DARE-AKI: Does enhanced Detection, clinical Analytics, Referral and Early therapy improve AKI outcomes in secondary care? by Alistair Connell

“…An example report using dummy data is appended. The report is automatically sent via secure mobile device to a designated response team, comprised of critical care outreach nurses. …”
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Faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi efikasi-kendiri guru sekolah menengah di Malaysia dalam pelaksanaan pendidikan alam sekitar by Masitah Hj. Mohd. Yusof, Azizi Muda, Ahmad Makmom, Bahaman Abu Samah, Ramli Basri, Noriati A. Rashid, Mohamed Khaidir Alias

“…Dapatan kajian juga menunjukkan peramal efikasi-kendiri guru terdiri daripada enam pemboleh ubah iaitu kesedaran guru terhadap alam sekitar (Beta=.323, p=.000), persepsi guru terhadap amalan kepemimpinan instruksional pengetua bagi Dimensi Pemupukan Iklim Pengajaran dan Pembelajaran Pendidikan Alam Sekitar (Beta=.298, p=.001), sikap guru terhadap alam sekitar (Beta=.234, p=.000), persepsi guru terhadap amalan kepemimpinan instruksional pengetua bagi Dimensi Pengurusan Program Pengajaran dan Program Alam Sekitar (Beta=-.219, p=.012), umur guru (Beta=-.191, p=.000) dan kelulusan akademik guru (pemboleh ubah dummi 1=Ijazah Sarjana) (Beta=.129, p=.014). Faktor-faktor ini hanya dapat menerangkan 34.4% varians efikasi-kendiri guru. …”
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Effects of financial structure, preferential tax rate and tax incentives on dynamics of SMEs’ growth in Malaysia by Romli, Mohd Arif

“…Thirdly, unlike previous studies that uses dummy variable to evaluate the effectiveness of PTR and tax incentives, this study uses quantifiable variable to measure the tax advantage received by SMEs. …”
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Influence of the quality of remuneration committee and organizational factors on management compensation plan design and performance by Mehrabanpoor, Mohammadreza

“…Ownership structure variable was represented by four dummy variables, while the other variables were measured as ratio scale. …”
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Extended-release naltrexone versus standard oral naltrexone versus placebo for opioid use disorder: the NEAT three-arm RCT by John Strang, Michael Kelleher, Soraya Mayet, Ed Day, Jennifer Hellier, Sarah Byford, Caroline Murphy, Blair McLennan, James Shearer, Elizabeth Ryan, John Marsden

“…Design: This was a 3-year, definitive, three-centre, three-arm, parallel group, placebo-controlled, double-blind, double-dummy, randomised controlled trial. Setting: Two specialist NHS outpatient addiction clinics: one in London and one in Birmingham. …”
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Mediating effect of serum BDNF level on association of occupational PAHs exposure with cognitive impairment in coke oven workers by Xin WANG, Hongmei ZHANG, Zhanfei SONG, Yangyang LI, Huide MIAO, Tingyi ZHAO, Zhiyan ZHANG

“…Low (<P33), medium ( P33~P66) and high (>P66) dummy variables were set according to the intertertile boundaries (8.31, 23.76) μg·L−1 of the plasma level of Σ12PAH of the workers. …”
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Fire effects on a Spartina densiflora salt marsh in the floodplain of the Paraná River, Argentina Efectos del fuego en una marisma de Spartina densiflora en la planicie de inundaci... by NORA MADANES, SYLVIA FISCHER, RICARDO VICARI

“…In addition, we analyzed variations in biological types (forbs, graminoids) and types of life cycles (annuals, perennials) in B and NB plots before and after the fire .Principal Component Analysis (PC A) was performed on cover-abundance data for each treatment and sampling date. We included coded dummy variables for each date and treatment as supplementary variables. …”
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Connecting the bee dots by Mardan, Makhdzir

“…Founding gynes (reproductive females) were enticed to settle in a new adjacent gallery, and prevented from returning to their old nesting gallery by deception, using wooden, dummy entrances. An observation carpenter bee frame hive was developed using plexiglass and restricting gallery construction within the frame width of slightly bigger than the thorax of the carpenter bee (bee space of 2.2 cm). …”
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Socioeconomic and environmental impact of urban agriculture practices in the Klang Valley, Malaysia by Abdul Hadi, Ahmad Hanis Izani

