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Evaluation of WGS-subtyping methods for epidemiological surveillance of foodborne salmonellosis [PDF]

, 2020
Background: Salmonellosis is one of the most common foodborne diseases worldwide. Although human infection by non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) enterica subspecies enterica is associated primarily with a self-limiting diarrhoeal illness, invasive bacterial ...
Mohammed, M., Mohammed, M., Thapa, S., Thapa, S.   +3 more
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Density of abortion facilities in the four largest US cities [PDF]

, 2016
Population Research ...
The University of Texas at Austin, Texas Policy Evaluation Project
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An evaluation of course evaluations [PDF]

ScienceOpen Research, 2014
Abstract Student ratings of teaching have been used, studied, and debated for almost a century. This article examines student ratings of teaching from a statistical perspective. The common practice of relying on averages of student teaching evaluation scores as the primary measure of teaching effectiveness for promotion and tenure decisions should be ...
Richard Freishtat, Philip B. Stark
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Developing South Africa’s national evaluation policy and system: First lessons learned

African Evaluation Journal, 2015
This article describes the development of the national evaluation system in South Africa, which has been implemented since 2012, led by the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME, previously the Department of Performance Monitoring and ...
Ian Goldman, Jabulani E. Mathe, Christel Jacob, Antonio Hercules, Matodzi Amisi, Thabani Buthelezi, Hersheela Narsee, Stanley Ntakumba, Mastoera Sadan   +8 more
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Process evaluation of complex interventions: Medical Research Council guidance

British medical journal, 2015
Process evaluation is an essential part of designing and testing complex interventions.
G. Moore, S. Audrey, M. Barker, L. Bond, C. Bonell, W. Hardeman, L. Moore, A. O’Cathain, T. Tinati, D. Wight, J. Baird   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bleu: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation

Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2002
Human evaluations of machine translation are extensive but expensive. Human evaluations can take months to finish and involve human labor that can not be reused.
K. Papineni, Salim Roukos, T. Ward, Wei-Jing Zhu   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Characteristics and outcome of COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICU: a nationwide cohort study on the comparison between the first and the consecutive upsurges of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands

Annals of Intensive Care, 2022
Background To assess trends in the quality of care for COVID-19 patients at the ICU over the course of time in the Netherlands. Methods Data from the National Intensive Care Evaluation (NICE)-registry of all COVID-19 patients admitted to an ICU in the ...
Dave A. Dongelmans, Fabian Termorshuizen, Sylvia Brinkman, Ferishta Bakhshi-Raiez, M. Sesmu Arbous, Dylan W. de Lange, Bas C. T. van Bussel, Nicolette F. de Keizer, the Dutch COVID-19 Research Consortium   +8 more
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Socio-temporal contextual and community factors associated with daily exclusive ENDS use and dual use with tobacco cigarettes among adolescent vapers: an ecological momentary assessment study

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Adolescents who dual use ENDS with tobacco cigarettes are more likely to have an increased risk of developing dependence. Yet, little is understood about the factors driving dual use among adolescents.
Melissa H. Abadi, Stephen R. Shamblen, Kirsten Thompson, Sharon Lipperman-Kreda, Joel Grube, Bonnie O. Richard, Camila Aramburu   +6 more
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Evaluation of the Efficacy and Safety of Initial Empirical Antibiotic Therapy for Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Middle-Aged People

Безопасность и риск фармакотерапии, 2022
β-lactam antibiotics, including cephalosporins, are the drugs of choice for empirical antibiotic therapy (ABT) in patients with community-acquired pneumonia.
T. V. Alexandrova, O. V. Muslimova, M. V. Zhuravleva, A. A. Alexandrov, G. I. Gorodetskaya, E. Yu. Demchenkova, O. A. Demidova, E. A. Sokova, I. A. Mazerkina, Yu. А. Smirnova   +9 more
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Evaluating Students' Evaluations of Professors [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
Abstract This paper contrasts measures of teacher effectiveness with the students’ evaluations for the same teachers using administrative data from Bocconi University. The effectiveness measures are estimated by comparing the performance in follow-on coursework of students who are randomly assigned to teachers.
Marco Paccagnella, Michele Pellizzari, Michele Pellizzari, Michele Pellizzari, Michela Braga   +4 more
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