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Lifestyle Behaviors and Cardiotoxic Treatment Risks in Adult Childhood Cancer Survivors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Higher doses of anthracyclines and heart‐relevant radiotherapy increase cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. This study assessed CVD and CVD risk factors among adult childhood cancer survivors (CCSs) across cardiotoxic treatment risk groups and examined associations between lifestyle behaviors and treatment risks.
Ruijie Li, Raquel Revuelta Iniesta, Alan R. Barker, Dimitris Vlachopoulos, Tomáš Sláma, Christina Schindera, Fabiën N. Belle   +6 more
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Sacred Journeys: Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage

Religions, 2018
Pilgrimage, being an ancient practice and a global phenomenon, continues to gain a growinginterest among scholars as its scope traverses many other disciplines and perspectives.[...]
Chadwick Co Sy Su
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Changes in Body Composition in Children and Young People Undergoing Treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ongoing evidence indicates increased risk of sarcopenic obesity among children and young people (CYP) with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), often beginning early in treatment, persisting into survivorship. This review evaluates current literature on body composition in CYP with ALL during and after treatment.
Lina A. Zahed, Raquel Revuelta Iniesta, Mary Fewtrell, Julie Lanigan, Breeana Gardiner, Graeme O'Connor   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Time-Delay Interferometry [PDF]

, 2004
Equal-arm interferometric detectors of gravitational radiation allow phase measurements many orders of magnitude below the intrinsic phase stability of the laser injecting light into their arms.
B Noble, DA Shaddock, DA Shaddock, FB Estabrook, FB Estabrook, G Giampieri, G Nelemans, GM Jenkins, JE Faller, JE Faller, JE Faller, JW Armstrong, K Rajesh Nayak, K Rajesh Nayak, LS Finn, M Kreuzer, M Tinto, M Tinto, M Tinto, M Tinto, M Tinto, M Tinto, M Tinto, M Tinto, NJ Cornish, PL Bender, PL Bender, SM Selby, SV Dhurandhar, T Becker, TA Prince, WM Folkner   +31 more
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Parent‐to‐Child Information Disclosure in Pediatric Oncology

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Despite professional consensus regarding the importance of open communication with pediatric cancer patients about their disease, actual practice patterns of disclosure are understudied. Extant literature suggests a significant proportion of children are not told about their diagnosis/prognosis, which is purported to negatively ...
Rachel A. Kentor, Flora Hoodin, Michelle Byrd, Kristin A. Kullgren, Leah LaLonde, Lauren Benkoske, Patrick Smith, Dawn Carson, Karen MacDonald, Susumu Inoue, Brenda Kitchen, Kate Gowans, Gregory A. Yanik   +12 more
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Awareness, Knowledge, and Acceptance of Living Wills Among Chinese Cancer Patients: A Cross‐Sectional Study

Health Care Science
Background Given the suboptimal quality of end‐of‐life care among patients with cancer in China, promoting living wills is critical in this population.
Longxia Hu, Jiaqing Wang, Deying Hu, Yilan Liu, Yanhong Han, Wenbin Liu, Fen Teng, Xiaoping Ding, Yi Dai, Lihong Bao, Hongling Zhang, Qingzhou Cheng, Yun Yang, Tingting Jiao, Fei Luo, Yali Yang, Zixi Wang, Xiaoping Yang, Shengli Yang   +18 more
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Identifying lead users in a living lab environment [PDF]

, 2013
This paper emphasizes the identification process of lead users within a living lab environment. Lead users are seen as important contributors to the living lab methodology since they express needs before the general market does.
Coorevits, Lynn, Herregodts, Aron-Levi, Schuurman, Dimitri   +2 more
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Interaction design and emotional wellbeing [PDF]

, 2012
The World Health Organisation has concluded that emotional wellbeing is fundamental to our quality of life. It enables us to experience life as meaningful and is an essential component of social cohesion, peace and stability in the living environment
Coyle, David, Lindley, Sian, Linehan, Conor, Tang, Karen P.   +3 more
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Predicting Chronicity in Children and Adolescents With Newly Diagnosed Immune Thrombocytopenia at the Timepoint of Diagnosis Using Machine Learning‐Based Approaches

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives To identify predictors of chronic ITP (cITP) and to develop a model based on several machine learning (ML) methods to estimate the individual risk of chronicity at the timepoint of diagnosis. Methods We analyzed a longitudinal cohort of 944 children enrolled in the Intercontinental Cooperative immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) Study ...
Severin Kasser, Alice Bizeul, Meera Chitlur, Hugo Donato, Jelena Roganovic, Julia E. Vogt, Thomas Kühne   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nothing is alive [PDF]

, 2017
Finding an adequate definition of "life" has proven to be a tricky affair. In this article, I discuss the idea that nothing is really alive: we only say so.
Benovsky, Jiri
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