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Risk Attitudes, Randomization to Treatment, and Self-Selection Into Experiments [PDF]

open access: yes
Randomization to treatment is fundamental to statistical control in the design of experiments. But randomization implies some uncertainty about treatment condition, and individuals differ in their preferences towards taking on risk.
Glenn W. Harrison   +2 more
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Agricultural microcredit and technical efficiency: The case of smallholder rice farmers in Northern Ghana

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, 2016
In the current study, we compared technical efficiency of smallholder rice farmers with and without credit in northern Ghana using data from a farm household survey.
Benjamin Tetteh Anang   +2 more
doaj  

Evaluating GenAI‐produced feedback on undergraduate bioscience essays against good higher education feedback practice

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
This pilot study investigates the potential of Generative AI to provide formative feedback to students. ChatGPT was prompted to provide feedback on Year 1 Bioscience essays, which were evaluated against established good feedback practices. GenAI‐authored feedback had useful elements, but was limited in scope. GenAI may have potential to provide instant,
Annabel Court   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Meta-Regression Methods for Detecting and Estimating Empirical Effects in the Presence of Publication Selection [PDF]

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This study investigates the small-sample performance of meta-regression methods for detecting and estimating genuine empirical effects in research literatures tainted by publication selection.
T.D. Stanley
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IGF2 knockout reduces but does not abolish osteosarcoma growth in vitro and in vivo

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
To test whether endogenous IGF2 promotes osteosarcoma growth, IGF2 was knocked out in Saos2 cells via CRISPR‐Cas9. KO cells showed reduced proliferation in vitro, and knockout xenografts in mice reached only ~25% of wild‐type tumor volume. Insulin‐like growth factor 2 (IGF2) is implicated in osteosarcoma, but direct functional evidence of its role is ...
Shun Yao, Marco Archetti
wiley   +1 more source

Welfare Reform, Returns to Experience, and Wages: Using Reservation Wages to Account for Sample Selection Bias [PDF]

open access: yes
Work was one of the central motivations for welfare reform during the 1990s. One important rationale for work was based on human capital theory: work today should raise experience tomorrow, which in turn should raise future wage offers and reduce ...
Jeffrey Grogger
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Aging Is a Key Driver for Adult Acute Myeloid Leukemia

open access: yesAging and Cancer, EarlyView.
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a classical age‐related hematologic malignancy, and a key driver of AML is aging, which profoundly regulates intrinsic factors such as genomic instability, epigenetic reprogramming, and metabolic dysregulation, and alters bone marrow microenvironment.
Rong Yin, Haojian Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Risk Prediction Models for Recurrence After Curative Treatment of Early‐Stage or Locally Advanced Lung Cancer: A Systematic Review

open access: yesAging and Cancer, EarlyView.
This systematic review synthesizes prognostic models for survival and recurrence in resected non‐small cell lung cancer. While many models demonstrate moderate to good discrimination, few are externally validated and reporting quality is variable, limiting clinical applicability and highlighting the need for robust, transparent model development ...
Evangeline Samuel   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Selection, Investment, and Women's Relative Wages Since 1975 [PDF]

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In theory, growing wage inequality within gender should cause women to invest more in their market productivity and should differentially pull able women into the workforce, thereby closing the measured gender gap even though women's wages might have ...
Casey B. Mulligan, Yona Rubinstein
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Examining the claim that 80-90% of suicide cases had depression

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2013
Said eShahtahmasebi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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