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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
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The Fate (Outcome) of Clinically Apparent Single Lesion and Oligofocal Nephroblastomatosis Treated According to SIOP/GPOH Protocols for Wilms Tumor

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The management of clinically apparent single lesions or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis, a facultative precursor of nephroblastoma, remains debated. Methods We retrospectively analyzed 37 patients with clinically apparent single or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis (two to three lesions per kidney) among 2347 patients registered between
Nils Welter, Jens‐Peter Schenk, Jenny Wegert, Manfred Gessler, Leo Kager, Stefan Wagenpfeil, Marina Müller, Jean‐Michel Wolff, Joerg Fuchs, Steven W. Warmann, Clemens‐Magnus Meier, Jochen Hubertus, Christian Rübe, Christian Vokuhl, Patrick Melchior, Lena Tschirner, Norbert Graf, Rhoikos Furtwängler   +17 more
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Sociotechnical analyses of households’ comprehension of land use and land cover change in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa

Discover Sustainability
Communal land systems are undergoing degradation, and this has implications for food and water security. This study examines land use and land cover changes in communal land system of Mthatha river catchment, South Africa, by using a juxtaposition of GIS
Simbarashe Ndhleve, H M Kabiti, K Ayisi, L Zhou, M. D. V. Nakin, T. Dube   +5 more
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Individual behavioral variation reflects personality divergence in the upcoming model organism Nothobranchius furzeri

Ecology and Evolution, 2018
In the animal kingdom, behavioral variation among individuals has often been reported. However, stable among‐individual differences along a behavioral continuum—reflective of personality variation—have only recently become a key target of research. While
Eli S. J. Thoré, Laure Steenaerts, Charlotte Philippe, Arnout Grégoir, Luc Brendonck, Tom Pinceel   +5 more
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Co-creating a local environmental epidemiology study: the case of citizen science for investigating air pollution and related health risks in Barcelona, Spain

Environmental Health, 2022
Background While the health risks of air pollution attract considerable attention, both scholarly and within the general population, citizens are rarely involved in environmental health research, beyond participating as data subjects.
Florence Gignac, Valeria Righi, Raül Toran, Lucía Paz Errandonea, Rodney Ortiz, Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Javier Creus, Xavier Basagaña, Mara Balestrini   +8 more
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The Consequences of Increased Population Growth for Climate Change [PDF]

, 2014
This paper examines the impact of population growth on global climate change. The author employs the Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM) to estimate the effects of population growth on the change global average temperature by 2100.
David Rosnick
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Global environmental change policy priorities from the Americas and opportunities to bridge the science-policy gap

Ecosystems and People
Governments and intergovernmental organizations support scientific research to produce the knowledge and tools needed to monitor and mitigate global environmental changes (GEC).
Matías E. Mastrángelo, Irene Torres, Mercy J. Borbor-Cordova, Margot A. Hurlbert, Jeniffer Silva, Anna M. Stewart Ibarra   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health‐Related Quality of Life and Symptom Severity Among Patients With PIK3CA‐Related Overgrowth Spectrum: A Mixed‐Methods Study to Understand Real‐World Experience With Alpelisib Treatment

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background PIK3CA‐related overgrowth spectrum (PROS) includes several rare overgrowth disorders resulting from somatic gain‐of‐function mutations in PIK3CA. Despite treatment advances, including the recent approval of alpelisib for PROS in the United States, literature detailing the patient experience with PROS is limited.
Vamsi Bollu, Kaitlin LaGasse, Cory D. Saucier, Kimberly Raymond, Miranda Lauher‐Charest, Lauren Crowder, Beilei Cai, Mary Lisha Paul, Denise Adams   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Machine learning map of climate policy literature reveals disparities between scientific attention, policy density, and emissions

npj Climate Action
Current climate mitigation policies are not sufficient to meet the Paris temperature target, and ramping up efforts will require rapid learning from the scientific literature on climate policies.
Max Callaghan, Lucy Banisch, Niklas Doebbeling-Hildebrandt, Duncan Edmondson, Christian Flachsland, William F. Lamb, Sebastian Levi, Finn Müller-Hansen, Eduardo Posada, Shraddha Vasudevan, Jan C. Minx   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Future changes in the trading of virtual water

Nature Communications, 2020
Assessments of future virtual water trading are still lacking. Here the authors estimated the global virtual water trade throughout the century and found that virtual green water exports and virtual blue water exports at least triple to more than 3200 ...
Neal T. Graham, Mohamad I. Hejazi, Son H. Kim, Evan G. R. Davies, James A. Edmonds, Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source