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Exploring the feasibility and validity of a pragmatic approach to estimating the impact of long-term care: The 'expected' ASCOT method

Journal of Long-Term Care, 2019
Context: Measuring the impact of long-term care (LTC) is essential if we are to allocate limited resources effectively. Objectives: We explored the feasibility and validity of a pragmatic approach to evaluation, known as the counterfactual self ...
Juliette Malley, Stacey Rand, Ann Netten, Ann-Marie Towers, Julien Forder   +4 more
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Analgesia induced by the epigenetic drug, L-acetylcarnitine, outlasts the end of treatment in mouse models of chronic inflammatory and neuropathic pain [PDF]

, 2017
Background: L-acetylcarnitine, a drug marketed for the treatment of chronic pain, causes analgesia by epigenetically up-regulating type-2 metabotropic glutamate (mGlu2) receptors in the spinal cord.
Battaglia, Giuseppe, Bernabucci, Matteo, Bruno, Valeria Maria Gloria, Cannella, Milena, Gradini, Roberto, Imbriglio, Tiziana, Mascio, Giada, Nicoletti, Ferdinando, Notartomaso, Serena, Scarselli, Pamela, Zappulla, Cristina   +10 more
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Chinese herbal retention enema combined with magnetic vibration magneto-electric therapy: a promising therapeutic strategy for chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) [PDF]

Journal of Men's Health
Background: Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) is a common urological condition characterized by complex etiology, high incidence and limited treatment options.
Yang Xuan, Hao Zhang, Jintao Shi, Weihan Zhu, Jintao Fang, Qinyu Zhang, Qianya Zhou, Gang Chen, Yue Duan   +8 more
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The Effect of Silvicultural Treatment on Stand Growth of Logged-over Forest in South Papua [PDF]

, 2014
Forest stand structure could be used as one of the variables in deciding the possibility to harvest forest product. On logged-over forests, data and information over stand structure could become the basis for decision making for harvesting.
Kuswandi, R. (Relawan)
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Cooperatives as instruments of smallholder development: Evidence from banana, cocoa, coffee, and palm oil producers in Peru

Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, 2023
Collective action in the agricultural sector of Peru started in the form of agrarian production cooperatives around 1969. Following the collapse of the collectivisation program in the 1980s, external stakeholders helped to form marketing cooperatives in ...
Jasper Grashuis, Angie Higuchi
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Recidivism Rates of Treated, Non-Treated and Dropout Adolescent Who Have Sexually Offended: a Non-Randomized Study

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a cognitive-behavioral treatment in reducing recidivism by adolescents who have sexually offended (ASO).
Julie Carpentier, Julie Carpentier, Jean Proulx, Jean Proulx   +3 more
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A thin-film magnetoresistive angle detector [PDF]

, 1990
An overview is given of the results of our research on a contactless angle detector based on the anisotropic magnetoresistance effect (AMR effect) in a permalloy thin film.
Eijkel, Kees J.M., Fluitman, Jan H.J, Groot, Peter, Leeuwis, Henk, Popma, Theo J.A., Wieberdink, Johan W.   +5 more
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Fracture Cause Analysis and Treatment Effect for Urban Rail Transit Vibration Damping Track DI-type Elastic Strip

Chengshi guidao jiaotong yanjiu
Objective Elastic strip is a critical component of rail vibration reduction fasteners, its mechanical performance and fatigue-load bearing capacity are crucial for urban rail transit train operational safety and track service life.
DUAN Yongqi, LIAO Zhijun, ZHOU Bo, CHEN Lingzhi, WANG Ziyu, ZHANG Minglan   +5 more
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Utility of Adaptive Strategy and Adaptive Design for Biomarker-facilitated Patient Selection in Pharmacogenomic or Pharmacogenetic Clinical Development Program

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2008
In the early to late phases of conventional clinical trials, improvement of disease status at study baseline is the anchor of an effective treatment measured by therapeutic response.
Sue-Jane Wang
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Expectile Treatment Effects: An Efficient Alternative to Compute the Distribution of Treatment Effects [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
The distribution of treatment effects extends the prevailing focus on average treatment effects to the tails of the outcome variable and quantile treatment effects denote the predominant technique to compute those effects in the presence of a confounding mechanism.
Stephan Stahlschmidt, Matthias Eckardt, Wolfgang K. Härdle   +2 more
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