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BMJ OpenIntroduction Pilot or feasibility trials examine the feasibility, viability and recruitment potential of larger, main trials. Specifically, a pilot trial can be instrumental in identifying methodological issues essential to the development of an ...
Lehana Thabane +4 more
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Preventative tele-health supported services for early stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a protocol for a pragmatic randomized controlled trial pilot [PDF]
, 2011 Background Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a prevalent debilitating long term condition. It is the second most common cause of emergency admission to hospital in the UK and remains one of the most costly conditions to treat through ...
D Altman +7 more
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Chemotherapies such as doxorubicin can have toxic effects on healthy cardiovascular/heart tissue. Following up on a doxorubicin toxicity study in mice without tumors where nitrate water was cardioprotective (lessened toxicity), this study with tumor‐bearing mice undergoing doxorubicin treatment showed no negative effect of nitrate and nitrite on drug ...
Rama D. Yammani +7 more
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Using EEG and NIRS for brain-computer interface and cognitive performance measures: a pilot study [PDF]
, 2013 This study addresses two important problem statements, namely, selection of training datasets for online Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) classifier training and determination of participant concentration levels during an experiment.
Gupta, Cota Navin +1 more
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Magnetotherapy in hand osteoarthritis: A pilot trial
Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 2013 To evaluate the effectiveness of magnetotherapy in the treatment of hand osteoarthritis (HO).In this randomized controlled single-blind follow-up study, patients with HO were randomly assigned into 2 groups (G1 and G2). The subjects in G1 (n=25) received 25Hz, 450 pulse/s, 5-80G, magnetotherapy of totally 10 days and 20 min/day combined with active ...
ALP, ALEV +2 more
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BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2013 BackgroundThere is little published guidance as to the sample size required for a pilot or feasibility trial despite the fact that a sample size justification is a key element in the design of a trial.
Sophie Billingham +2 more
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FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.This study addressed how a senior research thesis is perceived by undergraduate students. It assessed students' perception of research skills, epistemological beliefs, and career goals in Biochemistry (science) and BDC (science‐business) students. Completing a thesis improved confidence in research skills, resilience, scientific identity, closed gender‐
Celeste Suart +4 more
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Guidelines for reporting non-randomised pilot and feasibility studies
Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2019 As the number of submissions to Pilot and Feasibility Studies increases, there is a need for good quality reporting guidelines to help researchers tailor their reports in a way that is consistent and helpful to other readers.
Gillian A. Lancaster, Lehana Thabane
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Evaluative priming in the pronunciation task a preregistered replication and extension [PDF]
, 2016 We replicated and extended a study by Spruyt and Hermans (2008) in which picture primes engendered an evaluative-priming effect on the pronunciation of target words.
Becker, M, Klauer, KC, Spruyt, Adriaan
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Pilot Scale Trials for Higher Exhausting Chromium Tanning
The International Conference on Advanced Materials and Systems, 2018 Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)Turkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu (TUBITAK) [3140017]
Ozgunay, Hasan +6 more
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