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    Purpose: This study estimated the annual count of spinal cord injuries (SCIs) in motor vehicles crashes by type and seat belt use using 18 years of NASS-CDS data. It determined...
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    Participatory mapping of flood hazard risk in Munamicua, District of Búzi, Mo...

    Detailed maps, appropriate for decision making at the local level are outdated or currently not available in Mozambique. The community map presented in this paper is built on...
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    Analysis of naturalistic driving videos of fleet services drivers to estimate...

    Objective: The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence and odds of fleet driver errors and potentially distracting behaviors just prior to rear-end versus angle...
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    Anglers’ responses to bait certification regulations: the case of virus-free ...

    The threat of viral haemorrhagic septicaemia (VHS) to the sport fish of the Great Lakes region has caused the state of Michigan to regulate some types of fishing bait that could...
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    Inference for Heavy-Tailed and Multiple-Threshold Double Autoregressive Models

    This paper develops a systematic inference procedure for heavy-tailed and multiple-threshold double autoregressive (MTDAR) models. We first study its quasi-maximum exponential...
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    Footpad dermatitis and pain assessment in turkey poults using analgesia and o...

    1. The relationships between litter moisture, footpad dermatitis (FPD) and pain in medium heavy turkey strains was studied by gait analysis in two medium heavy with and without...
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    Phthalate Concentrations in Personal Care Products and the Cumulative Exposur...

    Phthalate esters (PE) are synthetic chemicals widely used in industry, and have been detected in personal care products (PCP). Recent findings of human reports demonstrated...
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    The first 6 weeks of recovery after total knee arthroplasty with fast track

    Background and purpose — During the last decade, many hospitals have implemented fast-track protocols for total knee arthroplasty (TKA). These protocols reduce the length of...
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    The Great Recession or progressive energy policies? Explaining the decline in...

    This paper evaluates the causes of the 23% decline in 2030 US greenhouse gas emissions forecasts between 2007 and 2011. Dynamic regression modeling predicts that the Great...
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    Objective:This study estimated the economic burden of obesity-related comorbidities (ORCs) in the US, at both the person and population levels.Methods:The Geisinger Health...
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    Revisiting cartography: towards identifying and developing a modern and compr...

    Developments in production, sharing and use of spatial data and information involve revisiting the role and scope of cartography. Cartography is a core discipline for spatially...
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    Separation and identification of bioactive compounds in <i>Anabasis articulat...

    In the present paper, for the first time, we are interested to separate and identify some bioactive fractions isolated from the roots of a Saharan plant Anabasis articulata,...
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    Potential Occupant Injury Reduction in the U.S. Vehicle Fleet for Lane Depart...

    Objective: Single-vehicle collisions involve only 10 percent of all occupants in crashes in the United States, yet these same crashes account for 31 percent of all fatalities....
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    Cooking rice in excess water reduces both arsenic and enriched vitamins in th...

    This paper reports the effects of rinsing rice and cooking it in variable amounts of water on total arsenic, inorganic arsenic, iron, cadmium, manganese, folate, thiamin and...
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    Attitudes and perceptions of veterinary paraprofessionals in New Zealand to p...

    AIM: To survey the attitudes and perceptions of veterinary paraprofessionals in New Zealand to postoperative pain in dogs and cats.METHODS: In December 2011, veterinary...
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    Modeling for the equitable and effective distribution of donated food under c...

    Mathematical models are presented and analyzed to facilitate a food bank's equitable and effective distribution of donated food among the population at risk for hunger....
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    Chemical compositions and antibacterial activity of extracts obtained from th...

    The aim of this study was to investigate phenolic acids and flavonoids in methanolic, dichloromethane, acetone and ethyl acetate extracts and fractions from inflorescences of...
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    Comparison of single-point and continuous sampling methods for estimating res...

    ABSTRACTResidential temperature and humidity are associated with multiple health effects. Studies commonly use single-point measures to estimate indoor temperature and humidity...
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    Theoretical Investigations on the Geometrical Structures, Energies, and Elect...

    In this paper, the heterofullerenes made of the smallest fullerene, C20 were investigated by quantum chemistry calculations based on density functional theory. The geometrical...
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    A critical hybrid realist-outcomes systematic review of relationships between...

    Background: The relationships between medical schools and communities have long inspired and troubled medical education programmes. Successive models of community-oriented,...