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Anne‐Laure Boulesteix, Sabine Lauer, Manuel J. A. Eugster
In a context where most published articles are devoted to the development of "new methods", comparison studies are generally appreciated by readers but surprisingly given poor consideration by many scientific journals. This letter stresses the importance of neutral comparison studies for the objective evaluation of…
Lauren E. Blake, Samantha M. Thomas, John D. Blischak, Chiaowen Joyce Hsiao + 4 more
There is substantial interest in the evolutionary forces that shaped the regulatory framework that is established in early human development. Progress in this area has been slow because it is difficult to obtain relevant biological samples. Inducible pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) provide the ability to establish in…
Jing Ma, Ali Shojaie, George Michailidis
Pathway enrichment analysis is extensively used in the analysis of Omics data for gaining biological insights into the functional roles of pre-defined subsets of genes, proteins and metabolites. A large number of methods have been proposed in the literature for this task. The vast majority of these methods use as input…
Delphine De Moor, Macaela Skelton, Oliver Schülke, Julia Ostner + 3 more
For many animals, social relationships are a key determinant of fitness. However, major gaps remain in our understanding of the adaptive function, ontogeny, evolution, and mechanistic underpinnings of social relationships. There is a vast and ever-accumulating amount of social behavioural data on individually…
Samuel Pawel, Lucas Kook, Kelly Reeve
Comparative simulation studies are workhorse tools for benchmarking statistical methods. As with other empirical studies, the success of simulation studies hinges on the quality of their design, execution and reporting. If not conducted carefully and transparently, their conclusions may be misleading. In this paper we…
María Paula Fernández-García, Guillermo Vallejo-Seco, Pablo Livácic-Rojas, Francisco Javier Herrero-Díez
4## Discussion and conclusions The main objective of this research was to develop an alternative way of analyzing, presenting, and communicating the results derived from the comparative simulation studies. A three-phase results Analysis Plan is proposed, which is especially useful and necessary when a large number of…
Omar Saadiyeh, Alaaeddine Ramadan, Mohammad Hajjar, Gilles Bernard
Syntactic analysis stands at the heart of Natural Language Processing (NLP), serving as the cornerstone upon which deeper linguistic understanding is built-particularly for morphologically complex languages such as Arabic. This paper delivers a comprehensive comparative study of contemporary syntactic analyzers…
Peter A. McCarthy, Thomas Meyer, Mitja D. Back, Nexhmedin Morina + 1 more
'Stefano Triberti'] We introduce a novel approach to assess habitual comparison processes, while distinguishing between different types of comparison standards. Several comparison theories (e.g., social) suggest that self-evaluations use different standards to inform self-perception and are associated with wellbeing…
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The study aims to build upon previous research by incorporating Density Functional Theory (DFT), specifically using the B3LYP functional, to improve the computational methodology for analyzing chlorobutadiene (TCBD) compounds. DFT is chosen for its ability to account for electron correlation effects beyond the…
Bethany Percha, Edward B. Baskerville, Matthew Johnson, Joel Dudley + 1 more
Recent advances in molecular biology, sensors, and digital medicine have led to an explosion of products and services for high-resolution monitoring of individual health. The N-of-1 study has emerged as an important methodological tool for harnessing these new data sources, enabling researchers to compare the…
Alexander Muacevic, John R Adler, John Paul M Cruz, Michelle Sy
Neuroectodermal disease involves abnormalities that arise from the ectodermal origin, such as the nervous system, eyeball, retina, and skin. Due to the rarity of the disease, it is often underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed. In this study, the researcher presents two cases of pediatric patients with no fetomaternal…
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Subtle stereoelectronic effects can play an important role in drug discovery and other application areas, with atropisomerism gaining increasing interest recently. This raises the question which level of theory is required to model such phenomena accurately by computational means, i.e., are classical mechanics (MM)…
Florian Lehmann, Daniel Buschek
This project investigated two alternative versions of a text editor with AI features in two user studies. The initial prototype integrated AI in a conversational UI, while the alternative version [_page_18_Figure_0.jpeg]: The procedures of the case studies implemented with StudyAlign. These covered qualitative…
Danielle Arigo, Jacqueline A. Mogle, Megan M. Brown, Kristen Pasko + 3 more
Self-evaluations relative to others (i.e., social comparisons) have well-established implications for health and well-being, and are typically assessed via global, retrospective self-report. Yet, comparison is inherently a dynamic, within-person process; comparisons occur at different times, on a range of dimensions…
Sayaka Osanami Törngren, Marcus Nyström, Emi Moriuchi, Zypher Jude G. Regencia
This study investigates the social construction of race by examining how racial categories are understood and applied by college students in Japan, Sweden, and the United States. Addressing a gap in empirical research on racial appraisal versus self-identification, the study employs a comparative and contextual…
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A series of metallosupramolecular ferrous [Fe2L3] helicates have been synthesized from in-situ prepared flexible bis-bidentate imidazolyl ligand and characterized using single crystal XRD using synchrotron radiation. With variation in the temperature, both the complexes M1 and M2 exhibit Spin-State Switching, which is…
Marvin Wyrich, Marvin Muñoz Barón, Justus Bogner
However, the inability to measure abstract concepts directly poses a challenge for secondary studies: primary studies in SE can operationalize such concepts in many ways. Standardized measurement instruments are rarely available, and even if they are, many researchers do not use them or do not even provide a definition…
Szu Szu Ling, Fabrice Saffre, Deborah L. Gater, Lilia Halim + 1 more
Computer quiz games are introduced to improve teaching and learning in a freshman engineering chemistry course in an English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) environment. These quiz games are developed and implemented as a supplemental and augmentative tool to enhance traditionally delivered lectures. The paper shows an…
Andrew Bennett, Bear Braumoeller
This paper analyzes the working or default assumptions researchers in the formal, statistical, and case study traditions typically hold regarding the sources of unexplained variance, the meaning of outliers, parameter values, human motivation, functional forms, time, and external validity. We argue that these working…
Anne C. Sabol, Connor T. Lambert, Brian Keane, Nancy G. Solomon + 1 more
Comparative studies aid in our understanding of specific conditions favoring the initial evolution of different types of social behaviors, yet there is much unexplained intraspecific variation in the expression of social behavior that comparative studies have not yet addressed. The proximate causes of this individual…
Timothy Gould
This study examined factors influencing student confidence and their perception of learning in the context of undergraduate chemistry and biochemistry courses. Anonymous online surveys were used to measure the extent to which small group work influenced student confidence in solving problems compared to working…
Ali Moharramipour, William Zhou, Dobromir Rahnev, Hakwan Lau
Perceptual similarity is a cornerstone for human learning and generalization. However, in assessing perceptual similarity between two stimuli, it is not well-defined which features or combinations of features one should focus on. The problem has accordingly been considered ill-posed, implying a lack of a clear…
Gary Thomas
Although much of the most productive research in applied social science is case-based, there is still concern about the restricted utility of such research because of its limited power to offer generalizable findings. Such concern has contributed to a recent trend in policy-making circles-particularly those in…