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The harshness of punishment society chooses to impose on crime offenders is mandated by law. However, the quality of life in prison can make this punishment harsher. This creates a variation in the severity of punishment...

Objective: The aim of this study is to determine the prevalence of Y chromosome microdeletions in infertile Chilean men. Material and methods: A group of 102 infertile men with azoospermia or severe oligozoospermia were ...

Materias / palabras clave: ABTS; Chemistry; Antioxidant; Radical ion; Potassium persulfate; Hydroxyl radical; Chromatography; Organic chemistry; DPPH; Polymerization; Ion; Polymer

Materias / palabras clave: Autism; Psychology; Pervasive developmental disorder; Developmental disorder; Mini-international neuropsychiatric interview; Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Chi...

In a follow-up study of incarcerated Connecticut youth, 69 subjects were interviewed during young adulthood. On follow-up, 26 gave histories of abuse discrepant with histories obtained from records and interviews conduct...

Materias / palabras clave: Years of potential life lost; Disability-adjusted life year; Life expectancy; Medicine; Burden of disease; Quality-adjusted life year; Disease burden; Epidemiology; Demography; Disease; Global health; Poison control

OBJECTIVE: The objective was to provide guidelines to clinicians for the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of vitamin D deficiency with an emphasis on the care of patients who are at risk for deficiency. PARTICIPANTS...

BACKGROUND: Frailty is considered highly prevalent in old age and to confer high risk for falls, disability, hospitalization, and mortality. Frailty has been considered synonymous with disability, comorbidity, and other ...

Materias / palabras clave: Biology; Organism; Gene; Computational biology; Ontology; Function (biology); Gene ontology; Vocabulary; Controlled vocabulary; Genetics; World Wide Web; Computer science

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), principally ischemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke, are the leading cause of global mortality and a major contributor to disability. This paper reviews the magnitude of total CVD burden, ...

BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a major threat to human health around the world. Previous publications have estimated the effect of AMR on incidence, deaths, hospital length of stay, and health-care cost...

The ongoing revolution in high-throughput sequencing continues to democratize the ability of small groups of investigators to map the microbial component of the biosphere. In particular, the coevolution of new sequencing...

Prediction of species’ distributions is central to diverse applications in ecology, evolution and conservation science. There is increasing electronic access to vast sets of occurrence records in museums and herbaria, ...

Materias / palabras clave: Antioxidant; Polyphenol; Chemistry; Radical; Lipophilicity; Biochemistry; Organic chemistry; Food science

Materias / palabras clave: Dengue fever; Public health; Environmental health; Geography; Global health; Population; Dengue virus; Distribution (mathematics); Urbanization; Medicine; Demography; Virology

We introduce here a new method for computing differences between microbial communities based on phylogenetic information. This method, UniFrac, measures the phylogenetic distance between sets of taxa in a phylogenetic tr...

Objectives To describe new WHO 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour. Methods The guidelines were developed in accordance with WHO protocols. An expert Guideline Development Group reviewed evidence...

This study evaluates whether reductions in airway pressure-time product (ΔPTPaw) during diaphragm neurostimulation-assisted ventilation can reliably quantify respiratory muscle effort. Using data from the STIMULUS trial...