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Toward Natural Limb Function: A New Era in Prosthetic Innovation
The past decade has witnessed groundbreaking clinical implementation of neuroprosthetic limbs driven by signals from peripheral targets (eg, nerves and muscle) and the brain to restore limb function for individuals with limb loss or impairment. In this review, we highlight recent key clinical trials in peripheral neuroprosthetic interfaces directly ...
Yucheng Tian+4 more
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Health Insurance and Life Style Choices: Identifying the Ex Ante Moral Hazard [PDF]
There is extensive debate in the literature about the practical significance of the concept of ex-ante moral hazard. This paper uses data from the 1999-2003 PSID waves to estimate a structural model of individual choice of insurance coverage and four ...
Stanciole, Anderson
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Objective This study aims to assess the risk of noninfectious uveitis (NIU) relapse in pediatric patients undergoing adalimumab (ADA) tapering, evaluating potential predictors of such risk. Methods We conducted a multicenter retrospective cohort study involving pediatric patients with NIU who underwent ADA tapering due to inactive uveitis.
Achille Marino+31 more
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Financial integration within the European Union: Towards a single market for insurance [PDF]
Our study analyses the extent of integration of the EU market for life and non-life insurance. The main integration indicator used is the market share (premium based) of foreign companies in domestic markets.
Beckmann, Rainer+2 more
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Equity-linked insurances and guaranteed annuity options [PDF]
We consider here term and whole-life cases of the equity-linked life insurance(ELLI), and the guaranteed annuity option (GAO). We present a financial instrument which is a combination of ELLI and GAO in a stochastic interest rate framework.equity-linked ...
Burnecki, Krzysztof+1 more
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Expert Perspective: Diagnosis and Treatment of Castleman Disease
Summary Castleman disease (CD) is a major diagnostic challenge for Rheumatologists. Unicentric CD (UCD) involves one enlarged lymph node region whereas multicentric CD (MCD) involves multiple enlarged lymph node regions. Both UCD and MCD may exhibit a wide range of symptoms that overlap with other immune‐mediated conditions.
Luke Y.C. Chen+2 more
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Objective Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is a possible trigger of systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (SARDs). We investigated SARDs risk related to long‐term exposure to PM2.5 and its components (ammonium, black carbon, mineral dust, sea salt, nitrate, sulfate, organic matter), the composition of which may affect toxicity.
Mareva Geslin+6 more
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PARTICULARITIES OF LIFE INSURANCE PURCHASING PROCESS [PDF]
The decision to buy a life insurance policy is in most of the cases a complex decision. The consumer faces many problems before the purchase and during the effective process and after the purchase.life-insurance, insurance policy, situational factors ...
Ilie-Mircea BARBU, Nicoleta GRIDEANU
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Exploring pediatric palliative care in Luxembourg: a mixed-methods study. [PDF]
Massaad M+3 more
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Objective To assess risks of adverse pregnancy outcomes (APO) in a contemporary cohort of women with systemic sclerosis (SSc) in relation to the timing of SSc diagnosis and by parity. Methods From the nationwide Swedish Medical Birth Register, we assembled pregnancies with births in women with SSc and in comparator women from the general population ...
Weng Ian Che+5 more
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