Exercise Snacking to Improve Muscle Function in Healthy Older Adults: A Pilot Study by Oliver J. Perkin, Polly M. McGuigan, Keith A. Stokes

“…Resistance exercise is considered to be primary defence against loss of muscle function in older age, but it typically requires access to exercise equipment often in a gym environment. This pilot study aimed at examining the effect of a 28-day, unsupervised home-based exercise intervention on indices of leg strength and muscle size in healthy older adults. …”
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Prognostic impact of psychoeducation program completion on inpatients with schizophrenia: a pilot cohort study by Hiroki Noguchi, Seiichiro Tarutani, Yoshiki Takei, Koichi Matsumoto, Takehiko Okamura, Hiroshi Yoneda

“…Methods This study is a pilot cohort study, and the participants were 32 inpatients in the psychiatric acute care ward. …”
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Endovascular Treatment of Vertebral Column Metastases Using Intra-Arterial Cisplatin: Pilot Experience by Bohdan W. Chopko

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Spousal Presence as a Nonpharmacological Pain Management during Childbirth: A Pilot Study by Abigail U. Emelonye, Taina Pitkäaho, Katri Vehviläinen-Julkunen

“…There are two phases: (1) development of questionnaires, Abuja Instrument for Midwives (AIM), Abuja Instrument for Parturient Pain (AIPP), and Abuja Instrument for Parturient Spouses (AIPS), utilizing literatures, Kuopio instrument for fathers (KIF) and expertise of health professionals, and (2) pilot study to validate the questionnaires which were administered in two hospitals in Nigeria: midwives (n=10), parturients (n=10), and spouses (n=10).  …”
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The Clinical Investigation of Disparity of Utility Values Associated with Gallstone Disease: A Pilot Study by Chung-Te Hsu, Yi Liao, Jorn-Hon Liu, Tao-Hsin Tung

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WALLABY Pilot Survey: Star Formation Enhancement and Suppression in Gas-rich Galaxy Pairs by Qifeng Huang, Jing Wang, Xuchen Lin, Se-Heon Oh, Xinkai Chen, B. Catinella, N. Deg, H. Dénes, B. -Q. For, B. S. Koribalski, K. Lee-Waddell, J. Rhee, A. X. Shen, Li Shao, K. Spekkens, L. Staveley-Smith, T. Westmeier, O. I. Wong, A. Bosma

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The Life Course of 20th-Century Lyon Silk Workers. A Pilot Study by Elizabeth Wroten, Tamara Hareven

“…A small sample of her interview data transcripts from canuts in Lyon have, more than 20 years after her death, been translated into English and coded for themes as a pilot study of a larger data set. Six themes emerged from the participants' data.  …”
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Harmonization and Verification of Three National European Icing Forecast Models Using Pilot Reports by Christoph Knigge, Katie Bennett, Christine Le Bot, Mara Gehlen-Zeller, Svenja Koos

“…As verification data, pilot reports (PIREPs) are used, which provide information about hazardous weather and are currently the only direct regular measure of in-flight icing events available. …”
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Introducing youth to clinical research: Development and pilot implementation of a children’s activity book by Renee Cadzow, Andy Strohmeier, Erin Carnes, Teresa Quattrin

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STUDENT SUPPORT AND MOTIVATION IN ONLINE LEARNING: EVIDENCE FROM PILOT ONLINE COURSE IMPLEMENTATION by Rasa Tamulienė, Alina Liepinaitienė, Edvinas Ignatavičius

“…Students studied the pilot online-taught study course for three months. …”
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Telecare intervention for pelvic floor muscle training in postpartum women: a pilot study by Izabela Mędrala, Guadalupe Molina, Alejandro Galán-Mercant, Pawel Kiper, Anna Rutkowska

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Acute effects of different types of stretching exercises on explosive power: A pilot study by Sinan Seyhan, Emirkan Çelik

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Factors determining the tendency of rural households in Central Pomerania to save – PILOT study results by Agnieszka Strzelecka, Danuta Zawadzka

“…The aim of this research is to identify factors affecting the propensity of rural households to save, on the example of 100 entities in Central Pomerania, based on pilot studies (direct questionnaire technique) using the logistic regression model. …”
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Alopecia and Iron Deficiency: An Interventional Pilot Study in Primary Care to Improve the Request of Ferritin by Maria Salinas, Maria Leiva-Salinas, Emilio Flores, Maite López-Garrigós, Carlos Leiva-Salinas

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Sleep Quality and Levodopa Intestinal Gel Infusion in Parkinson’s Disease: A Pilot Study by Oriol De Fabregues, Alex Ferré, Odile Romero, Manuel Quintana, José Álvarez-Sabin

“…Seven patients participated in a prospective pilot study. Before and after 6 months of LCIG infusion, an overnight polysomnography was performed and the Epworth Sleepiness Scale, fatigue scale, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Beck Depression Inventory, and the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale were administered. …”
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Evaluation of the digital diabetes prevention programme pilot: uncontrolled mixed-methods study protocol by William Henley, Elizabeth Murray, Kerry Daff, Anthi Lavida, Jenny Irwin, Jonathan Valabhji

“…In eight pilot areas across England, adults with non-diabetic hyperglycaemia (NDH) (glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) 42–47 mmol/mol or fasting plasma glucose 5.5–6.9 mmol/L) and adults without NDH who are overweight (body mass index (BMI) >25 kg/m2) or obese (BMI >30 kg/m2) will be referred to one of five digitally delivered diabetes prevention interventions. …”
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‘Piloting a framework for analysing the public contributions to R&D: new antibiotics in focus’ by Louise Schmidt, Ozren Sehic, Ursula Theuretzbacher, Daniel Fabian, Claudia Wild

“…We found the classification framework generally practicable and we suggest recommendations to improve its granularity and applicability.Conclusion In this paper we piloted and revised a framework that has been developed to classify types of public contributions to pharmaceutical products at different stages of development. …”
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Cooking with confidence for autistic youth: outcomes from a pilot program evaluation model by Mi-Yeet Wong, Conner Carlton, Shelby Paul, Jonathan Deutsch, Rachel Sherman, Brandy-Joe Milliron, Nicole Farmer, Rachel Hingst, Claire Richardson, Lindsay Shea

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Use of the FM Systems for the Auditory and Speech Perception Improvements in Children with ASD. Pilot Study by U.A. Mamokhina, K.A. Fadeev, D.E. Goyaeva, A.A. Ilyunceva, T.M. Ovsyannikova, T.S. Obukhova, K.R. Salimova, A.M. Rytikova, D.V. Davydov

“…<strong>Methods</strong>. The pilot study was conducted in two stages. In the first stage, the &ldquo;Words in Noise&rdquo; test and the &ldquo;Sentence Repetition&rdquo; task were used to assess children&rsquo;s ability to recognize speech in noisy conditions with and without the use of FM systems. …”
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The influence of school location and their children's nutritional model on the risk of obesity in Poland- pilot study by Łukasz Długoński, Anna Platta, Magdalena Skotnicka

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