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Explaining regional variation in elective hip and knee arthroplasties in Finland 2010 − 2017—a register-based cohort study

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background A persistent research finding in industrialised countries has been regional variation in medical practices including elective primary hip and knee arthroplasty.
Kristiina Manderbacka, Markku Satokangas, Martti Arffman, Eeva Reissell, Ilmo Keskimäki, Alastair H. Leyland   +5 more
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Ethnicity and Nationality in the Irish Labour Market. ESRI Research Series, 2018 [PDF]

, 2018
This report presents a more in-depth analysis of discrimination in the labour market to ascertain if certain ethnic groups experience higher rates of work related discrimination than others.
Coughlan, Sarah, Grotti, Raffaele, McGinnity, Frances, Sarah, Groarke   +3 more
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Smart Closed‐Loop Systems in Personalized Healthcare: Advances and Outlook

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
A smart closed‐loop e‐textile integrates multimodal sensing, onboard processing, wireless communication, and wearable power to enable real‐time physiological/biochemical monitoring and feedback‐controlled therapy. ABSTRACT Smart textiles represent a revolutionary frontier in healthcare, seamlessly blending fabric and advanced technologies to create ...
Safoora Khosravi, Sang Won Lee, Mohammad Abrar Uddin, Sina Hassanpoor, Neha Suvindran, Katherine Le, Harun Arkaz, Harishkumar Narayana, Saeid Soltanian, Danial Khorsandi, Negar Hosseinzadeh Kouchehbaghi, Taeil Kim, Yangzhi Zhu   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Weather Conditions and Storage Duration on the Germination of Croatian Winter Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Varieties

Agronomy
Seed germination is a key determinant of wheat seed quality, strongly affected by genetic potential, weather conditions during production, and storage duration.
Vedran Orkić, Sunčica Kujundžić, Sanja Grubišić Šestanj, Boris Ravnjak, Sonja Petrović, Sonja Vila, Andrijana Rebekić, Darko Kiš, Jurica Jović, Antun Jozinović, Drago Šubarić, Nicolae Marinel Horablaga, Emilian Onișan, Vlado Guberac   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Solitary confinement and the U.S. prison boom [PDF]

, 2019
Solitary confinement is a harsh form custody involving isolation from the general prison population and highly restricted access to visitation and programs.
Sakoda, Ryan T., Simes, Jessica T.
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Radiative Cooling by Green(er) Solvents‐Upcycled Polyvinyl Chloride From Drug Blisters Waste

Advanced Optical Materials, EarlyView.
This study explores upcycling poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) from used pharmaceutical blisters into sustainable radiative cooling materials. Using solvent separation and membrane fabrication, PVC was converted into white membranes paired with aluminum foil.
Andrea Lanfranchi, Paola Lova, Davide Comoretto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Credit risk in European banks: The bright side of the internal ratings based approach [PDF]

, 2018
This paper investigates the accuracy of internal rating based (IRB) models in measuring credit risk. We contribute to the growing debate on the current prudential regulatory framework by investigating the use of validated IRB models in promoting ...
Arellano, Arroyo, Barakova, Beck, Behn, Behn, Beltratti, Berg, Berger, Bikker, Bofondi, Bruno, Chaibi, Chaibi, Colliard, Danielsson, Danielsson, De Haas, Dimitrios, Doriana Cucinelli, Erdinc, Farhan, Ferri, Foos, Ghosh, Glen, Han, Heckman, Hess, Jimenez, Keeton, Keeton, Kyriazidou, Kyriazidou, Laeven, Laura Nieri, Ledo, Louzis, Lucchetti, Macit, Makri, Malvina Marchese, Marcucci, Maria Luisa Di Battista, Mariathasan, Mascia, Perèz Montes, Plosser, Podpiera, Resti, Salas, Semykina, Wooldridge, Zhang   +53 more
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The Future of Research in Cognitive Robotics: Foundation Models or Developmental Cognitive Models?

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Research in cognitive robotics founded on principles of developmental psychology and enactive cognitive science would yield what we seek in autonomous robots: the ability to perceive its environment, learn from experience, anticipate the outcome of events, act to pursue goals, and adapt to changing circumstances without resorting to training with ...
David Vernon
wiley   +1 more source

Toward Wireless Implantable Robotic Systems Driven by Magnetic Field for Personalized Therapy

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Robotic materials are playing an increasingly vital role in enabling sensing and actuation at small scales. This perspective highlights recent advances in magnetic materials and magnetically actuated devices for wireless sensing, actuation, and energy harvesting toward implantable robotic systems for closed‐loop therapy.
Yusheng Wang, Ruijian Ge, Xiaoguang Dong
wiley   +1 more source

Labor Force Experiences of Recent Veterans [PDF]

, 2017
[Excerpt] More than 3.8 million members of the U.S. military have left active-duty service since September 2001, a period that some federal agencies call the Gulf War II era (as opposed to the Gulf War I era, which spanned the period from August 1990 to ...
Congressional Budget Office
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