The Research Act: A Theoretical Introduction to Sociological Methods
At once a unique textbook for methods courses and a major contribution to sociological theory, this book teaches students the principles of research and to construct and test t...
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Cascade R-CNN: Delving Into High Quality Object Detection
In object detection, an intersection over union (IoU) threshold is required to define positives and negatives. An object detector, trained with low IoU threshold, e.g. 0.5, usua...
Qualitative Quality: Eight “Big-Tent” Criteria for Excellent Qualitative Research
This article presents a model for quality in qualitative research that is uniquely expansive, yet flexible, in that it makes distinctions among qualitative research’s means (met...
Dapagliflozin in Patients with Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fraction
BACKGROUND In patients with type 2 diabetes, inhibitors of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) reduce the risk of a first hospitalization for heart failure, possibly through ...
Regression and time series model selection in small samples
A bias correction to the Akaike information criterion, AIC, is derived for regression and autoregressive time series models. The correction is of particular use when the sample ...
On the psychology of prediction.
In this paper, we explore the rules that determine intuitive predictions and judgments of confidence and contrast these rules to the normative principles of statistical predicti...
‘Mendelian randomization’: can genetic epidemiology contribute to understanding environmental determinants of disease?*
Associations between modifiable exposures and disease seen in observational epidemiology are sometimes confounded and thus misleading, despite our best efforts to improve the de...
In Search of Golden Rules: Comment on Hypothesis-Testing Approaches to Setting Cutoff Values for Fit Indexes and Dangers in Overgeneralizing Hu and Bentler's (1999) Findings
Abstract Goodness-of-fit (GOF) indexes provide "rules of thumb"—recommended cutoff values for assessing fit in structural equation modeling. Hu and Bentler (1999) proposed a mor...
Correlation of Chest CT and RT-PCR Testing for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China: A Report of 1014 Cases
Background Chest CT is used in the diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and is an important complement to reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) te...
2001 SCCM/ESICM/ACCP/ATS/SIS International Sepsis Definitions Conference
This document reflects a process whereby a group of experts and opinion leaders revisited the 1992 sepsis guidelines and found that apart from expanding the list of signs and sy...
Dapagliflozin and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes
In patients with type 2 diabetes who had or were at risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, treatment with dapagliflozin did not result in a higher or lower rate of MAC...