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Association of Admission to Veterans Affairs Hospitals vs Non-Veterans Affairs Hospitals With Mortality and Readmission Rates Among Older Men Hospitalized With Acute Myocardial Infarction, Heart Failure, or Pneumonia.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2016
IMPORTANCE Little contemporary information is available about comparative performance between Veterans Affairs (VA) and non-VA hospitals, particularly related to mortality and readmission rates, 2 important outcomes of care.
S. Nuti, L. Qin, J. Rumsfeld, J. Ross, F. Masoudi, S. Normand, K. Murugiah, S. Bernheim, L. Suter, H. Krumholz   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Factors Associated With Influenza Vaccination in a National Veteran Cohort

AJPM Focus
Introduction: Only 53% of American adults receive influenza vaccination, and disparities in vaccination exist among particular racial and ethnic groups.
Alissa S. Chen, MD, Melissa M. Farmer, PhD, Ling Han, MD, PhD, MS, Tessa Runels, MPH, Brett Bade, MD, Kristina Crothers, MD, Lori A. Bastian, MD, MPH, Isabel S. Bazan, MD, Bevanne A. Bean-Mayberry, MD, MHS, Cynthia A. Brandt, MD, MPH, Kathleen M. Akgün, MD, MS   +10 more
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Destigmatizing Experiences of Combat Veterans Engaged in Civilian Disaster Relief: Implications for Community Transition

Advances in Social Work, 2017
Combat veterans possess some attributes of differentness that may cause others in society to create stigmatized perceptions of them and devalue their skills.
Derrick Kranke, June Gin, Rebecca Saia, Susan Schmitz, Eugenia L. Weiss, Aram Dobalian   +5 more
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Losing the Battle: The Challenges of Military Suicide [PDF]

, 2011
This report, by Dr. Margaret Harrell, CNAS Senior Fellow and Director of the Joining Forces Initiative, and Nancy Berglass, CNAS Non-Resident Senior Fellow, suggests that the health of the all-volunteer force is dependent on our nation's ability to take ...
Margaret C. Harrell, Nancy Berglass
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Testing the Marketing Performance of German Wheat Farmers

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyses the marketing performance of wheat farmers in Germany. Wheat sales data from 465 individual farms over a 12‐year period are used to test against different market benchmarks. Market benchmarks are constructed by simulating passive trading agents using regional wheat prices.
Franziska Potts, Jens‐Peter Loy
wiley   +1 more source

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for treatment-resistant major depression (TRMD) Veteran patients: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials, 2017
Background Evaluation of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for treatment-resistant major depression (TRMD) in Veterans offers unique clinical trial challenges.
Zhibao Mi, Kousick Biswas, J. Kaci Fairchild, Anne Davis-Karim, Ciaran S. Phibbs, Steven D. Forman, Michael Thase, Gerald Georgette, Tamara Beale, David Pittman, Margaret Windy McNerney, Allyson Rosen, Grant D. Huang, Mark George, Art Noda, Jerome A. Yesavage   +15 more
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VA transforms end-of-life care for veterans [PDF]

, 2005
12 pages.Reports on achievements and improvements in end-of-life care for veterans in Veterans Affairs ...
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (U.S.), United States. Department of Veterans Affairs   +1 more
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In Situ Graph Reasoning and Knowledge Expansion Using Graph‐PRefLexOR

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Graph‐PRefLexOR is a novel framework that enhances language models with in situ graph reasoning, symbolic abstraction, and recursive refinement. By integrating graph‐based representations into generative tasks, the approach enables interpretable, multistep reasoning.
Markus J. Buehler
wiley   +1 more source

A novel mechanism of lncRNA and miRNA interaction: CCAT2 regulates miR-145 expression by suppressing its maturation process in colon cancer cells

Molecular Cancer, 2017
Background Although both long and micro RNAs are emerging as important functional components in colorectal cancer (CRC) progression and metastasis, the mechanism of their interaction remains poorly understood. CCAT2 (Colon cancer-associated transcript-2),
Yingjie Yu, Pratima Nangia-Makker, Lulu Farhana, Adhip P. N. Majumdar   +3 more
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