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Study Protocol: The Heart and Brain Study [PDF]
BackgroundIt is well-established that what is good for the heart is good for the brain. Vascular factors such as hypertension, diabetes, and high cholesterol, and genetic factors such as the apolipoprotein E4 allele increase the risk of developing both cardiovascular disease and dementia.
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Study Designs: Diagnostic Studies
Diagnostic tests are evolving with betterment of technology, quest for patient safety with less invasive medicine, and evolution of new diseases. It is important to assess diagnostic accuracy of a new test, and clinical impact of introduction of new test on outcomes and cost.
Nitin, Dhochak, Rakesh, Lodha
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The number of published systematic reviews of studies of healthcare interventions has increased rapidly and these are used extensively for clinical and policy decisions.
B. Shea +10 more
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The aim of the study was to investigate the peculiarities of periodic assessment of student achievements, as a factor influencing effectiveness of studies, from the point of view of acquired competencies. For this study, action research was applied, and
Birutė Strukčinskienė +1 more
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Clinical and pharmacological approaches to the optimisation of therapy in a coughing patient
Cough is considered as an unconditional reflex adaptive defense response to irritating agents such as aeropollutants, foreign bodies, sputum, and is supposed to ensure adequate airway patency for normal gas exchange.
D. V. Tsyganko +2 more
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ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions
Non-randomised studies of the effects of interventions are critical to many areas of healthcare evaluation, but their results may be biased. It is therefore important to understand and appraise their strengths and weaknesses. We developed ROBINS-I (“Risk
J. Sterne +34 more
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Philosophy and University Studies
The German social philosopher, educator, and founder of critical social theory Max Horkheimer wrote his work ‘Philosophy and University Studies’ as a speech delivered on August 6, 1948, at the University of Frankfurt before returning from emigration to ...
Макс Горкгаймер +1 more
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A Theoretical Extension of the Technology Acceptance Model: Four Longitudinal Field Studies
The present research develops and tests a theoretical extension of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) that explains perceived usefulness and usage intentions in terms of social influence and cognitive instrumental processes.
V. Venkatesh, Fred D. Davis
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L’enseignement du grec et du latin : le paradoxe du mouvement
The loss of interest in classical languages amongst young people is the subject of this article, which is based on remarks regarding the same phenomenon observed in the teaching of rhetoric in the Greek world of the first ...
Jean-Luc Vix
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Developing a tool for assessing park-and-ride facilities in a sustainable mobility perspective
This article presents results from context-related empirical case-studies of the traffic-reducing effects of 12 existing Norwegian park-and-ride facilities (P&R), in a sustainable mobility perspective. It further presents results from studies of planning
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