The state of the art and future of climate risk insurance modeling.

This study provides a comprehensive review of the literature on climate risk insurance modeling to identify lessons learned and knowledge gaps to be addressed by future research. These models are increasingly relevant due to the rising losses attributable to climate change. Insurance models estimate risk for different perils and simulate risk-related parameters for insurance schemes, such as premiums and deductibles.

A global dataset of 7 billion individuals with socio-economic characteristics.

In global impact modeling, there is a need to address the heterogeneous characteristics of households and individuals that drive different behavioral responses to, for example, environmental risk, socio-economic policy changes and spread of diseases. In this research, we present GLOPOP-S, the first global synthetic population dataset with 1,999,227,130 households and 7,335,881,094 individuals for the year 2015, consistent with population statistics at an administrative unit 1 level. GLOPOS-S contains the following attributes: age, education, gender, income/wealth, settlement type (urban/rural), household size, household type, and for selected countries in the Global South, ownership of agricultural land and dwelling characteristics.

Adjacent-Level Hypermobility and Instrumented-Level Fatigue Loosening With Titanium and PEEK Rods for a Pedicle Screw System: An In Vitro Study.

Adjacent-level disease is a common iatrogenic complication seen among patients undergoing spinal fusion for low back pain. This is attributed to the postsurgical differences in stiffness between the spinal levels, which result in abnormal forces, stress shielding, and hypermobility at the adjacent levels. In addition, as most patients undergoing these surgeries are osteoporotic, screw loosening at the index level is a complication that commonly accompanies adjacent-level disease.

Transmission network of an HIV type 1 strain with K103N in young Belgian patients from different risk groups.

Transmitted drug resistance (TDR) influencing nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) activity is increasing among new HIV-1 patients in several countries. As we recently observed an increase of K103N prevalence among new diagnoses in Belgium, we mined the Belgian national sequence database for homologous sequences. The earliest reverse transcriptase (RT) sequences available for drug-naive patients as well as sequences related to treatment failure were included.

Health outcomes of older patients colonized by multi-drug resistant bacteria (MDRB): a one-year follow-up study.

The objective of this study was to examine whether asymptomatic colonization with MDRB would affect outcomes in older patients one year after hospitalization in a geriatric ward. Patient samples were analyzed to identify specific MDRBs, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobaceriaceae (ESBLE), and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). Among 337 patients screened at hospital admission, 62 (18%) carried one or more MDRB isolates (MRSA: n=23; ESBLE: n=39; VRE: n=2).