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RCTs: ‘Gold Standard’ for Medical Research Targets Improved Outcomes [PDF]
For decades, prospective randomized clinical trials (RCTs) have been the “gold standard” for medical research. These studies randomly assign patients to one of two groups: half receive the standard treatment, and half undergo the experimental approach ...
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TermEval: an automatic metric for evaluating terminology translation in MT [PDF]
Terminology translation plays a crucial role in domain-specific machine translation (MT). Preservation of domain-knowledge from source to target is arguably the most concerning factor for the customers in translation industry, especially for critical ...
Haque, Rejwanul +2 more
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Shifting the genomic gold standard for the prokaryotic species definition
Michael Richter, R. Rosselló-Móra
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C-structures and f-structures for the British national corpus [PDF]
We describe how the British National Corpus (BNC), a one hundred million word balanced corpus of British English, was parsed into Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) c-structures and f-structures, using a treebank-based parsing architecture.
Foster, Jennifer +3 more
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The Rise and Fall of World Trade, 1870-1939 [PDF]
Measured by the ratio of trade to output, the period 1870 1913 marked the birth of the first era of trade globalization and the period 1914 39 its death. What caused the boom and bust?
Alan M. Taylor +2 more
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Gold, fiat money and price stability [PDF]
The classical gold standard has long been associated with long-run price stability. But short-run price variability led critics of the gold standard to propose reforms that look much like modern versions of price-path targeting. This paper uses a dynamic
Michael D. Bordo +2 more
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nonbinROC: Software for Evaluating Diagnostic Accuracies with Non-Binary Gold Standards
ROC analysis is a standard method for estimating and comparing diagnostic tests' accuracies when the gold standard is binary. However, there are many situations when the gold standard is not binary.
Paul Nguyen
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Credibility of USD Dominance in an Era of Uncertainty
The United States dollar (USD) has long served as the cornerstone of the global reserve currency system, maintaining its dominance for several decades. Nevertheless, this preeminence is increasingly challenged by a landscape characterized by geopolitical
Mirza Khidasheli
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The Suspension of the Gold Standard as Sustainable Monetary Policy [PDF]
This paper models the gold standard as a state contingent commitment technology that is only feasible during peace. Monetary policy during war, when the gold convertibility rule suspended, can still be credible, if the policy maker’s plan is to resume ...
Elisa Newby
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Was the Emergence of the International Gold Standard Expected? Melodramatic Evidence from Indian Government Securities [PDF]
The emergence of the gold standard has for a long time been viewed as inevitable. Fluctuations of the gold-silver exchange rate in world markets were accused to lead to brutal and unsustainable switches of bimetallic countries’ money supplies.
Marc Flandreau, Kim Oosterlinck
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