Methods Dead-EndOpen accessSports
Marcus Vinicius Machado, Alexandre Rosas Batista, Leandro Ricardo Altimari et al. · 2010 · Revista Brasileira de Cineantropometria e Desempenho Humano
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of caffeine intake on critical power model parameters determined on a cycle ergometer. Eight male subjects participated in this study. A double-blind protocol consisting of the intake of pure caffeine (6 mg/kg) or placebo (maltodextrin) 60 min before testing was used. Subjects were submitted to four constant-load tests on a cycle ergometer. These tests were conducted randomly in the caffeine and placebo groups [checar] at intensities of 80, 90, 100 and 110% maximum power at a rate of 70 rpm until exhaustion to determine the critical power. As a
Methods Dead-EndOpen accessComputer Science
Pierre Boullier · 1996 · arXiv
In this paper we present a new parsing algorithm for linear indexed grammars (LIGs) in the same spirit as the one described in (Vijay-Shanker and Weir, 1993) for tree adjoining grammars. For a LIG $L$ and an input string $x$ of length $n$, we build a non ambiguous context-free grammar whose sentences are all (and exclusively) valid derivation sequences in $L$ which lead to $x$. We show that this grammar can be built in ${\cal O}(n^6)$ time and that individual parses can be extracted in linear time with the size of the extracted parse tree. Though this ${\cal O}(n^6)$ upper bound does not impro
Methods Dead-EndOpen accessDairy processing. Dairy products
R.B. Standish, A.D. Wright, N.L. Whitehouse et al. · 2024 · Journal of Dairy Science
ABSTRACT: The purpose of this experiment was to determine if nicotinic acid (NA) effects on dairy cows and rumen microbial characteristics are forage-type dependent (corn silage, CS; grass silage, GS). Four late-lactation (DIM = 225 ± 12 d) Holstein cows were used in a 4 × 4 Latin square design with a 2 × 2 factorial arrangement of treatments. The main effects were a CS (66.10% CS) based diet or a GS (79.59%) based diet with or without 12 g/d NA. Each experimental period lasted for 28 d. Milk production and milk components, blood metabolites, apparent total-tract nutrient digestibilities, minu
View details →DOI: 10.3168/jds.2023-24483 Methods Dead-EndMedicine
Dogruoz F, Askin A, Ergun A et al. · 2026 · Journal of clinical medicine
Background/Objectives: The extent to which patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) reflect objective functional recovery after surgical repair of acute Achilles tendon rupture remains unclear. This study aimed to evaluate the…
View details →DOI: 10.3390/jcm15124669 Methods Dead-EndOpen accessMedicine
Aslam A, Kamran M, Siddiqui S · 2026 · Frontiers in public health
Introduction One of the most widely studied topic in the educational research is teacher's wellbeing and rightly so, as resilient and well-supported teacher serves as an essential pillar for creating an effective and durable educational…
View details →DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2026.1839632 Methods Dead-EndOpen accessMedicine (General)
Xiaochun Zhang, Xiaoying Tang, Thomas M. Daly · 2020 · Practical Laboratory Medicine
Objectives: Vitamin B6 deficiency is associated with a wide spectrum of clinical syndromes. While vitamin B6 status is primarily assessed by measuring the biologically active form of the vitamin, pyridoxal 5-phosphate (PLP), concurrent measurement of the final metabolite 4-pyridoxic acid (PA) can provide additional information regarding supplement intake and hypophosphatasia. The aim of this study is to develop a simple method traceable to the NIST standard reference material 3950 for simultaneous detection of PLP and PA. Design & methods: A one-step reverse phase HPLC method with fluorescence
View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.plabm.2020.e00160 Methods Dead-EndMedicine
Batista DJ, da Conceição AS · 2026 · Journal of voice : official journal of the Voice Foundation
Objectives This study aims to explore the convergence between objective acoustic measures and qualitative spectrographic analysis in the evaluation of the effects of an expressiveness-oriented training program in journalism students.…
View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2026.04.023 Methods Dead-EndOpen accessMedicine
Peters D, Crome M, Vach K et al. · 2026 · GMS journal for medical education
Objective With the regulation for the reorganization of dental education, the legislature restructured dental studies and among other things, called for a strenghtening of interdisciplinary training. This requirement was the basis for the…
View details →DOI: 10.3205/zma001837 Methods Dead-EndOpen accessSocial sciences (General)
Foteini Aikaterini Pikouli, Despina Moraitou, Georgia Papantoniou et al. · 2023 · Journal of Intelligence
