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(2017-02-01)Introduction: Wherever social relations or interpersonal relations are involved, social perception runs as an undercurrent, either implicitly or explicitly. Perhaps the primary importance of social perception derives from ...
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(2017-02-01)INTRODUCTION: Speculations about the nature of personality can be found throughout recorded time. There have been numerous and often contradictory attempts to describe man's personality, character, and temperament. The ...
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(2017-02-01)C. G. Jung’s Typology (21) is a richly described and, to the writer, intuitively reasonable method of categorizing individuals. One of its type-pairs, extraversion-introversion, has become a controversial, but apparently ...
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(2017)<p>Background: Primary care sensitive conditions (PCSC), a classification of illnesses that includes noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and maternal health complications, are considered preventable through appropriate care ...
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(2017)<p>Background: The Western Cape Province of South Africa has one of the highest documented rates of FASD globally. In order to establish FASD prevention interventions that can effectively reach women in this high-risk ...
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(2017)<p>Background: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is disproportionally concentrated in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), with the odds of dying from TBI in Uganda more than 4 times higher than in high income countries ...
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(2017)<p>Alcohol is a leading risk factor for injury. Road traffic injuries are a leading killer, but perceptions of drinking and drink driving in Tanzania are unclear. This research aims to define how perceptions of drinking ...
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(2017)<p>The World Health Organization recommends parasitological confirmation of malaria prior to treatment. Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) represent simple, mobile diagnostic technologies that are used in a variety of ...
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(2017)<p>Nanoceria, or cerium (IV) oxide, is used widely in industry for its catalytic and physical properties, thus its release into the environment is eminent. The environmental risk of nanoceria is still unclear, but ...
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(2017)<p>Background </p><p> Human resources for health are crucial for health system strengthening and achieving sustainable development goals and universal health coverage, but the shortage and maldistribution of ...
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(2017)<p>Cervical cancer is the second leading cause of death for women worldwide with 85% of deaths occurring in low and middle-income countries, despite being both preventable and treatable if detected early enough. The burden ...
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(2017)<p>Pre-treatment of hydrogen sulfide is required before the utilization of biogas to eliminate the detrimental effects of corrosive hydrogen sulfide to the following combustion engines and pipelines. Biotrickling filters ...
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(2017)<p>The Loreto Region of Peru has the highest malaria rates in the country. Insecticide treated nets are one of the best prevention malaria prevention methods. Deltamethrin and permethrin are two of the most commonly used ...
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(2017)<p>American voters understand that elections have consequences, but they have become so disillusioned by their political system that approximately 40 percent have self-selected out of the two-party circus, choosing instead ...
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(2017)<p>Shallow water, coastal regions with high volumes of shipping traffic provide an excellent opportunity to passively characterize the ocean acoustic propagation environment. In this paper, a hybrid maximum-likelihood ...
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(2017)<p>Despite the clear benefits to women, families, and society, family planning is not universal. In 2015,12 percent of married or in-union women who want to prevent or delay pregnancy were are not currently using a method ...
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(2017)<p>Purpose:</p><p>A new development in linac-based intracranial stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and extracranial stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is treatment of multiple targets using single isocenter volumetric ...
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(2017)<p>The Skaergaard Intrusion of East Greenland is unusual in that the trace sulfide assemblage is characterized by unusually high Cu/S ratios, containing abundant chalcopyrite and bornite (Cu5FeS4), the latter otherwise ...
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