Clinical benefits and risks of remote patient monitoring: an overview and assessment of methodological rigour of systematic reviews for selected patient groups by Constanze Wartenberg, Helen Elden, Malte Frerichs, Lennart L Jivegård, Kajsa Magnusson, Georgios Mourtzinis, Ola Nyström, Kajsa Quitz, Helen Sjöland, Therese Svanberg, Helena Vallo Hult

“…Methods A literature search for systematic reviews of clinical trials on remote patient monitoring in the selected patient groups was conducted by two information specialists, followed by assessment of relevance by a team of clinical and methodological experts in Region Västra Götaland, Sweden. The methodological rigour of identified systematic reviews was assessed using QUICKSTAR – a tool for stepwise appraisal of systematic reviews. …”
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Methodology for conducting linguistic research into visual impairment: Challenges and recommendations by Jolanta Sak-Wernicka

“…The lack of methodological rigour in previous studies as well as large diversity of the population, small incidence of visual impairment and little awareness of blind people’s needs make this field of study challenging for researchers. …”
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REPETITION AND FANTASY IN SPRING, POEM FOR SOPRANO, CLARINET AND PIANO, BY CARMEN PETRA-BASACOPOL by Şerban MARCU

“…The analysis focuses on the relationship between musical techniques (tonal systems, rhythm, timbrality) and the literary text, highlighting the oscillation between rigour (leitmotifs, ostinatos, elements of reprise) and fantasy (improvisational writing – especially for the clarinet –, the madrigal-type discourse). …”
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L’enseignement de l’EPS comme espace de bien-être relationnel by Emmanuel Fernandes, Iman Nefil, Sébastien Calais, Célia Yakoubi

“…In Maths, the representations reflect a stereotyped rigour of pupils frozen by the mathematical operations to be performed. …”
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Taking a Selfie: Researcher-practitioner positionality and reflexivity in project scholarship by Simon Addyman

“…These four dimensions contribute to project scholarship by showing how accounting for researcher positionality in the field helps demonstrate rigour and relevance when foregrounding the lived experience of research and practice in theory development.…”
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Comments on Keyan Tomaselli’s "The 2022 Copyright Amendment Bill: Implications for the South African universities’ Research Economy" by Brian Wafawarowa

“…The absence of academic voices on the matter is unfortunate in two ways. One is the rigour and structure that they could have brought to the debate. …”
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A Modal Ontology of Imagination by Julia de Boer

“…While it is untrue that everyday aesthetics as a new sub-discipline lacks systematic rigour, another ontology of the everyday will be introduced here. …”
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O Desvelamento do Mito Arturiano by Edileide Brito

“…Attempt for King Arthur’s identity it is something irrelevant and and what it sends to us to enter in a complex universe. To rigour, the literature uses mythological materials like straight source of events and historical characters, in which the history is deformed by popular imagination, where it draws on the myth a profile like concretization of a Utopia, the fact of literary work to be a sort of concrete Utopia keeps alive the hope and the ideal. …”
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François Gros (1925–2022) by Petit, Christine, Kourilsky, Philippe

“…François Gros was a humanist driven by moral rigour and an unfailing sense of commitment.…”
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Updating on the management of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage. by Juan Francisco Piñeiro Martí., José Ramón Tejera del Valle, Osmany Morales Sabina, Omar López Arbolay.

“…Few investigations have been performed with scientific rigour and the inclusion of the sufficient number of patients that allow a best behaviour to be standardised. …”
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Researching Organized Crime: A Novel Approach Combining Inductive and Storyline Paradigms by Felia Allum

“…Lastly, the conclusions suggest that while a GTM may be considered to lack positivist rigour, the contribution it makes to our understanding of mafias and OCGs must not be underestimated, in particular when combined with the storyline approach, which anchors evidence to theory.…”
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Slovenian Journal of Public Health: The Journey so Far and the Road Ahead by FARKAŠ LAINŠČAK Jerneja, ŠVAB Igor

“…In 2000, a new editorial board took over and shifted the journal’s focus towards enhancing scientific rigour and achieving international recognition. This strategic transformation led to the journal being indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) in 2009, specifically within the category of Public, Environmental & Occupational Health. …”
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Responsibility and the hidden politics of directionality: opening up ‘innovation democracies’ for sustainability transformations by Andy Stirling

“…Although essential to both rigour and effectiveness, key realities tend to be concealed by general hegemonic forces in contemporary global colonial modernity, as well as by more specific expediencies to power and privilege in particular settings. …”
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Reflection in Practice as Source of Values: The Cross-cultural Creation of a Health-care Ethic in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Augustine Shutte

“…Such reflection, aimed as it is at the achievement of excellence in the practice concerned, can (if pursued with rigour and commitment), uncover values embedded in the practice which, however limited the practice (rugby, gardening), have a wider, even universal, scope. …”
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improving Pain mAnagement for childreN and young people attendeD by Ambulance (PANDA): protocol for a realist review. [version 3; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservati... by Paul Leighton, Georgette Eaton, Georgie Nicholls, Kacper Sumera, Marishona Ortega, Jessica Hodgson, Michael Baliousis, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena, Despina Laparidou, Bill Lord, Sarah Redsell, Gregory Adam Whitley, Tatiana Bujor

“…A five-stage approach will be adopted; 1) Developing an Initial Programme Theory (IPT): develop an IPT with key stakeholder input and evidence from informal searching; 2) Searching and screening: conduct a thorough search of relevant research databases and other literature sources and perform screening in duplicate; 3) Relevance and rigour assessment: assess documents for relevance and rigour in duplicate; 4) Extracting and organising data: code relevant data into conceptual “buckets” using qualitative data analysis software; and 5) Synthesis and Programme Theory (PT) refinement: utilise a realist logic of analysis to generate context-mechanism-outcome configurations (CMOCs) within and across conceptual “buckets”, test and refine the IPT into a realist PT. …”
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Meaningful miracles: Unraveling eucatastrophe in the select fantasy fiction of J.K. Rowling by Swathi Metla, Yu. V. Sudha Devi

“…Harry’s journey of growing up is narrated with thrilling rigour and crafted with care by J.K. Rowling; the novels are imbued with warmth, inclusivity and fun. …”
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A Review of Herbal Treatment for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders and Infection by Krupavaram B, A Kishore Babu, Santhiya Manickam Pillay, Tan Ching Siang, Bama V. V. Menon, Ganesh Sritheran Paneerselvam, Long Chiau Ming, Yaser Mohammed Al-Worafi, Wen Han Chooi

“…Therefore, evaluating herbal therapy at all stages of development should adhere to the same scientific rigour applied to chemically specific therapies. …”
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Quality assessment of furosemide tablet generics used in a teaching hospital in Nigeria by Abdurrahman Umar, Halimatu Sadiya Hassan, Salisu Awwalu

“…The generics were found to be able to withstand the rigour of transportation as indicated by their friability values of less than 1 %. …”
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Resource Management in Local Governments: A Bane or a Boon to Development at the Local Level in Ghana by Anthony Aikins, John Mensah, Augustina Amissah

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