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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... -
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... -
Human CAP cells represent a novel source for functional, miRNA-loaded exosome...
Exosomes represent a promising delivery tool for nucleic acid-based pharmaceuticals. They are highly suitable for transporting therapeutic miRNAs to tumor cells, due to their... -
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... -
How long do new medicines take to reach Canadian patients after companies fil...
Introduction Studies of the delay between when companies file a New Drug Submission (NDS) and when drugs reach Canadian patients typically focus on the time in the regulatory... -
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... -
Pharmacological characterization of potent and selective NaV1.7 inhibitors en...
Identification of voltage-gated sodium channel NaV1.7 inhibitors for chronic pain therapeutic development is an area of vigorous pursuit. In an effort to identify more potent... -
A sequential Monte Carlo approach to gene expression deconvolution
: High-throughput gene expression data are often obtained from pure or complex (heterogeneous) biological samples. In the latter case, data obtained are a mixture of different... -
Singularity: Scientific containers for mobility of compute
Here we present Singularity, software developed to bring containers and reproducibility to scientific computing. Using Singularity containers, developers can work in... -
Ultra close-range digital photogrammetry in skeletal anthropology: A systemat...
Background: Ultra close-range digital photogrammetry (UCR-DP) is emerging as a robust technique for 3D model generation and represents a convenient and low-cost solution for... -
Sources of Information as Determinants of Product and Process Innovation.
In this paper we use a panel of manufacturing firms in Spain to examine the extent to which they use internal and external sources of information (customers, suppliers,... -
Reproduction study using public data of: Development and validation of a deep...
Replication studies are essential for validation of new methods, and are crucial to maintain the high standards of scientific publications, and to use the results in practice.... -
Shared acoustic codes underlie emotional communication in music and speech—Ev...
Music and speech exhibit striking similarities in the communication of emotions in the acoustic domain, in such a way that the communication of specific emotions is achieved, at... -
The Role of Gender in the Employment, Career Perception and Research Performa...
Recent decades have seen a sharp increase in the number of female PhD graduates in the Netherlands. Currently, the share of females among newly graduated PhDs is almost on par... -
Autism spectrum disorder, politics, and the generosity of insurance mandates ...
The study of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in the United States has identified a growing prevalence of the disorder across the country, a high economic burden for necessary... -
Effect of thermal ballast loading on temperature stability of domestic refrig...
Vaccine temperature control failures represent a significant public and private healthcare cost. Vaccines damaged by excessive heat or freezing lose their effectiveness, putting... -
The proximal experience of awe.
Research on awe has grown exponentially in recent decades; however, few studies have considered whether awe-inspiring experiences also inspire other emotions. In two studies, we... -
An image J plugin for the high throughput image analysis of in vitro scratch ...
AbstractIn vitro scratch wound healing assay, a simple and low-cost technique that works along with other image analysis tools, is one of the most widely used 2D methods to...
