Anthropogenic Influences on Distance Traveled and Vigilance Behavior and Stress-Related Endocrine Correlates in Free-Roaming Giraffes [PDF]
Animals, 2021 Giraffes are an important tourist attraction, and human presence to wildlife is increasing. This has an impact on an animal’s behavior and its endocrine correlates.
Ciska P. J. Scheijen +3 more
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Geographical Health District and Distance Traveled Influence on Clinical Status at Admission of Patients with Gestational Trophoblastic Disease [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia, 2023 Objective To assess the potential relationship of clinical status upon admission and distance traveled from geographical health district in women with gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD).
Valdete Aparecida Ribeiro da Silva +7 more
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Exposure as Duration and Distance in Telematics Motor Insurance Using Generalized Additive Models [PDF]
Risks, 2017 In Pay-As-You-Drive (PAYD) automobile insurance, the premium is fixed based on the distance traveled, while in usage-based insurance (UBI) the driving patterns of the policyholder are also considered. In those schemes, drivers who drive more pay a higher
Jean-Philippe Boucher +2 more
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Distance traveled for Medicaid-covered abortion care in California [PDF]
BMC Health Services Research, 2017 Background Access to abortion care in the United States is limited by the availability of abortion providers and their geographic distribution. We aimed to assess how far women travel for Medicaid-funded abortion in California and identify disparities in
Nicole E. Johns +2 more
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Adaptive smartphone-based sensor fusion for estimating competitive rowing kinematic metrics. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Competitive rowing highly values boat position and velocity data for real-time feedback during training, racing and post-training analysis. The ubiquity of smartphones with embedded position (GPS) and motion (accelerometer) sensors motivates their ...
Bryn Cloud +7 more
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The impact of distance traveled and rurality on the clinical course of head and neck cancer [PDF]
Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology, 2023 Objective To explore the relationship between distance traveled and rurality to clinical timepoints and 2‐year disease free survival (DFS) in newly diagnosed HNC patients.
Nadia Debick, Amanda Gemmiti, Jesse Ryan
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Nurses’ steps, distance traveled, and perceived physical demands in a three-shift schedule [PDF]
Human Resources for Health, 2022 Background The physical job demands of hospital nurses are known to be very high. Although many studies have measured the physical activities of nurses subjectively using questionnaires, it remains necessary to quantify and measure nurses’ physical ...
Hyoung Eun Chang, Sung-Hyun Cho
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Implementing a “Distance Traveled” Question to Improve Resident Diversity: Process and Feasibility [PDF]
OTO Open, 2022 Increasing diversity in the physician workforce is important to improving racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes in the United States. We describe the implementation of a “distance traveled” question (DTQ) in our residency application process ...
Sherise Epstein MD, MPH +6 more
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Methods to Characterize the Real-World Use of Rollators Using Inertial Sensors–A Feasibility Study [PDF]
IEEE Access, 2019 Rollators are widely used by people with mobility problems, but previous studies have been limited to self-report approaches when evaluating their real-world effectiveness.
Mingxu Sun +7 more
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Scale-insensitive estimation of speed and distance traveled from animal tracking data [PDF]
Movement Ecology, 2019 Background Speed and distance traveled provide quantifiable links between behavior and energetics, and are among the metrics most routinely estimated from animal tracking data. Researchers typically sum over the straight-line displacements (SLDs) between
Michael J. Noonan +7 more
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