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Completion of choice [PDF]

Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 2021
We systematically study the completion of choice problems in the Weihrauch lattice. Choice problems play a pivotal role in Weihrauch complexity. For one, they can be used as landmarks that characterize important equivalences classes in the Weihrauch lattice.
Vasco Brattka, Guido Gherardi
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Effects of the Informed Health Choices podcast on the ability of parents of primary school children in Uganda to assess the trustworthiness of claims about treatment effects: one-year follow up of a randomised trial

Trials, 2020
Introduction Earlier, we designed and evaluated an educational mass media intervention for improving people’s ability to think more critically and to assess the trustworthiness of claims (assertions) about the benefits and harms (effects) of treatments ...
Daniel Semakula, Allen Nsangi, Andrew D. Oxman, Matt Oxman, Astrid Austvoll-Dahlgren, Sarah Rosenbaum, Angela Morelli, Claire Glenton, Simon Lewin, Laetitia Nyirazinyoye, Margaret Kaseje, Iain Chalmers, Atle Fretheim, Christopher J. Rose, Nelson K. Sewankambo   +14 more
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Expanding 'Choice' in School Choice [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
Gale-Shapley's deferred acceptance (henceforth DA) mechanism has emerged as a prominent candidate for placing students to public schools. While DA has desirable fairness and incentive properties, it limits the applicants' abilities to communicate their preference intensities, which entails ex ante inefficiency when ties at school preferences are ...
Abdulkadiroglu, Atila, Yasuda, Yosuke, Che, Yeon-Koo   +2 more
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Choices [PDF]

Acta Oncologica, 2020
We need to make choices on a daily basis in our practice of medical oncology. In regular times, these choices are evidence-based and backed by science. However, during emergency situations like the current COVID pandemic, these choices are not just tougher to make, but come with the added burden of inadequate evidence to base them on.
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Effects of the Informed Health Choices primary school intervention on the ability of children in Uganda to assess the reliability of claims about treatment effects, 1-year follow-up: a cluster-randomised trial

Trials, 2020
Introduction We evaluated an intervention designed to teach 10- to 12-year-old primary school children to assess claims about the effects of treatments (any action intended to maintain or improve health).
Allen Nsangi, Daniel Semakula, Andrew D. Oxman, Astrid Austvoll-Dahlgren, Matt Oxman, Sarah Rosenbaum, Angela Morelli, Claire Glenton, Simon Lewin, Margaret Kaseje, Iain Chalmers, Atle Fretheim, Yunpeng Ding, Nelson K. Sewankambo   +13 more
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Choices and preferences for Sheikh Abd al-Karim al-Mudarris and Sheikh Muhammad Taha al-Balisani in Surat al-Qasas - a Balanced study - [PDF]

مجلة جامعة الأنبار للعلوم الإسلامية
     Knowledge of the science of interpretation, and knowledge of the jurists of Islam who are referred to in this chapter - are among the important matters that scholars should take care of, and clarify for people - because God ...
Asma Saleh Hussein -, Dr. Ahmed Qasim Abdul Rahman -   +1 more
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Knowledge and practices relating to malaria in a semi-urban area of Cameroon: choices and sources of antimalarials, self-treatment and resistance

The Pan African Medical Journal, 2011
BACKGROUND: Malaria is a major public health problem in Sub-Saharan Africa where it kills a child under the age of five every 30 seconds. In Cameroon, malaria accounts for 40-45% of medical consultations, 57% of hospitalization days and 40% of mortality ...
Dickson Shey Nsagha, Anna Longdoh Njunda, Henri Lucien Foumou Kamga, Sarah Mboshi Nsagha, Jules Clement Nguedia Assob, Charles Shey Wiysonge, Earnest Njih Tabah, Alfred Kongnyu Njamnshi   +7 more
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Key Concepts for assessing claims about treatment effects and making well-informed treatment choices [version 2; referees: 3 approved]

F1000Research, 2019
Background: The Informed Health Choices (IHC) Key Concepts are standards for judgement, or principles for evaluating the trustworthiness of treatment claims and treatment comparisons (evidence) used to support claims, and for making treatment choices ...
Andrew David Oxman, Iain Chalmers, Astrid Austvoll-Dahlgren, Informed Health Choices group   +3 more
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Development of the informed health choices resources in four countries to teach primary school children to assess claims about treatment effects: a qualitative study employing a user-centred approach

Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2020
Background People of all ages are flooded with health claims about treatment effects (benefits and harms of treatments). Many of these are not reliable, and many people lack skills to assess their reliability. Primary school is the ideal time to begin to
Allen Nsangi, Daniel Semakula, Sarah E. Rosenbaum, Andrew David Oxman, Matt Oxman, Angela Morelli, Astrid Austvoll-Dahlgren, Margaret Kaseje, Michael Mugisha, Anne-Marie Uwitonze, Claire Glenton, Simon Lewin, Atle Fretheim, Nelson Kaulukusi Sewankambo   +13 more
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Who can you trust? A review of free online sources of “trustworthy” information about treatment effects for patients and the public

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2019
Background Information about effects of treatments based on unsystematic reviews of research evidence may be misleading. However, finding trustworthy information about the effects of treatments based on systematic reviews, which is accessible to patients
Andrew D. Oxman, Elizabeth J. Paulsen
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