Health Canada's use of its priority review process for new drugs: a cohort study by Joel Lexchin

“…The purpose of this study is to compare Health Canada's use of priority reviews to therapeutic ratings from two independent organisations, the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board (PMPRB) and the French drug bulletin Prescrire International, over the period 1 January 1997–31 December 2012.Design Cohort study.Data sources Annual reports of the Therapeutic Products Directorate, and the Biologics and Genetic Therapies Directorate; evaluations of therapeutic innovation from PMPRB and Prescrire International; WHO Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology.Interventions Assessments by PMPRB and Prescrire International treated as a gold standard for postmarket therapeutic value.Primary and secondary outcome measures Drug-by-drug comparison between the review status from Health Canada and the therapeutic status from PMPRB/Prescrire using κ values, and positive and negative predictive values. …”
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Change in angle of depressed medial tibial plateau following extra-articular mechanical realignment surgery in children with Blount’s disease who presented late for treatment by Zi Hao Phang, Mohammed Albaker, Roshan Gunalan, Adrian Yen Xian Lee, Aik Saw

“…Results: After extra-articular mechanical alignment surgery, statistically significant improvements in medial tibial plateau depression were seen in the infantile (P = 0.03) and juvenile (P = 0.04) Blount’s subgroups. …”
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DYNAMIC INTERACTIONS AMONG EXCHANGE RATE, PERFORMANCE OF MANUFACTURING SECTOR AND INFLATION IN NIGERIA: AN ARDL APPROACH by Adedayo O. ADEDEJI, Oyeyemi O. ADEBIYI, Barakat I. SHOBANDE

“…The findings revealed that a long run relationship exists among MS performance, exchange rate and inflation, but only inflation has a statistically significant positive effect on MS performance in the long run. …”
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TRAUMATIC CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY. IS URGENT INTERVENTION SUPERIOR TO DELAYED INTERVENTION? A META-ANALYSIS EVALUATION by I Ketut Martiana, Donny Permana, Lukas Widhiyanto

“…The comparison between the surgical procedure in the cervical <24 hours with the surgical procedure >24 hours was identified for this research. Statistically, there was a significant difference on the neurological status (OR=1,85; 95%CI=1,21-2,84; p<0,01). …”
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Differences in Limb Muscle Strength Affecting Vertical Jump Heights in Soccer Players after Chronic Ankle Injury by Anggara Dwi Samudra, Bambang Purwanto, Dwikora Novembri Utomo

“…The collected data included vertical jump, ankle muscle construction, and hamstring muscle data. The data were statistically analyzed using the t test and Pearson correlation (P<0.05). …”
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Liver and spleen elastography in diagnosis of extrahepatic portal vein obstruction: pilot study by M. Yu. Nadinskaya, Ye. O. Liusina, Ch. S. Pavlov

“…The grade of EV tended to increase along with progression of the spleen stiffness. Statistically significant difference in serum aminotransferases levels in non-cirrhotic PVT vs Child-Pugh class A HCV-LC was observed: enzyme levels were 1,5-2 fold higher in LC (р…”
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Enhancing Student Motivation and Competencies: Integrating E-Learning, Technological Literacy, and Cultural Alignment by Boumedyen Shannaq, Imran Saleem, Said AlRawahi, Saad Almhlawi, Said AlMaqbali

“…Specifically, the p-value decreased from 0.11 to 0.005, highlighting increased statistical significance, and the path from HFtFCM to SPoCE to SMaE improved from -0.051 to 0.071, demonstrating a stronger mediation effect. …”
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Effects of Kettlebell Swing Style and Mass on Female Hip Joint Kinetics by Kasey M Murphy, Bryan L Riemann

“…During OHS, significantly greater hip joint peak power (95%CIDiff: 1.6–4.1 W‧kg-1), work (95%CIDiff: 0.104–0.527), peak velocity (95%CIDiff: 7.6–40.5 °‧s-1) occurred compared to SHS, although the time and hip angular position of peak velocity and peak power were not statistically different between styles. # Conclusions These results may influence choices of KB progressions, suggesting that one may first consider changes in KB mass prior to changing from the SHS style to the OHS style…”
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Persistence of Olfactory Dysfunction in Post CoVid-19 Patients Using Sniffin Sticks-A Prospective Study by Priyanka Thangaraj, Sowmya Gajapathy, Jayita Das Poduval

“…Hyposmia was common among females at 10 weeks Post CoVid which was found to be statistically significant (p<0.05). CONCLUSION Knowledge about time pattern on the recovery of OD in Post CoVid patients will be essential in counselling and treating them. …”
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Impacts of data consistency levels in cloud-based NoSQL for data-intensive applications by Saulo Ferreira, Júlio Mendonça, Bruno Nogueira, Willy Tiengo, Ermeson Andrade

