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Condition assessment of building façades based on hazard to people
(2019-06)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyTo make periodic inspections of the buildings is useful to quantify the extent to which deficiencies are severe or not, in order to facilitate decision making and prioritize interventions. In previous works by the authors ... -
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 ... -
Risk of Acute Liver Injury in agomelatine and other antidepressant users in four european countries: a cohort and nested case–control study using automated health data sources
(2019-04)
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Open AccessBackground Agomelatine is a melatonin receptor agonist and serotonin 5-HT2C receptor antagonist indicated for depression in adults. Hepatotoxic reactions like acute liver injury (ALI) are an identified risk in the European ... -
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 ... -
Practical aspects of modelling parameter uncertainty for risk capital calculation
(2019-02-11)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyWe assume that an insurance undertaking models its risk by a random variable X=X(¿0) with a fixed parameter (vector) ¿0. If the undertaking does not know ¿0 and can only estimate it from historical data, it faces parameter ... -
Scoping review on interventions to improve adherence to reporting guidelines in health research
(2019-05-01)
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Open AccessObjectives The goal of this study is to identify, analyse and classify interventions to improve adherence to reporting guidelines in order to obtain a wide picture of how the problem of enhancing the completeness of reporting ... -
Does evidence support the high expectations placed in precision medicine? A bibliographic review
(2018-01-09)
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Open AccessBackground: Precision medicine is the Holy Grail of interventions that aretailored to a patient’s individual characteristics. However, the conventional design of randomized trials assumes that each individual benefits ... -
Characteristics of apixaban-treated patients, evaluation of the dose prescribed, and the persistence of treatment: a cohort study in Catalonia
(2018-05-23)
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Open AccessApixaban is a direct oral anticoagulant, which inhibits factor Xa. It has demonstrated clinical efficacy in prevention of stroke and systemic embolism in adult patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation and a better ... -
Optimal metric for condition rating of existing buildings: is five the right number?
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-06)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyIn the context of the built environment in the recent years, the concept of maintenance has changed from corrective to preventive maintenance. There is evidence that preventive maintenance is much more efficient than ... -
Antidepressant use in Denmark, Germany, Spain, and Sweden between 2009 and 2014: incidence and comorbidities of antidepressant initiators
(2019-04-15)
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Open AccessBackground We aimed to describe patterns of use and characteristics of 10 commonly used antidepressants for the period 2009–2014 in Denmark, Germany, Spain, and Sweden. Methods Adult initiators from 2009 to 2014 of each ... -
Exploring conditions and usefulness of UAVs in the BRAIN Massive Inspections Protocol
(2019-01-01)
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Open AccessIn this paper authors conduct a case study analysis by implementing the use of UAVs in the data collection within the BRAIN framework for the failures diagnosis of facades. The main goal is to assess the conditions and ... -
Tools used to assess the quality of peer review reports: a methodological systematic review
(2019-03-06)
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Open AccessBackground A strong need exists for a validated tool that clearly defines peer review report quality in biomedical research, as it will allow evaluating interventions aimed at improving the peer review process in ...