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Lee-Carter mortality forecasting: a multi-country comparison of variants and extensions

Demographic Research, 2006
We compare the short- to medium-term accuracy of five variants or extensions of the Lee-Carter method for mortality forecasting. These include the original Lee-Carter, the Lee-Miller and Booth-Maindonald-Smith variants, and the more flexible Hyndman ...
Leonie Tickle, Rob J. Hyndman, Piet de Jong, Heather Booth   +3 more
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Association of C-reactive protein and metabolic risk with cognitive effects of lurasidone in patients with schizophrenia

Comprehensive Psychiatry, 2020
Background: Accumulating evidence has implicated insulin resistance and inflammation in the pathophysiology of cognitive impairments associated with neuropsychiatric disorders.
Brian J. Miller, Andrei Pikalov, Cynthia O. Siu, Michael Tocco, Joyce Tsai, Philip D. Harvey, John W. Newcomer, Antony Loebel   +7 more
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Local Dexamethasone Administration Delays Allogeneic Islet Graft Rejection in the Anterior Chamber of the Eye of Non-Human Primates

Cell Transplantation, 2022
Pancreatic islet transplantation into the anterior chamber of the eye (ACE) has been shown to improve glycemic control and metabolic parameters of diabetes in both murine and primate models.
Sai Bo Bo Tun, Minni Chua, Gavin Siew Wei Tan, Ingo Leibiger, Yusuf Ali, Veluchamy Amutha Barathi, Per-Olof Berggren   +6 more
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Updated COVID‐19 Vaccines and Health Outcomes in Patients With Autoimmune Rheumatic Conditions

Arthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.
Objective We aimed to assess the association between COVID‐19 vaccination status and COVID‐19‐related hospital admissions, need for mechanical ventilation or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), and death in people with autoimmune rheumatic conditions. Methods We conducted a retrospective cohort study using National Clinical Cohort Collaborative
Lesley E. Jackson, A. Jerrod Anzalone, Kenneth G. Saag, Rahima Begum, AKM F. Rahman, Namrata Singh, Kaleb Michaud, Jasvinder A. Singh, Rena C. Patel, Maria I. Danila, on behalf of the National Clinical Cohort Collaborative Consortium, Adam B. Wilcox, Adam M. Lee, Alexis Graves, Alfred (Jerrod) Anzalone, Amin Manna, Amit Saha, Amy Olex, Andrea Zhou, Andrew E. Williams, Andrew M. Southerland, Andrew T. Girvin, Anita Walden, Anjali Sharathkumar, Benjamin Amor, Benjamin Bates, Brian Hendricks, Brijesh Patel, G. Caleb Alexander, Carolyn T. Bramante, Cavin Ward‐Caviness, Charisse Madlock‐Brown, Christine Suver, Christopher G. Chute, Christopher Dillon, Chunlei Wu, Clare Schmitt, Cliff Takemoto, Dan Housman, Davera Gabriel, David A. Eichmann, Diego Mazzotti, Donald E. Brown, Eilis Boudreau, Elaine L. Hill, Emily Carlson Marti, Emily R. Pfaff, Evan French, Farrukh M. Koraishy, Federico Mariona, Fred Prior, George Sokos, Greg Martin, Harold P. Lehmann, Heidi Spratt, Hemalkumar B. Mehta, J. W. Awori Hayanga, Jami Pincavitch, Jaylyn Clark, Jeremy Richard Harper, Jessica Yasmine Islam, Jin Ge, Joel Gagnier, Johanna J. Loomba, John B. Buse, Jomol Mathew, Joni L. Rutter, Julie A. McMurry, Justin Guinney, Justin Starren, Karen Crowley, Katie Rebecca Bradwell, Kellie M. Walters, Ken Wilkins, Kenneth R. Gersing, Kenrick Cato, Kimberly Murray, Kristin Kostka, Lavance Northington, Lee Pyles, Lesley Cottrell, Lili M. Portilla, Mariam Deacy, Mark M. Bissell, Marshall Clark, Mary Emmett, Matvey B. Palchuk, Melissa A. Haendel, Meredith Adams, Meredith Temple‐O'Connor, Michael G. Kurilla, Michele Morris, Nasia Safdar, Nicole Garbarini, Noha Sharafeldin, Ofer Sadan, Patricia A. Francis, Penny Wung Burgoon, Philip R. O. Payne, Randeep Jawa, Rebecca Erwin‐Cohen, Rena C. Patel, Richard A. Moffitt, Richard L. Zhu, Rishikesan Kamaleswaran, Robert Hurley, Robert T. Miller, Saiju Pyarajan, Sam G. Michael, Samuel Bozzette, Sandeep K. Mallipattu, Satyanarayana Vedula, Scott Chapman, Shawn T. O'Neil, Soko Setoguchi, Stephanie S. Hong, Steven G. Johnson, Tellen D. Bennett, Tiffany J. Callahan, Umit Topaloglu, Valery Gordon, Vignesh Subbian, Warren A. Kibbe, Wenndy Hernandez, Will Beasley, Will Cooper, William Hillegass, Xiaohan Tanner Zhang   +127 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Two-Way Convolution of the Mittag-Leffler Function with Sheffer Polynomials

