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In the Words of the Medical Tourist: An Analysis of Internet Narratives by Health Travelers to Turkey

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2014
BackgroundPatients regularly travel to the West for advanced medical care, but now the trend is also shifting in the opposite direction. Many people from Western countries now seek care outside of their country.
Ozan-Rafferty, Margaret E, Johnson, James A, Shah, Gulzar H, Kursun, Attila   +3 more
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Validation of Experimental Data for the Application of the Magnesium Alloy “Elektron 43”

Aerospace
The behaviour of a structural component, such as the spreader installed on an aeroplane passenger seat made of the magnesium alloy Elektron® 43, is evaluated under a variety of load conditions.
Michele Guida
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Enhancing Parental Motivation to Monitor African American Adolescents’ Diabetes Care: Development and Beta Test of a Brief Computer-Delivered Intervention

JMIR Research Protocols, 2014
BackgroundAfrican American youth are at increased risk for poor diabetes management. Parenting behaviors such as parental monitoring are significant predictors of youth diabetes management and metabolic control, but no intervention has targeted parental ...
Idalski Carcone, April, Ellis, Deborah A, Naar, Sylvie, Ondersma, Steven J, Moltz, Kathleen, Dekelbab, Baseem, Joseph, Christine LM   +6 more
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Procedure for implementation of temperature-dependent mechanical property capability in the Engineering Analysis Language (EAL) system [PDF]

A procedure is presented to allow the use of temperature dependent mechanical properties in the Engineering Analysis Language (EAL) System for solid structural elements. This is accomplished by including a modular runstream in the main EAL runstream. The
Glass, David E., Robinson, James C.
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Initial and Sustained Participation in an Internet-delivered Long-term Worksite Health Promotion Program on Physical Activity and Nutrition

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2012
BackgroundDeterminants of participation in health promotion programs are largely unknown. To evaluate and implement interventions, information is needed regarding their reach as well as regarding the characteristics of program users and non-users.
Robroek, Suzan JW, Lindeboom, Dennis EM, Burdorf, Alex   +2 more
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Eigenvalue computations with the QUAD4 consistent-mass matrix [PDF]

The NASTRAN user has the option of using either a lumped-mass matrix or a consistent- (coupled-) mass matrix with the QUAD4 shell finite element. At the Sixteenth NASTRAN Users' Colloquium (1988), Melvyn Marcus and associates of the David Taylor Research
Butler, Thomas A.
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Finite-Dimensional Representations of the Quantum Superalgebra U$_{q}$[gl(2/2)]: II. Nontypical representations at generic $q$

, 1994
The construction approach proposed in the previous paper Ref. 1 allows us there and in the present paper to construct at generic deformation parameter $q$ all finite--dimensional representations of the quantum Lie superalgebra $U_{q}[gl(2/2)]$.
Faddeev L. D., Nedialka I. Stoilova, Nguyen Anh Ky, Schlosser H.   +3 more
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Monetary Policy When the Phillips Curve Is Quite Flat

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
This paper highlights how the presence of a monetary policy cost channel can offer new insights into the relation between monetary policy and inflation when the Phillips curve is quite flat. For instance, we highlight a key condition whereby lax monetary
P. Beaudry, Chenyu Hou, F. Portier
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Digital Technology Ownership, Usage, and Factors Predicting Downloading Health Apps Among Caucasian, Filipino, Korean, and Latino Americans: The Digital Link to Health Survey

JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2014
BackgroundInterventions using mobile health (mHealth) apps have been effective in promoting healthy lifestyle behavior change and hold promise in improving health outcomes to thereby reduce health disparities among diverse racial/ethnic populations ...
Bender, Melinda S, Choi, JiWon, Arai, Shoshana, Paul, Steven M, Gonzalez, Prisila, Fukuoka, Yoshimi   +5 more
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Interest Rates and the Spatial Polarization of Housing Markets

American Economic Review: Insights
Rising within-country differences in house values are a much-debated trend in the United States and internationally. Using new long-run regional data for 15 advanced economies, we show that standard explanations linking growing price dispersion to rent ...
Francisco Amaral, Martin Dohmen, Sebastian Kohl, M. Schularick   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source