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Creativity and its link to epilepsy

Epilepsia Open, EarlyView.
Abstract Creative thinking represents one of our highest‐order cognitive processes, involving multiple cortical structures and an intricate interplay between several cortical and subcortical networks. It results in novel ideas that translate to useful products or concepts. The evolutionary purpose of creativity is therefore apparent, as it advances our
Itay Tokatly Latzer, Phillip L. Pearl
wiley   +1 more source

Verbal autopsy of 80,000 adult deaths in Tamilnadu, South India

BMC Public Health, 2004
Background Registration of the fact of death is almost complete in the city of Chennai and not so in the rural Villupuram district in Tamilnadu, India.
Peto Richard, Gajalakshmi Vendhan
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Probabilistic Cause-of-Death Assignment Using Verbal Autopsies [PDF]

Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2016
In regions without complete-coverage civil registration and vital statistics systems there is uncertainty about even the most basic demographic indicators. In such regions the majority of deaths occur outside hospitals and are not recorded. Worldwide, fewer than one-third of deaths are assigned a cause, with the least information available from the ...
McCormick, Tyler H, Li, Zehang Richard, Calvert, Clara, Crampin, Amelia C, Kahn, Kathleen, Clark, Samuel J   +5 more
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Prompting, Facilitating, and Legitimizing: How Work‐Life Flexibility Policies and Relational Others Shape Boundary Management

Human Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As hybrid working blurs boundaries between work and nonwork, it is critical we understand how these boundaries are negotiated by employees. Existing literature establishes that work‐life flexibility policies and relational others shape their boundary management, yet the mechanisms through which they do so remain underspecified.
Giulia Giunti, Laura Radcliffe, Rory Donnelly, Ragnhild Nordset   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Classifying perinatal mortality using verbal autopsy: is there a role for nonphysicians?

Population Health Metrics, 2011
Background Because of a physician shortage in many low-income countries, the use of nonphysicians to classify perinatal mortality (stillbirth and early neonatal death) using verbal autopsy could be useful.
Wallace Dennis, McClure Elizabeth M, Tshefu Antoinette, Pasha Omrana, Chomba Elwyn, Mazariegos Manolo, Thorsten Vanessa, Phiri Mutinta, Garces Ana, Jehan Imtiaz, Ditekemena John, Engmann Cyril, Goldenberg Robert L, Carlo Waldemar A, Wright Linda L, Bose Carl   +15 more
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Validating the InterVA model to estimate the burden of mortality from verbal autopsy data: a population-based cross-sectional study. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
BACKGROUND: In countries with incomplete or no vital registration systems, verbal autopsy data are often reviewed by physicians in order to assign the probable cause of death.
Sebsibe Tadesse
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Synergism of verbal autopsy and diagnostic pathology autopsy for improved accuracy of mortality data [PDF]

Population Health Metrics, 2011
Commentary This series provides an important opportunity to consider how diagnostic pathology autopsy could be used in conjunction with verbal autopsy to provide more accurate cause of death and mortality data in all countries, and specifically in those countries with inadequate or nonexistent death registrations systems.
Murray Jill, Fligner Corinne L, Roberts Drucilla J   +2 more
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Co‐design of a complex school‐based intervention for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder using the Intervention Mapping approach

JCPP Advances, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a highly heritable neurodevelopmental condition, comprising varying difficulties in attention and/or impulsive and overly active behaviours, with knock on effects for health, learning, social and emotional functioning, self‐esteem and quality of life.
Abigail Russell, Suzie Holt, Ian Wellaway, Ali Hirst, Lynne Heaney, Rachel Hanna, James Wenger, Liz Hampton, Barry Sullivan, Fran Townsend, Tamsin Ford, Barnaby D. Dunn, Darren Moore, Edmund Sonuga‐Barke, Linda Pfiffner, Judi Kidger, Rachel Hayes, Rebecca Gudka, Eleanor Bryant, Kirsty Cordwell, the Tools for Schools Planning Group   +20 more
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Comparing verbal autopsy cause of death findings as determined by physician coding and probabilistic modelling: a public health analysis of 54 000 deaths in Africa and Asia

Journal of Global Health, 2015
Background: Coverage of civil registration and vital statistics varies globally, with most deaths in Africa and Asia remaining either unregistered or registered without cause of death.
Peter Byass , Kobus Herbst, Edward Fottrell , Mohamed M. Ali, Frank Odhiambo, Nyaguara Amek, Mary J. Hamel, Kayla F. Laserson, Kathleen Kahn, Chodziwadziwa Kabudula, Chodziwadziwa Kabudula, Paul Mee, Jon Bird, Robert Jakob , Osman Sankoh , Stephen M. Tollman   +15 more
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Coping Practices of Small‐ and Medium‐Sized Enterprises Facing Power Asymmetry in Digital Platform Business

Strategic Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital platform (DP) enterprises have risen to the top of the global economy by inverting traditional business models. They earn money through matchmaking, transaction facilitation, and efficient orchestration of other stakeholders' resources.
Lukas R. G. Fitz, Jochen Scheeg
wiley   +1 more source