Mathematics
This article presents a two-way convolution of the Mittag-Leffler function with Sheffer polynomials via the umbral algebraic method, thereby introducing the Mittag-Leffler–Sheffer polynomials (MLSPs) and the Sheffer–Mittag-Leffler function (SMLF).
Waseem Ahmad Khan, Areefa Khatoon, Khidir Shaib Mohamed, Muntasir Suhail, Habeeb Ibrahim, Naglaa Mohammed   +5 more
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Higher risk of Long COVID among patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases and immunomodulatory therapy: a retrospective cohort analysis of national US data.

Arthritis &Rheumatology, Accepted Article.
Background Little is known about the prevalence of and factors associated with Long COVID in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases (AIRDs). Methods We conducted a retrospective cohort study using data from the National Clinical Cohort Collaborative (N3C).
Namrata Singh, A. Jerrod Anzalone, Holland Stevenson, Londyn Robinson, Lesley E. Jackson, Sandra E. Safo, Zachary Butzin‐Dozier, Kaleb Michaud, Maria I. Danila, Jasvinder A. Singh, Rena C. Patel, on behalf of the National Clinical Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Consortium   +11 more
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Disagreement and (im)politeness in a Spanish family members’ WhatsApp group

Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2019
The present paper explores disagreement and impoliteness in a WhatsApp interaction within a Spanish family that took place during the 2018 International Women’s Day.
Lucía Fernández-Amaya
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‘…It was my choice to see how I can acquire this Western world education… and I'm happy…’: Structuration and the dialectic nature of being a Nigerian university student in the UK

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines the experiences of Nigerian cross‐border students in UK higher education, focusing on how colonial legacies continue to shape the interplay between structure and agency. Three key themes emerged in the analysis of the data: First, the persistence of a ‘West is Best’ mentality reflects the internalisation of colonial ...
Jennifer Marshall, Jack Bryne Stothard
wiley   +1 more source

A Maslov-Type Index in Dimension 2

Mathematics
In this article, we define an index of the Maslov type for paths of 2×2 orthogonal symplectic matrices. The starting point is an arbitrary 2×2 orthogonal symplectic matrix rather than the identity matrix.
Qiyu Zhong, Hai-Long Her
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English teachers' journeys since the 2020 Iteration of Black Lives Matter

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The 2020 resurgence of Black Lives Matter (BLM) mobilised students in England to demand greater representation of racially minoritised voices in English curriculums—a call highlighted by stark inequity: just 1.5% of GCSE texts studied are by racially minoritised authors, despite racially minoritised students comprising 38.0% of the student ...
Adrian Fernandes
wiley   +1 more source