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Care arrangements for people with dementia in developing countries
(International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2004-01-28)
Rapid demographic ageing will soon lead to large increases in the numbers of persons with dementia in developing countries. This study is the first comprehensive assessment of care arrangements for people with dementia in ...
Altmetric Original Articles Remote Sensing of Spatial and Temporal Vegetation Dynamics in Hispaniola: A Comparison of Haiti and the Dominican Republic
(Geocarto International, 2001)
Spatial and temporal vegetation contrasts between the nations of Haiti and the Dominican are analyzed using NDVI data derived from 30m resolution Landsat imagery and 8km resolution AVHRR imagery from the NOAA / NASA ...
Exsanguination: reliable models to indicate damage control
(Current Therapy of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, 2023-01-01)
Exsanguination is a syndrome defined as extreme form of hemorrhage that if not surgically controlled will lead to death. This chapter defines the syndrome and describes the injuries prone to cause this most extreme form ...
Correction of malpositioned lower lateral incisors in a two-phase nonextraction case.
(J Clin Orthod, 2013-08)
This report describes a mixed-dentition patient with bilateral malposition mandibular lateral incisors who was treated in two phases without extractions. Early treatment of a mandibular canine-lateral transposition increases ...
Chronic diseases among older people and co-resident psychological morbidity: A 10/66 Dementia Research Group population-based survey
(Int Psychogeriatr ., 2011-11)
This is the first study to investigate the associations between chronic health conditions of older people and their impact on co-resident psychological morbidity using population-based samples in low and middle income ...
Tobacco use and dementia: evidence from the 1066 dementia population-based surveys in Latin America, China and India
(International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2011-02-09)
To assess the association between tobacco consumption and dementia using the same methodology in seven developing countries, testing the specific hypotheses that higher exposure to tobacco is associated with a higher ...
Piper umbellatum L.: A comparative cross-cultural analysis of its medicinal uses and an ethnopharmacological evaluation
(Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2010-10)
This review assesses the botany, traditional medicinal uses, phytochemistry, pharmacology and toxicology of P. umbellatum. Information on P. umbellatum was gathered via the internet (using Scirus, Google Scholar, CAB-Abstracts, ...
Viticulture and enology in the Dominican Republic: situation, limitations, and possibilities
(International Society for Horticultural Science, 2004)
Commercial grapes were introduced in the 1490s and early 1500s in what is today the Dominican Republic. Since then, grapes of Spanish origin and rudimentary wines have been produced in the country. In spite of excellent ...
Neurovascular dysfunction and vascular amyloid accumulation as early events in Alzheimer's disease
(Metabolic Brain Disease, 2021-07)
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is clinically characterized by a progressive loss of cognitive functions and short-term memory. AD patients present two distinctive neuropathological lesions: neuritic plaques and neurofibrillary ...
Clinical and socioenvironmental characterizations associated with the genealogical analysis of a group of Dominican patients with nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate
(Oral Science International, 2022-01)
In the Dominican Republic, there is an important number of individuals affected by nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate (NS CL/P); in the search for the etiology, this study sought to determine the inheritance ...