Inhaled versus Oral Steroids In Adults with Chronic Asthma: A Systematic Review of Therapeutic Equivalence by R.J. Mash, A. Bheeki, P. Jones

“…Search strategy: The Cochrane Collaboration Airways Group conducted a search in MEDLINE ( 1966-1999), EMBASE (1980-1999) and CINAHL (1982-1999), The search included CENTRAL a database containing potential Randomised Controlled Trials (RCT) obtained by hand searching of journals within the Cochrane Collaboration. Selection criteria: Randomise controlled trials of at least 4 week duration were selected and include persons over the age of | 5 years with chronic asthma. …”
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Accurate detection of selective forwarding attack in wireless sensor networks by Qiong Zhang, Wenzheng Zhang

“…Moreover, to prevent collaborative selective forwarding attack, E-watchdog uses reports from more than one detection agents. …”
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Causality research based on phase space reconstruction. by Lei Hu, Zhuoma Sunu, Hongke She, Binghuai Fan, Jingru Ma, Chaojiu Da

“…Based on ideal test results and the observation data, the collaborative selection of the embedding dimension and time step is more reliable in terms of determining causality. …”
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Identifying children’s environmental health risks, needs, misconceptions, and opportunities for research translation using social media by Andrew Larkin, Megan MacDonald, Dixie Jackson, Molly L. Kile, Perry Hystad

“…Challenges include a need for interdisciplinary collaborations, selectivity and sensitivity of analytical methods, the dynamic, evolving communication methods and platform preferences of social media users, and operational policies. …”
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A scoping review of outcome selection and accuracy of conclusions in complex digital health interventions for young people (2017–2023): methodological proposals for population heal... by Claire Collin, Clara Eyraud, Philippe Martin, Morgane Michel, Enora Le Roux, Corinne Alberti

“…In response, five methodological proposals are formulated: (1) developing core outcome sets specific to population health intervention research (PHIR), (2) collaboratively selecting multidimensional outcomes through a steering committee that accounts for stakeholder preferences and existing theoretical models, (3) exploring multi-criteria decision analysis and consensus-driven methods to transparently combine outcomes, (4) enhancing methodological reporting through intervention development and evaluation to improve scientific integrity and reproducibility, and (5) increasing PHIR expert involvement in ethics, funding, and evaluation committees to improve recognition of evidence produced in this field. …”
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