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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction This final analysis of a multicenter, prospective postmarketing surveillance study evaluated the safety of daprodustat in patients with chronic kidney disease anemia in routine clinical practice in Japan. Methods Patients who initiated daprodustat between September 2020 and July 2022 were registered.
Tadao Akizawa +7 more
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Item Response Modeling of Forced-Choice Questionnaires [PDF]
, 2011 Multidimensional forced-choice formats can significantly reduce the impact of numerous response biases typically associated with rating scales. However, if scored with classical methodology, these questionnaires produce ipsative data, which lead to ...
Alberto Maydeu-Olivares +3 more
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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Japan has one of the highest dialysis prevalence rates worldwide and a shrinking, aging population. Whether dialysis burden has entered a sustained post‐peak phase or whether recent declines partly reflect pandemic‐related disruptions remains uncertain.
Hatice Şahin +2 more
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Education SciencesStudent dropout remains a persistent challenge for higher education systems, with consequences for student trajectories, institutional efficiency, and equity.
Christina Modiati +2 more
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Graded response modeling of the Quality of Life Interview
Evaluation and Program Planning, 1999 Abstract A graded response model [ Samejima, 1969 . Psychometrika Monograph Supplement, 17; Samejima, 1972 . Psychometrika Monograph Supplement, 18; Samejima, 1997 . Handbook of Modern Item Reponse Theory (pp. 85-100). New York: Springer Verlag] was outlined and applied to an aggregated data set (n=1805) from four studies involving the subjective ...
Thomas Uttaro, Anthony Lehman
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Organoids in pediatric cancer research
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Organoid technology has revolutionized cancer research, yet its application in pediatric oncology remains limited. Recent advances have enabled the development of pediatric tumor organoids, offering new insights into disease biology, treatment response, and interactions with the tumor microenvironment.
Carla Ríos Arceo, Jarno Drost
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Behavioral SciencesShort ordinal self-report scales are widely used to study children’s digital lives, yet their measurement properties can distort conclusions about nonlinear relationships.
Georgios Sideridis, Mohammed Alghamdi
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
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ltm: An R Package for Latent Variable Modeling and Item Response Analysis
Journal of Statistical Software, 2006 The R package ltm has been developed for the analysis of multivariate dichotomous and polytomous data using latent variable models, under the Item Response Theory approach.
Dimitris Rizopoulos
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Journal of Low Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active ControlIn this paper, a semi-analytic method based on Jacobi-Ritz modified boundary element is proposed to solve the acoustic radiation response of functionally graded cylindrical shell.
Jiajun Zheng +5 more
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