Reverse Fragility Index in Plastic Surgery Randomized Controlled Trials by Rodney Ahdoot, BS, Trista M. Benítez, MPH, Chien-Wei Wang, MD, Kevin C. Chung, MD, MS

“…The reverse fragility index (RFI) is a measure used to evaluate the neutrality of statistically nonsignificant findings in randomized controlled trials (RCTs). The RFI represents the minimum number of events needed to reverse a statistically nonsignificant result into a significant one. …”
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Poorly Recognized and Uncommonly Acknowledged Limitations of Randomized Controlled Trials by Chittaranjan Andrade

“…Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are a gold standard in evidence-based research. …”
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Robust parameter design for constrained randomization lifetime improvement experiments by Shanshan Lv, Yichen Zhao, Sen Li, Guodong Wang, Xueqing Wang

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Stress Reduction in Perioperative Care: Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial by Haridimos Kondylakis, Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli, Dimitrios Katehakis, Hatice Aldemir, Paul Zikas, George Papagiannakis, Santiago Hors-Fraile, Pedro L González-Sanz, Konstantinos Apostolakis, Constantine Stephanidis, Francisco J Núñez-Benjumea, Rosa M Baños-Rivera, Luis Fernandez-Luque, Angelina Kouroubali

“…After assessment for eligibility, participants were randomized into 2 groups: the intervention group (n=23) received the Adhera CARINAE DH intervention in addition to standard care, while the control group (n=27) received standard care alone. …”
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The effect of cheese intake on osteoarthritis: a Mendelian randomization study by Song Wen, Zehan Huang, Bin Zhang, Yuqing Huang

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Correction: Kidney damage on fertility and pregnancy: A Mendelian randomization. by Jin Ren, Qiuyan Huang, Xiaowei Nie, Xingli Tong, Qi Yao, Ge Zhou

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Sexual Absorption of Vaginal Progesterone: A Randomized Control Trial by Kathryn S. Merriam, Kristina A. Leake, Mollie Elliot, Michelle L. Matthews, Rebecca S. Usadi, Bradley S. Hurst

“…Study Design. Prospective, randomized, cross over, controlled study of 20 reproductive-aged women and their male sexual partners randomized to receive vaginal progesterone gel (Crinone 8% gel, Actavis Inc., USA) or placebo cream. …”
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A randomized trial of blended first aid education for the public

“…This study seeks to validate the effectiveness of using e-learning followed by face-to-face learning in first aid education to improve laypersons’ knowledge, confidence, and willingness, compared to face-to-face only learning.Method: 128 non-healthcare adult volunteers (laypeople) were randomly assigned to either a face-to-face (control, n=58) or a blended (experimental, n=70) British Red Cross Everyday First Aid course. …”
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A Prospective, Randomized Comparison of Duodenoscope Reprocessing Surveillance Methods by Travis J. De Wolfe, Nasia Safdar, Megan Meller, John Marx, Patrick R. Pfau, Eric M. Nelsen, Mark E. Benson, Anurag Soni, Mark Reichelderfer, Megan Duster, Deepak V. Gopal

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A Randomized Trial of Yoga for Adolescents with Irritable Bowel Syndrome by Leora Kuttner, Christine T Chambers, Janine Hardial, David M Israel, Kevan Jacobson, Kathy Evans

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Cryptomite: A versatile and user-friendly library of randomness extractors by Cameron Foreman, Richie Yeung, Alec Edgington, Florian J. Curchod

“…We present $\texttt{Cryptomite}$, a Python library of randomness extractor implementations. The library offers a range of two-source, seeded and deterministic randomness extractors, together with parameter calculation modules, making it easy to use and suitable for a variety of applications. …”
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The Impact of Feature Extraction in Random Forest Classifier for Fake News Detection by Dhani Ariatmanto, Anggi Muhammad Rifai

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Mean Empirical Likelihood Inference for Response Mean with Data Missing at Random by Hanji He, Guangming Deng

“…We extend the mean empirical likelihood inference for response mean with data missing at random. The empirical likelihood ratio confidence regions are poor when the response is missing at random, especially when the covariate is high-dimensional and the sample size is small. …”
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Random Forest–Based Coal Mine Roof Displacement Prediction and Application by Hongxia Li, Rong Wu, Jianan Gao

“…By identifying six important influencing indexes of coal roadway roof displacement, the prediction dataset of coal roadway roof displacement is established and the correlation and importance of the indexes are analyzed. Based on Random Forest (RF), XGBoost, and Gradient Boosting Decision Tree (GBDT) algorithms, three kinds of roof displacement prediction models are established respectively. …”
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Parallel Calculation of Random Vibration for Reentry Vehicles in Fluctuating Pressure Environment by Xuanhua Fan, Jun Liang, Keying Wang, Huan Zhou

“…This paper aims at the parallel calculation of the wide-frequency random vibration problems for the free body under multipoint fluctuating pressure loads. …”
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Opportunistic cooperative spectrum sensing based on eigenvalue ratio of random matrix by Wuji ZHANG, Shunlan LIU, Jianrong BAO

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Extremal jumps of circuit complexity of unitary evolutions generated by random Hamiltonians by Marcin Kotowski, Michał Oszmaniec, Michał Horodecki

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Stability of Pexiderized Quadratic Functional Equation in Random 2-Normed Spaces by Mohammed A. Alghamdi

“…The aim of this paper is to investigate the stability of Hyers-Ulam-Rassias type theorems by considering the pexiderized quadratic functional equation in the setting of random 2-normed spaces (RTNS), while the concept of random 2-normed space has been recently studied by Goleţ (2005).…”
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Generalizations of Parisi’s replica symmetry breaking and overlaps in random energy models by Derrida, Bernard, Mottishaw, Peter

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Robustness of Dengue Complex Network under Targeted versus Random Attack by Hafiz Abid Mahmood Malik, Faiza Abid, Mohamed Ridza Wahiddin, Zeeshan Bhatti

“…The outcomes demonstrated that 5% targeted attack is equivalent to the result of 65% random assault, which showed the topology of this complex network validated a scale-free network instead of random network. …”
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