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Elimination of Hepatitis C in Portugal: An Urban Legend? [PDF]

open access: yesGE: Portuguese Journal of Gastroenterology, 2020
The burden of hepatitis C virus infection remains very high despite huge progress in the cure of the infection. The high prevalence of hepatitis C, especially in vulnerable groups and particularly drug users, may compromise the achievement of the 2030 ...
José Velosa, Guilherme Macedo
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Pancreatic Pseudocysts in the Mediastinal Space: An Urban Legend? [PDF]

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2019
Pancreatic pseudocysts are a frequent complication of chronic pancreatitis. Nonetheless, they seldom extend beyond the peripancreatic region. However, migration towards the mediastinum may cause heterogeneous and non-specific symptoms, such as dysphagia,
Jerome Blanc, Tanja Fusi-Schmidhauser
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An ‘urban legend’ remains an ‘urban legend’

open access: yesSSM - Mental Health, 2022
George Dawson, Ronald W. Pies
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Mistikasi dalam Urban Legend: Film Horor di Indonesia Pasca Orde

open access: yesJurnal Ceteris Paribus, 2023
Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menjabarkan pergulatan pembuatan film horor berupa kelahiran dan perkembangannya pada masa pasca Orde Baru. Film horor pasca Orde Baru mengambil latar perkotaan dan menggunakan tokoh atau sosok profesional, atau pelajar muda
Yusuf Kurniawan
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Man-Eating Teddy Bears of the Scrub: Exploring the Australian Drop Bear Urban Legend

open access: yeseTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2017
Urban legends are contemporary forms of folklore that are often used to provide lessons in morality or explicate local beliefs, dangers, or customs. In Australia, one such tale describes fiendish, carnivorous, blood-sucking koala-like animals that launch
Catherine Livingston   +2 more
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Airborne data and machine learning for urban tree species mapping: Enhancing the legend design to improve the map applicability for city greenery management

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation
Presently remote sensing appears to be the only technology that makes it possible to conduct an inventory of tree taxa throughout the whole city. One of the main challenges during a remote sensing implementation project is the constructing of a map ...
Jan Niedzielko   +7 more
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Defining Urban Legends

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2007
Urban legends are friend-of-a-friend stories (FOAFS) that are told to describe strange, but supposedly real events, when in fact they are fictional through word of mouth invention or distortion.
Ljubomir Hristić
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Urban Legend Propagation

open access: yes, 2019
This chapter is an investigation of Urban Legend propagation and the computational modelling of psychological phenomena. An urban legend is an apocryphal tale that the storyteller claims is true even though it might not be.
I. Miller
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

Aspartame-based Sweetener as a Strong Ant Poison: Falsifying an Urban Legend?

open access: yesSociobiology, 2014
Information about the usability of artificial sweeteners, mainly aspartame, for controlling pest ants has spread widely in the internet. With a laboratory experiment we tested the effect of an aspartame based sweetener on the mortality of the black ...
Jouni Sorvari, Marja-Katariina Haatanen
doaj   +2 more sources

The Underground Galleries in the City of Cahul „Even Today They Remain an Enigma” [PDF]

open access: yesDialogica: Revistă de Studii Culturale și Literatură, 2022
e dialogue takes place on the sidelines of one of the most interesting discoveries of recent years in the area of the old city of Cahul. Ion Ghelețchi, doctor in history, associate professor and vice-rector at the State University “B.P.
Aliona GRATI, Ion GHELEȚCHI
doaj   +1 more source

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