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Protest Event Analysis Under Conditions of Limited Press Freedom: Comparing Data Sources

open access: yesMedia and Communication, 2021
The investigation of long-term trends in contentious politics relies heavily on protest event analysis based on newspaper reports. This tends to be problematic in restricted media environments.
Jan Matti Dollbaum
doaj   +1 more source

Sex Representation in US Stroke Clinical Trials: A Decade of Trends and Challenges

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Stroke remains a major cause of disability and mortality in the US, with significant sex‐based disparities, and females remain underrepresented in stroke clinical trials. We aimed to examine sex representation in US‐based stroke clinical trials, identify trial characteristics associated with higher female enrollment (≥ 50%), and ...
Chaitali Dagli   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inequality in Death from Social Conflicts: A Gini & Kolkata indices-based Study

open access: yes, 2019
Human deaths caused by individual man-made conflicts (e.g., wars, armed-conflicts, terrorist-attacks etc.) occur unequally across the events (conflicts) and such inequality (in deaths) have been studied here using Lorenz curve and values of the ...
Chakrabarti, Bikas K., Sinha, Antika
core   +1 more source

Study protocol for the strategic steering, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination of the Transfer Cluster of Academic Teaching Nursing Homes in long-term care in Germany (TCALL) - a quasi-experimental longitudinal study

open access: yesBMC Nursing
Background Long-term care in Germany lags behind other countries, when it comes to adopting scientific knowledge into daily practice and vice versa.
Jennifer Frense   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pain and Patient‐Reported Physical Function Did Not Differ Between Body Composition Profiles in Patients with Hip Osteoarthritis

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective To explore whether higher body fat and lower lean mass are associated with greater pain and worse patient‐reported physical function in individuals with hip osteoarthritis (OA). A secondary aim was to examine whether pain and patient‐reported physical function differ according to four body composition profiles: high body fat, low lean mass ...
Alexandra Ryan   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effort versus Advantage: Visualizing (Relative) Belief in Meritocracy, 1930 to 2022—A Comment on Mijs (2018)

open access: yesSocius
In this comment, the authors reevaluate the claim put forward by Mijs that popular belief in meritocracy has increased across a broad range of countries during recent decades of rising inequality.
Timo Wiesner, Patrick Sachweh
doaj   +1 more source

A Robust Adaptive One‐Sample‐Ahead Preview Super‐Twisting Sliding Mode Controller

open access: yesInternational Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, EarlyView.
Block Diagram of the Robust Adaptive One‐Sample‐Ahead Preview Super‐Twisting Sliding Mode Controller. ABSTRACT This article introduces a discrete‐time robust adaptive one‐sample‐ahead preview super‐twisting sliding mode controller. A stability analysis of the controller by Lyapunov criteria is developed to demonstrate its robustness in handling both ...
Guilherme Vieira Hollweg   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic evaluation of health promotion interventions for older people: do applied economic studies meet the methodological challenges?

open access: yesCost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2018
Background In the light of demographic developments health promotion interventions for older people are gaining importance. In addition to methodological challenges arising from the economic evaluation of health promotion interventions in general, there ...
Kai Huter   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integrating Manual and Automatic Annotation for the Creation of Discourse Network Data Sets

open access: yesPolitics and Governance, 2020
This article investigates the integration of machine learning in the political claim annotation workflow with the goal to partially automate the annotation and analysis of large text corpora.
Sebastian Haunss   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Flexible societies excelled in saving lives in the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
BackgroundPrevious studies have shown that national cultural traits, such as collectivism–individualism and tightness–looseness, are associated with COVID-19 infection and mortality rates.
Jianghong Li   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

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