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FAITH, BELIEF, AND THE COMPATIBILITY OF RELIGION AND SCIENCE

Zygon, 2017
Recent attacks on the compatibility of science and religion by the “militant modern atheists” (Jerry Coyne, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens) have posed serious challenges for anyone who supports the human importance of ...
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The quality of surgical versus non-surgical randomized controlled trials

Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 2017
Background: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of surgical interventions are often more difficult to conduct, and their quality may lag behind other trials.
Sam Adie, Ian A. Harris, Justine M. Naylor, Rajat Mittal   +3 more
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Are we hallucinating or can psychedelic drugs modulate the immune system to control inflammation?

British Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Psychedelic drugs that activate 5‐HT2A receptors have been long used for cultural, medicinal and recreational purposes. Interest in psychedelics for treating psychiatric disorders has resurged recently and is well documented; less well recognised are their anti‐inflammatory properties. Growing evidence now demonstrates that psychedelics modulate immune
Omar Qureshi, Jamie Cowley, Ashley Pegg, Alison J. Cooper, John Gordon, Catherine A. Brady, Antonio Belli, Sam Butterworth, Rachel Upthegrove, Nick Andrews, Nicholas M. Barnes   +10 more
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Interlaboratory validation and one-year retrospective review of hemp and marijuana decision-point assays

Talanta Open
After the passage of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (Farm Bill) that defined hemp as Cannabis sativa L. if it contained ≤0.3 % Δ9-THC on a dry weight basis, forensic laboratories were faced with the challenge of distinguishing marijuana from ...
Ya-Chih Cheng, James T. Miller, Kay McClain, Charles Cline, Sarah Kerrigan   +4 more
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Factors affecting patient participation in orthopaedic trials comparing surgery to non-surgical interventions

Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 2016
Background: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are considered the most robust research design to determine the effectiveness of interventions. RCTs comparing surgery to non-surgical alternatives are particularly difficult to perform, partly due to ...
Rajat Mittal, Ian A. Harris, Sam Adie, Justine M. Naylor   +3 more
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Should more teams “trust the process” of tanking?

Contemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract In many professional sport leagues, the worst‐performing teams receive higher probability of earning top draft picks. This provides teams incentives to purposefully lose, or “tank,” if they are not likely to contend for the playoffs or championships.
Eduardo G. Minuci, Alexander Cardazzi, Candon Johnson   +2 more
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Controls of depositional facies patterns on a modern carbonate platform: Insight from hydrodynamic modeling

The Depositional Record, 2019
Recent studies of Holocene deposits on Great Bahama Bank (GBB) have focused on mapping of sediment distribution, an analysis of the variable filling of accommodation space, a comparison between ooid sandbodies and an examination of whitings and mud ...
Sam J. Purkis, Paul (Mitch) Harris, Georgenes Cavalcante   +2 more
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Group‐based interventions to reduce diabetes distress in adults with type 1 diabetes: A rapid realist review of the Reduce and TunedIn interventions

Diabetic Medicine, EarlyView.
Abstract Aims Diabetes distress is highly prevalent among adults with type 1 diabetes, yet remains under‐recognised and rarely addressed in routine diabetes care. This rapid realist review aimed to identify how, why, for whom, and in what contexts group‐based interventions reduce elevated diabetes distress in adults with type 1 diabetes, to inform the ...
Sarah Sims, Vibeke Stenov, Mette Due‐Christensen, Lawrence Fisher, Clara Fabian‐Therond, Megan Peck, Shalini Ahuja, Siobhan O'Connor, Ruth Abrams, Jennifer Halliday, Richard I. G. Holt, Jane Speight, Jackie Sturt, Ruth Harris, D‑Stress Study Group, Iliatha Papachristou Nadal, Jennifer Mohammadi, Jorg Huber, Gary Hickey, Pratik Choudhary, Sufyan Hussain, Kate Hardenberg, Francesca Fiorentino, Samuel Watson, Efrat Lusky, Rosie Walker, Ramzi Ajjan, James Shearer Marietta Stadler   +27 more
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Effective Visual Communication in Higher Education: Intercultural and Cross‐Cultural Design

International Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper examines how undergraduate design students develop cultural sensitivity through a live brief by the Illegal Money Lending Team (IMLT), focusing on global‐local tensions in their responses. While prior studies address global‐local dynamics, few explore intercultural pedagogy in the United Kingdom live briefs.
Samantha Williams, Rebecca Harris, Carol Allison   +2 more
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Parent‐led CBT delivered via online and telephone support alongside usual school practice versus usual school practice only for young children identified as at risk for anxiety disorders through screening in schools: a cluster randomised controlled trial

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.
Background Providing accessible CBT for young children identified as at risk for anxiety disorders through screening in schools could reduce later problems. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of parent‐led CBT delivered via online and telephone call support alongside usual school provision, compared to usual school provision only for young ...
Tessa Reardon, Obioha C. Ukoumunne, Helen Dodd, Gemma Halliday, Claire Hill, Bec Jasper, Benjamin Jones, Peter J. Lawrence, Fran Morgan, Anna Placzek, Ronald M. Rapee, Mara Violato, Shuye Yu, MYCATS Team, Cathy Creswell, Emily Davey, Jeni Fisk, Iheoma Green, Laura Hankey, Elizabeth Hindhaugh, Chloe Hooper, Lindsey Martineau, Amy McCall, Natascha Niekamp, Natasha Pall, Samantha Pearcey, Ruth Potts, Abigail Thomson, Tamatha Weisser, Joshua Wright, Siyu Zhou   +30 more
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