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Background One of the risk factors for getting seriously ill from COVID-19 and reaching high mortality rates is older age. Older age is also associated with comorbidities, which are risk factors for severe COVID-19 infection.
María Elena Camacho-Moll+5 more
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Families and social security [PDF]
Abstract The present paper quantifies the importance of family insurance for the analysis of social security. We therefore augment the standard overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic labor productivity and longevity risk in that we account for gender and marital status. We simulate the abolition of pay-as-you-go pension payments, calculate
Fehr, Hans+2 more
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Social Security Programs Throughout the World: The Americas, 2011 [PDF]
[Excerpt] This fourth issue in the current four-volume series of Social Security Programs Throughout the World reports on the countries of the Americas.
International Social Security Association+1 more
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Social engineering: Concepts, Techniques and Security Countermeasures [PDF]
The purpose of this report is to research the topic called Social Engineering in Cyber Security and present the explanation of the meaning, concepts, techniques, and security countermeasures of Social Engineering based on factual academic research.
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Measurement of Gallbladder Volume with Ultrasonography in Pregnant Women
Fasting and postprandial gallbladder volumes were investigated using ultrasonography in three groups (10 subjects in each) of healthy women: third trimester pregnant women, postpartum women up to 10 days after giving birth and nonpregnant controls.
Sait Kapicioglu+4 more
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Background To alleviate the shortage of caregivers associated with disabled persons, China has implemented a pilot policy for long-term care insurance. This policy has the characteristics of "familialization" and "de-familialization" policy orientation ...
Wenjing Jiang, Hongyan Yang
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Exploiting Data Sparsity in Secure Cross-Platform Social Recommendation [PDF]
Social recommendation has shown promising improvements over traditional systems since it leverages social correlation data as an additional input. Most existing work assumes that all data are available to the recommendation platform. However, in practice, user-item interaction data (e.g.,rating) and user-user social data are usually generated by ...
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Social Media Networks Attacks and their Preventive Mechanisms: A Review [PDF]
We live in a virtual world where actual lifestyles are replicated. The growing reliance on the use of social media networks worldwide has resulted in great concern for information security. One of the factors popularizing the social media platforms is how they connect people worldwide to interact, share content, and engage in mutual interactions of ...
arxiv
Lipid profile of healthy women during normal pregnancy [PDF]
The four basic lipid indexes (Chol, Trig, HDL-C and LDL-C) increase during pregnancy, following different rates of increase. Among the four analytes triglycerides show the largest increase and HDL-C the smallest.
Diareme Margarita+4 more
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O-41 CIRRHOSIS IN PATIENTS WITH ALFA 1 ANTITRYPSIN DEFICIENCY; WHAT ARE WE MISSING?
Introduction and Objectives: It's common to include alfa 1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) in the diagnostic workup of children with cirrhosis, unlike in adults, where we seldom test for it.
Francisco Hevia+16 more
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