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The assessment of joint purchasing: Can too much ‘buying power’ ever be a problem

Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences, 2011
The creation of ‘buying power’ through joint purchasing agreements is often seen as positive, with direct benefits for consumers in the form of lower prices.
Paul Anderson, Fatima Fiandeiro, Keshav Choudhary   +2 more
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Burden of illness in carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii infections in US hospitals between 2014 and 2019

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022
Background Carbapenem-resistant (CR) Acinetobacter baumannii is a concerning pathogen in the USA and worldwide. Methods To assess the comparative burden of CR vs carbapenem-susceptible (CS) A. baumannii, this retrospective cohort study analyzed data from
Jason M. Pogue, Yun Zhou, Hemanth Kanakamedala, Bin Cai   +3 more
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Coming, Going, and Knowing. Reading Sex and Embodiment in Hebrew Narrative [PDF]

, 2016
This article both summarizes and analyzes recent feminist scholarship in literary studies and, in light of that analysis, examines a range of Hebrew terms for sexual intercourse.
Christine Mitchell
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Generalized Galilean Genesis

, 2015
The galilean genesis scenario is an alternative to inflation in which the universe starts expanding from Minkowski in the asymptotic past by violating the null energy condition stably.
Kobayashi, Tsutomu, Nishi, Sakine
core   +1 more source

Sustained Microbial Burden Reduction and Impact on Covid19 Cases in Long-Term Care Facility through Advanced Photocatalysis

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology
Background: COVID19 remains deadly to Americans over 75 years old despite vaccination and additional infection control practices in long term care (LTC).
Kim Trosch, Amy Carenza, Deborah Birx, Julie Britton, Charmarie Adkins   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Co-culture of human embryos with autologous cumulus cell clusters and its beneficial impact of secreted growth factors on preimplantation development as compared to standard embryo culture in assisted reproductive technologies (ART)

Middle East Fertility Society Journal, 2017
Objective: To analyze the concentration of growth factors secreted by autologous cumulus cell clusters during in vitro human embryo co-culture and investigate the impact of culture supplementation with autologous cumulus cell clusters on embryo ...
Alexandros Vithoulkas, Michael Levanduski, Vasilios T. Goudas, Karl Illmensee   +3 more
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Laboratory investigation of coupled electrical interaction of fracturing rock with gases

Earth, Planets and Space, 2021
In the coupled electric interaction of rock fractures and gas invasion, that is, when gases interact with newly created crack surfaces, the unpaired electrons within the rock crystal defects are thermally stimulated, released into the crack due to the ...
Yuji Enomoto, Tsuneaki Yamabe, Shigeki Sugiura, Hitoshi Kondo   +3 more
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Using a cascade approach to assess condom uptake in female sex workers in India: a review of the Avahan data

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background The Avahan India AIDS Initiative was implemented to provide HIV prevention services to key populations including female sex workers (FSWs) who carry the burden of India’s concentrated HIV epidemic.
Renay Weiner, Micah Fineberg, Bridget Dube, Prabuddhagopal Goswami, Shajan Mathew, Gina Dallabetta, Saul Johnson   +6 more
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Response to Allopurinol and Febuxostat According to the Fractional Excretion of Urate in Men With Gout

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Body mass index (BMI), glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and pretreatment urate levels have been reported to influence the urate‐lowering response to allopurinol. We investigated whether the fractional excretion of uric acid (FEUA) also modulates this response and relates to oxypurinol concentrations.
Pascal Richette, Anouk Walter‐Petrich, Quang Dinh Nguyen, Matthieu Resche‐Rigon, Quang Huy Dinh Nguyen, Minh Duc Do, Thao Phuong Mai, Tuan Duc Nguyen, Fernando Perez‐Ruiz, Emmanuel Letavernier, Tristan Pascart, Augustin Latourte, Hang Korng Ea, Thomas Bardin   +13 more
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EbbRT: a customizable operating system for cloud applications [PDF]

, 2015
Efficient use of hardware requires operating system components be customized to the application workload. Our general purpose operating systems are ill-suited for this task.
Appavoo, Jonathan, Cadden, James, Dong, Han, Krieger, Orran, Schatzberg, Dan   +4 more
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