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Pulmonary Dysfunction Is Associated With Sleep Study Abnormalities in Children With Sickle Cell Disease: A Multicenter Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Pulmonary dysfunction and sleep abnormalities are common in children with sickle cell disease (SCD) and are associated with worse clinical outcomes. Whether spirometry abnormalities are associated with polysomnography (PSG) findings remains unclear.
Ammar Saadoon Alishlash   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Query Expansion for Survey Question Retrieval in the Social Sciences

open access: yes, 2015
In recent years, the importance of research data and the need to archive and to share it in the scientific community have increased enormously. This introduces a whole new set of challenges for digital libraries.
B Zapilko   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social impact of mining survey: Aggregate results queensland communities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This is the final report from a study into the social impact of mining in ...
Carrington, Kerry, Pereira, Margaret
core   +1 more source

The impact of the hierarchical medical system on medical resource allocation in China

open access: yesScientific Reports
The disparity in medical resource distribution across regions poses a significant challenge to healthcare reform in China. To address this, China has introduced the hierarchical medical system (HMS). This study evaluates the HMS’s impact on the equitable
Liping Fu, Ruizhen Wang, Yu Dong
doaj   +1 more source

Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The history of the social survey – the social survey in history

open access: yes, 2005
The social survey as we know it today has roots far back in modern history. It dates back to the idea of the Enlightenment that careful description of natural species, formations of clouds, the population etc. could give an insight that was worth getting.
openaire   +3 more sources

A survey of socially interactive robots [PDF]

open access: yesRobotics and Autonomous Systems, 2003
Summary: This paper reviews ''socially interactive robots'': robots for which social human--robot interaction is important. We begin by discussing the context for socially interactive robots, emphasizing the relationship to other research fields and the different forms of ''social robots''.
Terrence Fong   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

An Investigation on Users’ Perceptions of Open Government Data in Qatar

open access: yesHuman Behavior and Emerging Technologies
This study is aimed at evaluating users’ perceptions of open government data (OGD) in Qatar, addressing disparities between the perceived performance and perceived importance of OGD, and identifying the antecedents and consequences of OGD gaps.
Rima Charbaji El-Kassem, Ali Al-Kubaisi
doaj   +1 more source

Response Patterns in a Multi-day Diary Survey: Implications for Adaptive Survey Design

open access: yesSurvey Research Methods, 2020
In multi-day diary surveys, respondents make participation decisions every day. Some respondents remain committed throughout, whereas others drop out after the first few days or in the later days of the survey, leading to item nonresponse.
Mengyao Hu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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