Correct usage, ease of use, and preference of two dry powder inhalers in patients with COPD: analysis of five phase III, randomized trials by Riley JH, Tabberer M, Richard N, Donald A, Church A, Harris SS

“…In three 6-month, blinded double-dummy, active comparator studies (two Phase IIIa and one Phase IIIb), patients completed a COPD device preference questionnaire between the Ellipta™ DPI and the HandiHaler® at Day 168 (Week 24) or early withdrawal.Results: In the 3-month placebo-controlled studies, ≥98% of patients used the Ellipta™ DPI correctly and 99% of patients found the inhaler easy/very easy-to-use and the dose counter easy/very easy to read. …”
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Characteristics of the Chairman of Audit Committee and Timely Financial Reporting by Hirad Nazari, Iman Soukhakyan, Arash Tahriri

“…Also, to control the confounding effects of industries and different years, we added dummy variables to the regression models. We could examine the confounding influences of industries and years, and the model fits correctly. …”
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Treatment effect of lacidipine and amlodipine on clinic and ambulatory blood pressure and arteria stiffness in a randomised double-blind trial by Ying Wang, Yan Li, Yong Huo, Ji-Guang Wang

“…Materials and methods Previously untreated and treated patients (n = 269, 50–80 years of age) with clinic hypertension (a clinic systolic/diastolic BP 140–180/<110 mmHg and <160/100 mmHg, respectively) were randomly assigned to double-dummy treatment with lacidipine (4–6 mg/day) or amlodipine (5–7.5 mg/day) for 20 weeks. …”
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Foreign Direct Investment and Conditional Accounting Conservatism in South Asia by Isuru Manawadu, Anna Che Azmi, Mohamed Aslam

“…Also, the study confirmed that more incremental conditional accounting conservatism can be seen when using real FDI than when using a dummy FDI. This study extends the South Asian literature on conditional accounting conservatism and fills a gap in the empirical studies on FDI and conditional accounting conservatism. …”
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A simplified approach to the pooled analysis of calibration of clinical prediction rules for systematic reviews of validation studies by Dimitrov BD, Motterlini N, Fahey T

“…As confirmation, a logistic regression model (with derivation study coefficients) was applied to CPR-based dummy variables in the validation study. Meta-analysis of validation studies provided pooled estimates of &ldquo;predicted:observed&rdquo; risk ratios (RRs), 95% confidence intervals (CIs), and indexes of heterogeneity (I2) on forest plots (fixed and random effects models), with and without adjustment of intercepts. …”
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Seleção de espécies da floresta ombrófila densa e indicação da densidade de plantio na restauração florestal de áreas degradadas na Amazônia by Rafael Paiva Salomão, Antônio Cordeiro Santana, Sílvio Brienza Júnior

“…Objetivou-se neste trabalho apresentar um índice fitossociológico e socioeconômico (IFSE), obtido por técnicas de análise fatorial, cujo modelo envolveu seis variáveis quantitativas (abundância, frequência, dominância, biomassa, valor comercial da madeira e quantidade de produtos florestais não madeireiros) e igual número de variáveis qualitativas, cuja variável dummy assumiu valor igual a 1 para aquelas espécies cujos maiores valores acumulados equivaleram a 50 % do total para cada uma das variáveis quantitativas analisadas. …”
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Communicable Diseases (Including COVID-19)—Induced Global Depression: Caused by Inadequate Healthcare Expenditures, Population Density, and Mass Panic by Muhammad Khalid Anser, Zahid Yousaf, Muhammad Azhar Khan, Abdullah Zafar Sheikh, Abdelmohsen A. Nassani, Muhammad Moinuddin Qazi Abro, Khalid Zaman

“…In a given scenario, the study focused on the following key variables: communicable diseases, healthcare expenditures, population density, poverty, economic growth, and COVID-19 dummy variable in a panel of 76 selected countries from 2010 through 2019. …”
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Onset of action for loratadine tablets for the symptomatic control of seasonal allergic rhinitis in adults challenged with ragweed pollen in the Environmental Exposure Unit: a post... by Mark W. Tenn, Lisa M. Steacy, Charlene C. Ng, Anne K. Ellis

“…Methods A Phase IV, randomized, single-center, double-blind, placebo-controlled, double-dummy, four-way crossover study was conducted in the EEU. …”
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Socio-economic disadvantage and quality Antenatal Care (ANC) in Sierra Leone: Evidence from Demographic and Health Survey by Kwamena Sekyi Dickson, Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, Mawulorm Akpeke, Barbara Elorm Mottey, Kenneth Setorwu Adde, Kobina Esia-Donkoh

“…The scores 0 to 5 were labelled as “incomplete” and 6 was labelled as “complete” and this was used to create a dummy variable. In analysing the data, descriptive analysis was done using chi-square test as well as an inferential analysis using bivariate and multivariate models. …”
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Usability of an Eye Drop Delivery Aid for Single-Dose Instillation: Results from a Market Research Study by Lebrón Gutiérrez K, Thomas S, Martin JL, Dahlmann-Noor A

