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Repeatability of Dixon magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy for quantitative muscle fat assessments in the thigh

Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle, 2018
Background Changes in muscle fat composition as for example observed in sarcopenia or muscular dystrophy affect physical performance and muscular function, like strength and power. The purpose of the present study is to measure the repeatability of Dixon
Alexandra Grimm, Heiko Meyer, Marcel D. Nickel, Mathias Nittka, Esther Raithel, Oliver Chaudry, Andreas Friedberger, Michael Uder, Wolfgang Kemmler, Klaus Engelke, Harald H. Quick   +10 more
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Conceptualising the Circular Economy Potential of Construction and Demolition Waste: An Integrative Literature Review

Recycling, 2021
Traditionally, construction and demolition waste (CDW) materials have been considered to be unwanted, surplus, or wastage materials or materials with zero value.
Vasilios Papastamoulis, Kerry London, Yingbin Feng, Peng Zhang, Robert Crocker, Petros Patias   +5 more
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What is religion? An African understanding

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2010
Western thought has influenced the way that religion is understood. Western philosophy supported the separation between the sacred and the profane. Modernism, focusing on human rationality, reduced religion to a set of correctly formulated dogmas and ...
Jaco Beyers
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On the definition of superclusters [PDF]

, 2015
To obtain a physically well-motivated definition of superclusters, we proposed in our previous work to select superclusters with an overdensity criterion that selects only those objects that will collapse in the future, including those that are at a turn-
Boehringer, Hans, Chon, Gayoung, Zaroubi, Saleem   +2 more
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Schur Superpolynomials: Combinatorial Definition and Pieri Rule [PDF]

, 2015
Schur superpolynomials have been introduced recently as limiting cases of the Macdonald superpolynomials. It turns out that there are two natural super-extensions of the Schur polynomials: in the limit $q=t=0$ and $q=t\rightarrow\infty$, corresponding ...
Blondeau-Fournier, Olivier, Mathieu, Pierre   +1 more
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European Mixed Forests: definition and research perspectives [PDF]

, 2014
peer-reviewedAim of study: We aim at (i) developing a reference definition of mixed forests in order to harmonize comparative research in mixed forests and (ii) briefly review the research perspectives in mixed forests.
Ammer, Christian, Andenmatten, Ernesto, Barbati, Anna, Barreiro, Susana, Brang, Peter, Bratislav, Matovic, Bravo, Felipe, Bravo-Oviedo, Andres, Coll, Lluis, Corona, Piermaria, del Rio, Miren, den Ouden, Jan, Ducey, Mark J., Forrester, David I., Giergiczny, Marek, Jacobsen, Jette B., Kris, Verheyen, Lesinski, Jerzy, Löf, Magnus, Mason, Bill, Metslaid, Marek, Morneau, François, Motiejunaite, Jurga, O’Reilly, Conor, Pach, Maciej, Ponette, Quentin, Pretzsch, Hans, Short, Ian, Skovsgaard, Jens Peter, Soliño, Mario, Spathelf, Peter, Sterba, Hubert, Stojanovic, Dejan, Strelcova, Katarina, Svoboda, Miroslav, Svoboda, Miroslav, von Lüpke, Nikolas, Zlatanov, Tzvetan   +37 more
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Slums: perspectives on the definition, the appraisal and the management of an urban phenomenon

DIE ERDE: Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin, 2013
The contribution provides a basic introduction to the topic. It outlines the term ‘slum’, details the challenges associated with this form of settlement in the literature and the public opinion, and profiles the development approaches and solutions to ...
Nuissl, Henning, Heinrichs, Dirk
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Periodic Abstinence: Definition, Motivation and Research [PDF]

, 1978
One of the Jesuit priests playing an organ.
Maloof, George E.
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Comment on "Spacetime Information" [PDF]

, 1996
A recent paper by Hartle [Phys. Rev. D 51, 1800 (1995)] proposes a definition of "spacetime information" - the information available about a quantum system's boundary conditions in the various sets of decohering histories it may display - and ...
Kent, Adrian
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A Quality Improvement Initiative to Standardize Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia Prophylaxis in Pediatric Patients With Solid Tumors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric patients with extracranial solid tumors (ST) receiving chemotherapy are at an increased risk for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP). However, evidence guiding prophylaxis practices in this population is limited. A PJP‐related fatality at our institution highlighted inconsistent prescribing approaches and concerns about
Kriti Kumar, Denise M. Connolly, Ellen Kellington, Elyse Zelunka, Karla Kerrigan, Furqan Shaikh, Paul C. Nathan, Meredith S. Irwin, Sarah Cohen‐Gogo   +8 more
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