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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Interferon-α2b spray inhalation did not shorten virus shedding time of SARS-CoV-2 in hospitalized patients: a preliminary matched case-control study

Shao-rui Hao, Yan Ren, Shan-yan Zhang et al. · 2020 · Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE B

BACKGROUND: Currently, there are no drugs that have been proven to be effective against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Because of its broad antiviral activity, interferon (IFN) should be evaluated as a…

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Outcome is unchanged by adding vincristine upfront to the Malawi 28‐day protocol for endemic Burkitt lymphoma

Sarita Depani, Kondwani Joseph Banda, Simon Bailey et al. · 2015 · Pediatric Blood & Cancer

BACKGROUND: We previously reported a 28-day treatment protocol for children with endemic Burkitt lymphoma (BL) which included four doses of cyclophosphamide (CPM), intrathecal methotrexate and hydrocortisone (IT MTX/HC) at Queen Elizabeth…

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Comparison of Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index and Naples Prognostic Score for Prediction Coronary Artery Severity Patients Undergoing Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography

Eyüp Özkan, Aslan Erdoğan, Ali Karagöz et al. · 2023 · Angiology

This study compared the predictive power of the systemic immune-inflammation index (SII) and Naples prognostic score (NPS) in determining the severity of coronary artery disease (CAD). The study included 1138 patients who underwent…

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A prospective study on split-hand index as a biomarker for the diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Zhili Wang, Mingsheng Liu, Zhengyi Cai et al. · 2020 · Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration

Objective To determine the practical diagnostic utility of split-hand index (SI) values calculated from F-wave persistence (SIFP) and the F/M amplitude ratio (SIF/M) for differentiating patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)…

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Skin‐to‐skin contact during eye examination did not reduce pain compared to standard care with parental support in preterm infants

Laila Kristoffersen, Ragnhild Støen, Håkon Bergseng et al. · 2019 · Acta Paediatrica

Abstract Aim We compared the pain relieving effect of skin‐to‐skin contact versus standard care in the incubator during screening for retinopathy of prematurity. Methods This randomised crossover study included 35 preterm infants of less…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Computerized diagnostic decision support systems – a comparative performance study of Isabel Pro vs. ChatGPT4

Joe M. Bridges · 2024 · Diagnosis

OBJECTIVES: Validate the diagnostic accuracy of the Artificial Intelligence Large Language Model ChatGPT4 by comparing diagnosis lists produced by ChatGPT4 to Isabel Pro. METHODS: This study used 201 cases, comparing ChatGPT4 to Isabel Pro. Systems inputs were identical. Mean Reciprocal Rank (MRR) compares the correct diagnosis's rank between systems. Isabel Pro ranks by the frequency with which the symptoms appear in the reference dataset. The mechanism ChatGPT4 uses to rank the diagnoses is unknown. A Wilcoxon Signed Rank Sum test failed to reject the null hypothesis. RESULTS: Both systems p

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPsychology

Some Alternatives? Event-Related Potential Investigation of Literal and Pragmatic Interpretations of Some Presented in Isolation

Cécile Barbet, Guillaume Thierry · 2016 · Frontiers in Psychology

In sentence verification tasks involving under-informative statements such as Some elephants are mammals, some adults appear more tolerant to pragmatic violations than others. The underlying causes of such inter-individual variability remain however essentially unknown. Here, we investigated inter-individual variation in adults deriving the scalar inference "not all" triggered by the quantifier some. We first assessed the individual intolerance to pragmatic violations in adult participants presented with under-informative some-statements (e.g., Some infants are young). We then recorded event-r

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Negative / Null Result ReportPsychology

Early Childhood Teachers’ Perception of Creative Personality as a Predictor of Their Support of pedagogy important for fostering Creativity: A Chinese Perspective

Rebecca Hun Ping Cheung, Magdalena Mo Ching Mok · 2018 · Creativity Research Journal

Previous studies have suggested that teacher’s personality traits and pedagogy are the important areas of investigation in creativity research; however, little is known about the relationship between teachers’ personality traits and…

