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Preventing cardiotoxicity in patients with breast cancer and lymphoma: protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial (PROACT) (2022)
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Introduction: Anthracyclines are included in chemotherapy regimens to treat several different types of cancer and are extremely effective. However, it is recognised that a significant side effect is cardiotoxicity; anthracyclines can cause irreversib... Read More about Preventing cardiotoxicity in patients with breast cancer and lymphoma: protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial (PROACT).

Bedsharing may partially explain the reduced risk of sleep-related death in breastfed infants (2022)
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Digital health tools to support parents with parent-infant sleep and mental well-being (2022)
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Digital technology is increasingly important in people’s lives, particularly for new parents as it allows them to access information, stay connected to peers and offers them seductive solutions for improving infant sleep and parental well-being. Digi... Read More about Digital health tools to support parents with parent-infant sleep and mental well-being.

Using Random Effect Models to Produce Robust Estimates of Death Rates in COVID-19 Data (2022)
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Tracking the progress of an infectious disease is critical during a pandemic. However, the incubation period, diagnosis, and treatment most often cause uncertainties in the reporting of both cases and deaths, leading in turn to unreliable death rates... Read More about Using Random Effect Models to Produce Robust Estimates of Death Rates in COVID-19 Data.

Definitions of Solitude in Everyday Life (2022)
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Abstract What does it mean to be in solitude? Researchers building this nascent field are learning much about the potential affordances of solitude, but lack an agreed-upon definition or set of definitions. Arriving at that meaning is crucial to form... Read More about Definitions of Solitude in Everyday Life.

Exploring task design to promote discipline-specific reasoning in primary English (2022)
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This paper draws upon a growing body of research emphasising the importance and prevalence of domain-specific practices in teaching and learning. Different disciplines have their own reasoning practices, conceptualised as reasoning styles, which are... Read More about Exploring task design to promote discipline-specific reasoning in primary English.

Friendships in children with Williams syndrome: Parent and child perspectives (2022)
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Although children with Williams syndrome (WS) are strongly socially motivated, many have friendship difficulties. The parents of 21 children with WS and 20 of the children themselves participated in a semi-structured interview about the children’s fr... Read More about Friendships in children with Williams syndrome: Parent and child perspectives.

A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals (2022)
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It is widely believed that juvenile male mammals typically engage in higher rates of rough and tumble play (RTP) than do females, in preparation for adult roles involving intense physical competition between males. The consistency of this sex differe... Read More about A systematic review of sex differences in rough and tumble play across non-human mammals.

Bed-sharing and SIDS: an evidence-based approach (2022)
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We read with interest the viewpoint article ‘Bed-sharing is a risk for sudden unexpected death in infancy’ written by David Tappin and his colleagues1 and feel the issues raised and some of the claims made need contextualising. Essentially this is a... Read More about Bed-sharing and SIDS: an evidence-based approach.

The effect of swaddling on infant sleep and arousal: A systematic review and narrative synthesis (2022)
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To explore the effect of swaddling on infant sleep and arousal in infants under 12 months of age we conducted a systematic review of the evidence published over the past 15 years since the review of van Sleuwen et al. (1). This previous review conclu... Read More about The effect of swaddling on infant sleep and arousal: A systematic review and narrative synthesis.

(Super-)cultural clustering explains gender differences too (2022)
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The target paper shows how cultural adaptations to ecological problems can underpin “paradoxical” patterns of phenotypic variation. We argue: (1) Gendered social learning is a cultural adaptation to an ecological problem. (2) In evolutionarily novel... Read More about (Super-)cultural clustering explains gender differences too.

Discussion of signature‐based models of preventive maintenance (2022)
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As a contribution to the discussion of the paper An overview of some classical models and discussion of the signature-based models of preventive maintenance,1 we consider the assumption of exchangeability of the failure times of components in systems... Read More about Discussion of signature‐based models of preventive maintenance.

Smoothed Bootstrap for Right-Censored Data (2023)
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A smoothed bootstrap method is introduced for right-censored data based on the right-censoring-A(n) assumption introduced by Coolen and Yan, which is a generalization of Hill’s A(n) assumption for right-censored data. The smoothed bootstrap method is... Read More about Smoothed Bootstrap for Right-Censored Data.

Courts Without Separation of Powers: The Case of Judicial Suggestions in China (2023)
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Like courts everywhere else, socialist courts are tasked with settling disputes. Their decisions are backed by the force of law. But unlike courts everywhere else, socialist courts are also required to support official ideology and policies. They are... Read More about Courts Without Separation of Powers: The Case of Judicial Suggestions in China.

Neuromuscular‐blocking agents for tracheal intubation in pediatric patients (0‐12 years): A systematic review and meta‐analysis (2019)
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Moving on From the Delphi Study: The Development of a Physical Activity Training Programme Prototype Through Co-produced Qualitative Research (2022)
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This research developed from a co-produced project called Moving Social Work. The purpose of this ongoing project is to train social workers in how to promote physical activity for and to disabled people. The first stage of the project consisted of b... Read More about Moving on From the Delphi Study: The Development of a Physical Activity Training Programme Prototype Through Co-produced Qualitative Research.

Precision of the GE Lunar total body-less head scan for the measurement of three-compartment body composition in athletes (2022)
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Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is widely used for the assessment of lean mass (LM), fat mass (FM) and bone mineral content (BMC). When observing standardised protocols, DXA has a high level of precision for the assessment of total body compos... Read More about Precision of the GE Lunar total body-less head scan for the measurement of three-compartment body composition in athletes.

Mitigating the impact of air pollution on dementia and brain health: Setting the policy agenda (2022)
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Background Emerging research suggests exposure to high levels of air pollution at critical points in the life-course is detrimental to brain health, including cognitive decline and dementia. Social determinants play a significant role, including soci... Read More about Mitigating the impact of air pollution on dementia and brain health: Setting the policy agenda.

Privacy nudges for disclosure of personal information: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis (2021)
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Objective Digital nudging has been mooted as a tool to alter user privacy behavior. However, empirical studies on digital nudging have yielded divergent results: while some studies found nudging to be highly effective, other studies found no such eff... Read More about Privacy nudges for disclosure of personal information: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis.

Approachable modeling and smart methods: a new methods field of study (2022)
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Advances in the integration of smart technology with interdisciplinary methods has created a new genre, approachable modeling and smart methods – AM-Smart for short. AM-Smart platforms address a major challenge for applied and public sector analysts,... Read More about Approachable modeling and smart methods: a new methods field of study.