Ritter, Patricia I Sanchez, Ricardo A
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Journal of population economics
The potential death toll from an epidemic is larger than the number of deaths directly associated with the infection. In this study, we find that prenatal exposure to a cholera epidemic in Peru increased childhood mortality and that surviving children were more likely to be underweight and to suffer from diarrhea. We further find that a significant...
de Boer, Henk-Wim Jongen, Egbert L W
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Journal of population economics
We combine the strengths of structural models and natural experiments in an analysis of tax-benefit reforms in the Netherlands. We first estimate structural discrete-choice models for labour supply. Next, we simulate key past reforms and compare the predictions of the structural model with the outcomes of quasi-experimental studies. The structural ...
Foraita, Maike Howell, Tiffani Bennett, Pauleen
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Animal cognition
Executive functions (EFs) are cognitive processes that are used to effortfully self-regulate behaviour and might be important for dogs' success in working and pet roles. Currently, studies are assessing dogs' EF skills through often laborious cognitive measures, leading to small sample sizes and lacking measures of reliability. A complementary meth...
Breitschwerdt, Sven Schwarze-Zander, Carolynne Al Tayy, Ahmad Mutevelli, Julia Wasmuth, Jan-Christian Rockstroh, Jürgen K Boesecke, Christoph
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Infection
With modern combination antiretroviral Treatment (cART) a normal life expectancy among people living with HIV (PLWH) has become reality if started early enough prior to the onset of more pronounced immunodeficiency. Therefore, prevention measures against other infectious diseases among this vulnerable group have gained increased attention. Indeed, ...
Gos, Tomasz Steiner, Johann Trübner, Kurt Krzyżanowska, Marta Kaliszan, Michał
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European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience
Opioid addiction is a worldwide problem accentuated in the USA and European countries by the COVID-19 pandemic. The nucleus accumbens (NAc) plays an outstanding neurobiological role in opioid addiction as a part of the striatum and key component of brain reward system. The striatal GABAergic medium spiny projection neurons (MSNs) are the main neuro...
Steigenberger, Caroline Flatscher-Thoeni, Magdalena Siebert, Uwe Leiter, Andrea M
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The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care
Stated preference studies are a valuable tool to elicit respondents' willingness to pay (WTP) for goods or services, especially in situations where no market valuation exists. Contingent valuation (CV) is a widely used approach among stated-preference techniques for eliciting WTP if prices do not exist or do not reflect actual costs, for example, w...
Bahrololoomi, Zahra Maghsoudi, Nahid
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Oral and maxillofacial surgery
The aim of this study was to compare single buccal infiltration of 4% articaine versus routine buccal and palatal injections of 2% lidocaine during bilateral extraction of maxillary primary molars. Thirty healthy children aged 6-9 years old requiring bilateral extraction of maxillary primary molars were enrolled into the trial. Randomization was pe...
Glück, Vivian Tydykov, Leonid Mader, Anna-Lena Warda, Anne-Sophie Bertok, Manuela Weidlich, Tanja Gottwald, Christine Köstler, Josef Salzberger, Bernd Wagner, Ralf
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Infection
The immune response to COVID-19-vaccination differs between naïve vaccinees and those who were previously infected with SARS-CoV-2. Longitudinal quantitative and qualitative serological differences in these two distinct immunological subgroups in response to vaccination are currently not well studied. We investigate a cohort of SARS-CoV-2-naïve and...
Dutta, Harsh Kaushik, Geetanjali Dutta, Venkatesh
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Environmental science and pollution research international
Recent research in many parts of the world has pointed towards evidence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in both treated and raw municipal wastewater discharged by communities. Therefore, concerns regarding it being a possible enteric virus are abundant. Past history of SARS-CoV-1 outbreaks and viral survival information helps in establishing information regardin...
Moulana, Zahra Bagherzadeh, Mojgan Mirzakhani, Mohammad Rostami, Ali Mohammadnia-Afrouzi, Mousa Shahbazi, Mehdi
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Environmental science and pollution research international
Pentraxin 3 (PTX3) and ficolin are the plasma phase of pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) and can activate complement through classical and lectin pathways, respectively, which may contribute to disease severity. This study aimed to investigate the association between PTX3 and ficolin with disease severity in patients with coronavirus disease-201...
