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Significant Differences and Experimental Designs Do Not Necessarily Imply Clinical Relevance: Effect Sizes and Causality Claims in Antidepressant Treatments

Iván Sánchez-Iglesias, Celia Martín-Aguilar · 2023 · Journal of Clinical Medicine

Clinical trials are the backbone of medical scientific research. However, this experimental strategy has some drawbacks. We focused on two issues: (a) The internal validity ensured by clinical trial procedures does not necessarily allow…

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How Did Early Modern Scholars Study Early Maps?

Matthew H Edney · 2024 · Cartographic Perspectives

The two standard Anglophone historiographies of the history of cartography (Skelton 1972, Harley 1987) situated the field’s origins in the early modern era, or even in the later Middle Ages. Yet “history” and “cartography” are both…

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The Minimum Clinically Significant Difference in Acute Nontraumatic Thoracoabdominal Pain in Adult Emergency Department Patients in Turkey

V Degerli, O Karcioglu, GL Larkin et al. · 2012 · Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine

Objectives To determine the minimum clinically significant difference (MCSD) in visual analog scale (VAS) pain scores for acute non‐traumatic thoracoabdominal pain (TAP) in the emergency department (ED) and to determine its association…

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Optimization of Tempering Process Parameters of AISI 3140 Low Alloy Steel to Conserve Furnace Energy using Tukey’s Honestly Significant Difference Test

SK Lakshmana Moorthy, S Rajaram, PC Santhosh Kumar · 2020 · IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science

Abstract Quenching and Tempering of AISI 3140 alloy steel is a necessary heat treatment process to attain desired hardness and toughness. However the tempering process consumes remarkable amount of energy in furnace. One of the usual…

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There is no significant difference in the treatment of aspiration pneumonia in dogs with ampicillin-sulbactam versus ampicillin-sulbactam and enrofloxacin

Cody I. Riffe, Justin A. Heinz, Carly A. Patterson et al. · 2025 · Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Abstract Objective Describe outcomes for dogs with aspiration pneumonia (AP) initially treated with ampicillin-sulbactam (AS) alone (monotherapy [MT]), initially with AS and enrofloxacin (initial dual therapy [iDT]), or initially with AS…

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ARSIP DIGITAL UNTUK EFISIENSI PENGELOLAAN DAN PERCEPATAN PELAYANAN

Muhammad Refki Pranata · 2024 · SIGNIFICANT : Journal Of Research And Multidisciplinary

Pada penelitian ini penulis ingin menyampaikan digitalisasi arsip sangat berguna dalam mempercepat pengelolaan di suatu instansi pelayanan. Tujuan dari penulisan ini untuk memberitahu seberapa pentingnya digitalisasi saat ini. Metode…

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Statistical Analysis of the Number of Infections with Corona Virus in Some Arab Countries Using the Method of Least Significant Difference

Hadeel Alkutubi, Rania Abod, Omaima Jabber · 2022 · Journal of Kufa for Mathematics and Computer


 
 
 In this research, we applied actual data related to the number of infections with the Corona virus for some Arab countries for the month of February of the year 2022, where the method of least significant difference…

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‘My Contributions Made a Significant Difference’: Young Carers’ Reflections on Their Participation in Social Work Admissions

Andrea Newman, Bridgit Carey, Malcolm Kinney · 2021 · The British Journal of Social Work

Abstract Whilst the participation of service users and carers (SUCs) in Social Work admissions (SWAs) has significantly developed over the past decades, concerns have been raised about the tokenistic nature of SUC involvement (Barnes, D.,…

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On zeros and growth of solutions of complex difference equations

Min-Feng Chen, Ning Cui · 2021 · Advances in Difference Equations

Abstract Let f be an entire function of finite order, let $n\geq 1$ n ≥ 1 , $m\geq 1$ m ≥ 1 , $L(z,f)\not \equiv 0$ L ( z , f ) ≢ 0 be a linear difference polynomial of f with small meromorphic coefficients, and $P_{d}(z,f)\not \equiv 0$ P…

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Determining Outcomes in Patients With Large Vessel Occlusion and Mild Stroke Who Did or Did Not Receive Thrombolytics and/or Thrombectomy

Cleo Zarina A. Reyes, Ramiro Gabriel Castro-Apolo, Hope Kincaid et al. · 2024 · The Neurologist

Objectives: The utility of thrombolysis and/or thrombectomy in patients with mild stroke and large vessel occlusion (LVO) remains inconclusive. This retrospective study compared short-term and long-term outcomes in patients treated with…

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Thyroid fine-needle aspiration cytology: malignancy rate in the category of indeterminate significant atypia/indeterminate significant follicular lesion

Neslihan Kaya Terzi, Tolga Terzi · 2024 · Annals of Saudi Medicine

BACKGROUND: Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is a standard preoperative diagnostic modality for thyroid nodules. The Bethesda Thyroid Cytopathology Reporting System (TBSRTC) defines the FNAC atypia group as atypia of undetermined…

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