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Comprehensive geriatric assessment for predicting postoperative delirium in oral and maxillofacial surgery: a prospective cohort study

Scientific Reports
Identifying high-risk patients for developing postoperative delirium (POD) is essential for optimizing the medical field’s human and financial resources through specialty-relevant geriatric assessments that can aid in establishing prehabilitation ...
Eman Alhammadi, Julian Max Kuhlmann, Majeed Rana, Helmut Frohnhofen, Henriette Louise Moellmann, Nonauthor Collaborator (Data Collection)   +5 more
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Statistical data preparation: management of missing values and outliers [PDF]

Korean Journal of Anesthesiology, 2017
Missing values and outliers are frequently encountered while collecting data. The presence of missing values reduces the data available to be analyzed, compromising the statistical power of the study, and eventually the reliability of its results.
Sang Kyu Kwak, Jong Hae Kim
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COVID-19 vaccine booster significantly decreases the risk of intensive care unit hospitalization in heart failure patients during the Omicron variant wave: A population-based study

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
BackgroundHeart failure (HF) patients are at higher risk of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The Omicron variant has many novel mutations including those in the spike protein, leading to questions about vaccine effectiveness.
Jiri Parenica, Jiri Parenica, Klara Benesova, Klara Benesova, Martin Radvan, Martin Radvan, Ondrej Sanca, Ondrej Sanca, Jiri Hlasensky, Jiri Hlasensky, Petr Lokaj, Petr Lokaj, Tomas Ondrus, Tomas Ondrus, Katerina Helanova, Katerina Helanova, Petr Kala, Petr Kala, Ladislav Dusek, Ladislav Dusek, Jiri Jarkovsky, Jiri Jarkovsky   +21 more
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Response is increased using postal rather than electronic questionnaires – new results from an updated Cochrane Systematic Review

BMC Medical Research Methodology
Background A decade ago paper questionnaires were more common in epidemiology than those administered online, but increasing Internet access may have changed this. Researchers planning to use a self-administered questionnaire should know whether response
Phil Edwards, Chloe Perkins
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Towards Formalizing HRI Data Collection Processes [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
Within the human-robot interaction (HRI) community, many researchers have focused on the careful design of human-subjects studies. However, other parts of the community, e.g., the technical advances community, also need to do human-subjects studies to collect data to train their models, in ways that require user studies but without a strict ...
arxiv  

Data-collection strategies [PDF]

Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography, 1999
The optimal strategy for collecting X-ray diffraction data from macromolecular crystals is discussed. Two kinds of factors influencing the completeness of data are considered. The first are geometric, arising from the symmetry of the reciprocal lattice and from the experimental setup; they affect quantitatively the completeness of the measured set of ...
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Nationwide Multicenter Survey for Current Status of Endoscopic Thyroidectomy in Korea [PDF]

Clinical and Experimental Otorhinolaryngology, 2015
ObjectivesWe evaluated the current status of endoscopic thyroidectomy procedures in Korea in terms of indications, contraindications, advantages, disadvantages, complications, and limitations of each approach.MethodsAn email survey, consisting of 15 ...
Ki Nam Park, Sang Hyeok Cho, Seung Won Lee   +2 more
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Visual Backtracking Teleoperation: A Data Collection Protocol for Offline Image-Based Reinforcement Learning [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
We consider how to most efficiently leverage teleoperator time to collect data for learning robust image-based value functions and policies for sparse reward robotic tasks. To accomplish this goal, we modify the process of data collection to include more than just successful demonstrations of the desired task.
arxiv  

Cognitive and kidney function: results from a British birth cohort reaching retirement age. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Previous studies have found associations between cognitive function and chronic kidney disease. We aimed to explore possible explanations for this association in the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development, a prospective birth ...
Richard J Silverwood, Marcus Richards, Mary Pierce, Rebecca Hardy, Naveed Sattar, Charles Ferro, Caroline Savage, Diana Kuh, Dorothea Nitsch, NSHD scientific and data collection teams   +9 more
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The Role of Morphological Information in Processing Pseudo-words in Italian L2 Learners: It’s a Matter of Experience

Journal of Cognition
The productive use of morphological information is considered one of the possible ways in which speakers of a language understand and learn unknown words.
Simona Amenta, Francesca Foppolo, Linda Badan   +2 more
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