Results 21 to 30 of about 19,922,741 (302)
Battling the two-headed dragon of prostate cancer targeted therapy
Neoadjuvant intense androgen deprivation therapy for high-risk localized prostate cancer is an emerging but unproven treatment paradigm that is hoped to delay or prevent disease recurrence.
Scott Wilkinson, Adam G. Sowalsky
doaj +1 more source
Chronic hepatitis B virus (CHB) infection remains a major global public health issue for which there is still lacking effective curative treatment. Interferon-α (IFN-α) and its pegylated form have been approved as an anti-HBV drug with the advantage of ...
Jiayi Wang +5 more
doaj +1 more source
Interviewer effects on non-response propensity in longitudinal surveys: a multilevel modeling approach [PDF]
The paper investigates two different multilevel approaches, the multilevel cross-classified and the multiple-membership models, for the analysis of interviewer effects on wave non-response in longitudinal surveys.
Smith, Peter W.F. +9 more
core +1 more source
Transferring Non-Responsibility
The Direct Argument argues for the claim that determinism and moral responsibility are incompatible. The most controversial assumption of the argument is the thought that "not being responsible for" transfers across conditionals: if no one is (even partially) morally responsible for the fact that p is true, and no one is (even partially) morally ...
Pedro Merlussi +1 more
openaire +3 more sources
On weighting the rates in non‐response weights [PDF]
AbstractA basic estimation strategy in sample surveys is to weight units inversely proportional to the probability of selection and response. Response weights in this method are usually estimated by the inverse of the sample‐weighted response rate in an adjustment cell, that is, the ratio of the sum of the sampling weights of respondents in a cell to ...
Little, Roderick J. A. +1 more
openaire +3 more sources
ObjectiveTo investigate the relationship between physical activity level, leisure sedentary time, and frailty among residents aged 30 – 79 years in Wuzhong district, Suzhou city, Jiangsu province, and to provide a reference for the prevention and control
Xikang FAN +12 more
doaj +1 more source
COMPARATIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF PATIENTS WITH RELAPSE OF CHRONIC HEPATITIS C
Background. The diagnosis of chronic hepatitis C (CHC) is established late, often at the stage of advanced fibrosis and cirrhosis of the liver. In the group at risk of developing severe complications are patients who have not responded to antiviral ...
Chernyak S. A.
doaj +1 more source
The Oslo Health Study: The impact of self-selection in a large, population-based survey
Background Research on health equity which mainly utilises population-based surveys, may be hampered by serious selection bias due to a considerable number of invitees declining to participate. Sufficient information from all the non-responders is rarely
Bjertness Espen +3 more
doaj +1 more source
Exponential Type Estimators Using Sub-Sampling Method with Applications in Agriculture
In this article, the family of exponential type estimators with the auxiliary variable is proposed in the case of non-response scheme for the purpose of obtaining the unknown population mean of the study variable. The nonresponse scheme is examined under
Ceren Ünal, Cem Kadılar
doaj +1 more source
A non-response is the absence of a response, in a post-first sequential environment where a responsive action is relevant. As a social action, a non-response fails to embody or favor the further accomplishment of the first action (see, e.g., Schegloff ...
Rein Ove Sikveland
core +1 more source

