Cost-effectiveness analysis of eribulin versus dacarbazine in patients with advanced liposarcoma by Miaomiao Zhang, Jinlong Huang, Xiaochun Zheng, Ping Huang, Xiuli Yang

“…Abstract A subgroup analysis of a randomized study demonstrated that patients with advanced or metastatic liposarcoma treated with eribulin had longer overall survival and progression-free survival compared to those treated with dacarbazine, suggesting eribulin as a therapeutic option for advanced liposarcoma. …”
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Motor Imagery and Mental Practice in the Subacute and Chronic Phases in Upper Limb Rehabilitation after Stroke: A Systematic Review by Enrique Villa-Berges, Ana Alejandra Laborda Soriano, Orosia Lucha-López, José Miguel Tricas-Moreno, Mar Hernández-Secorún, Miguel Gómez-Martínez, César Hidalgo-García

“…We analysed a total of 11 randomized clinical trials, with moderate and high methodological quality according to the PEDro scale. …”
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A Comparative Efficacy of Low-Dose Combined Oral Contraceptives Containing Desogestrel and Drospirenone in Premenstrual Symptoms by Jirath Wichianpitaya, Surasak Taneepanichskul

“…Methods. In an open-label randomized controlled trial, 90 women with premenstrual syndrome who required COC were randomly recruited and allocated equally to receive either 6 cycles of 20 micrograms ethinyl estradiol (EE)/150 micrograms DSG (DSG group) or 20 micrograms EE/3 mg DRSP (DRSP group) in 24/4 extended regimen. …”
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Robotic versus Open Thyroidectomy for Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: An Evidence-Based Review by Shirley Yuk Wah Liu, Enders Kwok Wai Ng

“…Future research should embark on prospective randomized studies for unbiased comparisons. Long-term follow-up studies are also needed to evaluate outcomes on recurrence and survival.…”
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Does Motor Training of the Nonparetic Side Influences Balance and Function in Chronic Stroke? A Pilot RCT by Shanta Pandian, Kamal Narayan Arya, Dharmendra Kumar

“…They were randomly divided into the experimental group (n=20) and control group (n=19). …”
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Occurrence of the Elongated Styloid Process on Digital Panoramic Radiographs in the Riyadh Population by Lingam Amara Swapna, Nada Tarek AlMegbil, Alhanouf Othman Almutlaq, Pradeep Koppolu

“…The present prospective randomized study was conducted on the panoramic digital radiographs of 300 randomly selected patients visiting a private dental hospital to identify any elongation of the styloid process. …”
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Effectiveness of Motivational Intervention Based on Mind Set on Academic Procrastination and Learned Helplessness by maryam sanami, ali taghvaeinya, fariborz nikdel

“…The first, three school selected randomly, consequently 40 students that scored above the cut-off point convenient sampling were selected and randomly assigned two experimental and control group. …”
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Dual-Task Does Not Increase Slip and Fall Risk in Healthy Young and Older Adults during Walking by Rahul Soangra, Thurmon E. Lockhart

“…Seven healthy young and seven healthy older adults were randomly assigned to normal walking and dual-task walking sessions with a slip perturbation. …”
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Haemonchosis in Small Ruminants Under Traditional Husbandry Systems in Apac District, Northern Uganda by Charles Dickens Opeto, Harriet Angwech, Acaye Ongwech, Benard Abola, Steven Odongo, Geoffrey M. Malinga

“…Faecal samples were collected from a total of 768 randomly selected small ruminants (384 sheep and 384 goats) and examined for parasites using the floatation method and coproculture. …”
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Validity of a Sham Dry Needling Technique on a Healthy Population by Daniel M Cushman, Anna Holman, Lee Skinner, Keith Cummings, Peter Haight, Masaru Teramoto

“…This technique may be useful for randomized controlled trials in the future. # Levels of Evidence 2…”
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Clinical Pharmacokinetics of Atogepant in Healthy Japanese and White Adults by Ramesh R. Boinpally, Brian McNamee

