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An Approach to Defining the Identity of a Media Fan

Palabra Clave, 2020
Aproximación a la definición de la identidad del espectador fan Abordagem para a definição da identidade de um fã espectador This study is based on a sample of Spanish viewers of audiovisual fiction, seeking to understand behavior associated with fan ...
Javier Lozano Delmar, Juan F. Plaza, Milagrosa Sánchez   +2 more
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Translation and validation of Persian version of Index of Dental Anxiety and Fear (IDAF-4C+) [PDF]

Journal of Oral Health and Oral Epidemiology, 2019
BACKGROUND AND AIM: Being able to measure dental anxiety and fear is a necessary prerequisite for studying and understanding the nature and consequences of this common fear.
Mohadeseh Arabsolghar, Nazila Lashkarizadeh, Maryam Hashemipoor, Taghi Momeni   +3 more
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Validation studies: validating new tools and adapting old ones to new contexts [PDF]

, 2019
Validation studies determine the accuracy, dependability and consistency of a tool in measuring what it is supposed to measure. Validation of a tool which detects depression in the community should determine the accuracy of the tool to detect depression ...
Mohd Sidik, Sherina
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Study Duration and Validity [PDF]

Hypertension, 1999
Letter to the Editor: At the NHLBI workshop on sodium and blood pressure held on January 28–29, 1999, to re-examine the US recommendation on sodium intake for healthy people, two meta-analyses addressing this issue were harshly criticized for including randomized clinical trials of less than 2 weeks duration.
openaire   +2 more sources

Desenvolvimento e validação de método analítico para determinação do teor de sinvastatina em cápsulas magistrais

Química Nova, 2011
Simvastatin is an oral anti-hyperlipidemic that has been widely used to reduce the cardiovascular disease risk. There isn't any pharmacopoeic method to assay this drug in capsules.
Hudson Caetano Polonini, Felipe Cerqueira dos Santos, Urias Pardócimo Vaz, Marcos Antônio Fernandes Brandão, Nádia Rezende Barbosa Raposo, Anderson de Oliveira Ferreira   +5 more
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Validation of Canproj for projecting Canadian cancer incidence data

Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 2020
Introduction: Cancer projections can provide key information to help prioritize cancer control strategies, allocate resources and evaluate current treatments and interventions.
Alain Demers, Zhenguo Qiu, Ron Dewar, Amanda Shaw   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Common misconceptions about validation studies.

International Journal of Epidemiology, 2020
Information bias is common in epidemiology and can substantially diminish the validity of study results. Validation studies, in which an investigator compares the accuracy of a measure with a gold standard measure, are an important way to understand and ...
M. Fox, T. Lash, L. Bodnar
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Core verbal autopsy procedures with comparative validation results from two countries. [PDF]

, 2006
BACKGROUND: Cause-specific mortality statistics remain scarce for the majority of low-income countries, where the highest disease burdens are experienced.
Yusuf Hemed, Alan D Lopez, Whiting, DR, Daniel Chandramohan, Rao, Chalapati, Whiting, David R, Setel, Philip W, Yang Gonghuan, Yang, Gonghuan, Hemed, Yusuf, K G M M Alberti, Hemed, Y, Philip W Setel, Alberti K. G. M. M, Hemed Yusuf, Yang, G, Setel, PW, Alberti, K. G. M. M., Chandramohan Daniel, Rao Chalapati, Setel Philip W, Whiting David R, Lopez, Alan D, Gonghuan Yang, Chalapati Rao, Lopez, AD, Alberti, KGMM, Lopez, Alan D., David R Whiting, Chandramohan, D, Chandramohan, Daniel, Lopez Alan D, Setel, Philip W., Rao, C, Whiting, David R., Alberti, K. G. M. M   +35 more
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Translation, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and Validation of the Portuguese Version of the Rotterdam Elderly Pain Observation Scale

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra, 2021
Introduction: This study reports on the translation, cultural adaptation, and validation of a Portuguese version of the Rotterdam Elderly Pain Observation Scale (REPOS), a Dutch scale to assess pain in patients who cannot communicate, with or without ...
Julieta Seixas-Moizes, Anneke Boerlage, Érica Negrini Lia, Lucas Emmanuel Lopes e Santos, Miriane Lucindo Zucoloto, Fabíola Dach, Priscila Colavite Papassidero, Laís Almeida Leal Wichert-Ana, Oscar Della Pasqua, Marianne Louise Wiesebron, Tatiana Reis Icuma, Vera Lucia Lanchote, Eduardo Barbosa Coelho, Dick Tibboel, Lauro Wichert-Ana   +14 more
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Independent verification and validation of an industrial simulation model [PDF]

, 2010
The independent verification and validation (IV&V) of simulation models is largely restricted to applications in the military and public policy domains. There is little evidence of IV&V for industrial simulation models. This is largely because industrial
Brooks RJ, Robinson, Stewart, Brooks, Roger J., Robinson S   +3 more
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