Tests for equality of variances between two samples which contain both paired observations and independent observations (2018)
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Tests for equality of variances between two samples which contain both paired observations and independent observations are explored using simulation. New solutions which make use of all of the available data are put forward. These new approaches are... Read More about Tests for equality of variances between two samples which contain both paired observations and independent observations.

Exposure to childhood adversity and deficits in emotion recognition: results from a large, population-based sample (2018)
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© 2018 Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Background: Emotion recognition skills are essential for social communication. Deficits in these skills have been implicated in mental disorders. Prior studies of clinical and high-risk sampl... Read More about Exposure to childhood adversity and deficits in emotion recognition: results from a large, population-based sample.

Predictors of improved biochemical progression free survival for salvage prostate bed radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy (2018)
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Predictors of improved biochemical progression free survival for salvage prostate bed radiotherapy after radical prostatectomy

Upfront docetaxel with androgen deprivation therapy in the elderly patient with metastatic hormone-naïve prostate cancer: Single institution experience (2018)
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Upfront docetaxel with androgen deprivation therapy in the elderly patient with metastatic hormone-naïve prostate cancer: Single institution experience

What life course theoretical models best explain the relationship between exposure to childhood adversity and psychopathology symptoms: Recency, accumulation, or sensitive periods? (2018)
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018Â. Background Although childhood adversity is a potent determinant of psychopathology, relatively little is known about how the characteristics of adversity exposure, including its developmental timing or du... Read More about What life course theoretical models best explain the relationship between exposure to childhood adversity and psychopathology symptoms: Recency, accumulation, or sensitive periods?.

Complex genetic patterns in human arise from a simple range-expansion model over continental landmasses (2018)
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© 2018 Kanitz et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are cre... Read More about Complex genetic patterns in human arise from a simple range-expansion model over continental landmasses.

18 F-Fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT and dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI as imaging biomarkers in malignant pleural mesothelioma (2018)
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© 2018 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. Purpose The purpose of this study was to compare the use of fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (18 F-FDG) PET with computed tomography (CT) and dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI to predict prognos... Read More about 18 F-Fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT and dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI as imaging biomarkers in malignant pleural mesothelioma.

The impact of an extreme observation in a paired samples design (2017)
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The effect of systematically altering the value of a single observation within a paired differences design is considered. A paradox is observed for the paired samples t-test, where increasing the value of an observation in the direction of the true m... Read More about The impact of an extreme observation in a paired samples design.

Kinship structures create persistent channels for language transmission (2017)
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© 2017, National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Languages are transmitted through channels created by kinship systems. Given sufficient time, these kinship channels can change the genetic and linguistic structure of populations. In traditi... Read More about Kinship structures create persistent channels for language transmission.

Help! Is my sample big enough? (2017)
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© 2017 The Royal Statistical Society Anne Beeston writes: I am planning a study to evaluate the efficacy of a treatment to reduce the microbial load in dried flowers, and need some advice on sample size to allow the determination of statistically sig... Read More about Help! Is my sample big enough?.

Cluster-randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of computer-assisted intervention delivered by educators for children with speech sound disorders (2017)
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© 2017 American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Purpose: The aim was to evaluate the effectiveness of computer-assisted input-based intervention for children with speech sound disorders (SSD). Method: The Sound Start Study was a cluster-randomiz... Read More about Cluster-randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of computer-assisted intervention delivered by educators for children with speech sound disorders.

Stroke: Ineffective tube securement reduces nutrition and drug treatment (2017)
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© 2017 MA Healthcare Ltd. Stroke patients with dysphagia often depend on nutrition, hydration and medication via nasogastric (NG) feeding tubes. Securing tubes using tape is associated with repeated tube loss. In this study, the authors determined ca... Read More about Stroke: Ineffective tube securement reduces nutrition and drug treatment.

A comparison of analytical methods for the two group pre- post design (2017)
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Simulation demonstrates that for a two group randomized design ANCOVA is more powerful than the gain score approach

For ANCOVA with an interaction term the model with pre scores X as a covariate is more powerful than the model with X + Y as the co... Read More about A comparison of analytical methods for the two group pre- post design.

Implementation fidelity of a computer-assisted intervention for children with speech sound disorders (2017)
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© 2017 The Speech Pathology Association of Australia Limited Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Background: Implementation fidelity refers to the degree to which an intervention or programme adheres to its original... Read More about Implementation fidelity of a computer-assisted intervention for children with speech sound disorders.

Protocol for a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled, crossover trial of Melatonin for treatment of Nocturia in adults with Multiple Sclerosis (MeNiMS) (2017)
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© 2017 The Author(s). Background: Nocturia (the symptom of needing to wake up to pass urine) is common in progressive Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients. Moderate-to-severe nocturia affects quality of life, can exacerbate fatigue and may affect capacit... Read More about Protocol for a randomized, double blind, placebo controlled, crossover trial of Melatonin for treatment of Nocturia in adults with Multiple Sclerosis (MeNiMS).

Measuring site fidelity and spatial segregation within animal societies (2017)
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© 2017 The Authors. Methods in Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society. Animals often display a marked tendency to return to previously visited locations that contain important resources, suc... Read More about Measuring site fidelity and spatial segregation within animal societies.

Variability in individual assessment behaviour and its implications for collective decision-making (2017)
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© 2017 The Author(s) Published by the Royal Society. All rights reserved. Self-organized systems of collective behaviour have been demonstrated in a number of group-living organisms. There is, however, less research relating to how variation in indiv... Read More about Variability in individual assessment behaviour and its implications for collective decision-making.

Minimum 20-year survivorship of the St Georg Sled medial unicompartmental knee replacement (2017)
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Minimum 20-year survivorship of the St Georg Sled medial unicompartmental knee replacement

The transcription factor PPARα is overexpressed and is associated with a favourable prognosis in IDH-wildtype primary glioblastoma (2016)
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© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd Aims: PPARα agonists are in current clinical use as hypolipidaemic agents and show significant antineoplastic effects in human glioblastoma models. To date however, the expression of PPARα in large-scale glioblastoma da... Read More about The transcription factor PPARα is overexpressed and is associated with a favourable prognosis in IDH-wildtype primary glioblastoma.

A social mechanism facilitates ant colony emigrations over different distances (2016)
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© 2016. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd. Behavioural responses enable animals to react rapidly to fluctuating environments. In eusocial organisms, such changes are often enacted at the group level, but may be organised in a decentralised f... Read More about A social mechanism facilitates ant colony emigrations over different distances.