Can Community Health Workers Report Accurately on Births and Deaths? Results of Field Assessments in Ethiopia, Malawi and Mali. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 INTRODUCTION:Most low-income countries lack complete and accurate vital registration systems. As a result, measures of under-five mortality rates rely mostly on household surveys.
Romesh Silva +8 more
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Multiparton Interactions and Rescattering [PDF]
, 2009 The concept of multiple partonic interactions in hadronic events is vital for the understanding of both minimum-bias and underlying-event physics. The area is rather little studied, however, and current models offer a far from complete coverage, even of ...
Corke, Richard, Sjöstrand, Torbjörn
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Quantifying protein densities on cell membranes using super-resolution optical fluctuation imaging [PDF]
, 2017 Surface molecules, distributed in diverse patterns and clusters on cell membranes, influence vital functions of living cells. It is therefore important to understand their molecular surface organisation under different physiological and pathological ...
Benda, Aleš +9 more
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Further Analyses of the Safety of Verubecestat in the Phase 3 EPOCH Trial of Mild-To-Moderate Alzheimer’s Disease [PDF]
, 2019 Background: Verubecestat, a BACE1 inhibitor that reduces Aβ levels in the cerebrospinal fluid of humans, was not effective in a phase 3 trial (EPOCH) of mild-to-moderate AD and was associated with adverse events.
Aisen, Paul S. +12 more
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BMC Emergency Medicine, 2021 Background Older adults (age ≥ 65 years) represent a significant proportion of all patients who are not transported to hospital after assessment by ambulance clinicians (non-conveyed patients).
Jakob Lederman +5 more
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Strategies for improving the monitoring of vital events in Brazil [PDF]
International Journal of Epidemiology, 2008 In view of the limitations of survey-based demographic techniques for infant mortality estimation, the current strategy of some developing countries is to improve vital information. This article presents recent progress in the improvement of national databases in Brazil.For the vital information analysis, the data sources are the Mortality Information ...
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Pediatric Patients Discharged from the Emergency Department with Abnormal Vital Signs
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2017 Introduction: Children often present to the emergency department (ED) with minor conditions such as fever and have persistently abnormal vital signs. We hypothesized that a significant portion of children discharged from the ED would have abnormal vital ...
Josephine Winter +6 more
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Detecting Specific Health-Related Events Using an Integrated Sensor System for Vital Sign Monitoring
Sensors, 2009 In this paper, a new method for the detection of apnea/hypopnea periods in physiological data is presented. The method is based on the intelligent combination of an integrated sensor system for long-time cardiorespiratory signal monitoring and dedicated ...
Mourad Adnane +3 more
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Proteoglycan neofunctions: regulation of inflammation and autophagy in cancer biology. [PDF]
, 2017 Inflammation and autophagy have emerged as prominent issues in the context of proteoglycan signaling. In particular, two small, leucine-rich proteoglycans, biglycan and decorin, play pivotal roles in the regulation of these vital cellular pathways and ...
Cohen IR +5 more
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Fertility and the changing female educational attainment in Croatia [PDF]
Stanovništvo, 2016 This paper investigates the aggregate relationship between cohort fertility and female educational attainment in Croatia. Numerous demographic studies have examined the link between fertility and the level of education.
Čipin Ivan +2 more
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