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Factors Associated With Fibromyalgia Diagnosis Among People Meeting Criteria: Results From UK Biobank

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective The diagnosis of fibromyalgia (FM) is challenging due to the absence of definitive biomarkers, numerous overlapping comorbidities, and its reliance on patient‐reported symptoms. Discrepancies between diagnostic criteria and clinical practice imply the possibility of diagnostic biases, complicating timely and accurate identification.
Sung‐A Kim, Gary J. Macfarlane, Marcus J. Beasley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Achievement Gap Between White And Minority Students in Texas

Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2003
The Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS) has been used to document and track an achievement gap between white and minority students in Texas.  Some educators have credited the TAAS with fueling a drive to close the achievement gap while others ...
Thomas H. Linton, Donald Kester
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Risk factors and a predictive model for delayed extubation in children undergoing primary repair of tetralogy of Fallot: a retrospective cohort study with rigorous methodological validation

Frontiers in Pediatrics
ObjectiveTo identify independent risk factors for delayed extubation (mechanical ventilation 48 h) following primary Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) repair and to develop a rigorously validated predictive model for clinical use.MethodsA retrospective cohort ...
Mingwei Wang, Shumin Wu, Kexue Wang, Kun Li, Zhenyu Wu, Liwei Yan, Qihui Shen, Faming He   +7 more
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The impact of teacher attitudes and beliefs about large-scale assessment on the use of provincial data for instructional change

Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
In the quest to improve measured educational outcomes national governments across the OECD and beyond have instituted large-scale assessment (LSA) policies in their public schools. Controversy almost universally follows the implementation of such testing,
Derek T. Copp
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Score test in robust M-procedure

, 2014
A score type test based on the M-estimation method for a linear regression model is more reliable than the parametric based-test under mild departures from model assumptions, or when dataset has outliers.
Yunus, Rossita M., Khan, Shahjahan
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Microvascular Damage Is Associated With Carotid Wall Structural Changes in Systemic Sclerosis: A Capillaroscopy and Ultrasound‐Based Observational Study

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is characterized by cardiovascular risk excess not fully explained by traditional factors. Whether the severity of microvascular damage correlates with structural subclinical atherosclerosis remains unclear. We investigated the relationship between nailfold videocapillaroscopy (NVC) abnormalities and carotid ...
Eugenio Capparelli, Luca Clerici, Francesco Lapia, Giusy C. Moltisanti, Eleonora Zaccara, Greta Pellegrino, Daniela Bompane, Francesca Capelli, Letizia Ferrami, Laura Castelnovo, Antonio Tamburello, Maria Sole Chimenti, Paola Faggioli, Antonino Mazzone   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Confidence interval and test for the mean of a zero-inflated two-parameter negative binomial distribution

Research in Statistics
Zero-inflated over-dispersed count data arise in many applications, motivating the zero-inflated negative binomial family. We develop likelihood-based inference for the negative binomial two-parameter (NB2) component mean [Formula: see text] under a zero-
Md Mahadi Hasan, Md Monzur Murshed, Md Nahid Hasan   +2 more
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Convergence of Euro Area Inflation Rates [PDF]

We study the behavior of inflation rates among the 12 initial Euro countries in order to test whether and when the group convergence initially dictated by the Maastricht treaty and now by the ECB, occurs.
Lopez, C., Papell, David H.
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A Scoping Review and Meta‐Analysis of Proportions of Central Nervous System Manifestations Reported in Patients with Sjögren's Disease

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective The objective of this scoping review was to synthesize evidence on the proportion of individuals living with Sjögren's disease who experience central nervous system (CNS) manifestations. Methods We searched MEDLINE (via PubMed) and Embase from 1980 through January 29, 2026, and the ECRI Guidelines Trust from 2020 through January 29, 2026 ...
Arun Varadhachary, Ghaith Noaiseh, Julie Frantsve‐Hawley, Frederick B. Vivino, Jennifer A. McCombe, Shamik Bhattacharyya, E. Sherwood Brown, Andrew R. Carey, Robert Fox, Thomas Grader‐Beck, Janet E. Lewis, Stephen Maitz, Steven Mandel, Astrid Rasmussen, George Sarka, R. Hal Scofield, Daniel J. Wallace, Rochelle Zak, Kristie Cox, Katherine M. Hammitt, Steven Carsons, Nancy Carteron   +21 more
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Evaluating automated evaluation systems for spoken English proficiency: An exploratory comparative study with human raters.

PLoS ONE
Automated evaluation systems (AESs) for spoken language assessment are increasingly adopted in global educational settings, yet their validity in non-Western contexts remains underexplored.
Tianhui Chen, Sanjun Sun
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