iNew Medicine, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Insulin resistance is the biological phenomenon in which the human body's normal response to the metabolic hormone insulin is compromised. Insulin is a regulator of most of the essential metabolic steps in the body that control energy homoeostasis, so dysregulation leads to multiple diverse human diseases including, most prominently, Type 2 ...
Peter J. Little +12 more
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Conditional Randomization Tests for the Specification of Interference Structure
Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study proposes specification tests for interference structure in causal inference with spillovers. We focus on experimental settings in which the treatment assignment mechanism is known. To test whether a given exposure mapping adequately summarizes the true interference structure, we develop conditional randomization tests by utilizing ...
Tadao Hoshino, Takahide Yanagi
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Post-Pandemic Stress Disorder as an Effect of the Epidemiological Situation Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic. [PDF]
Healthcare (Basel), 2022 Łaskawiec D +3 more
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The We‐Relationship as a Key to Addressing Dementia‐Related Ambiguous Loss
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pauline Boss describes the challenges faced by people caring for family members with dementia in terms of ambiguous loss – a condition in which the physical presence of the person with dementia coexists with their psychological absence. This article proposes the concept of we‐relationship as a key to addressing dementia‐related ambiguous loss.
Takuya Niikawa, Xue Li
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Epidemiological situation of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Douala, the most populated and highly heterogeneous town of Cameroon: a post-vaccination update. [PDF]
Acta Trop, 2023 Moguem Soubgui AF +11 more
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Similarity Measures for Clustering SNP and Epidemiological Data [PDF]
The issue of suitable similarity measures for a joint consideration of so called SNP data and epidemiological variables arises from the GENICA (Interdisciplinary Study Group on Gene Environment Interaction and Breast Cancer in Germany) casecontrol study ...
Selinski, Silvia
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The paper describes the epidemiological situation in the countries of the world in terms of the incidence of Hantavirus diseases. The results of an epidemiological analysis of the incidence of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) in the Russian ...
K. S. Martsokha +8 more
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Do Linking‐Expression Substitutions Mitigate Deterministic Interpretations of Genetic Information?
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is a common concern that broader audiences interpret scientific information about the genetic correlates and causes of complex human traits in an overly deterministic manner. A frequently proposed way to address this issue is to carefully select the linking expressions used to describe gene–trait relationships when communicating genetic ...
Riin Kõiv
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Correction to: The law on voluntary termination of pregnancy in Argentina: impact on the epidemiological situation of congenital anomalies and prenatal diagnostic health services. [PDF]
J Community GenetBarbero P +6 more
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