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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Adjuvant Erlotinib Versus Placebo in Patients With Stage IB-IIIA Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer (RADIANT): A Randomized, Double-Blind, Phase III Trial

Karen Kelly, Nasser K. Altorki, Wilfried Eberhardt et al. · 2015 · Journal of Clinical Oncology

PURPOSE: Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) -tyrosine kinase inhibitors have proven efficacy in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We hypothesized that erlotinib would be efficacious in the adjuvant setting. PATIENTS AND…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

The European Lead Extraction ConTRolled (ELECTRa) study: a European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) Registry of Transvenous Lead Extraction Outcomes

Maria Grazia Bongiorni, Charles Kennergren, Christian Butter et al. · 2017 · European Heart Journal

AIMS: The European Lead Extraction ConTRolled Registry (ELECTRa), is a prospective registry of consecutive transvenous lead extraction (TLE) procedures conducted by the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) in order to identify the…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessNeuroscience

Early Brain Overgrowth in Autism Associated With an Increase in Cortical Surface Area Before Age 2 Years

Heather C. Hazlett, Michele D. Poe, Guido Gerig et al. · 2011 · Archives of General Psychiatry

CONTEXT: Brain enlargement has been observed in 2-year-old children with autism, but the underlying mechanisms are unknown. OBJECTIVE: To investigate early growth trajectories in brain volume and cortical thickness. DESIGN: Longitudinal…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

The CAFA challenge reports improved protein function prediction and new functional annotations for hundreds of genes through experimental screens

Naihui Zhou, Yuxiang Jiang, Timothy Bergquist et al. · 2019 · Genome biology

BACKGROUND: The Critical Assessment of Functional Annotation (CAFA) is an ongoing, global, community-driven effort to evaluate and improve the computational annotation of protein function. RESULTS: Here, we report on the results of the third CAFA challenge, CAFA3, that featured an expanded analysis over the previous CAFA rounds, both in terms of volume of data analyzed and the types of analysis performed. In a novel and major new development, computational predictions and assessment goals drove some of the experimental assays, resulting in new functional annotations for more than 1000 genes. S

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Negative / Null Result ReportSocial Sciences

The perils of policy by p-value: Predicting civil conflicts

Michael D. Ward, Brian Greenhill, Kristin M. Bakke · 2010 · Journal of Peace Research

Abstract Large-n studies of conflict have produced a large number of statistically significant results but little accurate guidance in terms of anticipating the onset of conflict. The authors argue that too much attention has been paid to…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessHealth Professions

iTUG, a Sensitive and Reliable Measure of Mobility

A. Salarian, Fay B. Horak, Cris Zampieri et al. · 2010 · IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Timed Up and Go (TUG) test is a widely used clinical paradigm to evaluate balance and mobility. Although TUG includes several complex subcomponents, namely: sit-to-stand, gait, 180 degree turn, and turn-to-sit; the only outcome is the…

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Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Validation of a new tool for the assessment of study quality and reporting in exercise training studies

Neil A. Smart, Mark Waldron, Hashbullah Ismail et al. · 2015 · International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare

INTRODUCTION: Several established tools are available to assess study quality and reporting of randomized controlled trials; however, these tools were designed with clinical intervention trials in mind. In exercise training intervention…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Randomized Feeding Intervention in Infants at High Risk for Celiac Disease

Sabine L. Vriezinga, Renata Auricchio, E. Bravi et al. · 2014 · New England Journal of Medicine

BACKGROUND: A window of opportunity has been suggested for reducing the risk of celiac disease by introducing gluten to infants at 4 to 6 months of age. METHODS: We performed a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessImmunology and Microbiology

Effect of Targeted Polymyxin B Hemoperfusion on 28-Day Mortality in Patients With Septic Shock and Elevated Endotoxin Level

R. Phillip Dellinger, Sean M. Bagshaw, Massimo Antonelli et al. · 2018 · JAMA

Importance: Polymyxin B hemoperfusion reduces blood endotoxin levels in sepsis. Endotoxin activity can be measured in blood with a rapid assay. Treating patients with septic shock and elevated endotoxin activity using polymyxin B…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Simvastatin in the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Daniel F. McAuley, John G. Laffey, Cecilia O’Kane et al. · 2014 · New England Journal of Medicine

