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Natural Disasters and Indicators of Social Cohesion
(Public Library Science, 2017-06-07)
Do adversarial environmental conditions create social cohesion? We provide new answers to this question by exploiting spatial and temporal variation in exposure to earthquakes across Chile. Using a variety of methods and ...
Valuation of Real Options in Crude Oil Production
(MDPI, 2017-08-17)
Oil producers are going through a hard period. They have a number of real options at their disposal. This paper addresses the valuation of two of them: the option to delay investment and the option to abandon a producing ...
How Does the Ball Influence the Performance of Change of Direction and Sprint Tests in Para-Footballers with Brain Impairments? Implications for Evidence-Based Classification in CP-Football
(Public Library Science, 2017-11-03)
The aims of this study were: i) to analyze the reliability and validity of three tests that require sprinting (10 m, 25 m, 40 m), accelerations/decelerations (Stop and Go Test) and change of direction (Illinois Agility ...
Short-Term Adaptations Following Complex Training in Team-Sports: a Meta-Analysis
(Public Library Science, 2017-06-29)
Objective
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to study the short-term adaptations on sprint and vertical jump (VJ) performance following Complex Training (CT) in team-sports. CT is a resistance training method aimed ...
Nature and Location of Carbonaceous Species in a Composite HZSM-5 Zeolite Catalyst during the Conversion of Dimethyl Ether into Light Olefins
(MDPI, 2017-09)
The deactivation of a composite catalyst based on HZSM-5 zeolite (agglomerated in a matrix using boehmite as a binder) has been studied during the transformation of dimethyl ether into light olefins. The location of the ...
Context- and Template-Based Compression for Efficient Management of Data Models in Resource-Constrained Systems
(MDPI, 2017-08)
The Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) paradigm is based on the deployment of interconnected heterogeneous devices and systems, so interoperability is at the heart of any CPS architecture design. In this sense, the adoption of ...
Pancreatic Cancer in Lynch Syndrome Patients
(Ivyspring International Publicactions, 2017)
Although colorectal cancer (CRC) is the most common cancer type in Lynch syndrome (LS) families, patients have also increased lifetime risk of other types of tumors. The accumulated risk of pancreatic cancer (PC) in LS ...
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing before first-line treatment for Helicobacter pylori infection in patients with dual or triple antibiotic resistance
(Baishideng Publishing, 2017-05-14)
AIM
To evaluate the efficacy of antimicrobial susceptibility-guided therapy before first-line treatment for infection in patients with dual or triple antibiotic resistance.
METHODS
A total of 1034 patients infected ...
The effect of topical thiocolchicoside in preventing and reducing the increase of muscle tone, stiffness, and soreness: a real-life study on top-level road cyclists during stage competition
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2017-07)
In professional road cyclists, the majority of overuse injuries affect the lower limbs and are mostly represented by contractures or muscle shortening, characterized by an increase of tone and stiffness and a variation of ...
Dabrafenib for cutaneous melanoma infiltrating the vitreous: regression of metastasis and occurrence of uveitis as a secondary effect
(Springer, 2017-07-25)
Intraocular metastasis of cutaneous melanoma is extremely infrequent. This typically occurs in advanced metastatic disease and has a poor survival prognosis. The most frequent reported treatment is radiotherapy. BRAF ...