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Updated Nomogram Incorporating Percentage of Positive Cores to Predict Probability of Lymph Node Invasion in Prostate Cancer Patients Undergoing Sentinel Lymph Node Dissection.
(2017)
Objectives: To update the first sentinel nomogram predicting the presence of lymph node invasion (LNI) in prostate cancer patients undergoing sentinel lymph node dissection (sPLND), taking into account the percentage of ...
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Epidemiological and Ecological Characterization of the EHEC O104:H4 Outbreak in Hamburg, Germany, 2011.
(2016)
In 2011, a large outbreak of entero-hemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) occurred in Germany. The City of Hamburg was the first focus of the epidemic and had the highest incidences among all 16 ...
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Bayesian semiparametric additive quantile regression
(SAGE Publications, 2013)
Quantile regression provides a convenient framework for analyzing the impact of covariates
on the complete conditional distribution of a response variable instead of only the mean. While
frequentist treatments of quantile ...
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European multiple modernity as an interzivilisational constellationLa modernité européenne multiple comme constellation intercivilisationnelleEuropäische multiple Modernität als interzivilisatorische Konstellation
(VS-VerlagVS-Verlag, 2010)
Zusammenfassung In der interdisziplinären und auch soziologischen Europaforschung dominieren modernisierungs- und eurozentrische Prämissen, das heißt die Erklärung des europäischen Mehrebenenregimes aus den transnationalen ...
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Corruption and the shadow economy: an empirical analysis
(Springer US, 2009)
This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and the shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income ...
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Bilateral Trade Flows and Income Distribution Similarity.
(2016)
Current models of bilateral trade neglect the effects of income distribution. This paper addresses the issue by accounting for non-homothetic consumer preferences and hence investigating the role of income distribution in ...
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The Emergence of Three Human Development Clubs
(2013)
We examine the joint distribution of levels of income per capita, life expectancy, and years of schooling across countries in 1960 and in 2000. In 1960 countries were clustered in two groups; a rich, highly educated, high ...