“…After assessing the ability to squeeze a single eye drop from the single-dose container onto the eye of a pediatric medical dummy, the delivery aid was evaluated using an 11-point Likert scale on a variety of characteristics: from “very difficult” (− 5) to “very easy” (+5).Results: The majority of participants rated the task of opening the single-dose units (SDUs), preparing, and positioning the Dropaid™ Single-dose device as “very easy”. …”
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Electrically-Small Antenna With Low SAR for Scalp and Deep Tissue Biomedical Devices by Syed Manaf Ali Shah, Muhammad Zada, Jamal Nasir, Owais Owais, Hyoungsuk Yoo

“…The performance of the proposed antenna was evaluated in three different simulation environments: homogeneous skin phantom (HSP), skin implant multilayer phantom (SIMP), and muscle implant multilayer phantom (MIMP) models with and without a dummy implantable wireless device (IMD). These models were considered to evaluate the performance of the proposed antenna in more realistic complex human body environments. …”
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Efficacy and safety of mepolizumab in Japanese patients with severe eosinophilic asthma by Terufumi Shimoda, Hiroshi Odajima, Arisa Okamasa, Minako Kawase, Masaki Komatsubara, Bhabita Mayer, Steven Yancey, Hector Ortega

“…Methods: A post hoc analysis of the Japanese subgroup from the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, double-dummy, Phase III MENSA trial (NCT01691521). Patients ≥12 years with severe eosinophilic asthma received mepolizumab 75 mg intravenously (IV), 100 mg subcutaneously (SC), or placebo, every 4 weeks for 32 weeks. …”
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Perceptual evaluation of approaches for binaural reproduction of non-spherical microphone array signals by Tim Lübeck, Sebastià V. Amengual Garí, Paul Calamia, David Lou Alon, Jeffery Crukley, Jeffery Crukley, Zamir Ben-Hur

“…In both listening experiments in which participants compared all approaches with a dummy head recording we applied non-head-tracked binaural synthesis, with sound sources only in the horizontal plane. …”
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Foreign Direct Investment and Conditional Accounting Conservatism in South Asia by Isuru Manawadu, Anna Che Azmi, Mohamed Aslam

“…Also, the study confirmed that more incremental conditional accounting conservatism can be seen when using real FDI than when using a dummy FDI. This study extends the South Asian literature on conditional accounting conservatism and fills a gap in the empirical studies on FDI and conditional accounting conservatism. …”
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Augmenting Speech Quality Estimation in Software-Defined Networking Using Machine Learning Algorithms by Jan Rozhon, Filip Rezac, Jakub Jalowiczor, Ladislav Behan

“…To achieve higher accuracy of the result, latency characteristics are added based on the exploiting of the dummy packet injection into the packet stream and/or RTCP packet analysis. …”
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Milk yield prediction at late lactation in reproductive rabbit does by Alberto Arnau-Bonachera, Concha Cervera, Enrique Blas, Juan José Pascual

“…The overlapping degree (OL) between current lactation and next pregnancy was included as a dummy variable, as well as their interactions with quantitative traits. …”
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Chlorproguanil-dapsone-artesunate versus artemether-lumefantrine: a randomized, double-blind phase III trial in African children and adolescents with uncomplicated Plasmodium falci... by Zul Premji, Rich E Umeh, Seth Owusu-Agyei, Fabian Esamai, Emmanuel U Ezedinachi, Stephen Oguche, Steffen Borrmann, Akintunde Sowunmi, Stephan Duparc, Paula L Kirby, Allan Pamba, Lynda Kellam, Robert Guiguemdé, Brian Greenwood, Stephen A Ward, Peter A Winstanley

“…This trial was a randomized parallel-group, double-blind, double-dummy study to compare CDA and artemether-lumefantrine (AL) efficacy in uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria and further define the CDA safety profile, particularly its hematological safety in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) -deficient patients. …”
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Pengaruh Integrasi Ekonomi Asean & Non Asean Terhadap Ekspor Komoditi Karet Indonesia: Trade Creation atau Trade Diversion by Anne Octaviani

“…Produk Domestik Bruto Negara Pengimpor tidak berpengaruh signifikan, Produk Domestik Bruto Indonesia, Jarak Ekonomis, Populasi, dan variabel Dummy (ASEAN) yang menjelaskan pengaruh trade creation dan trade diversion berpengaruh signifikan terhadap ekspor karet Indonesia. …”
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Foreign Direct Investment and Conditional Accounting Conservatism in South Asia by Isuru Manawadu, Anna Che Azmi, Mohamed Aslam

“…Also, the study confirmed that more incremental conditional accounting conservatism can be seen when using real FDI than when using a dummy FDI. This study extends the South Asian literature on conditional accounting conservatism and fills a gap in the empirical studies on FDI and conditional accounting conservatism. …”
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Triple therapy with salmeterol/fluticasone propionate 50/250 plus tiotropium bromide improve lung function versus individual treatments in moderate-to-severe Japanese COPD patients... by Saito T, Takeda A, Hashimoto K, Kobayashi A, Hayamizu T, Hagan GW

“…Patients and methods: Fifty three Japanese COPD patients participated in this randomized, double-blind, double-dummy, Williams square design crossover study. Lung function was assessed by plethysmography and spirometry. …”
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