Methods of blinding in reports of randomized controlled trials assessing pharmacologic treatments: a systematic review. by Isabelle Boutron, Candice Estellat, Lydia Guittet, Agnes Dechartres, David L Sackett, Asbjørn Hróbjartsson, Philippe Ravaud

“…The methods reported for blinding outcome assessors mainly relied on a centralized assessment of complementary investigations, clinical examination (i.e., use of video, audiotape, or photography), or adjudication of clinical events.…”
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Modeling the land-use correlates of vehicle-trip lengths for assessing the transportation impacts of land developments by Sivaramakrishnan Srinivasan, Russell Provost, Ruth Steiner

“…High residential densities and a good mix of complementary land uses are associated with shorter trips. …”
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An Assessment of the Quality of Groundwater in a Textile Dyeing Industrial Area in Erode City, Tamilnadu, India by P. N. Palanisamy, S. K. Kavitha

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Assessing the Impact of Industrial Areas on Rural Development (Case Study of Kheirabad Village of Markazi Province) by masoudeh nikooie fard

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Sustainable development goals, disaster risk management, and indigenous knowledge: a critical assessment of the interlinkages by Henry Ngenyam Bang

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Assessing the Diagnostic Utility of FDG-PET and HPLC for Detecting Microglia Activation and Inflammation in Alzheimer’s Disease by Sayed Mehrdad Azimi, Mohammadreza Elhaie, Iraj Abedi, Hossein Salehi

“…The combined use of FDG-PET and HPLC promises a comprehensive AD diagnostic approach by offering unique, complementary insights into functional and molecular brain changes. …”
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Exploring the relationship between posture-dependent airway assessment in orthodontics: insights from kinetic MRI, cephalometric data, and three-dimensional MRI analysis by Naoki Oka, Janvier Habumugisha, Masahiro Nakamura, Tomoki Kataoka, Atsuro Fujisawa, Noriaki Kawanabe, Takashi Izawa, Hiroshi Kamioka

“…Our study highlights the complementary nature of kinetic MRI and cephalometric imaging, as both provide valuable information for airway assessment and exhibit significant correlations with 3D MRI data.…”
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Assessing river discharge dynamics through relative surface water extent changes in river basins by Feng Mao, Margaret Shanafield, Val Ouellet, David M. Hannah, Stefan Krause

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Land Use Around Airports: Policies and Methods for Third-Party Risk Assessment—A Review by Paola Di Mascio, Raducu Dinu, Giuseppe Loprencipe, Laura Moretti

“…Individual third-party risk assessment of airport operations serves as a complementary tool to these regulations, providing means to assess and manage land-use compatibility and control activities near airport perimeters. …”
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Interictal functional connectivity of human epileptic networks assessed by intracerebral EEG and BOLD signal fluctuations. by Gaelle Bettus, Jean-Philippe Ranjeva, Fabrice Wendling, Christian G Bénar, Sylviane Confort-Gouny, Jean Régis, Patrick Chauvel, Patrick J Cozzone, Louis Lemieux, Fabrice Bartolomei, Maxime Guye

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The Nexus between International Humanitarian Law and Peacebuilding in Africa: A Comprehensive Assessment of Preventive Mechanisms by Abraham Ename Minko

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Assessment of Margin Status in Feline Mastectomy: Predictive Factors and Agreement Between Intraoperative Cytology and Histopathology by João Martins, Rute Penim, José Dos-Santos, Joana Fonseca, Pedro Faísca, Liege Martins, Nuno Leal, José Catarino, Patrícia C. Cabral, Sónia Campos

“…This study aimed to determine the agreement between margin status in feline mammary tumors’ surgery by comparing 3 margin assessment techniques and to determine the predictive value of prognostic clinical and histological parameters for margin status using intraoperative margin assessment techniques. …”
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Ab initio modeling of the herpesvirus VP26 core domain assessed by CryoEM density. by Matthew L Baker, Wen Jiang, William J Wedemeyer, Frazer J Rixon, David Baker, Wah Chiu

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Measurement tools and indicators for assessing nurturing care for early childhood development: A scoping review. by Joshua Jeong, Lilia Bliznashka, Eileen Sullivan, Elizabeth Hentschel, Youngkwang Jeon, Kathleen L Strong, Bernadette Daelmans

“…Additional research is needed in order to establish the most optimal measures and indicators for assessing nurturing care, especially for early learning and responsive caregiving.…”
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Risk of Bias Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies Using QUADAS 2 by Large Language Models by Daniel-Corneliu Leucuța, Andrada Elena Urda-Cîmpean, Dan Istrate, Tudor Drugan

“…The risk of bias (RoB) for these studies is commonly assessed using the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (QUADAS) tool. …”
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GEODES: Geometric Descriptors for the Assessment of Global and Local Flexibility of Proteins During Molecular Dynamics Simulation by Karina Pats, Igor Glukhov, Stepan Petrosian, Maria Mamaeva, Alexey Sergushichev, Marie-Dominique Devignes, Ferdinand Molnar

“…Two widely used metrics for assessing these simulations are RMSD and RMSF. While RMSD measures conformational convergence, it suffers from degeneracy, where different conformations can produce identical values relative to a reference. …”
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American Indian community engagement and the structural and social determinants of health: results from the THRIVE assessment by Kellie Webb, Sadie Posey, Katherine Hirchak, Emily Beamon, Kelley Milligan, Sharon Wagon, Bethany Fatupaito, Allyson Kelley

“…The community-adapted THRIVE assessment examined the underlying factors of people, places, and opportunities that contribute to health inequities in the community. …”
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Research impact assessment of a Canadian digital health funding program: a case study by Jessica Nadigel, Bahar Kasaai, Halla Thorsteinsdóttir, Susan Rogers, Meghan McMahon, R. Jane Rylett, Richard H. Glazier

“…Methods This study applied two complementary frameworks, the Canadian Academy of Heath Science’s (CAHS) Making an Impact Framework and the Canadian Health Services and Policy Research Alliance’s (CHSPRA) Informing Decision-Making Framework, to assess the research impact of the eHIPP program, funded from 2015 to 2021. …”
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The Added Value of Digital Body Chart Pain Surface Assessment as an Objective Biomarker: Multicohort Study by Maxime Billot, Amine Ounajim, Maarten Moens, Lisa Goudman, Jean-Philippe Deneuville, Manuel Roulaud, Kévin Nivole, Mathilde Many, Sandrine Baron, Bertille Lorgeoux, Bénédicte Bouche, Lucie Lampert, Romain David, Philippe Rigoard

“…ConclusionsThis study showed that pain intensity and pain surface provide complementary and distinct information that would help to improve pain assessment. …”
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Composite cardiac computed tomography angiography score for improved risk assessment in chronic coronary syndromes by Subin Lee, Alexander Giesen, Dimitrios Mouselimis, Loris Weichsel, Andreas A. Giannopoulos, Max Nunninger, Matthias Renker, Florian André, Norbert Frey, Grigorios Korosoglou

“…Abstract Agatston score, the degree of lumen narrowing categorized by CAD-RADS, high-risk atherosclerotic plaque features and pericoronary adipose tissue attenuation (PCAT) are parameters, which can be assessed non-invasively by coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) and aid risk stratification in patients with chronic coronary syndromes (CCS). …”
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