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Open AccessThe economic impact of anastomotic leak after colorectal cancer surgery
To determine the economic impact of the incremental consumption of resources for the diagnosis and treatment of anastomotic leak (AL) in patients after resection with anastomosis for colorectal cancer compared...
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Open AccessWomen in the 2019 hepatitis C cascade of care: findings from the British Columbia Hepatitis Testers cohort study
Women living with hepatitis C virus (HCV) are rarely addressed in research and may be overrepresented within key populations requiring additional support to access HCV care and treatment. We constructed the H...
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Open AccessCellulosic biofuel production using emulsified simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (eSSF) with conventional and thermotolerant yeasts
Future expansion of corn-derived ethanol raises concerns of sustainability and competition with the food industry. Therefore, cellulosic biofuels derived from agricultural waste and dedicated energy crops are ...
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Open AccessQß Virus-like particle-based vaccine induces robust immunity and protects against tauopathy
Tauopathies, including frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are progressive neurodegenerative diseases clinically characterized by cognitive decline and could be caused by the aggregation...
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Open AccessReasons for action, acting for reasons, and rationality
What kind of thing is a reason for action? What is it to act for a reason? And what is the connection between acting for a reason and rationality? There is controversy about the many issues raised by these que...
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Could White Coat Ocular Hypertension Affect to the Accuracy of the Diagnosis of Glaucoma? Relationships Between Anxiety and Intraocular Pressure in a Simulated Clinical Setting
Sixty-one healthy subjects participated in a laboratory study carried out in a simulated clinical setting. Anticipatory anxiety-state was assessed at the arrival and immediately after, with no brief phase of a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
User Centred Design of Rehabilitation Robots
The design of modern rehabilitation robots must be user centred. Apart from safety, robustness and the classical technical aspects (kinematics, dynamics, etc.) other issues related with the patient should be c...
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Open AccessTwin epidemics of new and prevalent hepatitis C infections in Canada: BC Hepatitis Testers Cohort
We characterized the twin epidemics of new and prevalent hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections in British Columbia, Canada to inform prevention, care and treatment programs.
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Erratum to: Barriers and Facilitators to Recruitment to a Culturally Based Dietary Intervention Among Urban Hispanic Breast Cancer Survivors
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Barriers and Facilitators to Recruitment to a Culturally Based Dietary Intervention Among Urban Hispanic Breast Cancer Survivors
The purpose of this study was to understand factors related to recruitment to behavioral intervention trials among Spanish-speaking urban Hispanic breast cancer (BC) survivors.
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Value-based pricing: ¿nos enfrentamos a un nuevo paradigma?
A nivel internacional, las políticas de fijación y regulación del precio de los medicamentos están experimentando cambios notables. Previsiblemente, en el Reino Unido entrará en vigor un sistema de fijación y ...
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Open AccessLong-acting olanzapine versus long-acting risperidone for schizophrenia in Spain – a cost-effectiveness comparison
In schizophrenia, medication adherence is critical to achieve better patient outcomes and to avoid relapses, which are responsible for a significant proportion of total healthcare costs for this chronic illnes...
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Open AccessEl Niño adversely affected childhood stature and lean mass in northern Peru
El Niño is responsible for natural disasters and infectious disease outbreaks worldwide. During the 1997–1998 El Niño, northern Peru endured extreme rainfall and flooding. Since short stature may occur as a resul...
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Chapter
Ryle on Motives and Dispositions
In The Concept of Mind, Ryle discusses dispositions in some detail both in the chapter on emotions, especially in relation to the concept of motive, and, of course, in the chapter entitled ‘Dispositions and Occur...
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Open AccessAdherence to Therapies in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
Adherence to therapy is defined as the extent to which a person’s behavior in taking medication, following a diet, and/or executing lifestyle changes, corresponds with agreed recommendations from a healthcare ...
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Chapter
Training Future Scientists: Teaching Microbial Source Tracking (MST) to Undergraduates
While major universities have the largest numbers of science majors and are recognized for their productivity in peer-reviewed research, liberal arts institutions and more recently community colleges are incre...
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Open AccessHCV co-infection in HIV positive population in British Columbia, Canada
As HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) share some modes of transmission co-infection is not uncommon. This study used a population-based sample of HIV and HCV tested individuals to determine the prevalence of HIV/HCV co...
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Chapter
Reasons, Desires and Intentional Actions
There are two fundamentally different ways of understanding the relation between desires and intentional actions. According to one, whenever someone does something for a reason, some desire of his (or ‘want’ —...
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Open AccessMicrobial contamination and chemical toxicity of the Rio Grande
The Rio Grande River is the natural boundary between U.S. and Mexico from El Paso, TX to Brownsville, TX. and is one of the major water resources of the area. Agriculture, farming, maquiladora industry, domestic ...
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Influence of deformation rate and degree of compression on textural parameters of potato and apple tissues in texture profile analysis
The influence of the degree of compression, at deformation rates of 50, 250 and 500 mm min–1, on the textural parameters in the texture profile analysis (TPA) of cylindrical samples of potato and apple tissues w...
