"It's a can of worms": understanding primary care practitioners' behaviours in relation to HPV using the Theoretical Domains Framework [PDF]
, 2012 Background: The relationship between infection with high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer is transforming cervical cancer prevention. HPV tests and vaccinations have recently become available.
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Do as I Do, Not as I Say: Do Contribution Guidelines Match the GitHub Contribution Process? [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Developer contribution guidelines are used in social coding sites like GitHub to explain and shape the process a project expects contributors to follow. They set standards for all participants and "save time and hassle caused by improperly created pull requests or issues that have to be rejected and resubmitted" (GitHub).
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Guidelines for the Search Strategy to Update Systematic Literature Reviews in Software Engineering [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Context: Systematic Literature Reviews (SLRs) have been adopted within Software Engineering (SE) for more than a decade to provide meaningful summaries of evidence on several topics. Many of these SLRs are now potentially not fully up-to-date, and there are no standard proposals on how to update SLRs in SE.
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Using System Dynamics Models to Understand and Improve Application Landscape Design [PDF]
, 2015 Application landscape design has become a key challenge for enterprises. For further exploration of related enterprise architecture benefits establishing shared mental models among all application landscape designers is required, i.e.
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Unveiling Exception Handling Guidelines Adopted by Java Developers [PDF]
arXiv, 2019 Despite being an old language feature, Java exception handling code is one of the least understood parts of many systems. Several studies have analyzed the characteristics of exception handling code, trying to identify common practices or even link such practices to software bugs. Few works, however, have investigated exception handling issues from the
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Addressing the evidence to practice gap for complex interventions in primary care : a systematic review of reviews protocol [PDF]
, 2014 Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions.Peer reviewedPublisher ...
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Low-rank data modeling via the Minimum Description Length principle [PDF]
arXiv, 2011 Robust low-rank matrix estimation is a topic of increasing interest, with promising applications in a variety of fields, from computer vision to data mining and recommender systems. Recent theoretical results establish the ability of such data models to recover the true underlying low-rank matrix when a large portion of the measured matrix is either ...
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The future of European Nephrology 'Guidelines' - a declaration of intent by European Renal Best Practice (ERBP) [PDF]
, 2009 The disparities of medical practice, together with a growing number of possible interventions, have increased the demand for well-conceived guidance for practitioners [1].
Abramowicz, Daniel +20 more
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Topic Stability over Noisy Sources [PDF]
arXiv, 2015 Topic modelling techniques such as LDA have recently been applied to speech transcripts and OCR output. These corpora may contain noisy or erroneous texts which may undermine topic stability. Therefore, it is important to know how well a topic modelling algorithm will perform when applied to noisy data.
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Undergraduate medical textbooks do not provide adequate information on intravenous fluid therapy: a systematic survey and suggestions for improvement [PDF]
, 2014 <b>Background</b><p></p> Inappropriate prescribing of intravenous (IV) fluid, particularly 0.9% sodium chloride, causes post-operative complications.
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