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How mortality patterns have changed in Portugal [PDF]
, 2017 Changes in social structures, advances in medicine and technology highly contributed to life expectancy increase across the entire world. Thus, longevity’s increase occurs as a result of significant improvements in health and consequent reductions in ...
Ribeiro, Filipe
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Neuro-Oncology, 2019 The Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States (CBTRUS), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Cancer Institute, is the largest population-based registry focused exclusively on primary brain and other ...
Q. Ostrom +6 more
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Animal welfare implications of surgical castration and its alternatives in pigs
Animal, 2009 This paper constitutes a review on the welfare aspects of piglet castration that considers the scientific literature published after 2004. Castrating during the neonatal period (1 to 3 days of age) is clearly painful.
E. von Borell +6 more
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Growth performance, carcass characteristics and meat quality of group-penned surgically castrated, immunocastrated (Improvac®) and entire male pigs and individually penned entire male pigs [PDF]
, 2017 The objective of the study was to compare growth performance, carcass characteristics, meat quality and fatty acid composition of the adipose tissue of group-penned barrows, immunocastrated boars and entire males.
Ampuero Kragten, S. +4 more
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Definition of the upper reference limit of glycated albumin in blood donors from Italy [PDF]
, 2017 Glycated Albumin (GA) has been proposed as a short-term indicator of glycemic homeostasis. The aim of this study is to describe the distribution of GA in a large sample of blood donors from Italy to evaluate whether demographic features, namely age and ...
Agnello, Luisa +7 more
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Data in Brief, 2020 Data on the allele, genotype and haplotype frequencies of four single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (rs3126085, rs12144049, rs471144 and rs4363385) filaggrin (FLG) gene in Russian patients with atopic dermatitis are presented.
Tatyana Belyaeva +7 more
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The Height Premium in Earnings: The Role of Physical Capacity and Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills [PDF]
The association between stature and favorable labor market outcomes has been extensively documented. Recent studies have attributed this height premium to cognitive and social skills.
Lundborg, Petter +2 more
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Using HIV-attributable mortality to assess the impact of antiretroviral therapy on adult mortality in rural Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: The Tanzanian national HIV care and treatment programme has provided free antiretroviral therapy (ART) to HIV-positive persons since 2004.
Alison Wringe +11 more
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health [PDF]
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects:while in the former only current or lagged behaviors are taken into account, in the latter we ...
Brunello, Giorgio +3 more
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Genetic approaches for rearing entire males
, 2018 Boar taint in the pork meat from entire male pigs results from the presence of two molecules: androstenone and skatole. The genetic determinism of androstenone and skatole has been studied for a few decades. It is well known that the heritability values are moderate to high and the genetic correlation between both levels is moderately positive ...
Larzul, Catherine +3 more
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