Practices and pain points in personal records by Matt Balogh, William Billingsley, David Paul, Mary Anne Kennan, Melanie Robertson-Dean

“…The paper concludes by identifying some specific personal records management practices that are likely to improve satisfaction with that task, such as saving and sorting records that need to be retained outside of email in a structured filing system.…”
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Prevalence of Hypertension in Area I Cienfuegos Municipality. Second Measurement of CARMEN Initiative by Hilda María Delgado Acosta, Karelis Lastre Navarro, María Lina Valdés Gómez, Mikhail Benet Rodríguez, Alain Francisco Morejón Giraldoni, Juan Rafael Zerquera Rodríguez

“…The sampling units were: districts, areas and sections that contained the houses, were the individuals were selected; the sample consisted on 373 people, their blood pressure was taken and an opinion poll was applied, the variables were: age, sex, personal record of hypertension and diabetes mellitus, tobacco addiction, type of physical activity, weight, size, abdominal circumference. …”
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Persons in Context. A Model to Represent Observations and Reconstructions of Historical Persons in Linked Data by Pieter E. Woltjer, Ivo Zandhuis, Bob Coret, Mark Lindeman, Jeroen D. Balkenende, Richard L. Zijdeman, Rick J. Mourits

“…Persons in Context, or PiCo, presents a data model for historical person records within the Resource Description Framework (RDF). …”
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Automating Historical Source Transcription by Gunnar Thorvaldsen

“…Transcribing the 1950 Norwegian census with 3.3 million person records and linking it to the Central Population Register (CPR) provides longitudinal information about significant population groups during the understudied period of the mid-20th century. …”
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Socioeconomic disparity in stage at cancer diagnosis among patients with type 2 diabetes in Dutch primary care: a cross-sectional study by Geertruida H De Bock, Gijs W D Landman, Nanne Kleefstra, Bert van der Vegt, Sabine Siesling, Klaas H Groenier, Jing de Haan-Du

“…We evaluated the association of SES and cancer stage among patients with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) treated in primary care.Research design and methods This cross-sectional study linked data from the primary care Zwolle Outpatient Diabetes Project Integrating Available Care database for T2DM (n=71 648, 1998–2019) to a cancer registry and personal records database in the Netherlands. Only cancers (excluding all skin cancers) diagnosed after the onset of diabetes were included and grouped by stages (III–IV or 0–II). …”
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Reflections on the Yoruba Past: Toyin Falola on Isaac Delano by Wale Oyedeji

“…Falola has done exponentially well to relate to us the seemingly beautiful body of works produced by Isaac Delano in journals, newspapers, periodicals, personal records among many other things. All these are indications that ingenuity cannot be covered by the web of power because while power is transient, ingenuity that persists is not. …”
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