Large and small financial incentives may motivate COVID-19 vaccination: A randomized, controlled survey experiment. by Jessica Fishman, David S Mandell, Mandy K Salmon, Molly Candon

“…<h4>Methods</h4>In 2021, we conducted a randomized, controlled experiment among U.S. residents with incomes below $80,000 who reported being unvaccinated against COVID-19. …”
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Lineage-specific symbionts mediate differential coral responses to thermal stress by Chenying Wang, Xinqing Zheng, Hagit Kvitt, Huaxia Sheng, Danye Sun, Gaofeng Niu, Dan Tchernov, Tuo Shi

“…Here, using Pocillopora damicornis harboring genotypically distinct Symbiodiniaceae strains, we examined the physiological responses of the coral holobiont and the dynamics of symbiont community change under thermal stress in a laboratory-controlled experiment. Results We found that P. damicornis dominated with symbionts of metahaplotype D1-D4-D6 in the genus Durusdinium (i.e., PdD holobiont) was more robust to thermal stress than its counterpart with symbionts of metahaplotype C42-C1-C1b-C1c in the genus Cladocopium (i.e., PdC holobiont). …”
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Screening Diabetic Retinopathy Using an Automated Retinal Image Analysis System in Independent and Assistive Use Cases in Mexico: Randomized Controlled Trial by Alejandro Noriega, Daniela Meizner, Dalia Camacho, Jennifer Enciso, Hugo Quiroz-Mercado, Virgilio Morales-Canton, Abdullah Almaatouq, Alex Pentland

“…MethodsA randomized controlled experiment was performed where 17 ophthalmologists were asked to classify a series of retinal fundus images under 3 different conditions. …”
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Modulating the RFamide-related peptide-3/G protein-coupled receptor 147 signaling pathway with nourishing Yin-removing fire herbal mixture to alleviate precocious puberty in female... by Xiaoli Dai, Yuanyuan He, Suhuan Li, Yanyan Sun, Wen Sun, Zhanzhuang Tian, Ph.D., Jian Yu, Ph.D., Nurgul Ablakimova, Yonghong Wang

“…Materials and Methods: In a controlled experiment, 24 female Sprague-Dawley rats (11.20 ± 0.69 gr, postnatal day [PD5]) were divided into normal, model, normal saline, and NYRF groups (n = 6/each). …”
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Respiratory sinus arrhythmia during biofeedback is linked to persistent improvements in attention, short-term memory, and positive self-referential episodic memory by Lukas Bögge, Itsaso Colás-Blanco, Pascale Piolino, Pascale Piolino

“…Twenty-two young healthy adults were subjected to a blinded randomized placebo-controlled experiment, including six self-regulation training sessions, to evaluate the effect of biofeedback on autonomic and cognitive changes. …”
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Silicon and Gibberellins: Synergistic Function in Harnessing ABA Signaling and Heat Stress Tolerance in Date Palm (<i>Phoenix dactylifera</i> L.) by Adil Khan, Saqib Bilal, Abdul Latif Khan, Muhammad Imran, Raheem Shahzad, Ahmed Al-Harrasi, Ahmed Al-Rawahi, Masood Al-Azhri, Tapan Kumar Mohanta, In-Jung Lee

“…Date palm is one of the most economically vital fruit crops in North African and Middle East countries, including Oman. A controlled experiment was conducted to investigate the integrative effects of silicon (Si) and gibberellic acid (GA₃) on date palm growth and heat stress. …”
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Effect of Negative Online Reviews and Physician Responses on Health Consumers’ Choice: Experimental Study by Xi Han, Yongxi Lin, Wenting Han, Ke Liao, Kefu Mei

“…MethodsUsing a 2×2×2 between-subject decision-controlled experiment, this study examined participants’ judgment on physicians with different textual reviews. …”
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Empirical Model of Pre-University by A. I. Bolvachev, K. I. Kushnarev

“…To analyze the subjective effectiveness of the pre-university as a form of education, a controlled experiment was conducted.Research results. The following results were obtained and summarized:The activities of the pre-university are closely related to career guidance. …”
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Coordination among Water Transport, Photosynthesis and Nutrition under Climate Change: Stronger Responses of a Native than an Invasive Herb by Jin-Hua Qi, Qiao-Shun Yan, Rafa Tasnim, Lan Zhang, Pei-Li Fu, Ze-Xin Fan, Yong-Jiang Zhang

“…Here we tested how these processes will respond to elevated CO₂ concentration ([CO₂]) and temperatures for two herbaceous species (an invasive and a native <i>Eupatorium</i> species in East Asia; family Asteraceae) and whether these processes are coordinated using a controlled experiment. We also investigated the differences between these two species, and the structural basis for changes in physiology. …”
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A Comparative Study of VLF Transmitter Signal Measurements and Simulations during Two Solar Eclipse Events by Wen Cheng, Wei Xu, Xudong Gu, Shiwei Wang, Qingshan Wang, Binbin Ni, Zilong Lu, Binxiao Xiao, Xiaoyu Meng

