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Western Asian and Northern African residential building stocks: archetype analysis

Buildings & Cities
Buildings are significant consumers of natural and manufactured resources, especially in rapidly urbanizing regions. This study presents the first comprehensive analysis of residential building stocks in 19 countries across these Western Asia and ...
Sahin Akin, Aida Eghbali, Chibuikem Nwagwu, Edgar Hertwich   +3 more
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Global Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Flux Inferred from TanSat XCO2 Retrievals

Journal of Remote Sensing, 2022
TanSat is China’s first greenhouse gases observing satellite. In recent years, substantial progresses have been achieved on retrieving column-averaged CO2 dry air mole fraction (XCO2).
Hengmao Wang, Fei Jiang, Yi Liu, Dongxu Yang, Mousong Wu, Wei He, Jun Wang, Jing Wang, Weimin Ju, Jing M. Chen   +9 more
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Time Toxicity in Wilms Tumor: Quantifying the Burden of Healthcare Interaction in the First Year After Diagnosis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Wilms tumor (WT) treatment imposes a significant time burden on patients and their families. Time toxicity is a patient‐centered metric that quantifies the burden of healthcare interaction. We sought to define time toxicity in the first year after diagnosis of WT and hypothesized that it would increase as tumor stage and treatment ...
Caleb Q. Ashbrook, Veerain Gupta, Nicholas J. Clark, Vijay Rings, Lauren E. Corona, Douglass B. Clayton, Daniel J. Benedetti   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Telerehabilitation in the Middle East North Africa Region: A Structured Review

International Journal of Telerehabilitation, 2021
A structured review using the PRISMA guidelines, MeSH keywords and eight health databases was conducted (1990 to March 2021). Telerehabilitation research evidence from the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) was summarized.
Naif Qasam Aljabri, Kim Bulkeley, Anne Cusick   +2 more
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Multiple Sclerosis Relapse Activity After Ozanimod Discontinuation in DAYBREAK Trial Participants

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
Multiple Sclerosis Relapse Activity After Ozanimod Discontinuation in DAYBREAK Trial Participants. ABSTRACT Objective Return of disease activity is expected when patients discontinue disease‐modifying therapy (DMT) for multiple sclerosis (MS). Some MS DMTs are associated with higher‐than‐expected disease activity (rebound) after discontinuation.
Ralf Gold, Krzysztof W. Selmaj, Regina Berkovich, Jeffrey A. Cohen, Giancarlo Comi, Eva K. Havrdová, James K. Sheffield, Hetal Desai, Chun‐Yen Cheng, Jon V. Riolo, Andrew Thorpe, Erik DeBoer, Bruce A. C. Cree   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

SPG4 and Dementia: Expanding the Clinical Spectrum

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a group of disorders characterized by progressive spasticity and lower limb weakness, with mutations in SPG4/SPAST being the most common cause. Detailed studies and clinical and molecular comparisons across different populations are missing.
Emanuele Panza, Arun Meyyazhagan, Eliseo Picchi, Gustavo Ribas, Ingrid Faber, Ryosuke Miyamoto, Preethi Basavaraju, Paolo Eusebi, Haripriya Kuchi Bhotla, Mario Stasi, Fabrizio Gaudiello, Francesco Patti, Filippo Maria Santorelli, Marcondes Cavalcante França Jr, José Luiz Pedroso, Orlando Graziani Povoas Barsottini, Hélio Afonso Ghizoni Teive, Peter Henry St George‐Hyslop, Toshitaka Kawarai, Antonio Orlacchio   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Microbial keratitis in East Africa: why are the outcomes so poor? [PDF]

, 2011
PURPOSE: Microbial keratitis (MK) is a major cause of blindness in Africa. This study reports the epidemiology, causative organism, management and outcome of MK in people admitted to a large referral hospital in Northern Tanzania, and explores why the ...
Oates, Francesca, Pithuwa, Jason, Chevallier, Caroline, Anthony B. Hall, Okello, Emily, Afwamba, Issac, Burton, Matthew J, Jason Pithuwa, Emily Okello, Matthew J. Burton, Jecinta J. Onyango, Onyango, Jecinta J, Caroline Chevallier, Issac Afwamba, Hall, Anthony B, Francesca Oates   +15 more
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Dementia Incidence in Individuals With Parkinson's Disease in the Framingham Heart Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Limited information exists on incident dementia in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) in US community‐based samples. We examined cognitive statuses and PD diagnoses of 183 individuals in the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) to establish incident dementia, mortality rates, associations with sex, age at PD onset, and education level.
Joshi Dookhy, Michael Cummings, Eden Price, Yulin Liu, Santiago Gutierrez‐Gomez, Sarah O'Shea, Samuel Frank, Rhoda Au, Ashita S. Gurnani, Ting Fang Alvin Ang, Jesse Mez, Ludy C. Shih   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ineffective programme management on the delivery of health infrastructure projects: A case of the Northern Cape

Acta Structilia, 2016
Programme management remains a challenging management practice in the Northern Cape Department of Health (NCDoH), particularly when a health facility project has to integrate the components of construction management and operations management in order to
Lesetja Mabona, Winston Shakantu
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Displacement Economies in Africa : Paradoxes of Crisis and Creativity

, 2014
Large-scale displacement - whether caused by war, state-related political or development projects, different forms of political violence, structural crisis, or even natural disasters - evokes many stereotyped assumptions about those forcibly displaced or

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