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Health of immigrant children: Congenital disease

2008

Rapid recovery of invertebrate communities after ecological restoration of boreal mires

2015

Mire degradation due to drainage for forestry results in the loss of mire specialist species. To halt the loss in biodiversity, ecological restoration is needed and already implemented. However, a major challenge in ecological restoration is whether actions taken have the desired outcome. Key abiotic and biotic conditions for the successful restoration of invertebrate communities can be identified by testing the “Field of Dreams” hypothesis, which postulates that if a habitat is successfully restored, species will return. This study was conducted in nine boreal mires located in Eastern Finland, 1–3 years after restoration. Parts of each mire were drained for forestry during the 1960s and 19…

Appropriate management of growth hormone deficiency during the age of transition: an Italian Delphi consensus statement

2022

Growth hormone deficiency (GHD) describes the impairment of growth hormone (GH) secretion by the pituitary somatotroph cells. GHD may be congenital, with causes, including genetic alterations and structural brain malformations, or acquired, including midline tumours, cranial irradiation, traumatic brain injury, central nervous system infections and inflammatory conditions. GHD in children is characterised by short stature, delayed bone maturation and abnormalities in substrate metabolism, body composition, physical and psychosocial functioning, all of which improve with recombinant human GH (rhGH) therapy. The diagnosis of GHD is based on clinical signs and symptoms, biochemistry and imagin…

Biotic homogenisation in bird communities leads to large-scale changes in species associations

2020

AbstractAimThe impact of global change on biodiversity is commonly assessed in terms of changes in species distributions, community richness and community composition. Whether and how much associations between species, i.e. the degree of correlation in their spatial co-occurrence, are also changing is much less documented and mostly limited to local studies of ecological networks. In this study, we quantify changes in large-scale patterns of species associations in bird communities in relation to changes in species composition.LocationFrance.Time period2001-2017.Major taxa studiedCommon breeding birds.MethodsWe use network approaches to build three community-aggregated indices reflecting co…

Świadczenia diabetologiczne w województwie śląskim w latach 2009–2012

2014

Wstęp. Ze względu na swoje rozpowszechnienie cukrzyca i jej powikłania stanowią istotny problem zdrowotny, społeczny, a także ekonomiczny. Jako choroba przewleka, postępująca oraz powszechna cukrzyca wymusza odpowiednie i długofalowe rozwiązania ze strony systemu opieki zdrowotnej. Celem pracy jest analiza specjalistycznej opieki diabetologicznej w województwie śląskim w latach 2009–2012. Materiał i metody. Dane dotyczące populacji województwa śląskiego pozyskano z Głównego Urzędu Statystycznego. Surowe dane dotyczące liczby pacjentów, porad oraz ich kosztów — z podziałem na grupy wiekowe oraz poszczególne lata — uzyskano z bazy danych Śląskiego Oddziału Wojewódzkiego Narodowego Funduszu Zd…

De la tierra al telar. El hilado en Edetania y Contestania entre los siglos V a.C. – III d.C. Aspectos técnicos, económicos y sociales.

2018

Con el título “De la Tierra al Telar. El hilado en Edetania y Contestania entre los siglos V a.C.-III d.C. Aspectos técnicos, económicos y sociales” pretendemos realizar un estudio sobre el proceso del hilado en su totalidad dentro de este marco cronológico y geográfico. Esto implica abarcar fases del proceso que, a priori, no parecen relacionadas con el proceso de hilatura, como el sembrado y recolección en el caso de las fibras vegetales, así como la cría y extracción para la fibras animales; analizando cada una de las fases de su procesado hasta el momento en que éstas se encuentran listas para la elaboración del hilo que posteriormente será parte de un tejido, centrando el estudio parti…

Disfunkcionālas ģimenes ietekme uz bērnu - speciālistu un cilvēku no šādām ģimenēm viedokļi

2021

Bakalaura darbs “Disfunkcionālas ģimenes ietekme uz bērnu – speciālistu un cilvēku no šādām ģimenēm viedokļi” ir par personām, kuras ir auguši disfunkcionālā ģimenē. Darba mērķis ir noskaidrot indivīdu, kuri auguši disfunkcionālā ģimenē un speciālistu, kuri ikdienā strādā ar bērniem no disfunkcionālām ģimenēm viedokli par ietekmi, ko atstāj augšana šādā ģimenē. Darba uzdevums ir noskaidrot personu, kuri auguši disfunkcionālā ģimenē un speciālistu, kuri ikdienā strādā ar bērniem no disfunkcionālām ģimenēm viedokli par ietekmi, ko atstāj augšana šādā ģimenē, kā arī salīdzināt abu atlasītu grupu viedokļus un noskaidrot, kā personas no disfunkcionālām ģimenēm pārvar bērnībā gūto traumu. Pēc dar…

Il trattamento dell’insonnia in eta’ evolutiva: report clinico e revisione della letteratura

2014

Evaluation of the disease course of Italian children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis treated with etanercept: preliminary results in 772 patients

2014

The advent of biologic medications has considerably increased the potential for treatment benefit in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), with clinical remission being now achievable in a substantial proportion of patients.

Camouflage in arid environments: the case of Sahara-Sahel desert rodents

2020

Deserts and semi-deserts, such as the Sahara-Sahel region in North Africa, are exposed environments with restricted vegetation coverage. Due to limited physical surface structures, these open areas provide a promising ecosystem to understand selection for crypsis. Here, we review knowledge on camouflage adaptation in the Sahara-Sahel rodent community, which represents one of the best documented cases of phenotype-environment convergence comprising a marked taxonomic diversity. Through their evolutionary history, several rodent species from the Sahara-Sahel have repeatedly evolved an accurate background matching against visually-guided predators. Top-down selection by predators is therefore …