Tuberculosis in older adults: case studies from four countries with rapidly ageing populations in the western pacific re...
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10.1186/s12889-023-15197-7 / BMC PUBLIC HEALTH / 23 / 1
Should you need an organ horizontal ellipsis Flemish secondary school students' attitudes toward xenotransplantation and...
BACKGROUND: The supply of human organs available for transplantation remains grossly inadequate globally. Animal-to-human transplantation, and even more so humanized organ grown in animals, holds promising results for the start of clinical trials in humans. Very little is known about the public's willingness to accept different xenotransplantation ...
Impact of Geopolitical Risk on the Information Technology, Communication Services and Consumer Staples Sectors of the S&...
We investigate the effect of geopolitical risk on the returns of firms in the Information Technology, Communication Services, and Consumer Staples sectors within the S & P 500 index. We use the event study methodology and perform more than 17,000 regressions to provide empirical evidence at sector level that geopolitical risk leads to different res...
El clan del Dragón de la Sombra. Proyecto de Cómic
[ES] El clan del Dragón de la Sombra es un proyecto de cómic presentado mediante una portada y 6 páginas interiores, de género acción y ficción histórica, al estilo manga. Esta memoria recoge las fases que se han seguido para lograr su forma final, diseño de personajes, la construcción de la historia, realización de las páginas y el dossier del cóm...
National context and socioeconomic inequalities in educational achievement
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Empirical research repeatedly shows cross-country differences in the extent and distribution of socioeconomic inequalities in educational achievement. This observation is the starting point for the comparative DICE-project (Development of Inequalities in Child Educational Achievement: A Six-Country Study). It aims to improve the understanding of ch...
Carbon deposition by Russian forests on the example of taiga and forest-steppe zones
Due to the global warming of the climate, the assessment of the carbon cycle in forest ecosystems has become particularly important. One method for determining deposited carbon is based on the use of biomass expansion factors (BEF) and State Forest Inventory (SFI) data. By combining BEF models with SFI data in two ecoregions of Russia - taiga and f...
Evaluation of the Cancer Transition Theory in the US, Select European Nations, and Japan by Investigating Mortality of I...
Published in JAMA network open
Despite cancer being a leading cause of death worldwide, scant research has been carried out on the validity of the cancer transition theory, the idea that as nations develop, they move from a situation where infectious-related cancers are prominent to one where noninfectious-related cancers dominate. To examine whether cancer transitions exist in ...
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on functional dyspepsia and irritable bowel syndrome: A population-based survey
10.1111/jgh.15346 / JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY / 36 / 7 / 1820-1827
Trends in Hip Fracture Incidence in Japan: Estimates Based on Nationwide Hip Fracture Surveys From 1992 to 2017
Published in JBMR Plus
As of 2015, the aging population in Japan was the largest in the world. Although the National Database of Health Insurance Claims (NDB) was developed in 2012, long‐term trends regarding hip fracture incidence in Japan remain unclear. In order to clarify the trend in hip fracture incidence from 1992 to 2017, we estimated the number of new hip fractu...
My emotions belong here and there: Extending the phenomenon of emotional acculturation to heritage cultural contexts.
When immigrant minorities engage in a new cultural context, their patterns of emotional experience come to change - a process we coined emotional acculturation. To date, research on emotional acculturation focused on the antecedents and consequences of changes in minorities' fit with the new culture. Yet, most minorities also continue to engage in ...
