Potential for pork production in the Czech Republic by Michal MALÝ, Zdeňka KROUPOVÁ, Dana ŽÍDKOVÁ, Jarmila PETEROVÁ, Lenka ŠOBROVÁ, Lukáš ČECHURA, Ludmila PÁNKOVÁ, Jiří MACH, Zuzana KŘÍSTKOVÁ, Tomáš MAIER, Jan HUČKO

“…The model was specified as a fixed effect model, and the parameters of the function were estimated by the method of least squares dummy variable, based on the ordinary least squares method. …”
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Monitoring and moderating extreme indoor temperatures in low-income urban communities by R L Wilby, R Kasei, K V Gough, E F Amankwaa, M Abarike, N J Anderson, S N A Codjoe, P Griffiths, C Kaba, K Abdullah, S Kayaga, T Matthews, P Mensah, C Murphy, P W K Yankson

“…Our data reveal indoor temperatures in the range 22.4 °C to 45.9 °C for Accra, and 22.2 °C to 43.0 °C in Tamale. Using dummy regression analysis, we find that tree shade reduces the number of very hot days (>40 °C) and nights (>30 °C) by about 12 and 15 d per year, respectively. …”
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Psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression without psychedelic effects: study protocol for a 4-week, double-blind, proof-of-concept randomised controlled trial by Muhammad Ishrat Husain, Daniel M. Blumberger, David J. Castle, Nicole Ledwos, Elise Fellows, Brett D. M. Jones, Abigail Ortiz, Stefan Kloiber, Wei Wang, Joshua D. Rosenblat, Benoit H. Mulsant

“…Method In a 4-week, three-arm, ‘double dummy’ trial, 60 adults with TRD will be randomised to psilocybin 25 mg plus risperidone 1 mg, psilocybin 25 mg plus placebo, or placebo plus risperidone 1 mg. …”
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Mathematical system based on taper functions for distribution by structural product of culms in three giant bamboo taxa by Casimiro ORDÓÑEZ-PRADO, Juan C. TAMARIT-URIAS, Adan NAVA-NAVA, Melchor RODRÍGUEZ-ACOSTA, Martha E. FUENTES-LÓPEZ

“…The fitting strategy consisted of a system of additive equations using Weighted-Nonlinear Seemingly Unrelated Regression (WNSUR) procedure with autocorrelation correction, in combination with the Dummy Variable technique. Main results: The Fang & Bailey case 1-a model was selected to describe the diameter over and under wall; the Cao and Papper model was used to model the wall thickness. …”
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Cranial Shape Measurements Obtained Using a Caliper and Elastic Bands Are Useful for Brachycephaly and Deformational Plagiocephaly Screening by Taishin Maedomari, Hiroshi Miyabayashi, Yukari Tanaka, Chihiro Mukai, Aya Nakanomori, Katsuya Saito, Risa Kato, Takanori Noto, Nobuhiko Nagano, Ichiro Morioka

“…Intra- and inter-examiner accuracy analyses were performed on a dummy doll and 1-month-old infants. The measurements of healthy 1-month-old infants were compared with previously reported three-dimensional scanner measurements. …”
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Plain language summary: clinical trial of BI 1015550 as a potential treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis by Luca Richeldi, Arata Azuma, Vincent Cottin, Christian Hesslinger, Susanne Stowasser, Claudia Valenzuela, Marlies S Wijsenbeek, Donald F Zoz, Florian Voss, Toby M Maher

“…It compared BI 1015550 to placebo (a dummy drug that does not contain any active ingredients) to investigate the effectiveness of the drug in treating people with IPF. …”

Perceived effectiveness of larger graphic health warnings and plain packaging among urban and rural adolescents and adults of Delhi and Telangana, India by Tina Rawal, Gaurang P. Nazar, Sindhu Ravishankar, Nathan Grills, Premila Webster, Monika Arora

“…Separate FGDs were conducted with adults (male and female) and children (boys and girls) in selected urban and rural communities in Delhi and Telangana in 2016. Four dummy tobacco packs categories [A-40% old GHWs, B-40% new GHWs, C-85% new GHWs; D-85% new GHWs with plain pack] were shown. …”
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Comparable safety and non-inferior immunogenicity of the SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine candidate PTX-COVID19-B and BNT162b2 in a phase 2 randomized, observer-blinded study by Lawrence Reiter, Johann Greffrath, Bian Zidel, Mario Ostrowski, Jennifer Gommerman, Shabir A. Madhi, Richard Tran, Natalia Martin-Orozco, Rajesh Krishnan Gopalakrishna Panicker, Curtis Cooper, Aleksandra Pastrak

“…This observer-blind, double-dummy, randomized immunobridging phase 2 study (NCT05175742) aimed to compare the immunogenicity induced by two doses of 40 μg PTX-COVID19-B vaccine candidate administered 28 days apart, with the response induced by two doses of 30 µg Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine (BNT162b2), administered 21 days apart, in Nucleocapsid-protein seronegative adults 18–64 years of age. …”
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Spatial and socioeconomic inequalities in the access to safe drinking water in Peruvian households by Ali Al-kassab-Córdova, Claudia Silva-Perez, Pamela Robles-Valcarcel, Guido Bendezu-Quispe, Amado Insfrán Ortiz, Vicente A. Benites-Zapata

“…Access to safe drinking water was a dummy variable categorised as safe if the residual chlorine concentration was ≥0.5 mg/L. …”
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PRODUCTION AND INCOME ANALYSIS OF DRIED FISH BUSINESS IN BENGKULU CITY by Bambang Sumantri, Irnad, Winta Septria, Melly Suryanti, Widya Kartika Laksmawati

