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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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    Policy feedback and economic risk: the influence of privatization on social p...

    ABSTRACTThrough policy feedback mechanisms, public policies can shape individuals’ preferences for those policies. While research has focused on the direct link between policies...
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    What do tomorrow’s doctors need to learn about ecosystems? – A BEME Systemati...

    Background: Human health is fundamentally determined by the health of ecosystems. Guidance is lacking about how to address the topic of ecosystems within medical education....
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    Neuropsychological Profile of Children, Adolescents and Adults Experiencing M...

    Objective: Few studies have attempted to describe the range of cognitive impairments affecting people who have experienced child maltreatment. The aim of this meta-analysis was...
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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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    Considerations when using pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic modeling to determi...

    Introduction: Assessment of analgesic drugs includes comparative studies to other analgesics and local anesthesia blockade, number needed to treat estimates and opioid sparing...
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    Deciding if lifestyle is a problem: GP risk assessments or patient evaluation...

    Objective. The aim of this study is to analyse the interaction between patients and GPs in preventive consultations with an emphasis on how patients answer GPs’ questions about...
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    Identification and Inference With Many Invalid Instruments

    We study estimation and inference in settings where the interest is in the effect of a potentially endogenous regressor on some outcome. To address the endogeneity we exploit...
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    Objective: This research investigated the following issue. Though several tests indicate that motorcycle ABS may increase motorcycle stability, thus reducing the risk of a...
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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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    Effect of rotational alignment on outcome of total knee arthroplasty

    Background and purpose — Poor outcomes have been linked to errors in rotational alignment of total knee arthroplasty components. The aims of this study were to determine the...
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    Modeling an Augmented Lagrangian for Blackbox Constrained Optimization

    Constrained blackbox optimization is a difficult problem, with most approaches coming from the mathematical programming literature. The statistical literature is sparse,...
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    Background: The absence of a standard, comprehensive approach to evaluating technology-enhanced learning (TEL) limits the utility of individual evaluations, and impedes the...
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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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    Validation of the traditional Chinese version of the Menopausal Rating Scale ...

    Objective To assess the criterion validity, construct validity and test–retest reliability of the traditional Chinese language version of the Menopause Rating Scale (MRS-TC...
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    Pediatric Occupant—Vehicle Contact Maps in Rollover Motor Vehicle Crashes

    Objective: Rollover crashes account for more than 33% of all motor vehicle–related fatalities and have the highest fatality risk of all crash types, at 1.37% in the United...
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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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    The Road Traffic Crashes as a Neglected Public Health Concern; An Observation...

    Objective: Traffic crashes are multifactorial events caused by human factors, technical issues, and environmental conditions. The present study aimed to determine the role of...