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Proximity to death and participation in the long‐term care market [PDF]

Health Economics, 2008
AbstractThe extent to which increasing longevity increases per capita demand for long‐term care depends on the degree to which utilization is concentrated at the end of life. We estimate the marginal effect of proximity to death, measured by being within 2 years of death, on the probabilities of nursing home and formal home care use, and we determine ...
Weaver, France, Stearns, Sally C., Norton, Edward C., Spector, William   +3 more
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On the Cost of Extracting Proximity Features for Term-Dependency Models [PDF]

Proceedings of the 24th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2015
Sophisticated ranking mechanisms make use of term dependency features in order to compute similarity scores for documents. These features often include exact phrase occurrences, and term proximity estimates. Both cases build on the intuition that if multiple query terms appear near each other, the document is more likely to be relevant to the query. In
Xiaolu Lu 0002, Alistair Moffat, J. Shane Culpepper   +2 more
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Long‐term trends in intergenerational proximity: Evidence from a grandchild design [PDF]

Population, Space and Place, 2021
AbstractCompeting claims exist about how the geographic distance between parents and their adult children has changed historically. A classic modernisation hypothesis is that people currently live further away from their parents than in the past. Others have argued for stability and the remaining importance of local family ties, in spite of a long‐term
Matthijs Kalmijn, Kalmijn, Matthijs, Kalmijn, M.   +2 more
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Proximity to sports facilities and sports participation for adolescents in Germany. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
ObjectivesTo assess the relationship between proximity to specific sports facilities and participation in the corresponding sports activities for adolescents in Germany.MethodsA sample of 1,768 adolescents aged 11-17 years old and living in 161 German ...
Anne K Reimers, Matthias Wagner, Seraphim Alvanides, Andreas Steinmayr, Miriam Reiner, Steffen Schmidt, Alexander Woll   +6 more
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University-Industry Collaborations (UICs): A Matter of Proximity Dimensions? [PDF]

, 2021
Firms and universities interact with each other despite several barriers hindering their collaboration, such as distances in their worldviews, organizational structures and cognitive capabilities. This suggests that these distances can be bridged in some
Alpaydin, Utku Ali Riza
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A Single-Cell Network-Based Drug Repositioning Strategy for Post-COVID-19 Pulmonary Fibrosis

Pharmaceutics, 2022
Post-COVID-19 pulmonary fibrosis (PCPF) is a long-term complication that appears in some COVID-19 survivors. However, there are currently limited options for treating PCPF patients.
Albert Li, Jhih-Yu Chen, Chia-Lang Hsu, Yen-Jen Oyang, Hsuan-Cheng Huang, Hsueh-Fen Juan   +5 more
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Effect of Infant Presence on Social Networks of Sterilized and Intact Wild Female Balinese Macaques (Macaca fascicularis)

Animals, 2021
Contraception is increasingly used to control wild animal populations. However, as reproductive condition influences social interactions in primates, the absence of new offspring could influence the females’ social integration.
Gwennan Giraud, Sebastian Sosa, Alain Hambuckers, Stefan Deleuze, I Nengah Wandia, Marie-Claude Huynen, Pascal Poncin, Fany Brotcorne   +7 more
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Calibrating animal-borne proximity loggers [PDF]

, 2015
Funding: BBSRC grants BB/G023913/1 and BB/G023913/21. Growing interest in the structure and dynamics of animal social networks has stimulated efforts to develop automated tracking technologies that can reliably record encounters in free-ranging subjects.
John Burt, Richard James, Burns, Zackory T., Morrissey, Michael Blair, James, Richard, James J. H. St Clair, Otis, Brian, Morrissey, Michael B., Christian Rutz, Rutz, Christian, Brian Otis, St Clair, James, St Clair, James J. H., Michael B. Morrissey, Zackory T. Burns, Burns, Zackory, Burt, John   +16 more
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The Effect of Nutritional Status and Contact History toward Childhood Tuberculosis in Jember

Jurnal Berkala Epidemiologi, 2015
Tuberculosis remains one of diseases with highest mortality among other. Indonesia had categorized in one of high burden countries since 2013. WHO estimated the annual global burden of childhood tuberculosis in 2012 was approximately530.000 cases and ...
Anasyia Nurwitasari, Chatarina Umbul Wahyuni   +1 more
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No Additional Evidence that Proximity to the July 4th Holiday Affects Affective Polarization

Collabra: Psychology, 2020
One promising approach for reducing affective polarization is priming a shared American identity and one promising event to prime that identity is the 4th of July. Prior work showed that proximity to the 4th of July reduced affective polarization.
Mark J. Brandt, Felicity M. Turner-Zwinkels   +1 more
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