Limited Access to Research Involving Incarcerated Persons as a Result of Protectionism by Oskar Neyra

“…N Engl J Med. 2007 May 3;356(18):1806-7. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp  One study suggested that incarcerated people may not fear involvement in research as much as lawmakers think (only 7.3 percent distrust research or researchers).[23] Instead, it is family members, correctional officers, and nurses who often discourage incarcerated people from joining a study because their participation may create more work for them.[24] Another study found that “few prisoners endorsed feeling exploited by their participation [in research],” and many would like “to participate as a means of gaining access to a treatment that was not readily available to them.”[25] Other people do not accurately represent incarcerated people’s wishes, and their speculation should not be a basis for regulations restricting research participation. …”
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In It Together by Silvia Croydon

“…As a resolution to this issue, he points to the creation of eggs using induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) techniques, whereby eggs can potentially be created from other cells.[17] However, given the extremely limited success of iPSCs in the clinical arena to date, in vitro gametogenesis is a highly speculative solution. Certainly, the progress of iPSC research is not such a safe bet that placing all our hopes on it at the expense of HHGE techniques is currently justified. …”
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Emergence of Diseases of Affluence in Oman : Where do they Feature in the Health Research Agenda? by Samir Al-Adawi

“…In a recent health system ranking, the World Health Organisation ranked Oman as the most “efficient” health care system in the world in terms of outcomes.8 In demographic terms, the current population pattern in Oman fits with a second phase ‘demographic transition’ characterised by declining death rates coupled with high birth rates.9 A recent census suggests a wide-based age pyramid, with 42 percent of the population under the age of 15.10 With this large, young population base, a 3.4 percent population growth and 38 births per 1,000 of the population, a ‘baby boom’ has been speculated.11 An unprecedented rise in the standard of living has shielded young Omanis from many of the stresses of growing up that are typical for youth in some developing countries.12 There are also early indications of the social and economic consequences of a preponderantly youthful population. …”
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Clinical outcomes and adverse events of bariatric surgery in adults with severe obesity in Scotland: the SCOTS observational cohort study by Ruth M Mackenzie, Abdulmajid Ali, Duff Bruce, Julie Bruce, Ian Ford, Nicola Greenlaw, Eleanor Grieve, Mike Lean, Robert S Lindsay, Joanne O’Donnell, Naveed Sattar, Sally Stewart, Jennifer Logue

“…The immediate post-surgery management for participants in SCOTS showed a longer hospital stay and a high high-dependency unit (HDU) / intensive-therapy unit (ITU) admission rate with no evidence of high complication rates in the form of subsequent operative procedures. We have speculated that the low volume of bariatric surgery performed in SCOTS sites may have led to cautious practice, especially as the median ITU/HDU stay was only 1 day. …”
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Professional Volunteers by Sebastian Agredo

“…Between 1990 and 2001 there was a threefold increase in the number of enrolled research subjects.[24] By combining this fact with the awareness that Abadie’s study only takes into account a small number of the self-identified professional guinea pigs, one can speculate that the prevalence of professional research subjects will continue to rise as the number of industry and government-funded clinical trials increase. …”
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Enemy within? The silent epidemic of substance dependency in GCC countries by Abdullah Al-Harthi, Samir S. Al-Adawi

“…It has been suggested that of all the social factors that predispose individuals to substance abuse, boredom is the most significant.14,17 The recent affluence and modernisation of the GCC societies have led many people to have a lot of spare time, as household chores are carried out by expatriate servants.14 The detrimental effects of such a lifestyle, including substance dependency, have been  speculated in the literature.13,18–21 In a study cited by Al-Harthi14 of personality profiles and descriptive analyses of typical substance users enrolled in a treatment centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the most frequently stated reason for indulging in drugs was to escape boredom. …”
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Social Isolation of Older Adults in Long Term Care as a Result of COVID-19 Mitigation Measures During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Cathy Purvis Lively

“…Transparency by Government, the Media, and the Long-Term care Facilities The communications from government and public health officials about the pandemic and the restrictions were opaque, leaving unanswered questions, doubts, and speculation. Some facilities provided families with basic information communicated through robocall messaging, with words of encouragement, painting rosy pictures of the residents' sequestered daily lives. …”
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Techniques to increase lumbar puncture success in newborn babies: the NeoCLEAR RCT by Charles C Roehr, Andrew SJ Marshall, Alexandra Scrivens, Manish Sadarangani, Rachel Williams, Jean Yong, Louise Linsell, Virginia Chiocchia, Jennifer L Bell, Caz Stokes, Patricia Santhanadass, Ian Nicoll, Eleri Adams, Andrew King, David Murray, Ursula Bowler, Kayleigh Stanbury, Edmund Juszczak

“…Limitations include the fact that many practitioners were unfamiliar with sitting LP before the NeoCLEAR training sessions, and this may have led to more practitioners switching from the allocated sitting position to the lying position following an initially unsuccessful attempt. It could be speculated that success rates would have been even higher if there had been more experience of sitting position LP among practitioners, and if fewer practitioners had switched position. …”
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EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ACTIVATED PROTEIN C RESISTANCE AND FACTOR V LEIDEN MUTATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION by Mehrez Mehrez M. Jadaon

“…<span>  </span>This review article briefly explains FVL and how it causes VTE, the distribution of FVL worldwide, and then it elaborates on the epidemiology of FVL in the Mediterranean Region and how this brought speculations that FVL might have originated in the Eastern Mediterranean area. …”
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SCHELLING E O CARÁTER DUAL DA LUZ SCHELLING AND THE DUAL NATURE OF LIGHT by Kleber Carneiro Amora

“…[endif]-->This essay is purported to show that - based on a dialectical speculation - Schelling anticipated, as he did in relation to many other phenomena of Physics, a very important theory about the nature of light, which the physicist Louis de Broglie proved to be true only one hundred and fifty years later.…”
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