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Adjustment of Maintenance Approach for Improved Operability and Safety of Ship Navigation

Promet (Zagreb), 2010
By adjusting the maintenance approach towards the significant components of ship’s engines and equipment, through the use of operational data from the ship machinery’s daily reports, higher operability and navigation safety can be achieved.
Ante Bukša, Ivica Šegulja, Vinko Tomas
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The clinical effectiveness of individual behaviour change interventions to reduce risky sexual behaviour after a negative human immunodeficiency virus test in men who have sex with men: systematic and realist reviews and intervention development [PDF]

, 2017
Background: Men who have sex with men (MSM) experience significant inequalities in health and well-being. They are the group in the UK at the highest risk of acquiring a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
Abraham, Aghaizu, Ajzen, Albarracín, Angus, Bailey, Bandura, Bartholomew, Becker, Bedoya, Berg, Berg, Berg, Blas, Borrelli, Borrelli, Bourne, Bourne, Bourne, Bowen, Bowen, Brady, British Association for Sexual Health & HIV, Brown, Bull, Cane, Carey, Carpenter, Carrico, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chesney, Chiasson, Christensen, ClincalTrials.gov, ClincalTrials.gov, ClincalTrials.gov, Clutterbuck, Coffin, Cohen, Coia, Colfax, Conner, Craig, Crepaz, Crepaz, Das, Davidovich, Davidovich, DerSimonian, Desai, Dilley, Dilley, Dilley, Dilley, Dixon-Woods, Duan, Eaton, Eaton, Eaton, Elford, Ellis, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Fisher, Fisher, Fletcher, Flowers, Flowers, Flowers, Flowers, Flowers, Forney, Frasca, French, Gardner, Gilbart, Glanz, Gold, Goodwin, Grantome, Gray, Guo, Hao, Health Protection Scotland, Herbst, Hidalgo, Higa, Higgins, Hightow-Weidman, Hightow-Weidman, Hirshfield, Hoaglin, Hosek, Hosek, Hosek, Huan, Hughes, Imrie, Janis, Jansen, Janz, Jbilou, Johnson, Johnson, Johnson, Johnson, Johnson, Jones, Kalichman, Kasatpibal, Kayser, Khosropour, Knussen, Ko, Koblin, Koblin, Landovitz, Lau, Lau, Lawson, Lorimer, Lu, Lucas, Macdonald, Malek, May, May, McKee, Melendez-Torres, Menza, Metcalf, Metcalf, Metsch, Michie, Michie, Michie, Michie, Michie, Mikolajczak, Mikolajczak, Mikolajczak, Miller, Mimiaga, Miranda, Moher, Morgenstern, Morgenstern, Murray, Mustanski, Mustanski, Nakagawa, Nakagawa, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, Neumann, New South Wales Sexually Transmitted Infection Program Unit, NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Noar, Noar, Olander, Operario, Outlaw, O’Donnell, Painter, Parsons, Pawson, Pawson, Pawson R, Phillips, Picciano, Picciano, Prestwich, Public Health England, Rashbrook, Read, Reback, Rees, Reeves, Rhodes, Rhodes, Robinson, Rosser, Rycroft-Malone, Safren, Santos, Schnall, Schwarzer, Shoptaw, Shoptaw, Shoptaw, Simms, Simms, Skarbinski, Strömdahl, Tan, Taylor, Tobin, Tracy, van Kesteren, Varney, Warner, Webb, Wilkerson, Williams, Williams, Wolfers, Wolitski, Wong, Ye, Yin, Young, Young, Zhang, Zule   +213 more
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The correlation between triglyceride glucose index and atrial fibrillation risk: a meta-analysis

European Journal of Medical Research
Background The correlation between the triglyceride glucose (TyG) index and atrial fibrillation (AF) risk has been a subject of debate, with existing studies yielding conflicting results.
Lin Han, Fei-Fei Hou, Bei-Bei Wang, Qiong Wu, Juan Liu   +4 more
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The Growth Effects of Institutional Instability [PDF]

Both institutional quality and institutional stability have been argued to stimulate economic growth. But to improve institutional quality, a country must endure a period of institutional change, which implies at least a little and possibly a lot of ...
Berggren, Niclas, Bergh, Andreas, Bjørnskov, Christian   +2 more
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Association between body mass index and endometriosis risk: a meta-analysis

Oncotarget, 2017
Epidemiological studies have sought to establish a relationship between a woman's current body mass index and endometriosis, but with varying results. This meta-analysis was to summarize the current epidemiological evidence.Pertinent studies were identified by searching PubMed and Web of Science through November 2016. Study-specific risk estimates were
Yong, Liu, Weiyuan, Zhang
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Avaliação de indicador sócio-ambiental utilizado no rastreamento de áreas de transmissão de filariose linfática em espaços urbanos

Cadernos de Saúde Pública
O conceito de espaço socialmente organizado, subsidiado por novas técnicas de análise, mapeamento e espacialização da ocorrência de eventos, tem orientado desenvolvimentos metodológicos inovadores no campo das intervenções de saúde pública.
Cynthia Braga, Ricardo A. de A. Ximenes, Maria de Fátima P. Militão de Albuquerque, Wayner V. de Souza, Janaína Miranda, Fábio Brayner, Luis Alves, Lânia da Silva, Inês Dourado   +8 more
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Does the ECB Care about Shifts in Investors’ Risk Appetite? [PDF]

A key problem facing monetary policy makers is determining whether serious financial instability is present. Periods of financial instability are linked with low investors’ risk appetite (or in other words high risk aversion).
Papadamou, Stephanos, Siriopoulos, Costas   +1 more
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RAINFALL INSURANCE FOR MIDWEST CROP PRODUCTION [PDF]

The paper discusses a methodology for design and pricing of index insurance contracts for crop production. The methodology heavily relies on establishing a relationship between the index and yields in order to evaluate the contract performance in hedging
Miranda, Mario J., Vedenov, Dmitry V.
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Copula-Probabilistic Flood Risk Analysis with Hourly Flood Monitoring Index

Water
Floods are a common natural disaster whose severity in terms of duration, water resource volume, peak and accumulated rainfall-based damage are likely to differ significantly for different geographical regions. In this paper, we first propose a novel hourly flood index (SWRI24−hr−S), derived from normalising the existing 24-hourly water resources index
Ravinesh Chand, Thong Nguyen-Huy, Ravinesh C. Deo, Sujan Ghimire, Mumtaz Ali, Afshin Ghahramani   +5 more
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Association between atherogenic index of plasma and depression risk: a meta-analysis

Frontiers in Psychiatry
BackgroundLipid metabolism disorders have been implicated in the pathogenesis of depression. The atherogenic index of plasma (AIP), calculated as log(triglyerides/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol), is a convenient marker reflecting lipid profiles and
Gui-Ling Chen, Gui-Xin Chen, Wei-Tao Wan
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