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A comparison of paediatric and adult infectious diseases consultations in Australia and New Zealand

The objective of this paper is to describe paediatric infectious diseases consultations across Australia and New Zealand.

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The trajectories of sleep disturbances in Rett syndrome

This paper demonstrated that the evolution of sleep problems differed between subgroups of girls and women with Rett syndrome, in part explained by age and...

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Dog walking is associated with more outdoor play and independent mobility for children

It is plausible that dog-facilitated activity rather than dog ownership per se encourages children's physical activity behaviors.

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Common variation near ROBO2 is associated with expressive vocabulary in infancy

In this paper we conduct a genome-wide screen and follow-up study of expressive vocabulary in toddlers of European descent from up to four studies of the...

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Anti-infective proteins in breast milk and asthma-associated phenotypes during early childhood

The impact of breast milk feeding on susceptibility to asthma in childhood is highly controversial, due in part to failure of the majority of studies in the...

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Incidence of nonmelanoma skin cancer in relation to ambient UV radiation in white populations, 1978-2012 empirical relationships

This paper examined dose-response relationships between ambient UVR levels and NMSC incidence at the population level.

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Diagnostic work-up of neurological syndromes in a rural African setting: Knowledge, Attitudes and practices of health care providers

This publication documented health care provider knowledge, attitudes and practices related to this syndrome in two rural health zones in Bandundu Province,...

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Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies novel loci that influence cupping and the glaucomatous process

Here, the International Glaucoma Genetics Consortium conducts a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of vertical cup-disc ratio (VCDR), an...

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The reliability of an adolescent dietary pattern identified using reduced-rank regression

The aim of the present study was to compare DP identified using the RRR method in a FFQ with those in a 3 d food record (FR).

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Evidence for the use of an algorithm in resolving inconsistent and missing Indigenous status in administrative data collections

We found that algorithms reduced the amount of missing data and improved within‑individual consistency.