“…The results of the T-test on the production model of the business of making salted dried fish have three influential factors, namely Raw Materials (BB), Labor (TK), and Dummy (D). The dry fish production model only has one factor that has a significant effect, namely Raw Materials (BB). (2) Based on the results of the analysis, the costs incurred for the production of salted dried fish are IDR 2,874,932/week and the costs incurred for the production of fresh dried fish are IDR2,392,144/week. …”
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Increased songbird nest depredation due to Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis) encroachment in Mediterranean shrubland by Asaf Ben-David, Hila Shamon, Ido Izhaki, Ronny Efronny, Roi Maor, Tamar Dayan

“…We examined direct and indirect predation pressures through a gradients of pine density, using four methods: (1) placing dummy nests; (2) acoustic monitoring of mobbing events; (3) direct observations on nest predation using cameras; and (4) observation of Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius) behaviour as indirect evidence of predation risk. …”
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Younger adults are more prosocial than older adults in economic decision making results from the give and take game by Agnès Falco, Anne-Claire Rattat, Isabelle Paul, Cédric Albinet

“…In the “Give-and-Take Game”, a sum of money was randomly distributed between the participant and a dummy player. These distributions created monetary inequalities, advantageous either for the participant (to examine advantageous inequity aversion) or for the other player (to examine disadvantageous inequity aversion). …”
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Fault Injection Attacks in Spiking Neural Networks and Countermeasures by Karthikeyan Nagarajan, Junde Li, Sina Sayyah Ensan, Sachhidh Kannan, Swaroop Ghosh

“…We also propose hardware-level defenses, e.g., a robust current driver design that is immune to power-oriented attacks, improved circuit sizing of neuron components to reduce/recover the adversarial accuracy degradation at the cost of negligible area, and 25% power overhead. We also propose a dummy neuron-based detection of voltage fault injection at ∼1% power and area overhead each.…”
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Impact of Patent Signal on Firm’s Performance at IPO: An Empirical Analysis of Japanese Firms by Le Thuy Ngoc An, Yoshiyuki Matsuura, Mohammad Ali Tareq, Nurhayati Md Issa, Norliza Che-Yahya

“…Using OECD industry categorization to classify high-tech and low-tech IPOs, our OLS result found that the interaction impact between the high-tech dummy and the quantity of patent applications before IPO is significantly negative to the amount of cash generated at IPO. …”
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Experimental Analysis to Detect Corona COVID-19 Virus Symptoms in Male Patients through Breath Pattern Using Machine Learning Algorithms by Abdulilah Mohammad Mayet, Neeraj Kumar Shukla, M. Ramkumar Raja, Ijaz Ahmad, Ramy Mohammed Aiesh Qaisi, Ali Awadh Al-Qahtani, Anita Taparwal, Vineet Tirth, Reem AL-Dossary

“…An experimental study has been performed on a dummy dataset with 11000 entries of various breadth patterns based on the spirometry analysis, lung volume analysis, and lung capacity analysis of normal male subjects and detailed breath patterns of infected male patients. …”
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Integrated traditional Chinese and conventional medicine in treatment of severe community-acquired pneumonia: study protocol for a randomized placebo-controlled trial by Haifeng Wang, Jiansheng Li, Xueqing Yu, Su-yun Li

“…Methods/design A prospective, multi-center, single-blinded, double-dummy, and randomized controlled clinical trial is being conducted to test the therapeutic effects of a combination of conventional medicine and TCM versus conventional medicine in the treatment of SCAP. …”
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SDGs and ESG disclosure regulation: is there an impact? Evidence from Top-50 world economies by Alex Plastun, Inna Makarenko, Lyudmila Khomutenko, Oksana Osetrova, Pavlo Shcherbakov

“…Applying various statistical methods and techniques, including both parametrical (Student’s t-test, ANOVA analysis) and non-parametrical (Mann-Whitney U test) tests, simple average analysis, OLS with dummy variables method and multiple linear regression analysis, as well as correlation analysis and Granger causality test, several hypotheses are tested. …”
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A causal modelling framework for short-term effects of PM2.5 on hospitalisations: A nationwide time series study in Brazil by Yuming Guo, Yao Wu, Tingting Ye, Lei Zhang, Amanda Johnson, Shanshan Li

“…Variables which do not change within a short-period were controlled using a dummy variable for the day. Controls for variables which vary day by day, were included in the model. …”
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L-Acetylcarnitine in dysthymic disorder in elderly patients: a double-blind, multicenter, controlled randomized study vs. fluoxetine by Giuseppe Bersania, Giuseppe Meco, Alessandro Denaro, Damien Liberati, Chiara Colletti, Raffaella Nicolai, Francesco Saverio Bersania, Aleardo Koverech

“…Multicentric, double-blind, double-dummy, controlled, randomized study based on a observation period of 7 weeks. 80 patients with DSM-IV diagnosis of dysthymic disorder were enrolled in the study and subdivided into 2 groups. …”
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γ-Linolenic Acid versus α-Lipoic Acid for Treating Painful Diabetic Neuropathy in Adults: A 12-Week, Double-Placebo, Randomized, Noninferiority Trial by Jong Chul Won, Hyuk-Sang Kwon, Seong-Su Moon, Sung Wan Chun, Chong Hwa Kim, Ie Byung Park, In Joo Kim, Jihyun Lee, Bong Yun Cha, Tae Sun Park

“…BackgroundThis study was a multicenter, parallel-group, double-blind, double-dummy, randomized, noninferiority trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of γ-linolenic acid (GLA) relative to α-lipoic acid (ALA) over a 12-week treatment period in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients with painful diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN).MethodsThis study included 100 T2DM patients between 20 and 75 years of age who had painful DPN and received either GLA (320 mg/day) and placebo or ALA (600 mg/day) and placebo for 12 weeks. …”
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