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HIV frequency among female sex workers in Imbituba, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Brazilian Journal of Infectious DiseasesWe examined HIV frequency and probable risk factors among female sex workers in the port city of Imbituba, Southern Brazil. From December 2003 through February 2004, 90 female sex workers were interviewed in order to investigate demographic ...
Fabiana Schuelter Trevisol +1 more
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Risk-sensitive Reinforcement Learning
, 2014 We derive a family of risk-sensitive reinforcement learning methods for agents, who face sequential decision-making tasks in uncertain environments.
Obermayer, Klaus +3 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim +8 more
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Asian Journal of Transfusion Science, 2013 Background: The aim of this work was to investigate adolescents′ propensity to donate blood, the incidence in this population of risk behaviors that limit and restrict the potential for blood donation, thus reducing the number of possible subjects ...
Alfieri Sara +2 more
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Risk-Taking Behavior and Its Impact on Treatment, Vaccination and Diagnosing [PDF]
, 2015 We present results from two recent mathematical biology studies that address the effect of risk-taking behavior on epidemic models. We show that when risk-taking prevails over riskavoidance, it is possible to show a detrimental and counterintuitive ...
Maxin, Daniel
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background The management of clinically apparent single lesions or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis, a facultative precursor of nephroblastoma, remains debated. Methods We retrospectively analyzed 37 patients with clinically apparent single or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis (two to three lesions per kidney) among 2347 patients registered between
Nils Welter +17 more
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Noise and Health, 2014 Exposure to loud sound during leisure activities for long periods of time is an important area to implement preventive health education, especially among young people.
Keila Alessandra Baraldi Knobel +1 more
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Bullying girls - Changes after brief strategic family therapy: A randomized, prospective, controlled trial with one-year follow-up [PDF]
, 2005 Background: Many girls bully others. They are conspicuous because of their risk-taking behavior, increased anger, problematic interpersonal relationships and poor quality of life.
Burdsal C +27 more
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Inpatient Food Insecurity and Pediatric Hematology Oncology Hospitalization Outcomes
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Children with cancer and blood disorders are at risk for food insecurity (FI). We aimed to describe the association of inpatient food insecurity (IFI) and hospitalization outcomes among patients admitted to the pediatric hematology oncology service. Of 325 caregivers screened for IFI, 60 (18.6%) screened positive.
Joanna M. Robles +4 more
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Decision-Making Competence Predicts Domain-Specific Risk Attitudes
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Decision Making Competence (DMC) reflects individual differences in rational responding across several classic behavioral decision-making tasks. Although it has been associated with real-world risk behavior, less is known about the degree to which DMC ...
Joshua eWeller +3 more
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