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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Although it is an adaptive mechanism that danger usually elicits fear, it seems that fearful individuals overestimate the danger associated with their feared objects or situations.
Kristina M. Hengen, Georg W. Alpers
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Evaluating the efficacy of yes-no checklist tests to assess knowledge of multi-word lexical units
Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2018 One of the many challenges facing Japanese university students studying English is the multi-word phrase. The English language contains a large number of such multiple-word items, which act as single words with a single meaning.
Raymond Stubbe, Yumiko Cochrane
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Remote SensingEntrainment at the top of the planetary boundary layer (PBL) is of significant importance because it controls the upward growth of the PBL height. An option called ysu_topdown_pblmix, which provides a parameterization of fog-top entrainment, has been ...
Li Zhang, Hao Shi, Shanhong Gao, Shun Li
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Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2002 There is only one set of estimates of the prevalence of chronic undernutrition world-wide. These estimates emanate from the FAO and are claimed to be comparable across countries. In this paper it is demonstrated that the FAO has used an estimation model (and data) that induce bias in the estimated overall prevalence of undernutrition. The bias is found
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Remote SensingThe assessment of satellite-derived solar radiation products has been performed over several parts of the world by various authors. The case of Central Africa has so far hardly been addressed. This study takes a step forward by evaluating the performance
Delphin Aymar Ngah Onana +3 more
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Overestimating patients' capacity [PDF]
British Journal of Psychiatry, 2011 SummaryClinicians regularly overestimate patients' capacity to make decisions. This may jeopardise their autonomous decision-making. It may lead to poor clinical outcomes for patients and has potential adverse legal consequences for clinicians. There is a need to use the legal principles of the Mental Capacity Act more rigorously.
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Atención Primaria, 2022 Resumen: Objetivo: Conocer las expectativas que expresan los profesionales sanitarios sobre el beneficio de varias intervenciones de prevención primaria, basadas en estudios de validez moderada-alta, que se realizan de forma habitual en las consultas de
Mónica Rejas Bueno +2 more
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Overestimating the Effects of Healthy Aging [PDF]
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2015 Typical cognitive aging is often defined as aging free of dementia, and yet it does not seem to exclude dementia-related pathology. The most common type of dementia is Alzheimer’s disease (AD) – it is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects multiple cognitive domains, including memory, attention, reasoning, judgment, language, as well as ...
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The number of patients and events required to limit the risk of overestimation of intervention effects in meta-analysis--a simulation study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 BackgroundMeta-analyses including a limited number of patients and events are prone to yield overestimated intervention effect estimates. While many assume bias is the cause of overestimation, theoretical considerations suggest that random error may be ...
Kristian Thorlund +8 more
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Behavioral SciencesCognitive biases have been proved to have a systematic influence on decision-making at both individual and social levels. This study investigated two forms of overconfidence—specifically, overestimation and overplacement—among young individuals ...
Duygu Güner Gültekin +1 more
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