What do Portuguese people die of? [PDF]
Nowadays, in developed countries as Portugal, deaths are essentially concentrated at old and very old ages, but it is still rather important to identify main causes of death (CODs).
Ribeiro, Filipe
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Environmental toxicity influences disease spread in consumer population [PDF]
The study of infectious disease has been of interest to ecologists since long. The initiation of epidemic and the long term disease dynamics are largely influenced by the nature of the underlying consumer (host)-resource dynamics. Ecological traits of such systems may be often modulated by toxins released in the environment due to ongoing anthropogenic
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Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 3D printing Special Interest Group (SIG): Guidelines for medical 3D printing and appropriateness for clinical scenarios [PDF]
Este número da revista Cadernos de Estudos Sociais estava em organização quando fomos colhidos pela morte do sociólogo Ernesto Laclau. Seu falecimento em 13 de abril de 2014 surpreendeu a todos, e particularmente ao editor Joanildo Burity, que foi seu ...
Burity, Joanildo+2 more
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Health-related quality of life as measured with EQ-5D among populations with and without specific chronic conditions: A population-based survey in Shaanxi province, China [PDF]
© 2013 Tan et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited ...
A Alwan+36 more
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Simple Data Augmentation Techniques for Chinese Disease Normalization [PDF]
Disease name normalization is an important task in the medical domain. It classifies disease names written in various formats into standardized names, serving as a fundamental component in smart healthcare systems for various disease-related functions.
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Genomic copy number variation association study in Caucasian patients with nonsyndromic cryptorchidism [PDF]
Copy number variation (CNV) is a potential contributing factor to many genetic diseases. Here we investigated the potential association of CNV with nonsyndromic cryptorchidism, the most common male congenital genitourinary defect, in a Caucasian ...
Abrams, Debra J.+17 more
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Mortality in Brazil according to gender perspective, years 2000 and 2010
: Objective: The article assessed the overall mortality in Brazil in 2000 and 2010. Methods: Data source was the Mortality Information System from Ministry of Health of Brazil.
Erly Catarina de Moura+4 more
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Risk of cerebral palsy and childhood epilepsy related to infections before or during pregnancy.
Background and aimMaternal infections during pregnancy have been associated with several neurological disorders in the offspring. However, given the lack of specificity for both the exposures and the outcomes, other factors related to infection such as ...
Chun S Wu+6 more
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A comprehensive review on Plant Leaf Disease detection using Deep learning [PDF]
Leaf disease is a common fatal disease for plants. Early diagnosis and detection is necessary in order to improve the prognosis of leaf diseases affecting plant. For predicting leaf disease, several automated systems have already been developed using different plant pathology imaging modalities. This paper provides a systematic review of the literature
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A Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Recommendation System Based on Big Data Mining and Cloud Computing [PDF]
It is crucial to provide compatible treatment schemes for a disease according to various symptoms at different stages. However, most classification methods might be ineffective in accurately classifying a disease that holds the characteristics of multiple treatment stages, various symptoms, and multi-pathogenesis.
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