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Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose To assess the long‐term effects of a community cancer exercise program on quality of life, fatigue, weight, waist circumference, physical activity levels, lower extremity strength, body mass index (BMI), heart rate, and blood pressure, across non‐metastatic and metastatic patients.
Isaac Oppong, Roozbeh Naemi
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A Study of Adolescent Depression Among Middle School Students [PDF]
, 2006 Adolescent depression and teenage suicide should not be neglected and underestimated. While mental health is one of the ten health indicators that Healthy People 20 I 0 is focused on, and there are goals for the health community to work on, statistics ...
Lee, Cristina
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A review of artificial intelligence in brachytherapy
Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize brachytherapy's clinical workflow. This review comprehensively examines the application of AI, focusing on machine learning and deep learning, in various aspects of brachytherapy.
Jingchu Chen +4 more
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School health services in Enugu East, Nigeria: perspectives from a resourcepoor setting
Healthcare in Low-resource Settings, 2017 School health services (SHS) have widespread impact on the health of a large number of children with implications on access to primary health care especially in developing countries.
Adaobi I. Bisi-Onyemaechi +5 more
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Harnessing the Power of the Crowd to Increase Capacity for Data Science in the Social Sector [PDF]
arXiv, 2016 We present three case studies of organizations using a data science competition to answer a pressing question. The first is in education where a nonprofit that creates smart school budgets wanted to automatically tag budget line items. The second is in public health, where a low-cost, nonprofit women's health care provider wanted to understand the ...
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Nano/micro-plastics effects in agricultural landscapes: an overlooked threat to pollination, biological pest control, and food security [PDF]
Nat Commun 15, 8413 (2024)Biodiversity-associated ecosystem services such as pollination and biocontrol may be severely affected by emerging nano/micro-plastics (NMP) pollution. We synthesized the little-explored effects of NMP on pollinators and biocontrol agents on the organismal, farm and landscape scale.
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Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose Breast cancer is a neoplastic disease with high prevalence among women. Radiotherapy is one of the principal treatment modalities for this disease, but it poses significant challenges. This study aimed to compare and evaluate the technical and dosimetric performance of conventional C‐arm linac systems and a new design, Halcyon, in the ...
Mustafa Çağlar +8 more
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Cross-training with Imperfect training Schemes [PDF]
arXiv, 2013 Cross-training workers is one of the most efficient ways to achieve flexibility in manufacturing and service systems to increase responsiveness to demand variability. However, it is generally the case that cross-trained employees are not as productive as employees who are originally trained on a specific task.
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Design and validation of a novel dosimetry phantom for motion management audits
Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.Abstract Background We present a novel phantom design for conducting end‐to‐end dosimetry audits for respiratory motion management of two anatomical treatment sites. The design enables radiochromic film measurements of the dose administered to the target throughout the respiratory cycle (motion‐included) and the dose delivered to the time‐averaged ...
Alex Burton +5 more
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How do secondary school counsellors work with other professionals? [PDF]
, 2009 Counselling services based in secondary schools across the UK are becoming common place. Indeed, several of the home nations have national strategies and targets to introduce universal counselling into schools to address the mental health needs of young ...
Cromarty, Karen, Richards, Kaye
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