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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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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.
Sana Suri +38 more
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Study Design: Observational Studies
Observational study designs are those where the investigator/researcher just observes and does not carry out any intervention(s)/actions to alter the outcome. The three most common types of observational studies are cross-sectional, case control and cohort (or longitudinal). In cross-sectional studies, both the exposure/risk factor(s) and the outcome(s)
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The design of caring environments and the quality of life of older people [PDF]
There has been little systematic research into the design of care environments for older people. This article reviews empirical studies from both the architectural and the psychological literature. It outlines the instruments that are currently available
Barnes, S. +1 more
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Dance Studies/Cultural Studies [PDF]
In the mid-1990s several articles appeared in the dance literature calling for a greater alliance between dance scholarship and cultural studies. More recently, dance scholarship has come to be labeled “dance studies,” suggesting that such a link has occurred.
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Sound Studies Meets Deaf Studies [PDF]
This chapter examines “sound” and “hearing” in relation to silence and deafness. Sound studies and Deaf studies would seem, at first perception, to operate in worlds apart. Sound studies privileges attention to listening and hearing in cultural experience, whereas Deaf studies emphasizes the visual, particularly as a space of communicative practice ...
Friedner, Michele Ilana +1 more
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Experimental study on nitrification in a submerged aerated biofilter [PDF]
The aim of the present work was to evaluate the performance of a semi-pilot scale BAF in order to obtain a highly polished effluent in terms of removal of organic matter, suspended solids and ammonia and to observe the influence of temperature, pH and ...
Chiavola, Agostina +3 more
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Offenders’ perceptions of the UK prison smoking ban [PDF]
Purpose Despite overall reductions in levels of smoking in the UK, rates of offender smoking remain high. In 2016, it was announced that prisons in England and Wales would gradually introduce a smoking ban.
Davies, Glyn +5 more
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An Inquiry in the Dialectical Approach to Reading [PDF]
Purpose: This article tries to explain that reading is a dialectical action. For this purpose, it refers to the concept of dialectics in ancient times and, with a glance at the concepts of man, world, science, language and knowledge, it tries to discuss
Mahdi Shaghaghi
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Ontogenesis of the Architectural Periodical Press of the Soviet Era (1917–1931)
The article studies the development of the architectural periodicals of the Soviet period. Particular attention is accentuated on the chronological interval: 1917–1931.
I. I. Komarova, A. L. Tretyakov
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