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Negative / Null Result ReportPsychology

Examining a motivational treatment and its impact on adolescents' reading comprehension and fluency

Christopher A. Wolters, Marcia A. Barnes, Paulina A. Kulesz et al. · 2016 · The Journal of Educational Research

The authors' purpose was to examine adolescents' reading motivation in relation to standardized assessments of reading comprehension and fluency. After a reading pretest, 60 ninth-grade students (M age = 14.9 years) were randomly assigned…

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Overactive bladder and sleep disturbance have a significant effect on indoor falls: Results from the community health survey in Japan

Sakae Konishi, Shingo Hatakeyama, Atsushi Imai et al. · 2020 · LUTS Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the effect of overactive bladder (OAB) and frailty on indoor fall events in community-dwelling adults aged 50 or older. METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional study involving 723 adults between 2016 and 2017 in…

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Negative / Null Result ReportNeuroscience

Determiner selection in romance languages: Evidence from French.

Alice Foucart, Holly P. Branigan, Ellen Gurman Bard · 2010 · Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition

Determiner selection requires the retrieval of the noun's syntactic features (e.g., gender) and sometimes of its phonological features. Miozzo and Caramazza (1999) argued that the selection of determiners in Germanic languages is more…

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Neural growth hormone: regional regulation by estradiol and/or sex chromosome complement in male and female mice

Kayla M. Quinnies, Paul J. Bonthuis, Erin P. Harris et al. · 2015 · Biology of Sex Differences

BACKGROUND: Sex differences in pituitary growth hormone (GH) are well documented and coordinate maturation and growth. GH and its receptor are also produced in the brain where they may impact cognitive function and synaptic plasticity, and estradiol produces Gh sex differences in rat hippocampus. In mice, circulating estradiol increases Gh mRNA in female but not in male medial preoptic area (mPOA); therefore, additional factors regulate sexually dimorphic Gh expression in the brain. Thus, we hypothesized that sex chromosomes interact with estradiol to promote sex differences in GH. Here, we as

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Association of common candidate variants with vascular malformations and intracranial hemorrhage in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia

Ludmila Pawlikowska, Jeffrey Nelson, Diana E. Guo et al. · 2018 · Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine

BACKGROUND: Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) is caused by mutations in TGFβ/BMP9 pathway genes and characterized by vascular malformations (VM) including arteriovenous malformations (AVM) in lung, liver, and brain, which lead to severe complications including intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) from brain VM. The clinical heterogeneity of HHT suggests a role for genetic modifier effects. Common variants in loci that modify phenotype severity in Tgfb knockout mice were previously reported as associated with lung AVM in HHT. Common variants in candidate genes were reported as associated wit

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Genome‐wide time‐to‐event analysis on smoking progression stages in a family‐based study

Liang He, Janne Pitkäniemi, Kauko Heikkilä et al. · 2016 · Brain and Behavior

BACKGROUND: Various pivotal stages in smoking behavior can be identified, including initiation, conversion from experimenting to established use, development of tolerance, and cessation. Previous studies have shown high heritability for age of smoking initiation and cessation; however, time-to-event genome-wide association studies aiming to identify underpinning genes that accelerate or delay these transitions are missing to date. METHODS: We investigated which single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across the whole genome contribute to the hazard ratio of transition between different stages o

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Docosahexaenoic acid for reading, working memory and behavior in UK children aged 7-9: A randomized controlled trial for replication (the DOLAB II study)

Paul Montgomery, Thees F. Spreckelsen, Alice Burton et al. · 2018 · PLoS ONE

BACKGROUND: Omega-3 fatty acids are central to brain-development of children. Evidence from clinical trials and systematic reviews demonstrates the potential of long-chain Omega-3 supplementation for learning and behavior. However, findings are inconclusive and in need of robust replication studies since such work is lacking. OBJECTIVES: Replication of the 2012 DOLAB 1 study findings that a dietary supplementation with the long-chain omega-3 docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) had beneficial effects on the reading, working memory, and behavior of healthy schoolchildren. DESIGN: Parallel group, fixed-do

