Multivariate associations of motor performance, sleep quality, depressive symptoms, and grey matter volume in younger and mid-to-older adults [PDF]
Scientific ReportsMotor performance (MP) is essential for maintaining functional independence, particularly in later life. However, the relationship between MP and sleep quality, depressive symptoms, and their underlying brain substrates remains obscure.
Vincent Küppers +7 more
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A method for evaluating population and infrastructure exposed to natural hazards: tests and results for two recent Tonga tsunamis [PDF]
Geoenvironmental Disasters, 2023 Background Coastal communities are highly exposed to ocean- and -related hazards but often lack an accurate population and infrastructure database. On January 15, 2022 and for many days thereafter, the Kingdom of Tonga was cut off from the rest of the ...
Bruce Enki Oscar Thomas +3 more
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Does knowledge of liver fibrosis affect high-risk drinking behaviour (KLIFAD): an open-label pragmatic feasibility randomised controlled trialResearch in context [PDF]
EClinicalMedicine, 2023 Summary: Background: Early identification followed by effective behaviour interventions is pivotal to changing the natural history of alcohol-related liver disease.
Mohsan Subhani +9 more
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Does knowledge of liver fibrosis affect high-risk drinking behaviour (KLIFAD)? protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2021 Introduction Heavy drinkers in contact with alcohol services do not routinely have access to testing to establish the severity of potential liver disease. Transient elastography by FibroScan can provide this information.
Andrew Wragg +8 more
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Functional standing frame programme early after severe sub-acute stroke (SPIRES): a randomised controlled feasibility trial [PDF]
Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2022 Background Early mobilisation (> 24 h post-stroke) is recommended for people with stroke. However, there is a paucity of evidence about how to implement early mobilisation for people who have had a severe stroke.
Angela Logan +8 more
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Vegetation impact on atmospheric moisture transport under increasing land-ocean temperature contrasts [PDF]
Heliyon, 2022 Destabilization of the water cycle threatens human lives and livelihoods. Meanwhile our understanding of whether and how changes in vegetation cover could trigger transitions in moisture availability remains incomplete.
Anastassia M. Makarieva +7 more
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An experimental model to measure the ability of headphones with active noise control to reduce patient’s exposure to noise in an intensive care unit [PDF]
Intensive Care Medicine Experimental, 2017 Background Defining the association between excessive noise in intensive care units, sleep disturbance and morbidity, including delirium, is confounded by the difficulty of implementing successful strategies to reduce patient’s exposure to noise.
Stuart Gallacher +3 more
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Evidence for an intrinsic factor promoting landscape divergence in Madagascan leaf-litter frogs [PDF]
Frontiers in Genetics, 2015 The endemic Malagasy frog radiations are an ideal model system to study patterns and processes of speciation in amphibians. Large-scale diversity patterns of these frogs, together with other endemic animal radiations, led to the postulation of new and ...
Katharina C. Wollenberg Valero
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Re-assessment of the Location of the Land of Aratta [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies, 2022 The name “Aratta” and the name of its ruler, “the Lord of Aratta,” are both mentioned in Sumerian literary and epic texts. In these texts, “the Lord of Aratta” and two important Sumerian kings—Enmerkar, who founded Uruk, and Lugalbanda, who succeeded him—
Fariba Mosapour Negari
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La sémantique des noms : taxinomie djihadiste et imaginaire médiéval
Frontière·s, 2023 This paper analyses Islamic State’s medievalism through the French and English editions of the magazines published by the terrorist organization. It focuses on the names of press organs or battalions, but also on those used by jihadist militants as kunya.
Enki Baptiste
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