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“Low‐Positive” MOG‐IgG Cases Among Adults With a First Event Suggestive of Multiple Sclerosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To determine the prevalence and clinical characteristics of patients with “low‐positive” (LP) MOG‐IgG (titres 1:160–1:320) among adults with a first demyelinating event (FDE) suggestive of multiple sclerosis (MS). Methods From the Barcelona CIS inception cohort, we included adult patients with serum collected ≤ 6 months from the FDE.
Javier Villacieros‐Álvarez, Carmen Espejo, Georgina Arrambide, Mireia Castillo, Marta Rodriguez, Helena Ariño, Iker Elosua, Carmen Tur, Angela Vidal‐Jordana, Andreu Vilaseca, Joaquín Castilló, Ingrid Galán, Luciana Midaglia, Carlos Nos, Breogan Rodríguez‐Acevedo, Ana Zabalza, Luca Bollo, Agustín Pappolla, René Carvajal, Neus Mongay‐Ochoa, Jordi Rio, Jaume Sastre‐Garriga, Manuel Comabella, Gesualdina Busiello, Sofia Sceppacuercia, Àlex Rovira, Xavier Montalban, Mar Tintoré, Cristina Auger, Álvaro Cobo‐Calvo   +29 more
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Youth Is Going to Study in a Metropolis: How Not to Stay Alone

Вопросы образования
The needs of young people who have moved to study from other cities are often overshadowed by numerous studies of international students, traditionally considered by sociologists and practitioners to be among the most vulnerable groups.
Irina V. Lisovskaya, Elena L. Omelchenko, Albina R. Garifzianova   +2 more
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Integrating Risk Assessment into Spatial Planning: RiskOTe Decision Support System

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2018
The way in which risk maps are used in decision support processes for spatial planning at local scale is critical to helping decision makers in the definition of a prevention strategy to minimize risks.
Nelson Mileu, Margarida Queirós
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Impact of Age on the Diagnostic Yield of Routine EEG in People With Childhood or Juvenile Absence Epilepsy: A Cross‐Sectional Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background We aimed to identify the proportion of individuals with a confirmed diagnosis of childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) or juvenile absence epilepsy (JAE) who show a negative routine EEG (rEEG), and to determine the main factors associated with this finding.
Francesco Fortunato, Alessia Giugno, Miriam Sturniolo, Enrico Fratto, Pio Zoleo, Francesca Felicia Operto, Ilaria Sammarra, Antonio Gambardella   +7 more
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Contrasting scenarios : embracing speech recognition [PDF]

, 2009
The purpose of this chapter is to describe the use of caricatured contrasting scenarios\ud (Bødker, 2000) and how they can be used to consider potential designs for disruptive\ud technologies.
Kraal, Ben J., Ben Kraal
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Reserves, Injury Severity, and Outcomes in Traumatic Brain Injury: A CENTER‐TBI Observational Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Reserve refers to the brain's ability to maintain function after an injury and strongly relates to traumatic brain injury (TBI) outcomes. This study examined (1) whether associations between pre‐injury reserve proxies and outcomes differed across injury severity categories, and (2) whether the impact of injury severity varied across ...
Natascha Ekdahl, Marika C. Möller, Lindsay Wilson, Anne Vik, Toril Skandsen, Jonas Stenberg, CENTER‐TBI participants and investigators   +6 more
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Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Healthcare Waste Valorisation Alternatives

Environmental and Climate Technologies
Infectious healthcare waste (iHCW), after microbial inactivation treatment, primarily ends up in landfills. Although the morphological composition of iHCW depends on the type of health facility, predominantly HCW consists of plastic and textile waste ...
Zlaugotne Beate, Zandberga Anda, Gusca Julija, Kalnins Silvija Nora   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Participatory scenario planning in place-based social-ecological research: insights and experiences from 23 case studies

Ecology and Society, 2015
Participatory scenario planning (PSP) is an increasingly popular tool in place-based environmental research for evaluating alternative futures of social-ecological systems. Although a range of guidelines on PSP methods are available in the scientific and
Elisa Oteros-Rozas, Berta Martín-López, Tim M. Daw, Erin L. Bohensky, James R.A. Butler, Rosemary Hill, Julia Martin-Ortega, Allyson Quinlan, Federica Ravera, Isabel Ruiz-Mallén, Matilda Thyresson, Jayalaxshmi Mistry, Ignacio Palomo, Garry D. Peterson, Tobias Plieninger, Kerry A. Waylen, Dylan M. Beach, Iris C. Bohnet, Maike Hamann, Jan Hanspach, Klaus Hubacek, Sandra Lavorel, Sandra P. Vilardy   +22 more
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Early Clinical and Cerebrospinal Fluid Predictors of 1‐Year Recurrence in Autoimmune GFAP Astrocytopathy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Autoimmune glial fibrillary acidic protein astrocytopathy (GFAP‐A) is an inflammatory central nervous system disorder with variable outcomes. Relapse occurs in a subset of patients, but early predictors remain unclear. We aimed to identify admission‐available features associated with 1‐year recurrence and develop an interpretable ...
Qingting Hong, Yuping Xiao, Yuhan Wu, Ziyuan Huang, Weishan Liang, Li Xiao, Yaqing Shu, Tingting Lu, Yanyu Chang, Wei Qiu, Yuge Wang   +10 more
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Future Scenarios

, 2014
The Future Scenarios initiative works in a participatory and interactive way with technical advisors and other key stakeholders in East and West Africa to build some up pictures of different worlds, or narratives, that identify the uncertainties that ...
Harvey, Blane, Carlile, Liz, Garside, Ben, Ensor, Jonathan, Patterson, Zachary, Naess, Lars Otto   +5 more
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