HEALTH RISKS ENCOUNTERED BY DUTCH MEDICAL STUDENTS DURING AN ELECTIVE IN THE TROPICS AND THE QUALITY AND COMPREHENSIVENESS OF PRE-AND POST-TRAVEL CARE

Health risks encountered by Dutch medical students during an elective in the tropics and the quality and comprehensiveness of pre-and post-travel care

Abstract Background Clinical and research electives abroad offer medical students many unique experiences.However, participating in an unfamiliar health-care setting combined with limited medical experience may place students at risk of illness.To improve pre-and post-travel care, we assessed the health risks and the quality and comprehensiveness o

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Social Networks and Political Parties in Chile

This paper describes the origin and evolution of two Chilean political parties (the Radical Party and the Christian Democrat Party) through the analysis of the social networks that originated and composed them.The aim of this study is to propose a model of national political cultures on the basis of the structure of social networks related to power

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Optimized Use of Low-Depth Genotyping-by-Sequencing for Genomic Prediction Among Multi-Parental Family Pools and Single Plants in Perennial Ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.)

Ryegrass single plants, bi-parental family pools, and multi-parental family pools are often genotyped, based on allele-frequencies using genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) mudra fitted tee assays.GBS assays can be performed at low-coverage depth to reduce costs.However, reducing the coverage depth leads to a higher proportion of missing data, and leads

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