“…Based on study results, using the lowest attribute levels as dummy variables, all attribute levels obtained positive sign indicate that respondents prefer those levels more as compared to the base status quo used in the study. …”
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Impact of different tax components, tax buoyancy and tax mix structures on economic growth and fiscal revenues in Malaysia by Samad, Muhammad Najib

“…In terms of buoyancy to GDP in long run and short run, CIT shows the highest long-run tax buoyancy with 1.07 and even higher with tax reform dummy: the coefficient is 1.36. This means that growth in GDP can generate higher growth in CIT which can help the government to reduce the fiscal deficits in the long run. …”
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Directional hear-through techiques for acoustic transparency to deliver augmented/mixed reality audio experiences over hearables by Gupta, Rishabh

“…Objective analysis using Spectral Difference (SD) is conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed parametric approach, with the open-ear scenario used as a reference. Using dummy head measurements with band-limited pink noise and real source signals, it was found that the estimated open-ear signals, derived using parametric dirHT filtering techniques, were closely matched to the target open-ear signals in multiple source scenarios. …”
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Neural correlates of individual differences in processing of rising tones in Cantonese: Implications for speech perception and production by Sampo Law

“…Statistical differences between the true and dummy waves were evaluated by a non-parametric cluster-based random permutation approach implemented in Fieldtrip (see Maris & Oostenveld, 2007). …”
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Authors’ response: Mezei et al's "Comments on a recent case-control study of malignant mesothelioma of the pericardium and the tunica vaginalis testis" by Alessandro Marinaccio, Dario Consonni, Carolina Mensi, Dario Mirabelli, Enrica Migliore, Corrado Magnani, Davide Di Marzio, Valerio Gennaro, Guido Mazzoleni, Paolo Girardi, Corrado Negro, Antonio Romanelli, Elisabetta Chellini, Iolanda Grappasonni, Gabriella Madeo, Elisa Romeo, Valeria Ascoli, Francesco Carrozza, Italo Francesco Angelillo, Domenica Cavone, Rosario Tumino, Massimo Melis, Stefania Curti, Giovanni Brandi, Stefano Mattioli, Sergio Iavicoli, ReNaM Working Group

“…Using risk sets of age categories and introducing year of birth (5-year categories) as a covariate (dummy variables) the OR were similar: OR (adjusted for region) of 9.17 among women (95% CI 0.56–150) and 5.76 (95% CI 1.07–31.0) among men; for TVT the OR was 9.86 (95% CI 3.46–28.1). …”
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Rituximab compared to intravenous cyclophosphamide in adults with connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease: the RECITAL RCT by Toby M Maher, Veronica A Tudor, Peter Saunders, Fernando Zanghelini, Carlota Grossi Sampedro, Georgios Xydopoulos, Michael Gibbons, Sophie V Fletcher, Christopher P Denton, Maria Kokosi, Rachel K Hoyles, Helen Parfrey, Elisabetta A Renzoni, Athol U Wells, Deborah Ashby, Richard J Fordham, Matyas Szigeti, Philip L Molyneaux

“…Methods This was a Phase IIb, multicentre, randomised, double-blind, double-dummy study assessing the superiority of rituximab compared with cyclophosphamide, conducted in rheumatology or interstitial lung disease units at 11 UK centres. …”
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A pragmatic, multicentre, double-blind, placebo-controlled randomised trial to assess the safety, clinical and cost-effectiveness of mirtazapine and carbamazepine in people with Al... by Sube Banerjee, Nicolas Farina, Catherine Henderson, Juliet High, Susan Stirling, Lee Shepstone, Julia Fountain, Clive Ballard, Peter Bentham, Alistair Burns, Chris Fox, Paul Francis, Robert Howard, Martin Knapp, Iracema Leroi, Gill Livingston, Ramin Nilforooshan, Shirley Nurock, John O’Brien, Annabel Price, Alan J Thomas, Ann Marie Swart, Tanya Telling, Naji Tabet

“…In this study, we compared the effects of giving mirtazapine or carbamazepine with a dummy drug (placebo) in people with Alzheimer’s disease who were experiencing agitation. …”
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