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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
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Multiple Enrollment Policy: Survival Analyses and Odds of Graduating in at Least One University Degree Program

Trends in Higher Education
Austria (Europe)’s university system does not allocate tuition fees to its students and allows for multiple simultaneous enrollments. This leads to students having different constellations between earlier enrollments, i.e., “pre-studies”, and their ...
Alexander Karl Ferdinand Loder
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Implementation of an in situ simulation-based training adapted from Morbidity and Mortality conference cases: effect on the occurrence of adverse events—study protocol of a cluster randomised controlled trial

Trials, 2022
Background Morbidity and Mortality conference provides the necessary improvement measures for patient safety. However, they are an underused resource mainly because the conclusions to be drawn from the discussion and their implications for practice are ...
Nicolas Michel, Bernard Bui-Xuan, Lionel Bapteste, Thomas Rimmele, Marc Lilot, François Chollet, Hélène Favre, Antoine Duclos, Philippe Michel   +8 more
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Fingerprint Quality Assessment: Matching Performance and Image Quality [PDF]

, 2016
This article chiefly focuses on Fingerprint Quality Assessment (FQA) applied to the Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). In our research work, different FQA solutions proposed so far are compared by using several quality metrics selected from the existing studies.
Yao, Zhigang, Le Bars, Jean-Marie, Charrier, Christophe, Rosenberger, Christophe   +3 more
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Heterogeneity in the Global Practice of Central Nervous System Staging in Pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Central nervous system (CNS) involvement in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is assessed by cell counting and cytomorphology from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and is used for treatment stratification worldwide. The ratio of “CNS2” patients in clinical trials ranges from 3% to 40%, with unclear prognostic significance ...
Laura Almási, Bernadett Borbála Huszti, Gábor Barna, Marko Kavcic, Janez Jazbec, Lennart Lenk, Vera Münch, Sophia Polychronopoulou, Ágnes Márk, Maria Thastrup, Lüder H. Meyer, Kjeld Schmiegelow, Cornelia Eckert, Christina Halsey, Dániel J. Erdélyi   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

University system & multiple enrollment policy: dropout and graduation clusters

Cogent Education
Dropout of university students can have negative consequences for students’ futures as well as for university income. University systems with a multiple enrollment policy may offer students benefits, such as a second chance to graduate instead of ...
Alexander Karl Ferdinand Loder
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Leadership: Catalyst for Quality and Performance

Nursing Leadership, 2010
T he Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership provides a unique opportunity to share ideas and information about innovations in healthcare, seeking new and improved ways of doing things. To stimulate thinking, Lynn Nagel, as editor-in-chief, asked the journal’s editors to discuss their perspectives.
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The Role of Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Ataxia‐Telangiectasia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Ataxia‐telangiectasia (A‐T) is a DNA repair disorder characterized by neurodegeneration, immunodeficiency, and cancer predisposition. Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is an established therapy in related disorders such as Fanconi anemia (FA) and Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS), but its role in A‐T is unclear.
Laila Alkhouli, Seth Rotz, Masatoshi Takagi, Richa Sharma   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Performance, carcass and meat quality in pigs [PDF]

, 2004
In this thesis, influences of conventional and organic rearing systems, breed crosses and feeding regimens on performance, carcass and technological and sensory meat quality traits in pigs were investigated.
Heyer, Anke
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Early performance testing of distributed software applications

, 2004
Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies systematic techniques to evaluate performance characteristics. We argue that
Giovanni Denaro, Denaro, G, DENARO GIOVANNI, Polini, A, EMMERICH WOLFGANG, Wolfgang Emmerich, POLINI, Andrea, Emmerich, W, Andrea Polini   +8 more
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