“…Each solar eclipse event represents a naturally occurring controlled experiment, but these two events are unique in that similar levels of electron density variation occurred at different locations along the VLF propagation path. …”
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<i>Bifidobacterium longum subsp. longum</i> OLP-01 Supplementation during Endurance Running Training Improves Exercise Performance in Middle- and Long-Distance Runners: A Double-Bl... by Che-Li Lin, Yi-Ju Hsu, Hsieh-Hsun Ho, Yung-Cheng Chang, Yi-Wei Kuo, Yao-Tsung Yeh, Shin-Yu Tsai, Ching-Wei Chen, Jui-Fen Chen, Chi-Chang Huang, Mon-Chien Lee

“…The study was designed as a double-blind placebo-controlled experiment. Twenty-one subjects (14 males and seven females aged 20–30 years) were evenly distributed according to total distance (meters) traveled in 12 min to one of the following two groups: a placebo group (seven males and three females) and an OLP-01 (1.5 × 10¹⁰ colony forming units (CFU)/day) group (seven males and four females). …”
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Antioxidant responses and plasma biochemical characteristics in the freshwater rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, after acute exposure to the fungicide propiconazole by Z.-H. Li, V. Zlabek, J. Velíšek, R. Grabic, J. Machová, J. Kolařová, P. Li, T. Randák

“…Thus, PCZ exposure changed the oxidative stress indices and plasma characteristics, and these changes may be used as potential bioindicators of the exposure and effect of PCZ in the controlled experiment. The use in monitoring of PCZ exposure under natural field conditions is possible, but it needs further investigations.…”
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Mitigating Children’s Pain and Anxiety during Blood Draw Using Social Robots by Matthijs H. J. Smakman, Koen Smit, Lotte Buser, Tom Monshouwer, Nigel van Putten, Thymen Trip, Coen Schoof, Daniel F. Preciado, Elly A. Konijn, Esther M. van der Roest, Wouter M. Tiel Groenestege

“…Next, we designed a randomized controlled experiment in which the social robot was applied as a distraction method to measure its capacity to mitigate pain and anxiety in children during blood draw in a children’s hospital setting. …”
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Three-dimensional modelling of coral reefs for structural complexity analysis by Young, G

“…Like HAS, the 3D metrics explained 12-34% of variation in the fish data. A controlled experiment furthermore tested how 1/k affected sessile epibenthic organism settlement around Utila after one year. …”

On the accuracy of code complexity metrics: A neuroscience-based guideline for improvement by Gao Hao, Haytham Hijazi, João Durães, Júlio Medeiros, Ricardo Couceiro, Chan Tong Lam, César Teixeira, João Castelhano, Miguel Castelo Branco, Paulo Carvalho, Henrique Madeira

“…This article investigates the problem of measuring code complexity and discusses the results of a controlled experiment to compare different views and methods to measure code complexity. …”
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Quantifying the effects of stripe rust disease on wheat canopy spectrum based on eliminating non-physiological stresses by Xia Jing, Kaiqi Du, Weina Duan, Qin Zou, Tingting Zhao, Bingyu Li, Qixing Ye, Lieshen Yan

“…The increase in precision in the natural disease area in the field in the presence of large differences in growth stage, growth, planting, and management of the crop was greater than that in the controlled experiment. For low disease levels (SL < 20%), the R2 of the regression of NDVI-DID on SL was 38.8% higher than that of the NDVI and the root mean square error (RMSE) was reduced by 11.1%. …”
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Effects of Imazapyr on <i>Spartina alterniflora</i> and Soil Bacterial Communities in a Mangrove Wetland by Xue Mo, Panpan Dong, Lumeng Xie, Yujiao Xiu, Yanqi Wang, Bo Wu, Jiakai Liu, Xiuhua Song, Mingxiang Zhang, Zhenming Zhang

“…This study aimed to validate the effect of imazapyr on <i>S. alterniflora</i> and soil. The controlled experiment was conducted in May 2021 at the Zhangjiangkou Mangrove Wetland Reserve. …”
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Redução da dor crônica associada à escoliose não estrutural, em universitárias submetidas ao método Pilates Reduction of the chronic pain associated to the scoliosis non structural... by Maria Erivânia Alves de Araújo, Elirez Bezerra da Silva, Pollyana Coelho Vieira, Samária Ali Cader, Danielli Braga de Mello, Estélio Henrique Martin Dantas

“…Method: 31 academical subjects participated in the clinical aleatorical controlled experiment study, under age between 18 and 25 years, with diagnosis of non structural scoliosis and presenting chronic pain in the spine. …”
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Active versus sham DLPFC-NAc rTMS for depressed adolescents with anhedonia using resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI): a study protocol for a randomized place... by Runxin Lv, Min Cai, Nailong Tang, Yifan Shi, Yuyu Zhang, Nian Liu, Tianle Han, Yaochi Zhang, Huaning Wang

“…Methods The aim of this article is to provide a study protocol for a parallel-group randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled experiment. The study will involve 88 participants who will be randomly assigned to receive either active rTMS or sham rTMS. …”
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On-farm evaluation of multiparametric models to predict subacute ruminal acidosis in dairy cows by M. Coppa, C. Villot, C. Martin, M. Silberberg

“…This research aimed: (i) to evaluate on-farm (FARM data) multiparametric models developed under controlled experiment (INRAE data) and based on non-invasive indicators to detect subacute ruminal acidosis (SARA) in dairy cows. …”
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