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We explored the impact a new quantitative biology course for biology majors had on their ability and confidence to utilize hypothesis testing. Students currently in the... -
Residential Socioeconomic Environments and Areca Nut Use in Taiwan: A Compari...
While the association between residential socioeconomic environments and the use of globally common substances such as alcohol and tobacco has been well documented in Western... -
Risk factors for poor asthma control and impaired quality of life in a Caribb...
Asthma, a major cause of disability and reduced quality of life, has a high global prevalence and burden of death. Despite the propitious guidelines, a substantial portion of... -
Multiple regression model averaging and the focused information criterion wit...
We consider multiple regression (MR) model averaging using the Focused Informati on Criterion (FIC). Our approach is motivated by the problem of implementing a mean-variance... -
Smallholder tree-farmers and forest certification in Southeast Asia: alternat...
The smallholder tree-farm resources of Southeast Asia are generating substantial benefits for growers and support many successful domestic wood processors. They could provide... -
Cost per responder analysis of guselkumab versus targeted therapies in the tr...
BACKGROUND The fully human monoclonal antibody guselkumab is an effective treatment option for patients with moderate to severe psoriasis. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study... -
Measuring subnational democracy: toward improved regime typologies and theori...
ABSTRACTSocial scientists have been limited in their work by the paucity of global time series data about subnational institutions and practices. Such data could help scholars... -
Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) induced by phen...
Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome is an adverse and severe skin reaction due to patients’ susceptibility to medications, including... -
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Mesenchymal stem cell transplantation (MSCT) has been applied to treat a variety of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Psychosocial stress can aggravate disease progression... -
The comparison between pulmonary rehabilitation with music therapy and pulmon...
Much emphasis is being placed on the role of music therapy as an easy-to-use, noninvasive and relatively cheap method of asthma treatment. The objective of this interventional... -
The diagnostic value of Red Flags in thoracolumbar pain: a systematic review
Red Flags (RFs) are signs and symptoms related to the screening of serious underlying pathologies mimicking a musculoskeletal pain. The current literature wonders about the... -
Reliability of DNA methylation measures using Illumina methylation BeadChip
Illumina BeadChips provide cost-effective measures of DNA methylation and are widely utilized in epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS). Several studies have reported that... -
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Latinos are heavily affected with childhood asthma. Little is known about epigenetic mechanisms of asthma in Latino youth. We conducted a meta-analysis of two epigenome-wide... -
Does subnational tax autonomy promote regional convergence? Evidence from OEC...
This paper investigates the simultaneous impact of subnational tax autonomy and vertical transfers on regional disparities of gross domestic product (GDP) per head in a sample... -
Stakeholder perceptions of public good provision from agriculture and implica...
Agriculture provides many public goods; however the costs and benefits of these are rarely well distributed. Maintaining public good provision often relies on external... -
Speech discrimination impairment of the worse-hearing ear in asymmetric heari...
This study aimed to compare the difference in maximum speech discrimination score (SDSmax) of the worse-hearing ear in asymmetric hearing loss (ASHL) patients with that in... -
Predictive Value of Blood Interleukin-6 Level in Patients with Acute Coronary...
Conflicting results have been reported on the association between blood level of interleukin-6 and adverse outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The current... -
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This study aims to extend the existing academic accounts on Belarus and provides an in-depth cultural discourse analysis of Belarusian meta-cultural commentary on public... -
Estimation of bias-corrected intraclass correlation coefficient for unbalance...
Intraclass correlation coefficient for data in a clustered study is traditionally estimated from a one-way random-effects model. This model assumes normality for the random... -
"There was Sex but no Sexuality*:" Critical Cataloging and the Classification...
This paper examines the addition of “asexuality” to the Library of Congress Subject Headings as a case study from which to examine the critical cataloging movement. Beginning...
