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Quantifying coral morphology

Zawada, KJA Dornelas, M Madin, JS

Coral morphology has important implications across scales, from differences in physiology, to the environments they are found, through to their role as ecosystem engineers. However, quantifying mor...

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Prevalence and intensity of catastrophic health care expenditures in Iran from 2008 to 2015: a study on Iranian household income and expenditure survey.

Yazdi-Feyzabadi, V Bahrampour, M Rashidian, A Haghdoost, A-A Akbari Javar, M Mehrolhassani, MH

BACKGROUND: Households exposure to catastrophic health expenditure is a valuable measure to monitor financial protection in health sector payments. The present study had two aims: first, to estimat...

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Extending the Biopsychosocial Conceptualisation of Chronic Post Surgical Pain in Children and Adolescents: The Family Systems Perspective.

Newton-John, T

A substantial number of children and adolescents undergoing surgical procedures, as many as 40% in some estimates, will go on to develop chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP). Because of the significant...

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Why Social Enterprises Resist or Collectively Improve Impact Assessment: The Role of Prior Organizational Experience and “Impact Lock-In”

Ormiston, J

This article examines how organizational experience influences social enterprise responses to impact assessment practices. Limited attention has been paid to why organizations resist or ch...

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Symmetric evaluation of multimodal human-robot interaction with gaze and standard control

Jones, ER Chinthammit, W Huang, W Engelke, U Lueg, C

© 2018 by the authors. Control of robot arms is often required in engineering and can be performed by using different methods. This study examined and symmetrically compared the use of a controller...

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Enabling symmetric collaboration in public spaces through 3D mobile interaction

Machuca, MDB Chinthammit, W Huang, W Wasinger, R Duh, H

© 2018 by the authors. Collaboration has been common in workplaces in various engineering settings and in our daily activities. However, how to effectively engage collaborators with collaborative t...

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Australian hospital outpatient pharmacies: service adaptations during the 2020 national coronavirus disease 2019 lockdown.

Wise, S Coleshill, MJ Taylor, N Le, M Debono, D Day, RO Melocco, T Baysari, MT Laba, T-L Carland, JE

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Preference Elicitation Techniques Used in Valuing Children's Health-Related Quality-of-Life: A Systematic Review.

Bailey, C Howell, M Raghunandan, R Salisbury, A Chen, G Coast, J Craig, JC Devlin, NJ Huynh, E Lancsar, E Mulhern, BJ Norman, R Petrou, S Ratcliffe, J Street, DJ Howard, K Viney, R Quality of Life in Kids: Key Evidence to Strengthen Decisions in Australia (QUOKKA), Tools for Outcomes Research to Measure, Value Child Health (TORCH) Project Teams,

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Valuing children's health states for use in economic evaluations is globally relevant and is of particular relevance in jurisdictions where a cost-utility analysis is the...

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Estimation of a Canadian preference-based scoring algorithm for the Veterans RAND 12-Item Health Survey: a population survey using a discrete-choice experiment.

Bansback, N Trenaman, L Mulhern, BJ Norman, R Metcalfe, R Sawatzky, R Brazier, JE Rowen, D Whitehurst, DGT

BACKGROUND: The Veterans RAND 12-Item Health Survey (VR-12) is a generic patient-reported outcome measure derived from the widely used 36- and 12-item Short Form Health Surveys. We aimed to estimat...

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Does the presence of general practitioners in emergency departments affect quality and safety in English NHS hospitals? A retrospective observational study.

Gaughan, J Liu, D Gutacker, N Bloor, K Doran, T Benger, JR

OBJECTIVES: Emergency departments (EDs) in NHS hospitals in England have faced considerable increases in demand over recent years. Most hospitals have developed general practitioner services in eme...

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