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is associated with deficits in decision-making, which is of utmost importance for daily functioning. Despite evidence of declined decision-making abilities, research on decision-making interventions for MCI is scarce. As metacognition seems to play an important role in decision-making, the present study’s aim was to examine whether a metacognitive strategy training can improve MCI patients’ decision-making abilities. Older adults—patients of a day care center, diagnosed with amnestic MCI (n = 55) were randomly allocated in two groups, which were matched in gende
View details →DOI: 10.3390/jintelligence11090182 Methods Dead-EndMedicine
Wierzbicki AS · 2025 · Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy
Introduction Lipid-lowering therapies are well established for the treatment of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Historically monotherapy studies have been performed, but the introduction of statins has led to these drugs being recognized as…
View details →DOI: 10.1080/14656566.2024.2444986 Methods Dead-EndOpen accessMedicine
Zadrożniak M, Biskupski M, Szymański M et al. · 2025 · Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)
(1) Aminoglycosides remain indispensable in modern medicine but share a serious dose-limiting adverse effect: irreversible cochleovestibular ototoxicity. (2) This scoping review systematically maps experimental and clinical strategies…
View details →DOI: 10.3390/antiox14121467 Methods Dead-EndMedicine
Hatch-McChesney A, Whitney CC, Richardson M et al. · 2024 · Appetite
Consuming enough energy to meet high energy demands can be challenging for military personnel wherein logistical constraints limit food availability. Increasing dietary energy density (ED) and/or volume density (VD) of rations may be…
View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107537 Methods Dead-EndOpen accessMedicine
Dugan L, Rei KM, Ueno A et al. · 2025 · The Permanente journal
Introduction Simulation labs provide trainees the opportunity to practice procedures in a safe, controlled, nonjudgmental environment. It is unclear which teaching method leads to the highest levels of trainee skill competency when…
View details →DOI: 10.7812/tpp/24.155 Methods Dead-EndMedicine
Dexter F, Rolfzen ML, Hoffman J et al. · 2025 · Anesthesia and analgesia
Background Earlier studies have not examined the extent to which reducing postoperative opioid use after patient discharge would improve the quality of life of opioid naïve patients, knowledge needed for economic evaluations of drugs and…
View details →DOI: 10.1213/ane.0000000000007914 Methods Dead-EndMedicine
Barzaghi L, Paoletti M, Monforte M et al. · 2024 · Muscle & nerve
Introduction/aims Muscle diffusion tensor imaging has not yet been explored in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). We assessed diffusivity parameters in FSHD subjects compared with healthy controls (HCs), with regard to their…
View details →DOI: 10.1002/mus.28179 Methods Dead-End
Zhao y, Xu F · 2023 · Preprint
Abstract Background: A few of cohort studies declared an converse association between pork intake and cardiovascular diseases, but the causal relationship is ambiguous. Objective: To evaluate the causal relationship between pork intake,…
View details →DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3436633/v1 Methods Dead-EndMedicine
Koretz RL · 2025 · Current opinion in clinical nutrition and metabolic care
Purpose of review To assess the quality of recently published (18 months from date of article request) randomized trials/systematic reviews of such trials that addressed the use of nutritional support in critically ill patients. Recent…
View details →DOI: 10.1097/mco.0000000000001080 Methods Dead-EndMedicine
Psaltis PJ, Nguyen MT, Singh K et al. · 2025 · Cardiovascular research
Aims Low-dose colchicine reduces the risk of cardiovascular events after myocardial infarction (MI). The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of colchicine post-MI on coronary plaque morphology in non-culprit segments by optical…
View details →DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvae191 Methods Dead-EndOpen accessFinance
Manuel Rosinus, Jan Lansky · 2025 · International Journal of Financial Studies
As investors increasingly use Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria, a key challenge remains: ESG data is typically reported annually, while financial markets move much faster. This study investigates whether incorporating annual ESG scores can improve monthly stock return forecasts for German DAX-listed firms. We employ a multivariate long short-term memory (LSTM) network, a machine learning model ideal for time series data, to test this hypothesis over two periods: an 8-year analysis with a full set of ESG scores and a 16-year analysis with a single disclosure score. The evalu
View details →DOI: 10.3390/ijfs13030167 Methods Dead-EndOpen accessMedicine
Adhikari S, Eldfors S, Pitkänen E et al. · 2025 · Computational and structural biotechnology journal
