Finding a needle in a haystack: toward a psychologically informed method for aviation security screening [PDF]
Current aviation security systems identify behavioral indicators of deception to assess risks to flights, but they lack a strong psychological basis or empirical validation. We present a new method that tests the veracity of passenger accounts.
Dando, C.J. +3 more
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Optimized Method of Unilateral Spinal Anesthesia: A Double-blind, Randomized Clinical Study
Background: Unilateral spinal anesthesia is often accompanied by technical difficulties in implementation, multiple puncture attempts, unsuccessful punctures, and, as a result, insufficient anesthesia, along with various complications associated with a dural puncture.
Yernar Dauletovich Mamyrov +4 more
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Benefits of Endogenous Spatial Attention During Visual Double-Training in Cortically-Blinded Fields
Recovery of visual discrimination thresholds inside cortically-blinded (CB) fields is most commonly attained at a single, trained location at a time, with iterative progress deeper into the blind field as performance improves over several months. As such,
Matthew R. Cavanaugh +5 more
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What can become the basis for the decision making when prescribing a medicine, choosing one instead of another? Words and their combinations ‘randomised controlled study’, ‘double blind’, ‘meta-analysis’, ‘relevant difference’ have a kind of hypnotic ...
Yuliya A. Petrovskaya +2 more
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Analytic solution for double optical metasurface beam scanners
Optical metasurfaces are researched more and more intensively for the possible realization of lightweight and compact optical devices with novel functionalities. In this paper, a new beam-steering system based on double metasurface lenses (metalenses) is
Jingru Wang +4 more
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Effectiveness and Safety of Heparinized Saline versus Normal Saline in Maintaining Patency of Peripheral Intravenous Locks in Neonates at a Tertiary Care Hospital [PDF]
Introduction: Heparinized saline is usually used as a regular flush solution to prevent occlusion of peripheral intravenous locks in neonates but the risks associated with the use of heparin cannot be ignored in these patients.
Treasa Mathews +7 more
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Purified and specific cytoplasmic pollen extract: a non-hormonal alternative for the treatment of menopausal symptoms. [PDF]
Research into non-hormonal, alternative therapies is necessary for women for whom menopausal hormone therapy is contraindicated or for women who do not wish to take hormones.
Biglia, Nicoletta +14 more
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Blinded assessment of treatment effects utilizing information about the randomization block length [PDF]
It is essential for the integrity of double-blind clinical trials that during the study course the individual treatment allocations of the patients as well as the treatment effect remain unknown to any involved person.
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Herbal therapy for treating rheumatoid arthritis (review) [PDF]
Background Herbal medicine interventions have been identified as having potential benefit in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Objectives To update an existing systematic (Cochrane) review of herbal therapies in RA. Search methods
Cameron, Melainie +2 more
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Leonardo Kapural,1 Nemath Syed Shah,2 Zi-Ping Fang,2 Nagy Mekhail3 1Carolinas Pain Institute, Winston-Salem, NC, USA; 2Neuros Medical, Inc., Willoughby Hills, OH, USA; 3Evidence-Based Pain Management Research, Department of Pain Management, Cleveland ...
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