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Assessing the utility of social media as a data source for flood risk management using a real‐time modelling framework

open access: yes, 2017
The utility of social media for both collecting and disseminating information during natural disasters is increasingly recognised. The rapid nature of urban flooding from intense rainfall means accurate surveying of peak depths and flood extents is ...
Luke Smith   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Time-Varying Social-Aware Resource Allocation for Device-to-Device Communication

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2019
With the rapid development of wireless mobile communication, local content sharing has become the emerging demand for users who are geographically close. Device-to-device (D2D) communication allows two users to communicate directly with each other.
Gang Deng   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Developmental Disorders in Children Recently Diagnosed With Cancer

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Neurocognitive deficits in adult survivors of childhood cancer are well established, but less is known about developmental disorders (DD) arising shortly after cancer diagnosis. Using 2016–2019 linked Ohio cancer registry and Medicaid data, we compared DD among 324 children with cancer and 606,913 cancer‐free controls.
Jamie Shoag   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health utility scores of family caregivers for leukemia patients measured by EQ-5D-3L: a cross-sectional survey in China

open access: yesBMC Cancer, 2018
Background This study assessed the health related quality of life of family caregivers (FCs) of leukemia patients by using the health utility scores derived from the EuroQol five-dimensional (EQ-5D) questionnaire.
Hongjuan Yu   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Characterizing Parental Concerns About Lasting Impacts of Treatment in Children With B‐Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background B‐acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B‐ALL) is the most common pediatric cancer, and while most children in high‐resource settings are cured, therapy carries risks for long‐term toxicities. Understanding parents’ concerns about these late effects is essential to guide anticipatory support and inform evolving therapeutic approaches ...
Kellee N. Parker   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Situating care in mainstream health economics: an ethical dilemma? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Standard health economics concentrates on the provision of care by medical professionals. Yet ‘care’ receives scant analysis; it is portrayed as a spillover effect or externality in the form of interdependent utility functions.
Davis, John B., McMaster, Robert
core   +3 more sources

Predicting the Future Burden of Renal Replacement Therapy in Türkiye Using National Registry Data and Comparative Modeling Approaches

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Chronic kidney disease is a growing public health problem worldwide, and the number of patients requiring renal replacement therapy is steadily increasing. Türkiye has experienced a similar rise in both the incidence and prevalence of renal replacement therapy over the past decades; however, national‐level projections of future ...
Arzu Akgül   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Altruism Models In Islamic Consumption System

open access: yesInternational Journal of Islamic Business and Economics (IJIBEC), 2018
This study succeeded in proving that altruism is an inseparable element in the Islamic consumption system because it is able to lead a consumer to the best level of godliness.
Muhammad Muflih
doaj   +1 more source

Socially Optimal Mining Pools

open access: yes, 2017
Mining for Bitcoins is a high-risk high-reward activity. Miners, seeking to reduce their variance and earn steadier rewards, collaborate in pooling strategies where they jointly mine for Bitcoins.
A Laszka   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Truthful Mechanisms for Agents that Value Privacy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Recent work has constructed economic mechanisms that are both truthful and differentially private. In these mechanisms, privacy is treated separately from the truthfulness; it is not incorporated in players' utility functions (and doing so has been shown
Chen, Yiling   +4 more
core   +4 more sources

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