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A Meta-Epidemiological Study of Positive Results in Clinical Nutrition Research: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Statistically Significant Findings

Konstantinos Gkiouras, Maria-Eleftheria Choleva, Aikaterini Verrou et al. · 2022 · Nutrients

Positive (statistically significant) findings are easily produced in nutrition research when specific aspects of the research design and analysis are not accounted for. To address this issue, recently, a pledge was made to reform nutrition…

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Photobiomodulation therapy in dogs undergoing TPLO after cranial cruciate ligament rupture shows promise but no statistically significant difference in a randomized trial

Oscar A. Chavez, Walter Renberg, Natalia Cernicchiaro · 2024 · American Journal of Veterinary Research

Abstract OBJECTIVE Effect of photobiomodulation therapy (PBMT) in patients with CCLR after TPLO surgery by measuring C-reactive protein (CRP), percentage weight bearing, lameness using a short form of a composite measure pain scale,…

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Education Finance Reform and the Great Recession: Did State Policy and Fiscal Federalism Improve Education Spending, School Resources, and Student Achievement in Pennsylvania?

Matthew P. Steinberg, Rand Quinn, J. Cameron Anglum · 2020 · Journal of Education Finance

abstract: We estimate the impact of school finance reform on adequate and equitable district spending, school resources and student achievement in Pennsylvania. From the 2008-09 to the 2010-11 school years, amid the Great Recession,…

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Association between Intraoperative Blood Pressure Drop and Clinically Significant Hypoperfusion in Abdominal Surgery: A Cohort Study

Zbigniew Putowski, Szymon Czajka, Łukasz J. Krzych · 2021 · Journal of Clinical Medicine

The recent consensus by the Perioperative Quality Initiative (POQI) on intraoperative hypotension (IOH) stated that mean arterial pressure (MAP) below 60–70 mmHg is associated with myocardial infarction (MI), acute kidney injury (AKI),…

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Shared miRNA landscapes of COVID-19 and neurodegeneration confirm neuroinflammation as an important overlapping feature

Sara Redenšek Trampuž, David Vogrinc, Katja Goričar et al. · 2023 · Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience

Introduction Development and worsening of most common neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis, have been associated with COVID-19 However, the mechanisms associated with…

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Does SLOPE outperform bridge regression?

Shuaiwen Wang, Haolei Weng, Arian Maleki · 2021 · Information and Inference: A Journal of the IMA

Abstract A recently proposed SLOPE estimator [6] has been shown to adaptively achieve the minimax $\ell _2$ estimation rate under high-dimensional sparse linear regression models [25]. Such minimax optimality holds in the regime where the…

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An attachment‐based program for parents of youth with clinically significant mental health problems: Scaling up and drilling down to mechanisms of change

Marlene M. Moretti, Sebastian P. Dys, Stephanie G. Craig et al. · 2024 · JCPP Advances

Abstract Background Given the prevalence and recent increases in youth mental health problems, there is a pressing need for interventions that target transdiagnostic protective factors that could be targeted as mechanisms of change in…

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Another Brick to Confirm the Efficacy of Rigosertib as Anticancer Agent

Alessio Malacrida, Marie Deschamps-Wright, Roberta Rigolio et al. · 2023 · International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Rigosertib is a small molecule in preclinical development that, due to its characteristics as a dual PLK1 and PI3K inhibitor, is particularly effective in counteracting the advance of different types of tumors. In this work, we evaluated…

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Significant individual change should be used as a lower bound for anchor based estimates of meaningful change on patient-reported outcome scores

John Devin Peipert, David Cella, Ron D. Hays · 2024 · Quality of Life Research

Abstract Interpretation of patient-reported outcome (PRO) scores has been supported by identifying score thresholds or ranges that indicate clinical importance. There has been a recent focus on the estimation of meaningful within patient…

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Who did what to whom, and what did we already know?

Tania Ionin, Maria Goldshtein, Tatiana Luchkina et al. · 2021 · Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism

Abstract This paper reports on an experimental investigation of what second language (L2) learners and heritage speakers of Russian know about the relationship between word order and information structure in Russian. The participants…

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The Differential Impact of the 2000 Canadian Graphic Warning Label Policy on Smoking Prevalence by Sex and Education: A Difference-in-Difference-in-Difference Model

Bukola Usidame, Gang Meng, James F Thrasher et al. · 2022 · Nicotine & Tobacco Research

Abstract Introduction Using a quasiexperimental design, we compared the impact of the 2000 Canadian introduction of graphic warning labels (GWLs) on differences in smoking prevalence by sex and education, to the United States, where no…

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Incidence and time trends of herpes zoster among patients with head and neck cancer who did and did not undergo radiotherapy: A population-based cohort study

Peng-Yi Lee, Jung-Nien Lai, Lu-Ting Chiu et al. · 2021 · PLOS ONE

Purpose This study aimed to determine the risk and time trends of herpes zoster among patients with head and neck cancer, with or without radiotherapy. Methods A total of 2160 patients with head and neck cancer were enrolled. The…

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