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Designs of trials assessing interventions to improve the peer review process: a vignette-based survey

open access: yesBMC Medicine, 2018
Background We aimed to determine the best study designs for assessing interventions to improve the peer review process according to experts’ opinions. Furthermore, for interventions previously evaluated, we determined whether the study designs actually ...
Amytis Heim   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Methods, tools, and techniques in toxicovigilance [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2021
Toxicovigilance is the active process of identifying and evaluating the toxic risks existing in a community, and evaluating the measures taken to reduce or eliminate them.
El Bourichi Rajaa   +4 more
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Formalism and method [PDF]

open access: yesTheoretical Computer Science, 1997
AbstractWe argue that the impact of formalisms would much benefit from adopting the habit of systematically and carefully relating formalisms to methods and to the engineering context, at various levels of granularity. Consequently, we oppose the attitude of conflating formalism and method, with the inevitable consequence of emphasizing the formalism ...
ASTESIANO, EGIDIO, REGGIO, GIANNA
openaire   +4 more sources

Research design: qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches

open access: yes, 2003
Nova edicao do conhecido livro sobre metodologia de pesquisa de Creswell. Originalmente pensado no campo da Educacao, o autor ficou muito conhecido tambem em Administracao.
Miguel P Caldas
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic and recent developments on the communication of clinical trials, publishing practices, and research integrity: in conversation with Dr. David Moher

open access: yesTrials, 2022
Background The torrent of research during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has exposed the persistent challenges with reporting trials, open science practices, and scholarship in academia.
Daeria O. Lawson   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Approaches to interpreting and choosing the best treatments in network meta-analyses

open access: yesSystematic Reviews, 2017
When randomized trials have addressed multiple interventions for the same health problem, network meta-analyses (NMAs) permit researchers to statistically pool data from individual studies including evidence from both direct and indirect comparisons ...
L. Mbuagbaw   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Survey of Methods for Explaining Black Box Models [PDF]

open access: yesACM Computing Surveys, 2018
In recent years, many accurate decision support systems have been constructed as black boxes, that is as systems that hide their internal logic to the user. This lack of explanation constitutes both a practical and an ethical issue.
Riccardo Guidotti   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The future is in childhood: Evaluation of the quality of sustainability programmes in the early years

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2016
During the last decade Environmental Education (EE) programs have drawn attraction from both experts and educators as a way to answer the increasing preoccupation about the different challenges and problems faced by the Environment. For this reason, many
López-Alcarria Abigail   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Method pluralism, method mismatch, & method bias

open access: yesPhilosopher's Imprint, 2019
Pluralism about scientific method is more-or-less accepted, but the consequences have yet to be drawn out. Scientists adopt different methods in response to different epistemic situations: depending on the system they are interested in, the resources at their disposal, and so forth.
Currie, AM, Avin, S
openaire   +3 more sources

Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance

open access: yes, 2013
Collinearity refers to the non independence of predictor variables, usually in a regression-type analysis. It is a common feature of any descriptive ecological data set and can be a problem for parameter estimation because it inflates the variance of ...
C. Dormann   +17 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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