“…The white participants were randomized to atogepant (60 mg twice daily) or placebo. …”
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The Video Manipulation Effect (VME): A quantification of the possible impact that the ordering of YouTube videos might have on opinions and voting preferences. by Robert Epstein, Alex Flores

“…Recent research has identified a number of powerful new forms of influence that the internet and related technologies have made possible. Randomized, controlled experiments have shown, for example, that when results generated by search engines are presented to undecided voters, if those search results favor one political candidate over another, the opinions and voting preferences of those voters can shift dramatically-by up to 80% in some demographic groups. …”
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Evaluation of the effect of platelet-rich plasma on the healing of the lay-open surgically repaired sacrococcygeal pilonidal sinus by Hazem A. Megahed, Lamiaa Z. Elmoursi

“…Patients and methods This randomized prospective trial was performed between October 2020 and September 2021 on 40 patients in the Surgery Department of Al-Azhar University Hospital in New Damietta with a simple sacrococcygeal pilonidal sinus. …”
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Effects of rhythmic-based exercise program in children by Bogdan Tomić, Slobodan Balać, Angela Mesaroš Živkov

“…Hence, we structured the rhythmic-based exercise program to provide an approach to developing children's PF over ten months. The non-randomized pre-post-controlled 2x2 design included 154 children (REG, rhythmic-based exercise group, n=75, CG, control group, n=79). …”
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Comparative Efficacy of Intracanal Medicaments in Healing Apical Periodontitis: Insights from a Comprehensive Clinical Study by G. Priya Johnson, Shruti Kataria, Sravana Laxmi Penumaka, Bilal Ameer, Abdul Sattar Mohammed, Sabari Murugesan

“…Materials and Methods: A randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted on 120 patients diagnosed with apical periodontitis. …”
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Optimal Assembly Position and Multi-objective Trajectory Optimization for Dual Robotic Arms Collaboration by Wang Tianrui, Tao Ping

“…In order to solve the limitation and randomness in determining the collaborative assembly position of dual robotic arms by the traditional manual demonstration method, and taking the coordinated assembly of dual robotic arms axle holes as the engineering background, this study uses the particle swarm algorithm to perform multiple searches for the optimal assembly position for the overall global flexibility in the collaborative assembly process and carries out multi-objective trajectory optimization based on the optimal position, with respect to the overall motion flexibility and trajectory planning of the robotic arm. …”
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Systematic review of the best evidence for resistance exercise in maintenance hemodialysis patients. by Qian Zhao, Ning Wu, Kaixing Duan, Jiahui Liu, Minghua Han, Huize Xu, Haoyang Chen, Ji Ma

“…<h4>Methods</h4>We conducted a comprehensive search of literature in databases on resistance exercise for maintenance hemodialysis patients, including guidelines, expert consensus, evidence summaries, systematic reviews, and randomized controlled trials. The search spanned from the inception of the database to March 2023. …”
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UJI EFEKTIVITAS EKSBIMA SEBAGAI SUBTITUTOR SIDABAS 500 SC TERHADAP HAMA THRIPS (Thrips sp) PADA TANAMAN CABAI RAWIT (Capsicum frutescens L.) by Sri Utami, Mochamad Soeprijadi Djoko Laksana

“…The study used an experimental method with randomized block design Randomized Complete Block Design or (RCBD) which consists of 5 levels of treatment and four replications (4 blocks). …”
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Bone Loss Prevention of Bisphosphonates in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Yan Hu, Xiaoting Chen, Xiaojing Chen, Shuang Zhang, Tianyan Jiang, Jing Chang, Yanhong Gao

“…STATA 12.0 software was used for the meta-analysis. Results. Eleven randomized clinical trials were included in the meta-analysis. …”
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A Novel Discrete Global-Best Harmony Search Algorithm for Solving 0-1 Knapsack Problems by Wan-li Xiang, Mei-qing An, Yin-zhen Li, Rui-chun He, Jing-fang Zhang

“…Last, a new selection scheme is applied to decide whether or not a new randomly generated harmony is included into the HM. …”
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