Search Results - "Subjectivity"

Innovative and effective subject randomization methods

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Legal and ethical issues in uses of stored tissue in human subjects research

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Supporting research new opportunities for "subject librarians" and other staff /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Warwick University Library and its development of community spaces -- The learning grid -- The teaching grid -- The research exchange -- Overview of changes in the teaching and learning environment -- Overview of changes in the research environment -- Overview of changes in the Library and Information Service business -- A review of 'subject librarian' roles -- The Research Libraries UK 'Subject Librarians' project, its aims and scope -- The Research Libraries UK 'Subject Librarians' project, its findings -- Supporting the 'research lifecycle' -- Skills sets required by subject librarians to support research and perception of needs -- Further considerations in support research -- Conclusions.…”
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What does physiotherapy teach us about back pain?

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Physiotherapy as an intervention for lower back pain (LBP) -- Classifying LBP -- Subjective assessment -- Neurological evaluation -- Movement assessment -- Palpation & muscle testing -- LBP management and therapy.…”
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Data protection in the European Union part 1 of 2 /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: The complex system of data protection laws -- Data protection in the EU -- General personal data processing principles -- Directives and regulations -- The data subject (Personal & sensitive data) -- Lack of clarity in personal data definition.…”
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Convergence

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Convergence -- De-convergence -- Super-convergence -- Integrated student services -- Library services -- IT services -- Estates and facilities -- Learning environments -- Technology enhanced learning -- Subject librarianship -- Research management -- Teaching and learning support -- Student hubs.…”
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Ethical issues in adaptive clinical trials

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Purported ethical advantages of adaptive clinical trial designs -- Foundations of research ethics -- Ethical tensions in randomized controlled trials -- The concept(s) of equipoise -- Do adaptive designs enhance patient-subject benefit? -- The therapeutic misconception -- Efficiency -- Are adaptive randomized trials unjust?.…”
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The history and foundations of medical research ethics

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Germany: medicine in national socialism -- The Nuremberg "doctors' trial" -- Research in humans: The Nuremberg Code of 1947 -- Invention of the Polio vaccine -- The Tuskegee Syphilis study -- Elements of consent -- Medical research with human subjects: Declaration of Helsinki (1964-2013) -- Research with vulnerable groups.…”
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Alcoholic liver disease

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Alcoholism, including the toll of alcoholism, is key to understanding alcoholic liver disease (ALD) -- Alcoholism is clandestine disorder -- Abstinence is key to recovery from both alcoholism and ALD -- There are few evidence-based therapies for ALD, other than abstinence -- Liver transplantation is valuable in selected subjects with ALD.…”
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Population genetic studies in Africa curiosity and challenges /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Use of genomic DNA to advance our knowledge and understanding of human evolution, biomedical research and mechanisms of disease -- Acquiring specimens for research -- Strict policies and recommendations guiding specimen acquirement -- Social, ethical and legal issues when conducting research on human subjects -- Factors to be considered when setting up qualitative and quantitative research -- Case study: sub-Saharan Africa, in particular population genetics studies.…”
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Historical and ethical issues in trial design

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Historical antecedents to the clinical trial -- Pharmacology & mathematical statistics as key for clinical trials -- Shortage of streptomycin during WWII & use of control groups -- Unethical research studies & informed consent by study subjects -- Withholding a potentially useful therapy -- Letting chance determine patient assignment -- Advancing scientific knowledge without reducing study participants to a means to an end -- General ethical frameworks of Utilitarianism & Kantianism -- Eight factors to be considered in designing ethical and scientific studies.…”
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Proteomics in kidney disease clinical considerations /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Proteomics for clinical use -- Available and applied single risk marker strategies in nephrology based on hypothesis driven biomarker search -- Open or unbiased multimarker approaches including plasma and urine proteomics -- Examples from different renal diseases -- Data from cross sectional and longitudinal studies -- Proteomics may provide insight into disease pathology -- Proteomics may provide risk stratification for clinical trials -- Example: intervention trial for type 2 diabetic subjects with high risk urinary proteomic pattern.…”
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Genetic, environmental and other design issues relevant for pharmacogenetics studies

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Definition of pharmacogenetics (PGx), pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics -- Modulation of PGx phenotypes -- Genetic factors play a role in determining the variability of PGx phenotypes -- Study design -- Genetic epidemiology -- Familial aggregation studies -- Twin and adoption studies -- Therapeutic response to psychotropic drugs -- Pharmaco-epidemiology and PGx phenotypes -- Animal models -- Balancing modest epidemiological evidence against biological pertinence -- Studying PGx phenotypes in relation to candidate genes -- Family-based vs. case control designs -- Observer effect -- Sampling bias -- Factors related to the subject.…”
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Visual perception and spatial awareness

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Selective attention -- Unattended information -- Spatial cueing of attention -- Goal-directed (endogenous) cueing -- Stimulus-driven (exogenous) cueing -- Spatial attention facilitates detection -- Federico Fellini -- Anton Raderscheidt -- Patients with parietal lesions -- Vision and eye movements -- Location and duration of fixations -- Neglect in visual imagery -- Matched control and neglect subjects -- Is attention always necessary? -- Unconscious processing of neglect information -- Priming paradigm -- Nature of the task may influence awareness -- Perceptual organization in absence of attention -- Patients vary in neglect severity -- Neural correlates of visual awareness.…”
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