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The key role for local base order in the generation of multiple forms of China HIV-1 B'/C intersubtype recombinants [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Evolutionary Biology, 2005
Background HIV-1 is a retrovirus with high rate of recombination. Increasing experimental studies in vitro indicated that local hairpin structure of RNA was associated with recombination by favoring RT pausing and promoting strand transfer.
Wei Ji-Fu, Zhang Chi-Yu, He Shao-Heng
doaj   +2 more sources

Pay for performance for hospitals [PDF]

open access: yesCochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2019
Pay-for-Performance (P4P) is a payment model that rewards health care providers for meeting pre-defined targets for quality indicators or efficacy parameters to increase the quality or efficacy of care.Our objective was to assess the impact of P4P for in-hospital delivered health care on the quality of care, resource use and equity.
Mathes, Tim   +5 more
openaire   +3 more sources

The FORS Deep Field: Field selection, photometric observations and photometric catalog [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The FORS Deep Field project is a multi-colour, multi-object spectroscopic investigation of an approx. 7 times 7 region near the south galactic pole based mostly on observations carried out with the FORS instruments attached to the VLT telescopes.
Appenzeller, I.   +24 more
core   +2 more sources

Direct Lyman continuum and Lyman-alpha escape observed at redshift 4 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
We report on the serendipitous discovery of a z=4.0, M1500=-22.20 star-forming galaxy (Ion3) showing copious Lyman continuum (LyC) leakage (~60% escaping), a remarkable multiple peaked Lya emission, and significant Lya radiation directly emerging at the ...
Balestra, I.   +18 more
core   +9 more sources

Development of Optical Fiber Based Measurement System for the Verification of Entrance Dose Map in Pencil Beam Scanning Proton Beam

open access: yesSensors, 2018
This study describes the development of a beam monitoring system for the verification of entrance dose map in pencil beam scanning (PBS) proton therapy based on fiber optic radiation sensors (FORS) and the validation of this system through a feasibility ...
Jaeman Son   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reducing Employment Insecurity

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2016
The perception of job insecurity is known to be a stressful condition for employees. Less is known about employment insecurity and the ways employees and their families deal with it.
Florence Lebert, Erika Antal
doaj   +1 more source

Development of a Small-Sized, Flexible, and Insertable Fiber-Optic Radiation Sensor for Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy

open access: yesSensors, 2015
We fabricated a small-sized, flexible, and insertable fiber-optic radiation sensor (FORS) that is composed of a sensing probe, a plastic optical fiber (POF), a photomultiplier tube (PMT)-amplifier system, and a multichannel analyzer (MCA) to obtain the ...
Wook Jae Yoo   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Accuracy and applicability of periodontitis risk assessment tools: A critical appraisal

open access: yesPeriodontology 2000, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Currently, periodontal risk assessment finds application at first visit (to identify individuals at high risk of either disease incidence, if still healthy, or disease progression, if already diseased) as well as at patient monitoring after active treatment and enrolment in a supportive periodontal care program.
Roberto Farina   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Critical Synthesis Package: Faculty Observer Rating Scale (FORS)

open access: yesMedEdPORTAL, 2014
This Critical Synthesis Package contains: (1) a Critical Analysis of the psychometric properties and application to health sciences education for the Faculty Observer Rating Scale (FORS), and (2) a copy of the instrument and scoring guide developed by ...
Nur-Ain Nadir
doaj   +1 more source

I am not autonomous enough! The role of autonomy beliefs in the relation between social stigma and recovery

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry, 2022
Introduction It has been suggested that liberal values such as lack of autonomy and burden discourses shape the public’s relation toward people with health problems.
D. Lampropoulos, H. Klaas, D. Spini
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