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Negative / Null Result Report

Why Halley Did Not Discover Proper Motion and Why Cassini Did

Frank Verbunt, Marc van der Sluys · 2019 · Journal for the History of Astronomy

In 1717, Halley compared contemporaneous measurements of the latitudes of four stars with earlier measurements by ancient Greek astronomers and by Brahe, and from the differences concluded that these four stars showed proper motion. An…

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Carotid artery stenting using CASPER has a lower incidence of ischemic complications compared to Carotid WALLSTENT, but there is no significant difference in postoperative restenosis

Takashi Fujii, Shuta Maehara, Yoshimasa Fukui et al. · 2025 · Interventional Neuroradiology

Background The usefulness of CASPER, a second-generation carotid stent, for carotid artery stenosis is becoming increasingly clear. However, few studies have directly compared treatment outcomes with those of the first-generation Carotid…

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ANALISIS KEMAMPUAN CALON GURU DALAM MENGEMBANGKAN MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN

Ines Tasya Jadidah, Eby Sania Awalia, Althaafi Abdillah et al. · 2023 · SIGNIFICANT : Journal Of Research And Multidisciplinary

Tujuan penelitian ini dilakukan agar dapat menganalisa kemampuan calon guru dalam mengembangkan media pembelajaran. Penelitian ini menggunakan penelitian kualitatif deskrpitif yang intrumen nya berupa observasi untuk memperoleh suatu…

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Lack of significant effect of interleukin-18 gene variants on tuberculosis susceptibility in the Polish population

Sebastian Wawrocki, Grzegorz Kielnierowski, Wieslawa Rudnicka et al. · 2019 · Acta Biochimica Polonica

Background: Polymorphisms in genes encoding cytokines are known to determine susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb) infection. In particular, interleukin-18 (IL-18), an inducer of interferon-gamma (IFN-γ), playing an important…

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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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A real life retrospective analysis of drug expenditure reveals no significant cost difference between infliximab and adalimumab in the treatment of adult crohn's disease: Figure 1

C A Lamb, M Price, M Robinson et al. · 2011 · Gut

Introduction The revised NICE guidance on the use of infliximab and adalimumab for the treatment of Crohn's disease, released in May 2010, has suggested biologics be prescribed as a planned therapy until treatment failure or until…

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Failure to Replicate: A Sign of Scientific Misconduct?

Helene Hill, Joel Pitt · 2014 · Publications

Repeated failures to replicate reported experimental results could indicate scientific misconduct or simply result from unintended error. Experiments performed by one individual involving tritiated thymidine, published in two papers in…

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Less risk of patellofemoral degeneration without significant clinical and survivorship difference for distal tibial tuberosity high tibial osteotomy compared to biplanar high tibial osteotomy over a mid-term follow-up

Ke Li, Hengbing Guo, Fenglong Sun et al. · 2024 · Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery

Purpose This study aims to compare the mid-term radiographic, clinical results and survivorship between distal tibial tuberosity high tibial osteotomy (DTT-HTO) and conventional biplanar medial open-wedge high tibial osteotomy (cOW-HTO).…

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