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Análisis espectral de materiales geológicos en la Cordillera Volcánica Central de Costa Rica y su relación con la detección remota de anomalías

Estudios Geologicos, 2014
El objetivo del presente trabajo es el estudio de bandas de absorción y reflexión de espectros de materiales geológicos presentes en distintas áreas de test de la Cordillera Volcánica Central (CVC) de Costa Rica, y su correlación con el cálculo ...
J. G. Rejas, J. Martínez-Frías, R. Martínez, M. Marchamalo, J. Bonatti   +4 more
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CVC: A Cooperating Validity Checker [PDF]

, 2002
Decision procedures for decidable logics and logical theories have proven to be useful tools in verification. This paper describes the CVC ("Cooperating Validity Checker") decision procedure. CVC implements a framework for combining subsidiary decision procedures for certain logical theories into a decision procedure for the theories' union. Subsidiary
Aaron Stump, Clark W. Barrett, David L. Dill   +2 more
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