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A pragmatic evaluation of a public health knowledge broker mentoring education program: a convergent mixed methods study

open access: yesImplementation Science Communications, 2022
Background Public health professionals are expected to use the best available research and contextual evidence to inform decision-making. The National Collaborating Centre for Methods and Tools developed, implemented, and evaluated a Knowledge Broker ...
Emily C Clark   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Backcalculation of Finite-Element Modeling Based on Field Measurements Results of Excavation in Steel Sheet Pile Walls

open access: yesAdvances in Civil Engineering, 2023
The study presents a development of a nonlinear finite element calculation technique for the prediction of the stability of the multistaged deep excavation in submerged multilayered soft soil retained by steel sheet pile walls structures performed from ...
Zoa Ambassa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Method Pluralism, Method Mismatch & Method Bias

open access: yes, 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   +2 more sources

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

Boosting ridge for the extreme learning machine globally optimised for classification and regression problems

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
This paper explores the boosting ridge (BR) framework in the extreme learning machine (ELM) community and presents a novel model that trains the base learners as a global ensemble.
Carlos Peralez-González   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Parameter Estimation of KST-IRT Model under Local Dependence

open access: yesPsych, 2023
A mantra often repeated in the introductory material to psychometrics and Item Response Theory (IRT) is that a Rasch model is a probabilistic version of a Guttman scale. The idea comes from the observation that a sigmoidal item response function provides
Sangbeak Ye   +2 more
doaj   +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

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

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

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