Blended SORT-IT for operational research capacity building: the model, its successes and challenges. [PDF]
The Structured Operational Research Training Initiative (SORT-IT) has been shown to be very effective in strengthening capacity for conducting operational research, publishing in scientific journals and fostering policy and practice change. The 'classic'
Ali, Engy +11 more
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Does the Structured Operational Research and Training Initiative (SORT IT) continue to influence health policy and/or practice? [PDF]
BACKGROUND: The Structured Operational Research and Training Initiative (SORT IT) is a successful model of integrated operational research and capacity building with about 90% of participants completing the training and publishing in scientific journals.
Berger, Selma Dar +8 more
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Initiation and completion rates of isoniazid preventive therapy among people living with HIV in Far-Western Region of Nepal : a retrospective cohort study [PDF]
Objectives: Isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT), for people living with HIV (PLHIV) is the proven and recommended intervention to avert tuberculosis (TB).
Bhatta, Usha +5 more
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PLANNING TO PLEASE CUSTOMERS [PDF]
- The achievable rate of a coherent coded modulation (CM) digital communication system with data-aided channel estimation and a discrete, equiprobable symbol alphabet is derived under the assumption that the system operates on a flat fading MIMO channel ...
Kuprin, D., Voroshylova, A.A.
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Young mothers in care, contributing to the contemporary debate [PDF]
Teenage pregnancy has become a broad issue in contemporary society and has become a focus for concern for young women in or exiting the care system. The article draws on interviews with twenty-four young mothers in, or on the fringes of the care system ...
Aldgate J. +10 more
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Could have done otherwise, action sentences and anaphora [PDF]
What does it mean to say of a certain agent, S, that he or she could have done otherwise? Clearly, it means nothing at all, unless the anaphoric devices within the sentence have been anchored to definite antecedents.
Steward, H.
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Mott transition in the asymmetric Hubbard model at half-filling within dynamical mean-field theory
We apply the approximate analytic methods to the investigation of the band structure of the asymmetric Hubbard model where the chemical potentials and electron transfer parameters depend on the electron spin (type of quasiparticles).
Hera, Orest B., Stasyuk, Ihor V.
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ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen +23 more
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Just Sort It! A Simple and Effective Approach to Active Preference Learning [PDF]
We address the problem of learning a ranking by using adaptively chosen pairwise comparisons. Our goal is to recover the ranking accurately but to sample the comparisons sparingly.
Grossglauser, Matthias, Maystre, Lucas
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ABSTRACT Background An international Delphi panel of experts developed consensus statements to delineate the circumstances where the risks of dexamethasone as an antiemetic do and do not outweigh its benefits. Procedure Experts in supportive care of pediatric patients were invited to participate.
Negar Shavandi +20 more
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