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Characteristics, quality and volume of the first 5 months of the COVID-19 evidence synthesis infodemic: a meta-research study

BMJ evidence-based medicine, 2021
Objective The academic and scientific community has reacted at pace to gather evidence to help and inform about COVID-19. Concerns have been raised about the quality of this evidence.
R. Abbott, A. Bethel, Morwenna Rogers, R. Whear, Noreen Orr, Liz Shaw, K. Stein, J. Thompson Coon   +7 more
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DP-Parse: Finding Word Boundaries from Raw Speech with an Instance Lexicon

Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022
Finding word boundaries in continuous speech is challenging as there is little or no equivalent of a ‘space’ delimiter between words. Popular Bayesian non-parametric models for text segmentation (Goldwater et al., 2006, 2009) use a Dirichlet process to ...
Robin Algayres, Tristan Ricoul, Julien Karadayi, Hugo Laurençon, Salah Zaiem, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Benoît Sagot, Emmanuel Dupoux   +7 more
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Meta-research evaluating redundancy and use of systematic reviews when planning new studies in health research: a scoping review

Systematic Reviews, 2022
Background Several studies have documented the production of wasteful research, defined as research of no scientific importance and/or not meeting societal needs.
H. Lund, K. Robinson, A. Gjerland, Hanna Nykvist, T. Drachen, R. Christensen, C. Juhl, G. Jamtvedt, Monica Nortvedt, M. Bjerrum, Matthew Westmore, J. Yost, K. Brunnhuber   +12 more
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Deep language algorithms predict semantic comprehension from brain activity

Scientific Reports, 2022
Deep language algorithms, like GPT-2, have demonstrated remarkable abilities to process text, and now constitute the backbone of automatic translation, summarization and dialogue.
Charlotte Caucheteux, Alexandre Gramfort, Jean-Rémi King   +2 more
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COVID-19-related medical research: a meta-research and critical appraisal

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2021
Background Since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, a large number of COVID-19-related papers have been published. However, concerns about the risk of expedited science have been raised.
M. Raynaud, Huanxi Zhang, Kevin Louis, Valentin Goutaudier, Jiali Wang, Quentin Dubourg, Yongcheng Wei, Z. Demir, Charlotte Debiais, O. Aubert, Y. Bouatou, C. Lefaucheur, P. Jabre, Longshan Liu, Changxi Wang, X. Jouven, P. Reese, J. Empana, A. Loupy   +18 more
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The challenge of conducting qualitative research to understand the factors that influence equity in medical education: A scoping review [PDF]

, 2020
Introduction There are national and international concerns about equity in basic and postgraduate medical education, especially about differential rates of access and attainment across groups of learners.
BROWN, JEREMY, Dogra, Nisha, DUCKWORTH, VICKY, GARNER, JAYNE, KAEHNE, AXEL, MADEN, MICHELLE, NWOLISE, CHIDIEBERE, Patel, Mumtaz, SANDARS, JOHN, WATMOUGH, SIMON   +9 more
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Treatment effects in randomised trials using routinely collected data for outcome assessment versus traditional trials: meta-research study

British medical journal, 2021
Objective To compare effect estimates of randomised clinical trials that use routinely collected data (RCD-RCT) for outcome ascertainment with traditional trials not using routinely collected data. Design Meta-research study. Data source Studies included
K. M. Mc Cord, Hannah Ewald, A. Agarwal, Dominik Glinz, S. Aghlmandi, J. Ioannidis, L. Hemkens   +6 more
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Efficacy, safety and methodological quality of light therapy and sleep improvement interventions for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

European Psychiatry, 2023
Introduction Large proportion of patients with ADHD experience sleep problems. Well conducted, good quality clinical research could identify non-pharmacological sleep improvement interventions that would benefit patients with ADHD and would inform ...
D. M. Skrzypiec, B. Helfer
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Systematic reviews are rarely used to contextualise new results—a systematic review and meta-analysis of meta-research studies

Systematic Reviews, 2022
Background Results of new studies should be interpreted in the context of what is already known to compare results and build the state of the science. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to identify and synthesise results from meta-research ...
E. Draborg, J. Andreasen, B. Nørgaard, C. Juhl, J. Yost, K. Brunnhuber, K. Robinson, H. Lund   +7 more
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Essential guidelines for computational method benchmarking [PDF]

, 2019
In computational biology and other sciences, researchers are frequently faced with a choice between several computational methods for performing data analyses. Benchmarking studies aim to rigorously compare the performance of different methods using well-
Boulesteix, Anne-Laure, Cannoodt, Robrecht, Gardner, Paul P., Hapfelmeier, Alexander, Robinson, Mark D., Saelens, Wouter, Saeys, Yvan, Soneson, Charlotte, Weber, Lukas M.   +8 more
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