Capital Punishment without Capital Trials in Japan’s Lay Judge System by David T. Johnson

“…In May 2009, Japan began a new trial system in which ordinary citizens sit with professional judges in order to adjudicate guilt and determine sentence in serious criminal cases. …”
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Montelukast as Add-On Therapy to Inhaled Corticosteroids in the Management of Asthma (The SAS Trial) by J Mark FitzGerald, Sylvain Foucart, Stephen Coyle, John Sampalis, Denis Haine, Eliofotisti Psaradellis, R Andrew McIvor

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Acupuncture Anxiolytic Effects on Physiological and Psychological Assessments for a Clinical Trial by Monir Shayestehfar, Tohid Seif-Barghi, Sahar Zarei, Amir Mehran

“…In a randomized controlled trial we examined the effect of acupuncture on anxiety of the adolescent football players prior to the competition using psychological and physiological markers. …”
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Phases I–III Clinical Trials Using Adult Stem Cells by Ricardo Sanz-Ruiz, Enrique Gutiérrez Ibañes, Adolfo Villa Arranz, María Eugenia Fernández Santos, Pedro L. Sánchez Fernández, Francisco Fernández-Avilés

“…First randomized clinical trials have demonstrated that stem cell therapy can improve cardiac recovery after the acute phase of myocardial ischemia and in patients with chronic ischemic heart disease. …”
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Balneotherapy for the treatment of post-COVID syndrome: a randomized controlled trial by Diana Ovejero, Anna Ribes, Judit Villar-García, Marta Trenchs-Rodriguez, Daniel Lopez, Xavier Nogués, Robert Güerri-Fernandez, Natalia Garcia-Giralt

“…This randomized controlled trial aims to evaluate the effects of balneotherapy (BT) on PACS symptomatology. …”
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Efficacy of MI Paste® on Bleaching-Related Sensitivity: Randomized Clinical Trial by Shaista Rashid, Mohamed ElSalhy

“…This randomized controlled split-mouth clinical trial included 45 subjects that were randomly divided into two groups. …”
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Concerns regarding sham-controlled trial of SI joint fusion procedure by Winston T. Capel

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Multicomponent intervention for schoolchildren with asthma: Pilot cluster randomized controlled trial by Marina Reznik, MD, MS, Florinda Islamovic, MD, Jill S. Halterman, MD, MPH, Cheng-Shiun Leu, PhD, Jiaqing Zhang, PhD, Philip O. Ozuah, MD, PhD

“…Analyses used generalized linear mixed models with generalized estimating equation adjusting for clustering. Clinical Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01873755. …”
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A review from experimental trials on detoxification of aflatoxin in poultry feed by Halis Oguz

“…In this meta-analytic review, in vivo experimental trials on inactivation of aflatoxins by using adsorbents and biological products as a feed additive in poultry feed were briefly summarized after given the general information about this subject. …”
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Patients’ Perceptions of their Participation in a Clinical Trial for Postoperative Crohn’s Disease by ED Kennedy, JE Blair, R Ready, BG Wolff, AH Steinhart, PW Carryer, RS McLeod

“…OBJECTIVE: To explore patients' perceptions of their participation in a randomized controlled trial.…”
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Essence, purpose and objectives of pre-trial investigation: theoretical and legal characteristics by V. V. Matus, V. V. Ablamska

Subjects: “…pre-trial investigation…”
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Simulation-based learning and digital tools. A trial for Pharmacy Services by Fabrizio Bracco, Maria Carola Morozzo della Rocca, Federica Delprino, Silvia Pregaglia

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University of Florida Potato Variety Trial Program— ‘Elkton’ Commercial Evaluation by Lincoln Zotarelli, Douglas Gergela, Dana Fourman

“…The average yield of ‘Elkton’ in the commercial trials ranged between 295 and 324 cwt/ac, an average of 11 percent higher than that of the standard ‘Atlantic,’ and comparable to the yield range obtained in 19 trials conducted over a nine-year period by the University of Florida. …”
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Critical Aspects of Clinical Trial Design for Novel Cell and Gene Therapies by Zinovia Kefalopoulou, Iciar Aviles-Olmos, Thomas Foltynie

