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Wireless Networks: Opportunities for Infrastructure-related Optimization

Measuring abortion-related mortality: challenges and opportunities

Two recent efforts to quantify the causes of maternal deaths on a global scale generated divergent estimates of abortion-related mortality. Such discrepancies in estimates of abortion-related mortality present an important opportunity to explore unique challenges and opportunities associated with the generation and interpretation of abortion-related mortality estimates. While innovations in pri...

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1. Perú, Ministerio de Salud. SERUMS: Servicio Rural Urbano Marginal de Salud [Internet]. Lima: Ministerio de Salud; c2008 [citado el 25 de abril del 2013]. Disponible en: http://www.minsa.gob.pe/portal/servicios/serums/ info_serums.asp 2. Huamaní C, Gutiérrez C, Mezones-Holguín E. Correlación y concordancia entre el examen nacional de medicina y el promedio ponderado universitario: análisis de...

Classification of autism and related conditions: progress, challenges, and opportunities

Since Kanner's classic description of the syndrome of early infantile autism in 1943, conceptions of the disorder have evolved while retaining important continuity with what Kanner viewed as the hallmarks of the condition-social impairment (autism) and difficulties in dealing with change in the nonsocial world (insistence on sameness). This paper reviews the history of this evolution and the im...

Child Maltreatment-Related Investigations Involving Infants: Opportunities for Resilience?

Objective: To examine child welfare cases involving infants (less than 1 year old) and identify factors predicting service provision at the conclusion of a maltreatment-related investigation. Method(s): This study involves a secondary analysis of the 2008 Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (OIS-2008). Bivariate and multivariate analyses were conducted to identify the pr...