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Acta Orthopaedica, 2020 Background and purpose — The term “weekend effect” describes differences in outcomes between patients treated at weekends compared with weekdays. We investigated whether there is a weekend effect for the risk of reoperation and mortality after hip ...
Andrea Boutera +3 more
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Weekend effect in upper gastrointestinal bleeding: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Aim To perform a systematic review and meta-analysis of the weekend effect on the mortality of patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding(UGIB). Methods The review protocol has been registered in the PROSPERO International Prospective Register of ...
Pei-Ching Shih +5 more
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Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction, Recovery State, and Recovery Timing [PDF]
, 2018 This study aimed to provide insight into recovery from work-related load effects by examining (1) whether basic psychological need satisfaction (BPN satisfaction) during non-work days facilitates recovery; (2) whether the effect of BPN satisfaction is ...
Binnewies C. +22 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amidst a recent surge in US goat meat imports to meet growing demand, this study contributes to the meat demand literature by examining consumer preferences for goat meat, a relatively healthy and environmentally friendly alternative to other popular meats.
Binod Khanal +2 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang +3 more
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Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 2020 Concentrations of primary air pollutants are driven by emissions and weather patterns, which control their production and dispersion. The early months of the year see the celebratory use of fireworks, a week-long public holiday in China, but in 2020 ...
Peter Brimblecombe, Yonghang Lai
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Retrospective observational study of emergency admission, readmission and the ‘weekend effect’ [PDF]
, 2017 Objectives - Excess mortality following weekend hospital admission has been observed but not explained. As readmissions have greater age, comorbidity and social deprivation, outcomes following emergency index admission and readmission were examined for ...
McMeekin, Peter +2 more
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Is the Weekend Effect Really a Weekend Effect?
International Journal of Economics and Finance, 2015 The weekend effect, as documented in earlier finance literatures, refers to the tendency in which stock returns are lower on Mondays relative to the other days of the week. This paper confirms and extends the results illustrated in these earlier literatures by showing that the weekend effect exists in the early years and it is beginning to diminish in ...
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Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török +6 more
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Agent-based simulation for weekend-extension strategies to mitigate influenza outbreaks
BMC Public Health, 2011 Background Non-pharmaceutical strategies are vital in curtailing impacts of influenza and have been intensively studied in public health. However, few strategies have explicitly utilized the weekend effect, which has been widely reported to be capable of
Mao Liang
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