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    Occurrence of Serious Injury in Real-World Side Impacts of Vehicles with Good...

    Objective: The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) introduced its side impact consumer information test program in 2003. Since that time, side airbags and structural...
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    Sensitivity of Head and Cervical Spine Injury Measures to Impact Factors Rele...

    Objective: Serious head and cervical spine injuries have been shown to occur mostly independent of one another in pure rollover crashes. In an attempt to define a dynamic...
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    Surgical repair of humeral condylar fractures in New Zealand working farm dog...

    AIM: To report the long-term outcome, return to work and owner satisfaction, for working farm dogs in New Zealand following surgical repair of humeral condylar...
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    Relations between psychophysical measures of spatial hearing and self-reporte...

    Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate how well the virtual psychophysical measures of spatial hearing from the preliminary auditory profile predict...
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    ABSTRACTObjective: A driver's instinctive response of the lower extremity in braking movement consists of two parts, including reaction time and braking reaction behaviour. It...
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    Factors associated with six-year weight change in young and middle-aged adult...

    Objective. To examine factors associated with weight change and obesity risk in young and middle-aged adults. Subjects/methods. The Young Finns Study with its 923 women and 792...
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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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    Ability in daily activities after early supported discharge models of stroke ...

    More knowledge is needed about how different rehabilitation models in the municipality influence stroke survivors’ ability in activities of daily living (ADL). Objectives: To...
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    Identifying a context-effective school hearing screening test: An emic/etic f...

    Objective: To identify a context-effective hearing screening test for primary schools in the Western Cape, South Africa using an emic-etic framework for test selection. Design:...
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    Biofidelity Corridors for Sternum Kinematics in Low-Speed Side Impacts

    Objective: Field data show that side impact car crashes have become responsible for a greater proportion of the fatal crashes compared to frontal crashes, which suggests that...
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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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    Neural response during anticipation of monetary loss is elevated in adult att...

    Objectives: Risky behaviour seriously impacts the life of adult patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Such behaviours have often been attributed to...
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    Cardiovascular risk markers in patients with psoriatic arthritis: A meta-anal...

    Introduction. Several studies reported an increased cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA). We performed a meta-analysis on the...
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    Circadian clock properties of fruit flies <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> exhi...

    ABSTRACTThe role of circadian clocks in timing daily behaviors is widely acknowledged, and while empirical evidence suggests that clock period is correlated with the preferred...
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    Experimental models for cancellous bone healing in the rat

    Background and purpose — Cancellous bone appears to heal by mechanisms different from shaft fracture healing. There is a paucity of animal models for fractures in cancellous...
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    Karolinska Psychodynamic Profile for Sexual Disorders: KAPP-SD. A proposal fo...

    Objective: Our first objective in this paper was to review the literature on psychodynamic rating scales of sexual disorders. Our second objective, based on the findings from...
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    A Computational Biomechanical Analysis to Assess the Trade-off Between Chest ...

    Objectives: The objective of this study is to evaluate how the impact energy is apportioned between chest deflection and translation of the vehicle occupant for various side...
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    ABSTRACTPurpose: This is a descriptive study of the annual incidence of brain injuries in motor vehicle crashes by type, seatbelt use and crash severity (delta V) using national...
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    Neighborhood Deprivation and Risk of Age-Related Eye Diseases: A Follow-up St...

    Purpose: To examine whether there is an association between neighborhood deprivation and age-related eye diseases, particularly macular degeneration, cataract, diabetes-related...
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    Cognitive and executive functions, social cognition and sense of coherence in...

    Background: Primary disabilities in children with fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) are the results of alcohol's teratogen effect on the fetal brain. Reduced cognitive and executive...