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A retrospective review of the literature was performed to determine the natural history, prevalence, prognosis and management of adrenal injury associated with blunt abdominal trauma in pediatric population. Blunt adrenal injury in children is uncommon, rarely isolated, and typically [...]
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To review published pediatric trauma research from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries so as to identify research fields that need to be enhanced. A MEDLINE search for articles on pediatric trauma from GCC countries during the period 1960 to 2010 was performed. The content [...]- 22
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In recent years, there has been a worldwide increase in childhood obesity. At present, pediatric surgeons manage a greater number of pediatric patients who are significantly overweight. Little data exist regarding the surgical challenges of obese children. This review study was designed [...]- 10
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Collection of Asian Surgery
Computed tomography indices and criteria
for the prediction of esophageal variceal bleeding in survivors of
biliary atresia awaiting liver transplantation
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About 20% of biliary atresia (BA) survivors have attacks of esophageal variceal bleeding. We propose a method to evaluate the risk of esophageal variceal bleeding (EVB) using noninvasive indices by multislice computed tomography (CT). We reviewed 31 potential living-related liver [...]- 7
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Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal
Parent’s Influence on Acquiring Critical Internet Skills
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The accessibility and easeofuse for children of information and communication technologies lead us to suggest that one of the key questions for their potential empowerment is linked to their analytical use by means of the acquisition of critical skills. The family environment is [...]
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Emotion is one of the most used resources for getting and maintening the viewer´s attention in audiovisual context, although with no similar level of success. In this paper, some of the factors that determine the viewer´s emotional impact will be analyzed- 1
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Emotion is one of the most used resources for getting and maintening viewer´s attention in audiovisual context, achieving different levels of success. We analyses some of the factors that determine the viewer emotional impact, specially the role of the ch- 3
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Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal
«Finding Nemo»: analysis from an educational perspective
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«Finding Nemo» has been a big success since its premiere in Spain. This film is almost a mass media event. The plot of «Finding Nemo» is about a father-son underwater adventure featuring Nemo, a boy clownfish stolen from his coral reef home. His timid father must then search the [...]- 8
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Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal
From film education to education for communication in Cuba
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This paper outlines the evolution of education for the communication in Cuba since 1959. Film education, which once had a protectionist approach influenced by the critical theory of the School of Frankfurt, is now promoting the participation of children and teenagers as agents of [...]- 0
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Comunicar. Media Education Research Journal
High quality television and autoregulations of the messages for children and youth
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Quality TV is immersed in a cultural context which is yet to be clarified. In this sense, this paper contemplates the concept of culture from an anthropological and journalistic perspective. Then it offers some data that show how a debate about quality television has developed lately. [...]- 0
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