BACKGROUND: Studies in animals and in vitro and phase 2 studies in humans suggest that statins may be beneficial in the treatment of the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). This study tested the hypothesis that treatment with…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Inflammation-associated enterotypes, host genotype, cage and inter-individual effects drive gut microbiota variation in common laboratory mice

Falk Hildebrand, Thi Loan Anh Nguyen, Brigitta M. N. Brinkman et al. · 2013 · Genome biology

BACKGROUND: Murine models are a crucial component of gut microbiome research. Unfortunately, a multitude of genetic backgrounds and experimental setups, together with inter-individual variation, complicates cross-study comparisons and a global understanding of the mouse microbiota landscape. Here, we investigate the variability of the healthy mouse microbiota of five common lab mouse strains using 16S rDNA pyrosequencing. RESULTS: We find initial evidence for richness-driven, strain-independent murine enterotypes that show a striking resemblance to those in human, and which associate with calp

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Analysis of endoscopic brush samples identified mucosa-associated dysbiosis in inflammatory bowel disease

Kyohei Nishino, Atsushi Nishida, Ryo Inoüe et al. · 2017 · Journal of Gastroenterology

BACKGROUND: The mucosa-associated gut microbiota directly modulates epithelial and mucosal function. In this study, we investigated the mucosa-associated microbial community in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), using endoscopic brush samples. METHODS: A total of 174 mucus samples from 43 patients with ulcerative colitis (UC), 26 with Crohn's disease (CD) and 14 non-IBD controls were obtained by gentle brushing of mucosal surfaces using endoscopic cytology brushes. The gut microbiome was analyzed using 16S rRNA gene sequencing. RESULTS: There were no significant differences in mic

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Negative / Null Result ReportMedicine

Phase II, Open-Label, Randomized, Multicenter Study Comparing the Efficacy and Safety of Olaparib, a Poly (ADP-Ribose) Polymerase Inhibitor, and Pegylated Liposomal Doxorubicin in Patients With BRCA1 or BRCA2 Mutations and Recurrent Ovarian Cancer

Stan B. Kaye, Jan Lubiński, Ursula A. Matulonis et al. · 2011 · Journal of Clinical Oncology

PURPOSE: Olaparib (AZD2281), an orally active poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitor that induces synthetic lethality in BRCA1- or BRCA2-deficient cells, has shown promising clinical efficacy in nonrandomized phase II trials in patients…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

The significant effect of endometriosis on physical, mental and social wellbeing: results from an international cross-sectional survey

A. A. de Graaff, Thomas D’Hooghe, G.A.J. Dunselman et al. · 2013 · Human Reproduction

STUDY QUESTION: To what extent do the management of endometriosis and the symptoms that remain after treatment affect the quality of life in women with the disease? SUMMARY ANSWER: Many women with endometriosis had impaired quality of life…

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Negative / Null Result ReportBusiness, Management and Accounting

Do Socially Responsible Firms Pay More Taxes?

Angela K. Davis, David A. Guenther, Linda K. Krull et al. · 2015 · The Accounting Review

ABSTRACT We investigate the relation between corporate tax payments and corporate social responsibility. Because existing theory and empirical studies find inconsistent evidence on the relation between these constructs, we investigate…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Nivolumab plus ipilimumab with or without live bacterial supplementation in metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a randomized phase 1 trial

Nazlı Dizman, Luís Meza, Paulo Gustavo Bergerot et al. · 2022 · Nature Medicine

Previous studies have suggested that the gut microbiome influences the response to checkpoint inhibitors (CPIs) in patients with cancer. CBM588 is a bifidogenic live bacterial product that we postulated could augment CPI response through modulation of the gut microbiome. In this open-label, single-center study (NCT03829111), 30 treatment-naive patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma with clear cell and/or sarcomatoid histology and intermediate- or poor-risk disease were randomized 2:1 to receive nivolumab and ipilimumab with or without daily oral CBM588, respectively. Stool metagenomic s

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Seasonal, spatial, and maternal effects on gut microbiome in wild red squirrels