Background Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) progresses by the accumulation of somatic mutations and clonal expansion of pre-leukemic cells. Patients may respond to initial therapy, but often relapse, underscoring an evolving disease. Next…
View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2025.11.066 Methods Dead-End
Özkaya AB, Ghaseminejad Y · 2024 · Preprint
Autophagy plays a critical role in maintaining cellular homeostasis and is implicated in various physiological and pathological processes, including cancer, neurodegeneration, and metabolic disorders. Although typically associated with…
View details →DOI: 10.1101/2024.12.22.629975 Methods Dead-EndMedicine
Artal JM, Randall L, Rubeck S et al. · 2025 · American journal of medical genetics. Part A
Parents of children with Down syndrome have historically reported poor experiences receiving a prenatal diagnosis. In a 2003 survey, mothers reported that their physicians pitied them, emphasized negative aspects of Down syndrome, and…
View details →DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.63981 Methods Dead-EndMedicine
Sun X, Yan T, Li Z et al. · 2023 · Nutrients
(1) Background: We investigated the effects of a 12-week exercise intervention with or without vitamin D supplementation on insulin resistance and the plasma lipidome of participants with type 2 diabetes. We further explored whether the…
View details →DOI: 10.3390/nu15133027 Methods Dead-EndMedicine
Lambert SJ, Lunde B, Porsch L et al. · 2024 · Contraception
Objectives This study aimed to compare effectiveness and safety of cervical preparation with osmotic dilators plus same-day misoprostol or overnight mifepristone prior to dilation and evacuation (D&E). Study design We conducted a…
View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2024.110364 Methods Dead-EndMedicine
Dirican EK · 2026 · Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics
Background Operator-dependent laboratory tasks-embryo selection, vitrification and warming, and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)-have been the principal targets of IVF laboratory automation, and a fourth strand of work, integrated…
View details →DOI: 10.1007/s10815-026-03946-7 Methods Dead-EndMedicine
Potkrajcic V, Wahl D, Frantz S et al. · 2026 · Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al]
Background Postoperative radiotherapy following surgical stabilization in patients with bone metastases is commonly recommended. The aim of the study was to validate existing prognostic scores and parameters for local control and survival…
View details →DOI: 10.1007/s00066-026-02539-8 Methods Dead-End
Trenkner M, Lewandowski I, Cappezone F et al. · 2026 · Preprint
Abstract Peat is the dominant growing substrate in horticulture, yet extraction of peat accounts for tremendous ecological damage, through greenhouse gas emissions and the exploitation of peatlands. Finding sustainable, functional…
View details →DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9561551/v1 Methods Dead-EndMedicine
Gulamani A, Shamim F, Khan S et al. · 2026 · International journal of oral and maxillofacial surgery
The Clinical Assessment Scoring System for Tracheostomy (CASST) was developed to predict the need for elective tracheostomy in head and neck cancer surgery, but evidence on its external performance remains limited. This prospective study…
View details →DOI: 10.1016/j.ijom.2026.04.009 Methods Dead-EndOpen accessMedicine (General)
Di Benedetto M, Greenwood KM, Isaac F · 2012 · Patient Preference and Adherence
Fadia Isaac1, Kenneth Mark Greenwood2, Mirella Di Benedetto31Cairnmillar Institute School of Psychology Counselling and Psychotherapy, Camberwell, Victoria, Australia; 2School of Psychology and Social Science Faculty of Computing, Health and Science, Edith Cowan University, Joondalup, Western Australia, Australia; 3School of Health Sciences, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Bundoora, Victoria, AustraliaBackground: Individuals’ attitudes towards depression and its treatments may influence their likelihood of seeking professional help and adherence to treatment when depr
Methods Dead-EndOpen accessMathematics
Hao Luo, Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, Gabriela Cohen Freue et al. · 2016 · arXiv
We extend the constrained maximum likelihood estimation theory for parameters of a completely identified model, proposed by Aitchison and Silvey (1958), to parameters arising from a partially identified model. With a partially identified model, some parameters of the model may only be identified through constraints imposed by additional assumptions. We show that, under certain conditions, the constrained maximum likelihood estimator exists and locally maximize the likelihood function subject to constraints. We then study the asymptotic distribution of the estimator and propose a numerical algo
