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Changes in Body Composition in Children and Young People Undergoing Treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ongoing evidence indicates increased risk of sarcopenic obesity among children and young people (CYP) with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), often beginning early in treatment, persisting into survivorship. This review evaluates current literature on body composition in CYP with ALL during and after treatment.
Lina A. Zahed   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) in High Schools: Subtle but Potentially Important Student Gains Detected from Human-Centered Curriculum Design

open access: yesEducation Sciences, 2019
A major goal in Engineering training in the U.S. is to continue to both grow and diversify the field. Project- and service-based forms of experiential, problem-based learning are often implemented with this as a goal, and Engineering Projects in ...
Alissa Ruth   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evolution of Cooperation and Coordination in a Dynamically Networked Society [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Situations of conflict giving rise to social dilemmas are widespread in society and game theory is one major way in which they can be investigated. Starting from the observation that individuals in society interact through networks of acquaintances, we ...
A-L Barabási   +30 more
core   +3 more sources

Parent‐to‐Child Information Disclosure in Pediatric Oncology

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Despite professional consensus regarding the importance of open communication with pediatric cancer patients about their disease, actual practice patterns of disclosure are understudied. Extant literature suggests a significant proportion of children are not told about their diagnosis/prognosis, which is purported to negatively ...
Rachel A. Kentor   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Search Engine Drives the Evolution of Social Networks

open access: yes, 2017
The search engine is tightly coupled with social networks and is primarily designed for users to acquire interested information. Specifically, the search engine assists the information dissemination for social networks, i.e., enabling users to access ...
Fu, Cai, Liu, Xiao-Yang, Peng, Chenchen
core   +1 more source

Formalising the multidimensional nature of social networks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Individuals interact with conspecifics in a number of behavioural contexts or dimensions. Here, we formalise this by considering a social network between n individuals interacting in b behavioural dimensions as a nxnxb multidimensional object.
Barrett, Louise   +2 more
core   +4 more sources

Prolonged Corrected QT Interval as an Early Electrocardiographic Marker of Cyclophosphamide‐Induced Cardiotoxicity in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology Patients

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Cyclophosphamide (CY) is associated with potentially fatal cardiotoxicity, yet no electrocardiographic indices have been established for early detection of CY‐induced cardiomyopathy. This study aimed to determine whether corrected QT interval (QTc) prolongation can predict early onset of CY‐related cardiac dysfunction in pediatric ...
Junpei Kawamura   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Systematic Review of Evidence on the Clinical Effectiveness of Surveillance Imaging in Children With Medulloblastoma and Ependymoma

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Surveillance imaging aims to detect tumour relapse before symptoms develop, but it's unclear whether earlier detection of relapse leads to better outcomes in children and young people (CYP) with medulloblastoma and ependymoma. This systematic review aims to identify relevant literature to determine the efficacy of surveillance magnetic ...
Lucy Shepherd   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evolution of social behaviour [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Nowak et al.1 wish to explain why the version of kin selection theory that is summarised by the formula R>c/b (c=cost of performing 'altruistic' act, b=benefit derived by recipient of act, R=relatedness between the two) is of little ...
Vidyanand Nanjundiah
core   +1 more source

A dual modelling of evolving political opinion networks

open access: yes, 2012
We present the result of a dual modeling of opinion network. The model complements the agent-based opinion models by attaching to the social agent (voters) network a political opinion (party) network having its own intrinsic mechanisms of evolution ...
D. Stauffer   +5 more
core   +1 more source

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