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Doubling your payoff: winning pain relief engages endogenous pain inhibition [PDF]

, 2015
When in pain, pain relief is much sought after, particularly for individuals with chronic pain. In analogy to augmentation of the hedonic experience (“liking”) of a reward by the motivation to obtain a reward (“wanting”), the seeking of pain relief in ...
Ahmed, Alysha-Karima, Becker, Susanne, Gandhi, Wiebke, Kwan, Saskia, Schweinhardt, Petra   +4 more
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Prevalence and correlates of maternal early stimulation behaviors during pregnancy in northern Ghana: a cross-sectional survey

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2021
Background Per UNICEF’s Nurturing Care Framework, early childhood development (ECD) begins during pregnancy and many lower-resource settings need data to inform their programs for optimal child development.
Jessica Mackness, John A. Gallis, Raymond Kofi Owusu, Mohammed Ali, Safiyatu Abubakr-Bibilazu, Haliq Adam, Raymond Aborigo, John Koku Awoonor-Williams, Margaret Lillie, Elena McEwan, John Hembling, Lavanya Vasudevan, Joy Noel Baumgartner   +12 more
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Extremely rare case of H-type gallbladder duplication coexistent with carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature

Surgical Case Reports, 2020
Introduction Multiple gallbladders represent a rare congenital disorder, and coexistence with carcinoma is extremely rare, leading to a high possibility of misdiagnosis and surgical complications. In this study, a case was reported and the literature was
Takashi Furuhashi, Toshihiko Abe, Koichiro Sakata, Mayaka Noda, Tadafumi Fuchikami, Nobuhisa Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Fujito, Norihiro Onari, Tetsuo Hamada   +8 more
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Introducing leprosy post-exposure prophylaxis into the health systems of India, Nepal and Indonesia: a case study

BMC Health Services Research, 2017
Background Leprosy has a wide range of clinical and socio-economic consequences. India, Indonesia and Nepal contribute significantly to the global leprosy burden. After integration, the health systems are pivotal in leprosy service delivery.
A. Tiwari, L. Mieras, K. Dhakal, M. Arif, S. Dandel, J. H. Richardus, LPEP Study Group   +6 more
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Conditional cash transfers and embedded extension: A mechanism to restore and promote adoption of improved goat shelters in emergency recovery

Progress in Disaster Science, 2021
Reconstruction of damaged goat shelters was a key need for communities in the Gorkha district, which was the epicenter of the earthquake in 2015, as lack of shelters led to distress sale of goats and reduction in herd size.
Prachanda Kattel, Krishna Mohan
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Limits on Relief through Constrained Exchange on Random Graphs [PDF]

, 2006
Agents are represented by nodes on a random graph (e.g., small world or truncated power law). Each agent is endowed with a zero-mean random value that may be either positive or negative. All agents attempt to find relief, i.e., to reduce the magnitude of
Axelrod, Bollobas, Bollobas, Charles J. Gieseler, Cohen, Danila, Dragulescu, Fuentes, Guclu, Iglesias, Ispolatov, Kalisky, Kesten, Korniss, Kranton, Laguna, Lopez, Lory A. Ellebracht, Mas-Colell, Monasson, Newman, Newman, Newman, Patriarca, Randall A. LaViolette, Redner, Scalettar, Shelling, Watts, Wilhite   +29 more
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The Impact of Leprosy on Marital Relationships and Sexual Health among Married Women in Eastern Nepal

Journal of Tropical Medicine, 2016
Background. Leprosy is one of the most stigmatized diseases known today. The stigma surrounding leprosy can be a major burden and affects many dimensions of a person’s life, including intimate relationships.
Anna T. van ’t Noordende, Wim H. van Brakel, Nandlal Banstola, Krishna P. Dhakal   +3 more
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Role of ultrasound guided transversus abdominis plane block as a component of multimodal analgesic regimen for lower segment caesarean section: a randomized double blind clinical study

BMC Anesthesiology, 2018
Background While opioids are the mainstay for post-operative analgesia after lower segment caesarean section, they are associated with various untoward effects.
Ashok Jadon, Priyanka Jain, Swastika Chakraborty, Mayur Motaka, Sudhansu Sekhar Parida, Neelam Sinha, Amit Agrawal, Asit Kumar Pati   +7 more
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The impact of a maternal mental health intervention on intimate partner violence in Northern Ghana and the mediating roles of social support and couple communication: secondary analysis of a cluster randomized controlled trial

BMC Public Health, 2021
Backgrounds Diverse intervention efforts are implemented to address intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. Via a syndemics theory lens and emerging empirical evidence, mental health interventions demonstrate promise to partially ameliorate IPV ...
Jiepin Cao, John A. Gallis, Mohammed Ali, Margaret Lillie, Safiyatu Abubakr-Bibilazu, Haliq Adam, Elena McEwan, John Koku Awoonor-Williams, John Hembling, Joy Noel Baumgartner   +9 more
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A framework for digital sunken relief generation based on 3D geometric models [PDF]

, 2012
Sunken relief is a special art form of sculpture whereby the depicted shapes are sunk into a given surface. This is traditionally created by laboriously carving materials such as stone.
A. Agrawal, A. Pasko, A. Sourin, D. Decarlo, D. Decarlo, F. Cole, F. Cole, G. Zeng, J. Flaxman, J. Kerber, J. Kerber, J. Kerber, J.J. Koenderink, Jens Kerber, Jian Chang, Jian J. Zhang, L. Markosian, M. Alexa, M. Wang, M. Wang, M.C. Sousa, M.M. Oliveira, Meili Wang, P. Cignoni, P.N. Belhumeur, R. Fattal, R. Raskar, R. Rogers, R. Zhang, R.D. Kalnins, R.N. Perry, T. Weyrich, T.P. Wu, W. Song, X. Sun   +34 more
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