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Transfer to the Local Stroke Center versus Direct Transfer to Endovascular Center of Acute Stroke Patients with Suspected Large Vessel Occlusion in the Catalan Territory (RACECAT): study protocol of a cluster randomized within a cohort trial
(2019-05-29)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyRationale: Optimal pre-hospital delivery pathways for acute stroke patients suspected to harbor a large vessel occlusion (LVO) have not been assessed in randomized trials. Aim: To establish whether stroke subjects with ... -
Adherence to reporting guidelines increases the number of citations: the argument for including a methodologist in the editorial process and peer-review
(2019-05-31)
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Open AccessFrom 2005 to 2010, we conducted 2 randomized studies on a journal (Medicina Clínica), where we took manuscripts received for publication and randomly assigned them to either the standard editorial process or to additional ... -
A survey exploring biomedical editors’ perceptions of editorial interventions to improve adherence to reporting guidelines
(2019-09-24)
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Open AccessBackground: Improving the completeness of reporting of biomedical research is essential for improving its usability. For this reason, hundreds of reporting guidelines have been created in the last few decades but adherence ... -
Location routing problems on trees
(2019-04-30)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyThis paper addresses combined location/routing problems defined on trees, where not all vertices have to be necessarily visited. A mathematical programming formulation is presented, which has the integrality property. The ... -
Fusing mobile phone data with other data sources to generate input OD matrices for transport models
(Elsevier, 2019)
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Open AccessOD matrices that describe mobility patterns provide major input to most transport analysis models. Since OD matrices are not yet directly observable, they are usually estimated indirectly. Data from new sources such as ... -
A new approach for sizing trials with composite binary endpoints using anticipated marginal values and accounting for the correlation between components
(2019-05-20)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyComposite binary endpoints are increasingly used as primary endpoints in clinical trials. When designing a trial, it is crucial to determine the appropriate sample size for testing the statistical differences between ... -
Mortality of NBA Players: risk factors and comparison with the general US population
(2019-02)
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Open AccessConcerns have been raised recently by players’ associations regarding the risk of death among retired players. Using a retrospective cohort study, we analyzed factors associated with the mortality of National Basketball ... -
Longer residence of ecuadorian and colombian migrant workers in Spain associated with new episodes of common mental disorders
(2019-06-01)
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Open AccessThe healthy migrant effect and its impact on mental health has been reported in the general population of many countries. Information is limited about its impact on working populations. The aim of this study is to estimate ... -
The effects of lithium sulfur battery ageing on second-life possibilities and environmental life cycle assessment studies
(2019-01-01)
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Open AccessThe development of Li-ion batteries has enabled the re-entry of electric vehicles into the market. As car manufacturers strive to reach higher practical specific energies (550 Wh/kg) than what is achievable for Li-ion ... -
What does a zero mean? understanding false, random and structural zeros in ecology
(2019-03-27)
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Restricted access - publisher's policy1. Zeros (i.e. events that do not happen) are the source of two common phenomena in count data: overdispersion and zero-inflation. Zeros have multiple origins in a dataset: false zeros occur due to errors in the experimental ... -
PRESISTANT: Learning based assistant for data pre-processing
(Elsevier, 2019-09)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyData pre-processing is one of the most time consuming and relevant steps in a data analysis process (e.g., classification task). A given data pre-processing operator can have positive, negative, or zero impact on the final ... -
Oral health-related quality of life in native and immigrant populations in the PELFI study in Spain
(2019-05-21)
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Open AccessQuality of life and its relationship to oral health is an important consideration in the determinants of health of vulnerable groups. The aim of this study is to assess oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) and its ...
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