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Blood Pressure, 2018 Background: The International Obesity Task Force recently developed an extended body mass index (BMI) cut-offs for screening thinness, overweight and obesity among children and adolescents.
Shu-Rong Wang +3 more
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Outcomes in patients with gunshot wounds to the brain. [PDF]
, 2019 Introduction:Gunshot wounds to the brain (GSWB) confer high lethality and uncertain recovery. It is unclear which patients benefit from aggressive resuscitation, and furthermore whether patients with GSWB undergoing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR ...
Babcock, Jessica M +55 more
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Matching Algorithms for Blood Donation [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Global demand for donated blood far exceeds supply, and unmet need is greatest in low- and middle-income countries; experts suggest that large-scale coordination is necessary to alleviate demand. Using the Facebook Blood Donation tool, we conduct the first large-scale algorithmic matching of blood donors with donation opportunities.
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Liver Donation From Marginal Donors: To Donate or Not to Donate?
Experimental and Clinical Transplantation, 2019 Livers from deceased donors compose nearly 30% of all organ transplants, and about 700 liver transplants are carried out per year. Marginal livers (extended-criteria donors), however, are not usually accepted by recipient teams, and there is only one center for these procedures in Iran.
Masoud Mazaheri +4 more
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Victim Identification, Framing Heuristic and Stress Effects on the Donation Decision
Prizren Social Science Journal, 2020 The tendency of an individual to share his beings with other people arises from the social aspect of human nature. Especially in today's conditions where the gap between advantageous and disadvantaged groups is getting deeper, donation is extremely ...
Nihan TOMRİS KÜÇÜN, Sezen GÜNGÖR
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Complex Contagion of Campaign Donations [PDF]
PLoS ONE 2016, 11(4): e0153539, 2016 Money is central in US politics, and most campaign contributions stem from a tiny, wealthy elite. Like other political acts, campaign donations are known to be socially contagious. We study how campaign donations diffuse through a network of more than 50 000 elites and examine how connectivity among previous donors reinforces contagion.
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Awareness regarding eye donation among stakeholders in Srikakulam district in South India [PDF]
, 2014 Background There is a huge need for the availability of transplantable donor corneas worldwide to reduce the burden of corneal blindness due to corneal opacity.
Jalbert, I. +3 more
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Military Intervention, Regional Organizations, and Host-State Consent [PDF]
, 1996 Two ethical frameworks have dominated the discussion of organ donation for long: that of property rights and that of gift-giving. However, recent years have seen a drastic rise in the number of philosophical analyses of the meaning of giving and ...
Wippman, David
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, 2022 The Donatist controversy erupted in early fourth century Roman North Africa in the immediate aftermath of the Diocletianic persecution. The North African church was heir to the legacy of Cyprian of Carthage, whose belief that lapsed bishops were ineligible to administer the sacraments would prove crucial in the events that followed.
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Blood Donation in Nigeria: Standard of the Donated Blood [PDF]
Journal of Laboratory Physicians, 2012 ABSTRACT Objective: The objective was to determine the basic hematological parameters of remunerated blood donors in Benin City and to compare them with those of voluntary donors. Materials and Methods: This is a prospective study conducted in a tertiary health facility in Benin City.
Awodu Omolade Augustina +2 more
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