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Examining the effects of self-regulated learning-based teacher feedback on English-as-a-foreign-language learners’ self-regulated writing strategies and writing performance

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
The current study examines the effect of teacher feedback on fostering self-regulated English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) writers. Adopting a quasi-experimental design, this study was conducted among seventy students from two parallel intact English ...
Li Francoise Yang, Yanhong Liu, Zhiqing Xu   +2 more
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Psychometric properties of the expanded prostate cancer index composite - 26 instrument in a cohort of radical prostatectomy patients: theoretical and practical examinations

BMC Urology, 2017
Background Recently, the Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite 26-item version (EPIC-26) was recommended for the assessment of adverse effects after the treatment of prostate cancer without clear reasons.
Karol Axcrona, Rasmus Nilsson, Bjørn Brennhovd, Øystein Sørebø, Sophie D. Fosså, Alv A. Dahl   +5 more
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Understanding Spatiotemporal Variations of Ridership by Multiple Taxi Services

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020
Recent years have seen the big growth of app-based taxi services by not only competing for rides with street-hailing taxi services but also generating new taxi rides. Moreover, the innovation in dynamic pricing also makes it competitive in both passenger
Wenbo Zhang, Yinfei Xi, Satish V. Ukkusuri   +2 more
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What Is the Numerical Nature of Pain Relief?

Frontiers in Pain Research, 2021
Pain relief, or a decrease in self-reported pain intensity, is frequently the primary outcome of pain clinical trials. Investigators commonly report pain relief in one of two ways: using raw units (additive) or using percentage units (multiplicative ...
Andrew D. Vigotsky, Andrew D. Vigotsky, Siddharth R. Tiwari, Siddharth R. Tiwari, James W. Griffith, James W. Griffith, A. Vania Apkarian, A. Vania Apkarian   +7 more
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Dialysis Initiation and All-Cause Mortality Among Incident Adult Patients With Advanced CKD: A Meta-analysis With Bias AnalysisPlain-Language Summary

Kidney Medicine, 2021
Rationale & Objectives: Due to unmeasured confounding, observational studies have limitations when assessing whether dialysis initiation reduces mortality compared with conservative therapy among adults with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD).
Rui Fu, Nigar Sekercioglu, Maya B. Mathur, Rachel Couban, Peter C. Coyte   +4 more
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On the Efficacy of Open Educational Resources

International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2019
Open educational resources (OER), which are free and openly licensed educational materials, have been a widely discussed topic in response to high textbook costs, the need for more pedagogical flexibility, and inequality in access to educational ...
Huimei Delgado, Michael Delgado, John Hilton III   +2 more
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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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Self-measured leg circumference for the detection of lymphedema among men with prostate cancer: a reliability study

Acta Oncologica
Background and purpose: Early lymphedema detection is crucial to timely treatment, and home-based monitoring holds promise for early detection of leg lymphedema among at-risk cancer survivors.
Gitte Sone Larsen, Sandra Jensen, Annika von Heymann, Bolette Skjødt Rafn   +3 more
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Generating high-fidelity privacy-conscious synthetic patient data for causal effect estimation with multiple treatments

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2022
In the past decade, there has been exponentially growing interest in the use of observational data collected as a part of routine healthcare practice to determine the effect of a treatment with causal inference models. Validation of these models, however,
Jingpu Shi, Dong Wang, Gino Tesei, Beau Norgeot   +3 more
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Improved Interhemispheric Functional Connectivity in Postpartum Depression Disorder: Associations With Individual Target-Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Treatment Effects

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
Postpartum depression (PPD) is a depressive condition that is associated with a high risk of stressful life events, poor marital relationships, and even suicide.
Yao Zhang, Yunfeng Mu, Xiang Li, Xiang Li, Xiang Li, Xiang Li, Chuanzhu Sun, Chuanzhu Sun, Xiaowei Ma, Sanzhong Li, Li Li, Zhaohui Zhang, Zhaohui Zhang, Shun Qi, Shun Qi   +14 more
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