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Developmental Plasticity and Evolution
The first comprehensive synthesis on development and evolution: it applies to all aspects of development, at all levels of organization and in all organisms, taking advantage of...
Balance diagnostics for comparing the distribution of baseline covariates between treatment groups in propensity‐score matched samples
Abstract The propensity score is a subject's probability of treatment, conditional on observed baseline covariates. Conditional on the true propensity score, treated and untreat...
The Social Life of Things
The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contribu...
The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy scale: development and validation of the general measure.
PURPOSE We developed and validated a brief, yet sensitive, 33-item general cancer quality-of-life (QL) measure for evaluating patients receiving cancer treatment, called the Fun...
Global and societal implications of the diabetes epidemic
Changes in human behaviour and lifestyle over the last century have resulted in a dramatic increase in the incidence of diabetes worldwide. The epidemic is chiefly of type 2 dia...
Chronic inflammation in fat plays a crucial role in the development of obesity-related insulin resistance
Insulin resistance arises from the inability of insulin to act normally in regulating nutrient metabolism in peripheral tissues. Increasing evidence from human population studie...
EuroQol: the current state of play
The EuroQol Group first met in 1987 to test the feasibility of jointly developing a standardised non-disease-specific instrument for describing and valuing health-related qualit...
Positive Psychology Progress: Empirical Validation of Interventions.
Positive psychology has flourished in the last 5 years. The authors review recent developments in the field, including books, meetings, courses, and conferences. They also discu...
Process evaluation of complex interventions: Medical Research Council guidance
Process evaluation is an essential part of designing and testing complex interventions. New MRC guidance provides a framework for conducting and reporting process evaluation stu...