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Imaging of Abdominal Complications in Children With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia

open access: yesJournal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is the most common paediatric malignancy and remains one of the most common causes of cancer‐related death in children and adolescents. Five‐year overall survival rates now exceed 90% with current multidrug chemotherapeutic regimens. This improvement, coupled with the toxicity of chemotherapy, has led to the
Luke R. Holmes   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Five Principles for a New Economic Consensus

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper puts forward five principles for a new economic consensus, which could serve as a modern alternative to the Washington Consensus of 35 years ago. They are built on new ideas that have gained currency in economics over the past three decades. We also provide examples of the policies that could follow from these principles.
Timothy Besley, Andrés Velasco
wiley   +1 more source

Challenging and diagnosing structured population models by testing predictions from stochastic demography

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Structured population models are parameterized to accurately project expected population sizes, stage/state distributions and population growth rates, but they also predict the variation in outcomes among individuals, such as the variance and skewness of lifetime reproductive output (LRO) and lifespan, the probability of never reproducing, and
Stephen P. Ellner   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inferring alternative ecosystem states with field survey data

open access: yesMethods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Many ecosystems potentially exhibit alternative stable states, where distinct states can coexist under identical environmental conditions. While simulation models have generated key hypotheses in alternative stable states theory, they often rely on scale‐free parameters disconnected from real ecosystems.
Ning Chen   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

The relationship between death anxiety and self-esteem: A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One
Connery T   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Effect of Mortality Salience on the Evaluation of Humorous Material

Journal of Social Psychology, 2011
The motivational aspects of humor are considered from the perspective of terror management theory, testing the hypothesis that exposure to the mortality salience manipulation will result in an alteration in participants' appreciation of humorous material. Participants rated several comic strips, indicating how funny they found the jokes.
exaly   +3 more sources

A Distant Ally?: Mortality Salience and Parasocial Attachment

OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 2022
Research in Terror Management Theory finds that close interpersonal relationships (e.g., parents, romantic partners) mitigate threat reactions to reminders of mortality. Parasocial relationships (imagined relationships with media personalities) afford many of the same benefits as interpersonal relationships.
Lucas A. Keefer   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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