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Adherence to Protocol Recommendations for Children With Wilms Tumour in Two Consecutive Studies in the United Kingdom and Ireland—Does Variation Matter?

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Wilms tumour (WT) has excellent event‐free and overall survival (OS). However, small differences exist between countries participating in the same international study. This led us to examine variation in adherence to protocol recommendations as a potential contributing factor.
Suzanne Tugnait   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ranked Tiling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Tiling is a well-known pattern mining technique. Traditionally, it discovers large areas of ones in binary databases or matrices, where an area is defined by a set of rows and a set of columns. In this paper, we introduce the novel problem of ranked tiling, which is concerned with finding interesting areas in ranked data. In this data, each transaction
Le Van, Thanh   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Method or Madness? Inside the \u3ci\u3eUSNWR\u3c/i\u3e College Rankings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
[Excerpt] U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) shook up the college guide industry when it began publishing its annual rankings of colleges in 1983. The summary of its annual rankings of colleges as undergraduate institutions that appear in a fall issue each
Ehrenberg, Ronald G
core   +1 more source

The Fate (Outcome) of Clinically Apparent Single Lesion and Oligofocal Nephroblastomatosis Treated According to SIOP/GPOH Protocols for Wilms Tumor

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The management of clinically apparent single lesions or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis, a facultative precursor of nephroblastoma, remains debated. Methods We retrospectively analyzed 37 patients with clinically apparent single or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis (two to three lesions per kidney) among 2347 patients registered between
Nils Welter   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ranking economics departments in terms of residual productivity: New Zealand economics departments, 2000‐2006 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper considers a new approach for ranking the research productivity of academic departments. Our approach provides rankings in terms of residual research output after controlling for the key characteristics of each department’s academic staff. More
Anderson, David L., Tressler, John
core   +1 more source

Feasibility and Safety of High‐Dose Proton Re‐Irradiation in Recurrent Pediatric Central Nervous System Tumors: A Single‐Institution Retrospective Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors often recur despite multimodality therapy. Although re‐irradiation (re‐RT) has historically been limited by concerns for severe late toxicities, modern techniques have renewed interest in this approach. Proton therapy provides dosimetric advantages that may enable curative re‐treatment with
Jin‐Ho Song   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy of Integrative Neuromuscular Training for Childhood Cancer Survivors: A Pilot Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) often exhibit early deficits in muscle and movement competence, which can compromise long‐term health. Integrative neuromuscular training (INT), a multifaceted approach combining fundamental movement activities with strength exercises, may help address these deficits during ...
Anna Maria Markarian   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

UNIVERSITY RANKINGS AND BRAND AS TOOLS OF POLICY IMPLEMENTATION OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Public Administration, 2016
Article is devoted to the analysis of the factors and causes that have a influence on the decision making process of choosing a higher education institution and assessing the impact of the role of universities ranking positions in the general rankings ...
Irina N Efimova, Artem V Makoveychuk
doaj   +1 more source

WHO's Fooling Who? The World Health Organization's Problematic Ranking of Health Care Systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The World Health Report 2000, prepared by the World Health Organization, presented performance rankings of 191 nations' health care systems. These rankings have been widely cited in public debates about health care, particularly by those interested in ...
Glen Whitman
core  

Efficacy and Safety Analysis of Roxarestat in Regulating Renal Anemia in Patients on Maintenance Hemodialysis

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To compare the efficacy and safety of roxarestat versus recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) in the management of renal anemia in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis. Methods This was a prospective, open‐label, randomized controlled trial.
Lingling Chen, Junjie Zhu, Qiaonan Ge
wiley   +1 more source

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