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| Background: The practice of sacrifice has occurred in several cultures and religions throughout history and still exists today. Candomblé, a syncretical Afro-Brazilian religion, practices the sacri |
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| Osteoporosis is a common age-related disease with a strong genetic influence. Polymorphisms of ESR1 have consistently been shown to be associated with bone mineral density (BMD) and fracture however |
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| Arabidopsis Mimulus and tomato have emerged as model plants in researching genetic and molecular basis of differences in mating systems. Variations in floral traits and loss of self-incompatibility h |
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| Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by serovars L1-L3 of Chlamydia trachomatis. Rare in the western world prior to 2003 different outbreaks or clusters of LG |
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| Urinary incontinence is a complex problem and worldwide millions of people are affected. How the affected persons and their related caregivers experience and arrange their day-to-day lives has hardly |
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| Bladder exstrophy (BE) is a rare but severe urogenital malformation that requires complex clinical management. It can lead to physical restriction as well as to psychosocial and psychosexual malfunct |
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| Slow learners are individuals with low achievement and comparably low IQ scores. It may be a symptom reflecting a larger underlying problem in them. Sensory neural processing of visual information ca |
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| BACKGROUND When suffering becomes unbearable for patients they might request for euthanasia.|OBJECTIVE To study which patients request for euthanasia and which requests actually resulted in euthanasi |
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| BACKGROUND AND AIMS Minimal hepatic encephalopathy is the mildest form of the spectrum of hepatic encephalopathy (HE) that impairs health-related quality of life. We assessed (1) the usefulness of ps |
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| BACKGROUND Hopelessness is associated with mortality in patients with cardiac disease even after accounting for severity of depression. We sought to determine whether a polymorphism in the promoter r |
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