“…Additionally, all of these DBMSs exhibit statistically significant variations across all scenarios in the multi-region setup when the data consistency is switched from weak to stronger level.…”
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Whole Exome Sequencing Reveals Rare Variants in Genes Associated with Metabolic Disorders in Women with PCOS by Priyal Sharma, Ashutosh Halder, Manish Jain, Manish Tripathi

“…We then assessed the relationship between these variants and the clinical outcomes of the patients. Statistical Analysis Used: Student’s t-test and Fisher’s exact test were used to compare clinical parameters and frequency differences amongst PCOS patients with and without variants. …”
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EFFECT OF REPLACING SOYBEAN MEAL WITH LARVAE MEAL OF BLACK SOLDIER FLY HERMETIA ILLUCENS IN GROWTH PERFORMANCE AND SOME BIOCHEMICAL BLOOD PARAMETERS OF COMMON CARP CYPRINUS CARPIO... by Ahmed I. Albayati, R. S. Attee, M. S. Al-Khshali

“…The results of serum biochemical indices showed no statistically significant differences (P>0.05) in the levels of ALT (Alanine aminotransferase), Glucose, Triglycerides, LDL (low-density lipoprotein) and total protein (TP) between control and experimental groups. …”
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Adopting augmented reality into retailing mix strategy: Generation Z’s perspective in Egypt by Marwa Mahmoud Ibrahim, Rasha Ihab Nasr

“…Structural equation modelling analysis was the main statistical tool for testing the hypotheses. The research findings validate the research conceptual framework, emphasizing that the inclusion of AR in the retail mix plays a crucial role in influencing customer behavioural intention. …”
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Prediction of Multidimensional Poverty Status With Machine Learning Classification at Household Level: Empirical Evidence From Tanzania by Ngong'Ho Bujiku Sende, Snehanshu Saha, Leon Ruganzu, Saibal Kar

“…To achieve this objective, longitudinal data from the 2014/15 and 2020/21 surveys, sourced from the Tanzania National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) were analyzed. A variety of supervised machine-learning algorithms such as RBF Kernel in SVM, Linear Kernel in SVM, Polynomial Kernel in SVM, Random Forest, Logistic regression classifier, Decision tree, Gradient Boosting, K-Nearest Neighbours Classifier, Na&#x00EF;ve Bayes Classifier, Artificial Neuron Network and Ensemble Learning Model were implemented to predict multidimensional poverty status for each dataset. …”
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Exploring barriers and facilitators of vaginal birth after caesarean section (VBAC), awareness, and preferences among females in Western Saudi Arabia by Daniyah Aloufi, Omar Saggaf, Zainab Ali Alkhalifah, Hassan Alalawi, Nadia Alhazmi

“…The participants completed a self-administered questionnaire, which covered general information, knowledge about VBAC, and factors influencing their decision. Statistical analysis employed Chi-squared, Independent T-Test, and ANOVA. …”
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Conceptual and Simulated Semi-Automatic Urban Waste Management System using Global Systems for Mobile Communication and Customer Reliability Indices by L. Ogunwolu, A.D. Omiyale, O.O.E. Ajibola

“…Results obtained showed statistically insignificant differences in distribution of means of collection distance covered weekly but 13.31 volume units/km collected with this method compared with 3.08 volume units/km run of fixed routing scheme, at = 0.05. …”
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Effect of laser and light emitting diode bleaching techniques on micro-leakage of dental composite postoperatively using two different bonding systems by Shalaw S. Jawhar, Bassam K. Amin

“…When the scores of micro-leakage of the six subgroups were compared, the differences among the groups were found to be statistically significant (p < 0.001). there was no significant difference found between the adhesive systems after treatment with the same bleaching techniques. …”
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An exploratory study of the tax rate reconciliation disclosures of JSE listed companies by Rudie Nel, Anja van Niekerk

“…Methods: The exploratory study employed descriptive statistics and a mixed-model analysis of variance in pursuit of three objectives: (1) to describe the trend in tax rate reconciling items from 2015 to 2022 to identify possible sources of fluctuations, (2) to analyse variances in effective tax rates based on fair value adjustments and (3) to analyse variances in effective tax rates based on disclosure format (numeric vs. percentage). …”
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Digital health literacy and sociodemographic factors among students in western Iran: a cross-sectional study by Fatemeh Darabi, Arash Ziapour, Hassan Ahmadinia

“…Methods The present research was a descriptive-cross-sectional study conducted between May to June 2024. The statistical population included 500 students from the following Iranian universities in Asadabad county: Islamic Azad University, Payame Noor University, Technical and Vocational College, and Asadabad School of Medical Sciences. …”
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Investigating challenges and opportunities to achieve SDG 6: a study of Benin City, Nigeria by Ruth Ogbonmwan, Furat Al-Faraj

“…The data were analyzed using Microsoft Excel and Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS version 27.0) software application. …”
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