On the permanence of stored information in the human brain.
Many people believe that information that is stored in long-term memory is permanent, citing examples of techniques that are alleged to uncover previously forgotten information...
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Access to primary health care services for Indigenous peoples: A framework synthesis
Indigenous health care services appear to be best placed to overcome both the social and cultural determinants of health which hamper Indigenous peoples from accessing health ca...
Clinical Presentation and Outcome in a Contemporary Cohort of Patients With Acute Myocarditis
Background: There is controversy about the outcome of patients with acute myocarditis (AM), and data are lacking on how patients admitted with suspected AM are managed. We repor...
The Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation on Vitamin D Status and Parathyroid Function in Elderly Subjects*
Vitamin D deficiency is common in the elderly and may lead to secondary hyperparathyroidism, cortical bone loss, and hip fractures. The effect of vitamin D supplementation for 1...
Before–after study of a standardized hospital order set for the management of septic shock*
Our study found that the implementation of a standardized order set for the management of septic shock in the emergency department was associated with statistically more rigorou...
The evolution of happiness.
An evolutionary perspective offers novel insights into some major obstacles to achieving happiness. Impediments include large discrepancies between modern and ancestral environm...
A brief conceptual tutorial on multilevel analysis in social epidemiology: investigating contextual phenomena in different groups of people
Study objective: (1) To provide a didactic and conceptual (rather than mathematical) link between multilevel regression analysis (MLRA) and social epidemiological concepts. (2) ...
Living and dying with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: multi-perspective longitudinal qualitative study
Our findings challenge current assumptions underpinning provision of end of life care for people with COPD. The policy focus on identifying a time point for transition to pallia...
Separating key management from file system security
No secure network file system has ever grown to span the Internet. Existing systems all lack adequate key management for security at a global scale. Given the diversity of the I...
Systems for grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations II: Pilot study of a new system
Abstract Background Systems that are used by different organisations to grade the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations vary. They have different strengths and...