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Negative / Null Result ReportNeuroscience

Dissociated Predegenerated Peripheral Nerve Transplants for Spinal Cord Injury Repair: A Comprehensive Assessment of Their Effects on Regeneration and Functional Recovery Compared to Schwann Cell Transplants

Caitlin E. Hill, Danika M. Brodak, Mary Bartlett Bunge · 2012 · Journal of Neurotrauma

Several recent studies suggest that predegenerated nerves (PDNs) or dissociated PDNs (dPDNs) can improve behavioral and histological outcomes following transplantation into the injured rat spinal cord. In the current study we tested the…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessArts and Humanities

Evaluation of the auricular surface method for subadult sex estimation on Italian modern (19th to 20th century) identified skeletal collections

Roberta Marino, Viola Tanganelli, Annalisa Pietrobelli et al. · 2020 · American Journal of Physical Anthropology

OBJECTIVES: Sex estimation in subadult skeletal remains is still considered highly problematic. The aim of this research is to test the reliability of the method of subadult sex assessment proposed by Luna and co-workers in 2017, based on…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessSocial Sciences

Examining the replicability of backfire effects after standalone corrections

Toby Prike, Phoebe Blackley, Briony Swire‐Thompson et al. · 2023 · Cognitive Research Principles and Implications

Corrections are a frequently used and effective tool for countering misinformation. However, concerns have been raised that corrections may introduce false claims to new audiences when the misinformation is novel. This is because boosting the familiarity of a claim can increase belief in that claim, and thus exposing new audiences to novel misinformation-even as part of a correction-may inadvertently increase misinformation belief. Such an outcome could be conceptualized as a familiarity backfire effect, whereby a familiarity boost increases false-claim endorsement above a control-condition or

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Heritability and Genome-Wide Association Analyses of Human Gait Suggest Contribution of Common Variants

Hieab H.H. Adams, Vincentius J.A. Verlinden, Michele L. Callisaya et al. · 2015 · The Journals of Gerontology Series A

Human gait is a complex neurological and musculoskeletal function, of which the genetic basis remains largely unknown. To determine the influence of common genetic variants on gait parameters, we studied 2,946 participants of the Rotterdam…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessPsychology

How to tell a happy person: Accuracy of subjective well-being perception from texts

Olga Stavrova, Lena Haarmann · 2019 · Motivation and Emotion

Abstract Although perceptions of subjective well-being (SWB) in unacquainted others have been shown to play a major role in impression formation, little is known about how accurate such perceptions are. In two original studies and one pre-registered replication, we explored the accuracy of life satisfaction and happiness judgments from texts and its underlying mechanisms (use of linguistic cues). Participants filled in life satisfaction and happiness measures and completed a brief writing task. Another sample of participants judged the targets’ life satisfaction and happiness from the obtained

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Studies on protein content, protease activity, antioxidants potential, melanin composition, glucosinolate and pectin constitution with brief statisticalanalysis in some medicinally significant fruit peels

Saranya Chitturi, Venkata Gopich, Talatam et al. · 2013 · Der pharmacia lettre

Recently, many studies have been oriented towards improving methods and efficiency of recovery from different fruit industry wastes. The investigations carried out were mainly aimed at evaluating Pectin content, Protease activity, Protein…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Diabetes and Pancreatic Cancer

Burney, Saira, Muhammad Wasif Saif, Saif, Muhammad Wasif et al. · 2013 · PubMed

CONTEXT: Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer mortality in the United States. Most of the patients are diagnosed in the metastatic staging. Consolidated risk factors include chronic pancreatitis, smoking and family…

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Negative / Null Result ReportBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

ASSA: Fast identification of statistically significant interactions between long RNAs

Ivan Antonov, Andrey V. Marakhonov, Maria A. Zamkova et al. · 2018 · Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

The discovery of thousands of long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) in mammals raises a question about their functionality. It has been shown that some of them are involved in post-transcriptional regulation of other RNAs and form inter-molecular…

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