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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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Dispelling An Urban Legend: Frequent Emergency Department Users Have Substantial Burden Of Disease [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Affairs, 2013
Urban legend has often characterized frequent emergency department (ED) patients as mentally ill substance users who are a costly drain on the health care system and who contribute to ED overcrowding because of unnecessary visits for conditions that ...

exaly   +3 more sources

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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Urban legend or real fact: Coronary artery size varies with demographics [PDF]

open access: yesİstanbul Kuzey Klinikleri, 2018
INTRODUCTION[|]This study aimed to determine the relationship between the diameter of coronary artery stents and age, gender, diabetes mellitus (DM), left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), renal dysfunction, and the clinical presentation of ...
Mustafa Adem Tatlisu   +5 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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