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Drugs, Crime and Public Health

Alex Stevens • Routledge eBooks (2010)

Drugs, Crime and Public Health provides an accessible but critical discussion of recent policy on illicit drugs. Using a comparative approach - centred on the UK, but with insights and complementary data gathered from the USA and other coun...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203844168

SOCIAL MARKETING IN PUBLIC HEALTH

Sonya A. Grier, Carol A. Bryant • Annual Review of Public Health (2004)

Social marketing, the use of marketing to design and implement programs to promote socially beneficial behavior change, has grown in popularity and usage within the public health community. Despite this growth, many public health profession...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.publhealth.26.021304.144610

Protocol to evaluate sequential electronic health record-based strategies to increase genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer risk across diverse patient populations in gynecology practices

Heather Symecko, Robert Schnoll, Rinad S. Beidas, Justin E. Bekelman et al. • Implementation Science (2023)

Abstract Background Germline genetic testing is recommended by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) for individuals including, but not limited to, those with a personal history of ovarian cancer, young-onset (...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13012-023-01308-w

Social Marketing for Public Health

Diana Chapman Walsh, Rima E. Rudd, Barbara A. Moeykens, Thomas W. Moloney • Health Affairs (1993)

Prologue: At a time when the Clinton administration is promoting fundamental reform of the U.S. health care system, far less attention is being paid to perhaps the most important challenge any country faces when it seeks to improve the heal...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.12.2.104

Communication with the public in the health-care system: a descriptive study of the use of social media in Local Health Authorities and public hospitals in Italy

Marina Vanzetta, Ercole Vellone, Alberto Dal Molin, Gennaro Rocco et al. • Annali dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità (2014)

INTRODUCTION. In 2010 the Italian Ministry of Health set out recommendations for the use of social technology and Web 2.0, inviting organisations within the Italian national health service (Servizio Sanitario Nazionale, SSN) to equip themse...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4415/ANN_14_02_10

LASIK Surgery

Megan Yu • Voices in Bioethics (2020)

Photo by Scott Van Daalen on Unsplash INTRODUCTION LASIK surgery, one of the most common elective procedures worldwide, aims to decrease or eliminate the need to wear glasses or contact lenses by reshaping the cornea’s curvature to re...

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Global variations in funding and use of hemodialysis accesses: an international report using the ISN Global Kidney Health Atlas

Anukul Ghimire, Samveg Shah, Utkarsh Chauhan, Kwaifa Salihu Ibrahim et al. • BMC Nephrology (2024)

Abstract Background There is a lack of contemporary data describing global variations in vascular access for hemodialysis (HD). We used the third iteration of the International Society of Nephrology Global Kidney Health Atlas (ISN-GKHA) to ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12882-024-03593-z

Review of Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Warren E. Levinson • Repository of the University of Ljubljana (University of Ljubljana) (2002)

Essential for USMLE review and medical microbiology coursework! Review of Medical Microbiology and Immunology is a succinct, high-yield review of the medically important aspects of microbiology and immunology. It covers both the basic and c...

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Immunology for physicists

Alan S. Perelson, Gérard Weisbuch • Reviews of Modern Physics (1997)

The immune system is a complex system of cells and molecules that can provide us with a basic defense against pathogenic organisms. Like the nervous system, the immune system performs pattern recognition tasks, learns, and retains a memory ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.69.1219

The use of plant waste to ensure the functioning of agricultural energy complexes

M. F. Nabiullina, G. R. Mingaleeva, O. V. Afanaseva, S. S. Timofeeva • Известия высших учебных заведений: Проблемы энергетики (2024)

RELEVANCE. Agricultural enterprises generate vegetable waste, which is difficult to utilize. Such waste can be used for combustion in boilers, providing thermal and electric energy to an agricultural energy complex. A hybrid mini-thermal po...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.30724/1998-9903-2024-26-3-120-131

The Investigation of Impact of Complement Policy for Energy Price Policy Reform on Transport Sector in Iran by Computable General Equilibrium

Roholla Mahdavi • Pizhūhishnāmah-i Iqtiṣād-i Inirzhī-i Īrān (2014)

With regard to the ever-increasing need for energy in current societies to satisfy various requirements, scientists and researchers from different countries, such as Iran, have a basic approach in their agenda to achieve renewable energies،...

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Nanomedicine for Glioblastoma: Cutting-Edge Advances and Persistent Challenges

Ladi Alik Kumar, K Sunand, Jitendra Debata, Gopal Krishna Padhy et al. • Journal of Bio-X Research (2025)

Cancer is a disorder characterized by the abnormal growth of cells that increases uncontrollably over an extended period of time. Treating cancerous brain tumors remains among the most challenging tasks for researchers, as brain tumors are ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.34133/jbioxresearch.0065

Electrospinning: A Powerful Tool to Improve the Corrosion Resistance of Metallic Surfaces Using Nanofibrous Coatings

Pedro J. Rivero, Deyo Maeztu Redin, Rafael J. Rodríguez • Metals (2020)

The use of surface engineering techniques to tune-up the composition of nanostructured thin-films for developing functional coatings with advanced properties is a hot topic within the scientific community. The control of the coating structu...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/met10030350

Predicting Microbial Protein Synthesis in Cattle: Evaluation of Extant Equations and Steps Needed to Improve Accuracy and Precision of Future Equations

Michael L. Galyean, Luis O. Tedeschi • Animals (2024)

Predictions of microbial crude protein (MCP) synthesis for beef cattle generally rely on empirical regression equations, with intakes of energy and protein as key variables. Using a database from published literature, we developed new equat...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/ani14192903

Prevalence, predictors and pregnancy outcomes of unprescribed and herbal medicine use in Ibadan, Nigeria

Ikeola Adeoye, Victoria Etuk • BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies (2023)

Abstract Background Unprescribed and herbal medicines use among pregnant women is a public health concern in low and middle-income countries because of the potential teratogenic effects, insufficient safety and weak drug regulatory systems....

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12906-023-03838-8

Construction of the cancer patients’ database based on the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) datasets for cancer epidemiology research

Jinyoung Moon, Yongseok Mun • BMC Medical Research Methodology (2025)

Abstract Background The US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) dataset does not include a specific question or laboratory test to confirm a history of cancer diagnosis. However, if straightforward variables for cancer ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12874-025-02478-5

A New Strategy for Efficient Screening and Identification of Monoclonal Antibodies against Oncogenic Avian Herpesvirus Utilizing CRISPR/Cas9-Based Gene-Editing Technology

Man Teng, Zi-Yu Zhou, Yongxiu Yao, Venugopal Nair et al. • Viruses (2022)

Marek’s disease virus (MDV) is an important oncogenic α-herpesvirus that induces Marek’s disease (MD), characterized by severe immunosuppression and rapid-onset T-cell lymphomas in its natural chicken hosts. Historically, MD is regarded as ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/v14092045

Decision-Making Within Forensic Psychiatric Investigations: The Use of Various Information Sources by Different Expert Groups to Reach Conclusions on Legal Insanity

Lizel Göranson, Olof Svensson, Olof Svensson, Peter Andiné et al. • Frontiers in Psychiatry (2022)

BackgroundWhich type of information experts use to make decisions regarding legal insanity within forensic psychiatric investigations (FPI) is relatively unknown, both in general and when considering variations due to case context. It is im...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2022.822519