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Short‐Term Outcomes of Robot‐Assisted Versus Laparoscopic Colectomy for Colon Cancer: A Propensity Score‐Matched Analysis

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
This study compared short‐term outcomes of robot‐assisted versus laparoscopic colectomy for colon cancer using 1:1 propensity score matching. Among 218 matched pairs, robot‐assisted colectomy was associated with reduced blood loss, fewer conversions to open surgery, lower overall complication rates, and shorter hospital stays, despite longer operative ...
Akira Inoue   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Use of Stimulus Fading and Functional Assessment to Treat Pill Refusal With an 8-Year-Old Boy Diagnosed With ADHD

open access: yes, 2008
Pharmacological treatments improve functioning for many of the core problems characteristic of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Pharmacological treatment is also useful when delivered in combination with behavior management procedures ...
Reitman, David, Passeri, Celine
core   +1 more source

The Survival of the Gift: An Enchanted Interpretation of Early Quakerism

open access: yesReligions, 2018
Since Max Weber’s ground-breaking study, The Protestant Ethic, and the Spirit of Capitalism, it has become something of a scholarly trope to treat the rise of secular modernity and the formation of Quakerism as going readily together.
Benjamin J. Wood
doaj   +1 more source

Potential Survival Benefit of Neoadjuvant Docetaxel, Cisplatin and 5‐Fluorouracil Therapy in Patients With Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma With Multiple Lymph Node Metastases: A Single‐Institute Propensity Score Analysis

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
Although neoadjuvant chemotherapy with fluorouracil, cisplatin, and docetaxel (NAC‐DCF) is the current standard neoadjuvant regimen for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, its substantial toxicity underscores the need to identify patients who derive the greatest benefit.
Eiji Higaki   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Female Effigies and Performances of Desire: A Consideration of Identity Performance in Lars and the Real Girl.

open access: yesForum, 2008
The female sex doll allows for the projection of uninhibited sexual fantasy and is animated through that fantasy in the mind of her partner. In this way, she can be seen to function as a performative effigy of desire, maintaining heteronormative male ...
Kate E. O’Neill
doaj   +3 more sources

Innovative Artificial Intelligence‐Assisted Systems for Social Science Research: Architecture Design and Applied Practice

open access: yesAI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid advancement of large language model (LLM) technology is profoundly transforming the practice of social science research. Scholarly discussions on Artificial Intelligence (AI)'s role in social science research can be organised into three levels: AI as a research tool, AI as a methodological infrastructure and AI as a quasi‐cognitive ...
Jie Xiong
wiley   +1 more source

Young children's perspectives of time: New directions for co‐constructing understandings of quality in ECEC

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Children's relationship with time in preschools is an under‐researched area. Young children rarely know how to measure time using a clock, but their experiences of time may contribute to understanding children's well‐being and debates about quality in preschools.
Kristín Dýrfjörð   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Announced refusal to answer: a study of norms and accountability in broadcast political interviews

open access: yes, 2009
This article investigates the announced refusal to answer asa form of dispreferred and challenging response in broadcastpolitical interviews. The aim is to study how the rightnessand wrongness of conduct is dealt with in situations of announcedrefusal ...
Mats Ekström, Ekström, Mats,
core   +1 more source

Psychosocial Interventions for School Refusal with Primary and Secondary School Students: A Systematic Review

open access: yesCampbell Systematic Reviews, 2015
This Campbell systematic review assesses the effects of psychosocial interventions for school refusal. The review summarizes the findings from eight studies.
Brandy R. Maynard   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Giving and receiving help in three contexts as predictors of alcohol outcomes in a longitudinal study of sober living house residents

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Although peer support is central to the social model approach emphasized in sober living houses (SLHs), no longitudinal studies have examined helping among SLH residents. This longitudinal study examined benefits of helping in three contexts among SLH residents. Data were from 205 participants entering 28 SLHs across 2021–2023. Interviews were
Sarah E. Zemore   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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