“…Detailed evaluation of these discordant findings has highlighted several crucial issues such as patient selection criteria, details surrounding transplantation or gene therapy methodologies, as well as the study designs themselves that ought to be carefully considered in the planning phases of future clinical trials. Beyond the provision of symptomatic efficacy and safety data, it also remains to be identified whether the possibilities offered by stem cell and gene therapy technological advances might translate to meaningful neuroprotection and/or disease-modifying effects or alleviate the nonmotor aspects of PD and thus offer additional benefits beyond those achieved through conventional pharmacotherapy or deep brain stimulation (DBS).…”
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The Extended Trial Equation Method for Some Time Fractional Differential Equations by Yusuf Pandir, Yusuf Gurefe, Emine Misirli

“…Nonlinear fractional partial differential equations have been solved with the help of the extended trial equation method. Based on the fractional derivative in the sense of modified Riemann-Liouville derivative and traveling wave transformation, the fractional partial differential equation can be turned into the nonlinear nonfractional ordinary differential equation. …”
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Barriers and enablers to recruiting participants within paediatric perioperative and anaesthetic settings: lessons learned from a trial of melatonin versus midazolam in the premedication of anxious children (the MAGIC trial) by Marie C. Hyslop, Diana E. Papaioannou, Robert Bolt, Matthew J. Wilson, Michael Bradburn, Janet Clarkson, Esther Herbert, Nicholas Ireland, Jennifer Kettle, Amanda Loban, Amy C. Norrington, Christopher Vernazza, Christopher Deery

Subjects: “…early termination of clinical trials…”
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Determining the Feasibility of Ambulance-Based Randomised Controlled Trials in Patients with Ultra-Acute Stroke: Study Protocol for the “Rapid Intervention with GTN in Hypertensive Stroke Trial” (RIGHT, ISRCTN66434824) by Sandeep Ankolekar, Gillian Sare, Chamila Geeganage, Michael Fuller, Lynn Stokes, Nikola Sprigg, Ruth Parry, A. Niroshan Siriwardena, Philip M. W. Bath

“…Time from acute stroke to enrolment in clinical trials needs to be reduced to improve the chances of finding effective treatments. …”
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Autism Spectrum Social Stories In Schools Trial (ASSSIST): study protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial analysing clinical and cost-effectiveness of Social Stories in mainstream schools by Dean McMillan, Victoria Allgar, Barry Wright, David Marshall, Shehzad Ali, Joy Adamson, Chris Williams, Elizabeth Littlewood, Dominic Trépel, Lisa Dyson, Hannah Ainsworth, Liz Cook, Lisa Hackney, Danielle Collingridge Moore, Rebecca Hargate, Anne McLaren, Jo Whitehead

“…At least one article in a peer reviewed journal will be published and research findings presented at relevant conferences.Trial registration number ISRCTN96286707.…”
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The PIT: SToPP Trial—A Feasibility Randomised Controlled Trial of Home-Based Physiotherapy for People with Parkinson's Disease Using Video-Based Measures to Preserve Assessor Blinding by Emma Stack, Helen Roberts, Ann Ashburn

“…Purpose. To trial four-week's physiotherapy targeting chair transfers for people with Parkinson's disease (PwPD) and explore the feasibility of reliance on remote outcome measurement to preserve blinding. …”
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Study protocol of the METAPANC trial - intensified treatment in patients with local operable but oligometastatic pancreatic cancer - multimodal surgical treatment versus chemotherapy alone: a randomized controlled trial by Michael Ghadimi, Uwe Pelzer, Marc G. Besselink, Jens Siveke, Ralph Telgmann, Rickmer Braren, Hanneke Wilmink, Marie Crede, Alexander Koenig, Ute Koenig, Sven Thorsten Liffers, Kai Antweiler, Bas Uijterwijk, Hanna Seppanen, Arno Nordin, Pauli Puolakkainen, Olav F. Dajani, Knut Jørgen Labori, Mia Johansson, Svein Olav Bratlie, Tim Friede, Peter Jo

“…A possible recommendation of this multimodal treatment regimen outside of clinical trials requires data from randomized controlled trials first. …”
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