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Acceptability of Social Media Incentives to Increase Physical Activity [PDF]

, 2019
Background: Contingency management can be effective in promoting physical activity, but the change frequently does not sustain after the intervention is withdrawn. A feasible and sustainable physical activity intervention is needed. Social media may meet
DeFulio, Anthony, Devoto, Amanda
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Intervention in Power Control Games With Selfish Users

, 2011
We study the power control problem in wireless ad hoc networks with selfish users. Without incentive schemes, selfish users tend to transmit at their maximum power levels, causing significant interference to each other. In this paper, we study a class of
Park, Jaeok, van der Schaar, Mihaela, Xiao, Yuanzhang   +2 more
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Ethnic Differences in the Association Between SOD2 rs4880 and Hepatotoxicity in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Report From the REDIAL Consortium

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Treatment‐associated hepatotoxicity (TAH) is a common complication of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) treatment, but genetic risk factors remain poorly understood. We evaluated the SOD2 rs4880 variant in 544 children with ALL at Texas Children's Hospital. After adjusting for demographic and clinical covariates, the rs4880 C allele
Emily J. Mason, John P. Woodhouse, Joanna S. Yi, M. Monica Gramatges, Olga A. Taylor, Veronica A. Morales, Shalini Dhamodharan, Marley Roberts, Karen R. Rabin, Philip J. Lupo, Michael E. Scheurer, Van Huynh, Steven D. Mittelman, Etan Orgel, Austin L. Brown   +14 more
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Sterilized intervention, nonsterilized intervention, and monetary policy [PDF]

Sterilized intervention is generally ineffective. Countries that conduct monetary policy using an overnight, interbank rate as an intermediate target automatically sterilize their interventions.
Ben Craig, Owen Humpage
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Assessing Cognitive Functioning in Children With Brain Tumors: Interaction of Neighborhood Social Determinants of Health and Neurological Risk

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background This study investigated how neighborhood‐level social determinants of health (SDOH), including redlining and neurological risk, interact to influence cognitive outcomes in children treated for brain tumors (CTBT). Methods A retrospective chart review of 161 CTBT aged 5–17 was conducted.
Alannah R. Srsich, Manali Zope, Peter M. Fantozzi, Cassie N. Kline, Iris Paltin, Matthew C. Hocking   +5 more
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Application of Supply Processing and Distribution Model in Interventional Consumables Management Based on Whole-Process Coding Technology

Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
Jieqin Ju,1 Jiawen Ma,1 Peizhen Xu,1 Liqing Mao,1 Zizhi Weng,1 Qinhong Xu2 1Intervention Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315010, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Nursing, The First Affiliated Hospital of ...
Ju J, Ma J, Xu P, Mao L, Weng Z, Xu Q
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Efficacy and Safety Analysis of Roxarestat in Regulating Renal Anemia in Patients on Maintenance Hemodialysis

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To compare the efficacy and safety of roxarestat versus recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) in the management of renal anemia in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis. Methods This was a prospective, open‐label, randomized controlled trial.
Lingling Chen, Junjie Zhu, Qiaonan Ge
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The Spinal Instability Neoplastic Score correlates with epidural spinal cord compression -a retrospective cohort of 256 surgically treated patients with spinal metastases

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
Background Bone metastases can compromise the integrity of the spinal canal and cause epidural spinal cord compression (ESCC). The Spinal Instability Neoplastic Score (SINS) was developed in order to evaluate spinal instability due to a neoplastic ...
Lukas Bobinski, Joel Axelsson, Jonathan Melhus, Josefin Åkerstedt, Johan Wänman   +4 more
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Evaluation of Data Telemetry for Future Leadless Cardiac Pacemaker

IEEE Access, 2019
Multi-node leadless pacemaker system overcomes the main limitations related to lead complications of the conventional cardiac pacemaker and will thus replace them in the near future.
Pritam Bose, Ali Khaleghi, Salman Mahmood, Mohammad Albatat, Jacob Bergsland, Ilangko Balasingham   +5 more
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Intervention in Ornstein-Uhlenbeck SDEs [PDF]

, 2013
We introduce a notion of intervention for stochastic differential equations and a corresponding causal interpretation. For the case of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck SDE, we show that the SDE resulting from a simple type of intervention again is an Ornstein ...
Sokol, Alexander
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