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The psychological impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome outbreak on healthcare workers in emergency departments and how they cope
SARS had caused a significant level of distress among ED staff. The distress level was highest for nurses, followed by doctors and HCA. The three most important variables that c...
Shapes of soot aerosol particles and implications for their effects on climate
Soot aerosol particles (also called light‐absorbing, black, or elemental carbon) are major contributors to global warming through their absorption of solar radiation. When embed...
Smoking and mortality from tuberculosis and other diseases in India: retrospective study of 43 000 adult male deaths and 35 000 controls
In India most adult deaths involve vascular disease, pulmonary tuberculosis, or other respiratory disease, and men have smoked cigarettes or bidis (which resemble small cigarett...
Ultrafine particles
here is a long history of disease caused by inhaled particles that stretches from Agricola and Paracelsus in the 14th century up to the present. 1 In this century the twin scour...
HealthMap: Global Infectious Disease Monitoring through Automated Classification and Visualization of Internet Media Reports
HealthMap is a useful free and open resource employing text-processing algorithms to identify important disease outbreak information through a user-friendly interface.
Bootstrap Critical Values for Tests Based on Generalized-Method-of-Moments Estimators
Monte Carlo experiments have shown that tests based on generalized-method-ofmoments estimators often have true levels that differ greatly from their nominal levels when asymptot...
Small Sample Bias in GMM Estimation of Covariance Structures
We examine the small-sample properties of the generalized method of moments estimator applied to models of covariance structures, in which case it is commonly known as the optim...
The Sampling Error in Estimates of Mean‐Variance Efficient Portfolio Weights
This paper presents an exact finite‐sample statistical procedure for testing hypotheses about the weights of mean‐variance efficient portfolios. The estimation and inference pro...
The Impact of Diabetes on Survival Following Myocardial Infarction in Men vs Women
The impact of diabetes on recurrent myocardial infarction (MI) and fatal coronary heart disease was examined in survivors of an initial MI using 34-year follow-up data in the Fr...
Learning from Global Buyers
An increasing number of developing countries engage in contract manufacturing for a decreasing number of global buyers. This constellation characterises many labour intensive ex...