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Mapping Social and Economic Vulnerability in Forest and Peatland Fire Disaster in Bengkalis Regency, Riau Province

Forum Geografi, 2015
The aims of this research are (1) analyzing social and economic vulnerability of forest and peat land fire disaster in Bengkalis Regency; (2) Mapping social and economic vulnerability of forest and peat land fire disaster in Bengkalis Regency.
Eko Ahmad Riyanto
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Clinical Outcomes of Patients Within the Rheumatoid Arthritis Care Pathway Cohort at a Tertiary Care Integrated Delivery Network: A Comparison to Usual Care

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We aimed to compare clinical outcomes between patients in the Allegheny Health Network rheumatoid arthritis (RA) care pathway and patients receiving usual care. Methods The care pathway initiative implements guideline‐based best practice alongside multidisciplinary team‐based care.
Tarun Sharma, Tyson S. Barrett, Teigan Dwyer, Nancy Campbell, Jessica Heintzinger, Ellen Kraemer, Adam Dore, Susan Manzi   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of living patterns and social participation on the health vulnerability of urban and rural older persons in Jiangsu Province, China

BMC Geriatrics
Background This study analyzes the influence of living patterns and social participation on the health vulnerability of older people in urban and rural areas and provides a reference for addressing this vulnerability. Methods A total of 3500 participants
Juan Zheng, Jianqiang Xu, Yuhang Wu, Daqi Liu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Flood risk assessment in an urban area: Vila Nova de Gaia [PDF]

, 2013
This paper proposes a methodology for flood risk assessment in a non fluvial urban flood. Two hazard classifications were considered; one with water depth and flow velocity classes and other with the product of water depth and flow velocity.
Fernandez, P., Moreira, M., Mourato, S.
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Testing a Personalized Approach to Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Older Veterans

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We aimed to test the efficacy of personalized treatment of older veterans with chronic low back pain (CLBP) delivered by Aging Back Clinics (ABCs) as compared with usual care (UC). Methods Two hundred ninety‐nine veterans aged 65 to 89 with CLBP from three Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers underwent baseline testing, randomization to ABC ...
Debra K. Weiner, Angela Gentili, Meika A. Fang, Edward Garay, Laura Lawson, Lenore Joseph, Cathy C. Lee, Michelle I. Rossi, Beverly Thorn, Subashan Perera   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Distributed Method for Trust-Aware Recommendation in Social Networks [PDF]

, 2010
This paper contains the details of a distributed trust-aware recommendation system. Trust-base recommenders have received a lot of attention recently.
Jamali, Mohsen
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Youth With Childhood‐Onset Lupus: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Our objective was to determine the feasibility and acceptability of the Treatment and Education Approach for Childhood‐Onset Lupus (TEACH), a six‐session cognitive behavioral intervention addressing depressive, fatigue, and pain symptoms, delivered remotely to individual youth with lupus by a trained interventionist.
Natoshia R. Cunningham, Thea Senger‐Carpenter, Jocelyn Zuckerman, Michelle Adler, Mallet R. Reid, Ashley Danguecan, Luana Flores Pereira, Sarah I. Mossad, Samantha L. Ely, Khalid Abulaban, Elizabeth A. Kessler, Natalie Rosenwasser, Tamar B. Rubinstein, Ekemini A. Ogbu, Emily A. Smitherman, Alaina Miller, Taylor Abounader, Elizabeth Ross, Livie Timmerman, Dhriti Sharma, Jennifer N. Stinson, Stacy Allen, Kabita Nanda, Tala El Tal, Deborah M. Levy, Linda T. Hiraki, Hermine I. Brunner, Mathew Reeves, Steven J. Pierce, Andrea Knight   +29 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disaster risk reduction measures n Bangladesh [PDF]

, 2012
Disasters damage the entire economy of the country when they predominantly take place in developing countries. While no country in the world is entirely safe, lack of capacity to limit the impact of hazards has made developing countries being the most ...
Amaratunga, Dilanthi, Biswas, R., Kulatunga, Udayangani, Parvez, A., Wedawatta, Gayan   +4 more
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Developing and Evaluating a Laboratory‐Based Frailty Index (FI‐Lab) for the Prediction of Long‐Term Health Outcomes in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective We aimed to construct and evaluate the first laboratory‐based frailty index (FI‐Lab) for predicting adverse outcomes in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and to compare its predictive ability to that of an existing clinical frailty index (FI).
Grace Burns, Samuel D. Searle, Alexandra Legge   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Guidance for the conduct of a social protection expenditure, performance and finance review [PDF]

The aim of this paper is to provide some guidance on how to carry out a social protection (SP) expenditure, performance and finance review - given the absence of social protection in public expenditure review (PER) work to date. Such a review will enable
Canagarajah, R. Sudharshan, Hitzmann, Karin, Holzmann, Robert   +2 more
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