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Development of the Brief Geriatric Assessment for the General Practitioner
The study aimed to develop a brief geriatric assessment (BGA) tool for the general practitioner to evaluate geriatric syndromes in community-dwelling older adults.
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Open AccessPromoting hand hygiene program via social media
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Trends in the susceptibility of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to nine antimicrobial agents, including ceftobiprole, nemonoxacin, and tyrothricin: results from the Tigecycline In Vitro Surveillance in Taiwan (TIST) study, 2006–2010
This study investigated the in vitro susceptibilities of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) to nine antimicrobial agents in Taiwan. A total of 1,725 isolates were obtained from 20 hospitals throug...
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Open AccessP147: Assessing the thoroughness of hand hygiene: “To see is to believe”
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Chapter and Conference Paper
New Concepts for Organocatalysis
Organocatalysis, catalysis with low-molecular weight catalysts in which a metal is not part of the catalytic principle or the reaction substrate, can be as efficient and selective as metal- or biocatalysis. Im...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Exposure of non-smoking pregnant women to environmental tobacco smoke in Guangzhou, China
Exposure of non-smoking pregnant women to environmental tobacco smoke, or passive smoking, has been shown to be associated with spontaneous abortion, perinatal death, premature delivery and low birthweight. In...
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Quantum confinement effects of Si/SiGe strained-layer superlattices grown by an ultrahigh vacuum/chemical vapor deposition technique
Well-resolved band-edge luminescence is observed for Si0.86Ge0.14/Si strained-layer superlattices grown by an ultrahigh vacuum/chemical vapour deposition technique at 550 ‡C. High-resolution double-crystal X-ray ...
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The double-light-beam method in three-dimensional scattered-light photoelasticity
This paper presents a new scattered-light photoelasticity technique which may be called the double-light-beam measurement method. Principal-stress directions and relative retardations related to the principal-...