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BMI-BFMNU: A structural index linked to fat mass
Introduction: Body mass index (BMI) provides little information on body composition. For example, two people with the same BMI might have different body compositions.
José Miguel Soriano del Castillo +2 more
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ABSTRACT Background Oral mucositis is a common and debilitating side effect of childhood cancer and stem cell transplant treatments. It affects the quality of life of children and young people (CYP) and places a strain on services. Photobiomodulation is recommended for oral mucositis prevention in international guidance but is poorly implemented in UK ...
Claudia Heggie +4 more
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An update on the kilogram [PDF]
We need a new definition for the kilogram! The present definition was sanctioned by the first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM, Conférence Général des Poids et Mesures) in 1889, with a minor revision to the words in 1901, and remains ...
Mills, Ian
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Clinical Insights Into Hypercalcemia of Malignancy in Childhood
ABSTRACT Hypercalcemia of malignancy (HCM) is a rare but life‐threatening metabolic emergency in children that occurs in less than 1% of pediatric cancer cases, with a reported incidence ranging from 0.4% to 1.0% across different studies. While it is observed in 10%–20% of adult malignancies, pediatric HCM remains relatively uncommon.
Hüseyin Anıl Korkmaz
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Administrative databases can be used to measure Primary Health Care (PHC) performance. This can lead to identification of high-performing practice characteristics and inform innovations.
Jacqueline Kathleen Kueper +3 more
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Loop measures and the Gaussian free field [PDF]
Loop measures and their associated loop soups are generally viewed as arising from finite state Markov chains. We generalize several results to loop measures arising from potentially complex edge weights.
Lawler, Gregory F., Perlman, Jacob
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Part of Speech Based Term Weighting for Information Retrieval
Automatic language processing tools typically assign to terms so-called weights corresponding to the contribution of terms to information content. Traditionally, term weights are computed from lexical statistics, e.g., term frequencies.
Brown, André EX +11 more
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ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate selumetinib exposure using therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) in pediatric patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and plexiform neurofibromas (PN), assess interpatient pharmacokinetic variability, and explore the relationship between drug exposure, clinical response, and adverse effects.
Janka Kovács +8 more
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Birthweight, Childhood Body Mass Index, Height and Growth, and Risk of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Introduction: Adult obesity is linked with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), but the importance of body size at ages before PCOS is diagnosed is unknown. Objective: To investigate associations between a woman’s own birthweight, childhood body mass index (
Julie Aarestrup +6 more
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Correlations in weighted networks [PDF]
We develop a statistical theory to characterize correlations in weighted networks. We define the appropriate metrics quantifying correlations and show that strictly uncorrelated weighted networks do not exist due to the presence of structural constraints.
Boguna, Marian +2 more
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