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ABSTRACT Background People with learning disabilities often face significant challenges in understanding health information. Pictorial supports are widely assumed to improve communication for people with learning disabilities, yet little research examines how visual communication can be effectively designed for this group.
Alison Drewett +5 more
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Examination of Afghanistan's Development Traps
Abstract We examine the factors behind Afghanistan's persistent underdevelopment. Drawing on various theories of development traps operating at the demographic, economic and institutional levels, we seek to assess whether and to what extent their functioning affects Afghanistan's development. To capture the functioning of development traps empirically,
Klemen Knez, Tina G. Lokar
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Letter from Robert Lee Carter to Ivory M. Davis
Letter from Robert Lee Carter from the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to Ivory M. Davis. The letter mentions a copy of a letter to the attorney for Local No.
Carter, Robert Lee
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Extending the Lee-carter method to model the rotation of age patterns of mortality decline for long-term projections. [PDF]
Li N, Lee R, Gerland P.
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Is there a role for cannabidiol in obesity, metabolic syndrome and binge eating?
Cannabidiol (CBD) is one of the most abundant phytocannabinoids isolated from the Cannabis sativa plant. CBD is a lipophilic, non‐intoxicating substance that differently from Δ9‐tetrahydrocannabinol (Δ9‐THC) does not present the typical profile of a drug of abuse.
Luca Botticelli +7 more
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Decelerating mortality rates in older ages and its prospects through Lee-Carter approach. [PDF]
Yadav A, Yadav S, Kesarwani R.
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Therapeutic potential of natural products in cancer immunotherapy: Advances and challenges
This review systematically outlines the mechanisms underlying tumour immunotherapy resistance and elucidates the role of natural products in enhancing therapeutic efficacy as immunomodulatory adjuvants. Abstract Immunotherapy has emerged as a clinically pivotal approach in cancer treatment, but its application remains limited to a small subset of ...
Rao Hu +6 more
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Gut microbiota as a novel therapeutic target for eating disorders and obesity
The graphical abstract highlights the bidirectional interaction between the gut microbiota and central homeostatic and hedonic mechanisms regulating food intake, which contributes to overweight and obesity. It also illustrates emerging microbiota‐based biomarkers and therapeutic strategies (including prebiotics, probiotics, postbiotics, synbiotics and ...
Solveiga Samulėnaitė +5 more
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Mortality in a heterogeneous population - Lee-Carter's methodology
The EU Solvency II directive recommends insurance companies to pay more attention to the risk management methods. The sense of risk management is the ability to quantify risk and apply methods that reduce uncertainty. In life insurance, the risk is a consequence of the random variable describing the life expectancy.
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ABSTRACT This article details curricular and research methods that privilege young children's voices, movements, and creative choices within performing arts workshops as they devise their own beliefs and understandings of puberty and menstruation. Participants included girl‐identifying children aged 5–12 years, residing in a central Pennsylvania suburb
Julie Snyder
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