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The Fate (Outcome) of Clinically Apparent Single Lesion and Oligofocal Nephroblastomatosis Treated According to SIOP/GPOH Protocols for Wilms Tumor

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The management of clinically apparent single lesions or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis, a facultative precursor of nephroblastoma, remains debated. Methods We retrospectively analyzed 37 patients with clinically apparent single or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis (two to three lesions per kidney) among 2347 patients registered between
Nils Welter   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Justifying Inference to the Best Explanation as a Practical Meta-Syllogism on Dialectical Structures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article discusses how inference to the best explanation (IBE) can be justified as a practical meta-argument. It is, firstly, justified as a *practical* argument insofar as accepting the best explanation as true can be shown to further a specific aim.
Betz, Gregor
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Inpatient Food Insecurity and Pediatric Hematology Oncology Hospitalization Outcomes

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children with cancer and blood disorders are at risk for food insecurity (FI). We aimed to describe the association of inpatient food insecurity (IFI) and hospitalization outcomes among patients admitted to the pediatric hematology oncology service. Of 325 caregivers screened for IFI, 60 (18.6%) screened positive.
Joanna M. Robles   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Bayesian approach to stochastic cost-effectiveness analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The aim of this paper is to discuss the use of Bayesian methods in cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) and the common ground between Bayesian and traditional frequentist approaches.
Briggs, A.
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Structural Analysis of PfSec62-Autophagy Interacting Motifs (AIM) and PfAtg8 Interactions for Its Implications in RecovER-phagy in Plasmodium falciparum

open access: yesFrontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2019
Autophagy is a degradative pathway associated with many pathological and physiological processes crucial for cell survival. During ER stress, while selective autophagy occurs via ER-phagy, the re-establishment of physiologic ER homeostasis upon ...
Ashalatha Sreshty Mamidi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Probabilistic Model-Based Safety Analysis

open access: yes, 2010
Model-based safety analysis approaches aim at finding critical failure combinations by analysis of models of the whole system (i.e. software, hardware, failure modes and environment).
Alessandra Di Pierro   +45 more
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‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using protocol analysis to explore the creative requirements engineering process

open access: yes, 2006
Protocol analysis is an empirical method applied by researchers in cognitive psychology and behavioural analysis. Protocol analysis can be used to collect, document and analyse thought processes by an individual problem solver.
Nguyen, Lemai, Shanks, Graeme
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Feasibility and Safety of High‐Dose Proton Re‐Irradiation in Recurrent Pediatric Central Nervous System Tumors: A Single‐Institution Retrospective Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors often recur despite multimodality therapy. Although re‐irradiation (re‐RT) has historically been limited by concerns for severe late toxicities, modern techniques have renewed interest in this approach. Proton therapy provides dosimetric advantages that may enable curative re‐treatment with
Jin‐Ho Song   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of mobile health applications using the RE-AIM model: systematic review and meta-analysis

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health
BackgroundThe Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance (RE-AIM) model has been used as an instrument to determine the impact of the intervention on health in digital format.
Emanuele Louise Gomes de Magalhães Jorge   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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