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Case selection and causal inferences in qualitative comparative research
Traditionally, social scientists perceived causality as regularity. As a consequence, qualitative comparative case study research was regarded as unsuitable for drawing causal... -
Levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system vs. usual medical treatment for ...
Objective: To undertake an economic evaluation alongside the largest randomised controlled trial comparing Levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine device ('LNG-IUS') and usual... -
Challenges to implementing national comprehensive sexuality education curricu...
School-based comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) can help adolescents achieve their full potential and realize their sexual and reproductive health and rights. This is... -
Development of a knowledge translation platform for ataxia: Impact on readers...
AbstractBackgroundDissemination of accurate health research information to patients and families has become increasingly important with the rise of the internet as a means of... -
The Design Help Desk: A collaborative approach to design education for scient...
: Visual design, learning sciences, and nanotechnology may be strange bedfellows; yet, as this paper highlights, peer interaction between a designer and a scientist is an... -
"Expanded HIV Testing in Low-Prevalence, High-Income Countries: A Cost-Effect...
Objective In many high-income countries with low HIV prevalence, significant numbers of persons living with HIV (PLHIV) remain undiagnosed. Identification of PLHIV via HIV... -
Equity in aid allocation and distribution: A qualitative study of key stakeho...
The Sustainable Development Goals have spurred a growing interest in and focus on equitable development. In theory, donors can play an important role in promoting equity within... -
Variability in Costs across Hospital Wards. A Study of Chinese Hospitals
Introduction Analysts estimating the costs or cost-effectiveness of health interventions requiring hospitalization often cut corners because they lack data and the costs of... -
Initial Coin Offerings
This paper examines the market for initial coin offerings (ICOs). ICOs are smart contracts based on blockchain technology that are designed for entrepreneurs to raise external... -
Industry-university collaborations in Canada, Japan, the UK and USA--with emp...
As industry-university collaborations are promoted to commercialize university research and foster economic growth, it is important to understand how companies benefit from... -
Sense classification of shallow discourse relations with focused RNNs
Understanding the sense of discourse relations between segments of text is essential to truly comprehend any natural language text. Several automated approaches have been... -
Evaluation of a mid-career investigator career development award: Assessing t...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) K18 award mechanism provides funded opportunities for established investigators to gain knowledge in fields outside of their primary... -
Governator vs. Hunter and Aggregator: A simulation of party competition with ...
: The policy positions parties choose are central to both attracting voters and forming coalition governments. How then should parties choose positions to best represent voters?... -
The influence of journal submission guidelines on authors' reporting of stati...
From January 2014, Psychological Science introduced new submission guidelines that encouraged the use of effect sizes, estimation, and meta-analysis (the “new statistics”),... -
The quest for an optimal alpha
Researchers who analyze data within the framework of null hypothesis significance testing must choose a critical "alpha" level, α, to use as a cutoff for deciding whether a... -
Estimation accuracy in the psychological sciences
Sample means comparisons are a fundamental and ubiquitous approach to interpreting experimental psychological data. Yet, we argue that the sample and effect sizes in published... -
Faculty perceptions and knowledge of career development of trainees in biomed...
The Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training (BEST) program is an NIH-funded effort testing the impact of career development interventions (e.g. internships, workshops,... -
Utilization of smoking cessation medication benefits among medicaid fee-for-s...
Objective To assess state coverage and utilization of Medicaid smoking cessation medication benefits among fee-for-service enrollees who smoked cigarettes. Methods We... -
Perceptions of scientific research literature and strategies for reading pape...
Reading primary research literature is an essential skill for all scientists and students on science degree programmes, however little is known about how researchers at... -
The Effects of Stability and Presentation Order of Rewards on Justice Evaluat...
Justice research has evolved by elucidating the factors that affect justice evaluations, as well as their consequences. Unfortunately, few researchers have paid attention to the...
