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End stage kidney disease is an important health issue worldwide. Some risk factors such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus and the presence of glomerulonephritis can lead to progression towards end stage disease. There a...

This study explores parent perspectives on how time spent in nature and natural settings, including their own experiences with the natural world, might influence their child’s play, learning and holistic development an...

Burn injuries represent a major public health concern worldwide, with a disproportionately high burden observed in developing nations. The healing of second-degree burns engages a series of intricate cellular and molecul...

OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to estimate the prevalence of diabetes and the number of people of all ages with diabetes for years 2000 and 2030. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: Data on diabetes prevalence by age and...

Understanding the evolutionary history of living organisms is a central problem in biology. Until recently the ability to infer evolutionary relationships was limited by the amount of DNA sequence data available, but new...

The global burden of cancer continues to increase largely because of the aging and growth of the world population alongside an increasing adoption of cancer-causing behaviors, particularly smoking, in economically develo...

Fil: Salomon, Jean-Jacques. Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. Centre Science, Technologie et Societé. Francia. Este trabajo analiza la modificación de las relaciones entre científicos y el arte de la guerra...

El Protocolo de Montreal relativo a las sustancias que agotan la capa de ozono, firmado el 16 de septiembre de 1987, ajustado y enmendado en 1990, 1992, 1995 y 1997 es un modelo de concertación entre todos los grupos in...

Uniform Resource Identifiers are an integral part of the current Architecture of the World Wide Web. This work analyzes the implications and possibilities of using Universal Resource Names as unique and persistent identi...

Fil: Daher, Antonio. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales; Chile. Las políticas poscrisis de austeridad fiscal, servicio de deuda y competitividad, involucran alta mov...

En el trabajo se analizan los cambios recientes producidos en los mercados laborales y en las instituciones que los caracterizan. Se consideran un conjunto de factores que pueden constituir una explicación parcial de la...

The failure of the Fifth Ministerial Conference in Cancun2 was not only a setback for the Doha Round, but also for the World Trade Organization’s efforts to enhance international trade as means to growth and developmen...

Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital Robert D. Putnam (bio) Many students of the new democracies that have emerged over the past decade and a half have emphasized the importance of a strong and active civi...

BACKGROUND: Global and regional projections of mortality and burden of disease by cause for the years 2000, 2010, and 2030 were published by Murray and Lopez in 1996 as part of the Global Burden of Disease project. These...