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    An audit of physiotherapists’ documentation on physical activity assessment, ...

    Identify if physiotherapists document the assessment, promotion and prescription of physical activity to older adults attending out-patient rehabilitation and assist them in the...
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    Anticipatory witnessing: military bases and the politics of pre-empting access

    As part of their newsgathering process, journalists often seek access to places owned or controlled by the government, such as military bases. In the United States, the military...
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    Spatial modelling of cumulative human pressure in the tropical coastscape of ...

    Coastal landscapes and seascapes (‘coastscapes’) are under immense anthropogenic pressures emanating from multiple human activities. We applied spatial modelling to characterise...
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    Do voluntary certification standards improve yields and wellbeing? Evidence f...

    Cocoa and oil palm production are major agricultural activities in Ghana, contributing substantially to the national economy and rural livelihoods. Even though smallholders...
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    Viewing nature scenes reduces the pain of social ostracism

    In a series of four studies (Ns = 245, 135, 155, 222), we explored the effects of viewing nature scenes on promoting recovery from ostracism. We first manipulated experiences of...
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    The epidemiology and prehospital care of motorcycle crashes in a sub-Saharan ...

    Road traffic crashes (RTCs) are common among motorcyclists in Kigali, Rwanda. The Service d’Aide Medicale Urgente (SAMU), a prehospital ambulance service, responds to many of...
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    Objective: To examine the prevalence of self-reported problems with sexual activity among psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients, and to explore potential associations of such...
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    E-waste legislation in the US: An analysis of the disparate design and result...

    Electronic waste management in the US has been characterized as ‘inconsistent’, ‘disparate’, and a ‘patchwork’. While there is currently no federal leadership on the regulation...
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    Patient preferences and predicted relative uptake for targeted therapies in m...

    Objective Ras wild-type metastatic colorectal cancers (mCRC) may be treated with anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) or anti-epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)...
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    Cost-effectiveness and budget impact analysis of infliximab and its biosimila...

    This study aimed to conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis of infliximab and its biosimilar compared to conventional therapy in refractory moderate-to-severe Crohn’s disease (CD)...
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    Youth Migration and Labour Constraints in African Agrarian Households

    Using panel data from Ethiopia and Malawi, we investigate how youth migration affects household labour, hired labour demand, and income, and whether these effects vary by...
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    An Evaluation of the Policy Response to Drought in the City of São Paulo, Bra...

    Drought can have large, negative impacts on livelihoods and development outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. This highlights the need for drought response policies that...
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    Integrating climate and food policies in higher education: a case study of th...

    Most climate change mitigation policies, including those of higher education institutions, do not include food system greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE). Yet the food system...
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    Wastewater infrastructure for sustainable cities: assessment based on UN sust...

    Among the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), SDG #11 aims to make future cities resilient and sustainable while, SDG #6 aims to ensure availability and...
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    Textual analysis and corporate bankruptcy: A financial dictionary-based senti...

    Current works in textual analysis for the financial reports are trying to quantify textual data as meaningful predictors for the future financial performance or stock returns....
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    Recording skeletal completeness in cases of fragmentary human remains: a pilo...

    Documenting skeletal completeness is an essential element of the physical anthropology examination. Methods available to calculate skeletal completeness, that is how much of the...
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    Estimation of dynamic water demand function: the case of Istanbul

    This paper empirically examines the determinants of water demand in the megacity of Istanbul, Turkey, using a dynamic framework. An autoregressive distributed lag model is...
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    Malaysian adaptation of the physical activity scale for individuals with phys...

    Purpose: The Physical Activity Scale for Individuals with Physical Disabilities questionnaire provides an assessment of physical activity after spinal cord injury. This study...
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    Understanding factors that affect the prior knowledge of deaf and hard of hea...

    The reading comprehension levels of students who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) are low compared to those of their hearing peers. One possible reason for this low reading...
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    Diversity Deficit and Scale-Flip

    We present a comprehensive multi-scale test of the diversity-deficit hypothesis that posits a negative association between diversity and development. We develop a ‘scale-flip...