Searching for Animal Sentience: A Systematic Review of the Scientific Literature [PDF]
Knowledge of animal sentience is fundamental to many disciplines and imperative to the animal welfare movement. In this review, we examined what is being explored and discussed, regarding animal sentience, within the scientific literature. Rather than attempting to extract meaning from the many complex and abstract definitions of animal sentience, we ...
Amelia R. Cornish +2 more
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Introduction. This paper provides an overview of the information retrieval strategy employed for two meta-analyses, conducted by a systematic review team at Concordia University (Montreal, QC, Canada). Both papers draw on standards first articulated by H.
David I. Pickup +4 more
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Validating Search Processes in Systematic Literature Reviews
Barbara Kitchenham +2 more
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Exploring compassion: a meta-analysis of the association between self-compassion and psychopathology [PDF]
Compassion has emerged as an important construct in studies of mental health and psychological therapy. Although an increasing number of studies have explored relationships between compassion and different facets of psychopathology there has as yet been ...
Gumley, A., MacBeth, A.
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Methological quality of systematic reviews and meta-analyses on acupuncture for stroke: a review of review [PDF]
Objective: To assess the methodological quality of systematic reviews and meta-analyses regarding acupuncture intervention for stroke and the primary studies within them.
Chen, Xin-Lin +9 more
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The use of fibrinogen concentrate for the management of trauma-related bleeding. A systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Haemorrhage following injury is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The role of fibrinogen concentrate in trauma-induced coagulopathy has been the object of intense research in the last 10 years and has been systematically analysed in ...
Franchini, Massimo +6 more
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“AGMB 2023: Future – now more than ever”, this was the theme of the annual conference of the German Medical Library Association (AGMB), held in Bonn from September 18 to 20, 2023.
Hoyer, Sabine +3 more
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A review of the methodological features of systematic reviews in maternal medicine [PDF]
Background In maternal medicine, research evidence is scattered making it difficult to access information for clinical decision making. Systematic reviews of good methodological quality are essential to provide valid inferences and to produce usable ...
A Conde-Agudelo +40 more
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Collaborative Literature Search System: An Intelligence Amplification Method for Systematic Literature Search [PDF]
In this paper, we present a method for systematic literature search based on the symbiotic partnership between the human researcher and intelligent agents. Using intelligence amplification, we leverage the calculation power of computers to quickly and thoroughly extract data, calculate measures, and visualize relationships between scientific documents ...
Dobrkovic, Andrej +3 more
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An Exploration of Systematic Review Publication Trends in Conservation Biology Journals
Researchers in conservation biology and other non-medical fields are adopting systematic review as a research methodology. Since this methodology requires extensive and well-documented literature searching, it is beneficial for information professionals
Jocelyn Boice
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