Tiantian Ren, Stan Boutin, Murray M. Humphries et al. · 2017 · Microbiome

BACKGROUND: Our understanding of gut microbiota has been limited primarily to findings from human and laboratory animals, but what shapes the gut microbiota in nature remains largely unknown. To fill this gap, we conducted a comprehensive study of gut microbiota of a well-studied North American red squirrel (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) population. Red squirrels are territorial, solitary, and live in a highly seasonal environment and therefore represent a very attractive system to study factors that drive the temporal and spatial dynamics of gut microbiota. RESULT: For the first time, this study r

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessBusiness, Management and Accounting

The Janus face of artificial intelligence feedback: Deployment versus disclosure effects on employee performance

Siliang Tong, Nan Jia, Xueming Luo et al. · 2021 · Strategic Management Journal

Abstract Companies are increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI) to provide performance feedback to employees, by tracking employee behavior at work, automating performance evaluations, and recommending job improvements. However,…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Methylprednisolone as Adjunctive Therapy for Patients Hospitalized With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19; Metcovid): A Randomized, Double-blind, Phase IIb, Placebo-controlled Trial

Christiane Maria Prado Jerônimo, Maria Eduarda Leão de Farias, Fernando Val et al. · 2020 · Clinical Infectious Diseases

BACKGROUND: Steroid use for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is based on the possible role of these drugs in mitigating the inflammatory response, mainly in the lungs, triggered by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2…

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Negative / Null Result ReportBusiness, Management and Accounting

Pine and Gilmore's Concept of Experience Economy and Its Dimensions: An Empirical Examination in Tourism

Mehmet Mehmetoglu, Marit Engen · 2011 · Journal of Quality Assurance in Hospitality & Tourism

The growing attention placed on experiences can be regarded as a mega-trend, and has given currency to the proposition that experiences function as a personal source of information for the stories people tell about their lives and are…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessAgricultural and Biological Sciences

Brain anomalies in children exposed prenatally to a common organophosphate pesticide

Virginia Rauh, Frederica P. Perera, Megan K. Horton et al. · 2012 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Prenatal exposure to chlorpyrifos (CPF), an organophosphate insecticide, is associated with neurobehavioral deficits in humans and animal models. We investigated associations between CPF exposure and brain morphology using magnetic…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessImmunology and Microbiology

Damaged Intestinal Epithelial Integrity Linked to Microbial Translocation in Pathogenic Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Infections

Jacob D. Estes, Levelle D. Harris, Nichole R. Klatt et al. · 2010 · PLoS Pathogens

The chronic phase of HIV infection is marked by pathological activation of the immune system, the extent of which better predicts disease progression than either plasma viral load or CD4(+) T cell count. Recently, translocation of microbial products from the gastrointestinal tract has been proposed as an underlying cause of this immune activation, based on indirect evidence including the detection of microbial products and specific immune responses in the plasma of chronically HIV-infected humans or SIV-infected Asian macaques. We analyzed tissues from SIV-infected rhesus macaques (RMs) to pro

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMedicine

Decrease in Depression Symptoms Is Associated With Longer Survival in Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Secondary Analysis

Janine Giese‐Davis, Kate Collie, Kate M. Rancourt et al. · 2010 · Journal of Clinical Oncology

PURPOSE: Numerous studies have examined the comorbidity of depression with cancer, and some have indicated that depression may be associated with cancer progression or survival. However, few studies have assessed whether changes in…

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Negative / Null Result ReportOpen accessMathematics

The harmonic mean p -value for combining dependent tests

Daniel J. Wilson · 2019 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

-value (HMP), which controls the FWER while greatly improving statistical power by combining dependent tests using generalized central limit theorem. I show that the HMP effortlessly combines information to detect statistically significant signals among groups of individually nonsignificant hypotheses in examples of a human GWAS for neuroticism and a joint human-pathogen GWAS for hepatitis C viral load. The HMP simultaneously tests all ways to group hypotheses, allowing the smallest groups of hypotheses that retain significance to be sought. The power of the HMP to detect significant hypothesi

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Negative / Null Result ReportSocial Sciences

The effect of work environment, leadership style, and organizational culture towards job satisfaction and its implication towards employee performance in Parador Hotels and Resorts, Indonesia

Suharno Pawirosumarto, Purwanto Katijan Sarjana, Rachmad Gunawan · 2017 · International Journal of Law and Management

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the effect of the work environment, leadership style and organizational culture on job satisfaction and its implication toward the performance of the employees. Design/methodology/approach…

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