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The Lung Health Study

Canadian Respiratory Journal, 1995
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether smoking intervention and use of an inhaled bronchodilator can slow the rate of decline in forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) in smokers with mild obstructive pulmonary disease.
J Manfreda, NR Anthonisen, The Lung Health Study Research Group   +2 more
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The slow demise of Easter Island: insights from a modelling investigation

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2015
The history of Easter Island and its supposed social-ecological collapse is often taken as a grim warning for the modern world. However, while the loss of a once lush palm forest is largely uncontested, causes and timing of the collapse remain ...
Gunnar eBrandt, Agostino eMerico, Agostino eMerico   +2 more
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Transport into the south polar vortex in early spring [PDF]

Estimates of the mean circulation and diffusive transport of ozone and other species into the Antarctic polar vortex during the spring of 1987 are made using data from the Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment.
Hartmann, D., Heidt, L. E., Loewenstein, M., Podolske, J., Starr, Walter L., Vedder, James F.   +5 more
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Influencing the Decline of Lung Function in COPD: Use of Pharmacotherapy [PDF]

, 2013
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common and deadly disease. One of the hallmarks of COPD is an accelerated decline in lung function, as measured by spirometry.
Gladysheva, Ekaterina S., Malhotra, Atul, Owens, Robert Llewellyn   +2 more
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Trajectories of Cognitive Change and Their Association with All-Cause Mortality Among Chinese Older Adults: Results from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey

Behavioral Sciences
The analysis of cognitive trajectories is relatively underexplored in China. Furthermore, most previous studies examining the association between cognitive function and mortality have been limited to cross-sectional perspectives.
Yifang Wei, Yi Zhang, Yuansheng Li, Fanshuo Meng, Ruixiang Zhang, Zuming You, Chenxi Xie, Jiyuan Zhou   +7 more
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Ecological Art: Art with a Purpose [PDF]

, 2019
Ecological art is purposeful and often prescriptive: the actions and directions intended by the artists for activists to undertake often are clearly represented.
Borden, David Buckley, Ellison, Aaron M
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Association between abdominal obesity and cognitive decline among Chinese middle-aged and older adults: a 10-year follow-up from CHARLS

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionThe relationship between abdominal obesity and cognitive decline has controversial results, and the mediating effect of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) between them remains uncertain.
Qiong Wu, Xu Zhu, Dan Feng, Ziyan Zhang, Can Wen, Xinbin Xia   +5 more
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Association between midday napping and long-term trajectories of cognitive function among middle-aged and older Chinese adults.

PLoS ONE
BackgroundThe prevalence of dementia has become an increasingly important public health priority. This study investigated the association between midday napping and long-term trajectories of cognitive function in middle-aged and older Chinese adults ...
Jinghong Huang, Dongrui Peng, Yutong Zhang, Yanan Zhang, Xiaohui Wang   +4 more
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Analysis of patients with differing short-term rates of improvement and long-term rates of decline in range of motion and after anatomic and reverse total shoulder arthroplasty

JSES International
Background: Patients with anatomic (aTSA) and reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (rTSA) can have different short-term rate of improvement (ROI) and different long-term rate of decline (ROD) in range of motion (ROM).
Christopher P. Roche, MSE, MBA, Josie Elwell, PhD, Richard Jones, MD, Howard Routman, DO, Ryan Simovitch, MD, Pierre-Henri Flurin, MD, Thomas W. Wright, MD, Joseph D. Zuckerman, MD   +7 more
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The Pitfalls of Transition: Crowding Out the National Virtues [PDF]

In this paper a view is advanced that explains why the transition to markets did not always lead to the outcomes predicted by the Washington Consensus type strategies.
Miljkovic, Dragan
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