411 research outputs found
Lennox Tierney collection: Japanese images
No full textposterLennox Tierney is a retired art history professor whose specialty was Asian Studies and Japan in particular. Tierney was a photographer, film maker, world traveler, author and tour guide. There are 11,000 digital images which can be viewed at the Marriott Library website
Senate Bill 1205 - Elaine Maimon Email to David Tierney
No full textThis email from ASU West Campus Provost Elaine Maimon to David Tierney discusses the passage of SB 1205 by the Arizona Senate and relates her concerns about the House Education Committee
Individual Participant Data (IPD) Meta-analyses of Randomised Controlled Trials: Guidance on Their Use
No full textJayne Tierney and colleagues offer guidance on how to spot a well-designed and well-conducted individual participant data meta-analysis
Apples and Dragon Fruits: The Determinants of Aid and Other Forms of State Financing from China to Africa
No full text© The Author(s) (2018). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Studies Association. All rights reserved. Chinese "aid" is a lightning rod for criticism. Policy-makers, journalists, and public intellectuals claim that Beijing uses its largesse to cement alliances with political leaders, secure access to natural resources, and create exclusive commercial opportunities for Chinese firms-all at the expense of citizens living in developing countries. We argue that much of the controversy about Chinese "aid" stems from a failure to distinguish between China's Official Development Assistance (ODA) and morecommercially oriented sources and types of state financing. Using a new database on China's official financing commitments to Africa from 2000 to 2013, we find that the allocation of Chinese ODA is driven primarily by foreign policy considerations, while economic interests better explain the distribution of less concessional flows. These results highlight the need for better measures of an increasingly diverse set of non-Western financial activities.link_to_OA_fulltex
Studies on the life history of Schistocephalus solidus Field observations and laboratory experiments
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The Art of Collaborative Storytelling: A Discussion on Arts-based Representations of Narrative Contexts
No full textThe call has been sounded asking social scientists to develop designs of
enquiry and dissemination which rest on processes of art rather than science
and to represent the subjects of biographic research with the complexity we
associate with literature and works of art more generally (Clough, 2004;
Denzin and Lincoln, 1994, 2002; Hollway and Jefferson, 2000; Sandelowski,
1991; Rorty, in Hiley et al., 1991). The emerging synthesis of the arts and
social sciences presents challenges to the methodological-philosophical
foundations of knowledge. At the very heart of this matter is knowledge
transfer. The need for innovation in dissemination of detailed descriptive
information has, until recently, been neglected in the social sciences. As
collage-makers, narrators of narrations, dream weavers - narrative researchers
are natural allies of the arts and humanities. Possibilities include, but are not
limited to, performance, film, video, audio, graphic arts, new media (CD ROM,
web-based production), poetry and so forth.
The format of my presentation at the Narrative & Memory Research Group
5th Annual Conference at the University of Huddersfield (April 2005) was
performative, collaborative and conversational. Through the use of three audiovisual
PowerPoint presentations, an attempt was made to revisit the arts and
humanities in search of lenses through which the intricacies of social science
data might be represented. At the conference, I explored examples of
(re)presentation from my own biographic narrative work and discussed the
potential of use of various media (studio recording, audio/visuals, etc.); I then
shared several examples of visual/arts-based production through the three short
narrative sequences described below (audio/visual links available on my
website: http://www.kipworld.net)
Investigating patient exclusion bias in meta-analysis
No full textBACKGROUND
Trial investigators frequently exclude patients from trial analyses which may bias estimates of the effect of treatment. Combining these estimates in a meta-analysis could aggregate any such biases.
METHODS
To investigate how excluding patients from trials can affect the results of both trials and meta-analyses, we used 14 meta-analyses of individual patient data (IPD) that addressed therapeutic questions in cancer. These included 133 randomized controlled trials (RCT) and 21 905 patients. We explored whether exclusions were related to trial characteristics and categorized the reasons for exclusions. For each RCT and meta-analysis, we compared results of an intention-to-treat analysis of all randomized patients with an analysis based on those patients included in the investigators' analysis.
RESULTS
In all, 92 trials (69%) excluded between 0.3 and 38% of patients randomized. Trials excluding patients tended to be older and larger than those that did not. Most patients were excluded because of ineligibility or protocol violations. Exclusions varied substantially by meta-analysis, more patients tending to be excluded from the treatment arm. Comparing trial analyses there was no clear indication that exclusion of patients altered the results more in favour of either treatment or control. However, comparing meta-analysis results, there was a tendency for those based on ‘included’ patients to favour the research treatment (P = 0.03). Inconsistency of trial results was often increased as a result of the investigators' exclusions.
CONCLUSIONS
Trials, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses may be prone to bias associated with post-randomization exclusion of patients. Wherever possible, the level of such exclusions should be taken into account when assessing the potential for bias in trials, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses. Ideally, trials, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses should be based on all randomized patients
Words of War
No full textSam Hirschman takes a second look at the Wikileaks process.
Aaron Moser interviews “How We Fight” author Dominic Tierney.
From the archives, Bennet Goeckner looks at transportation in Baghdad.
Plus, this week’s headlines
What are the optimal systemic treatments for men with metastatic, hormone-sensitive prostate cancer? A STOPCaP systematic review and network meta-analysis
No full textIssue Section: Genitourinary tumours, prostate - Abstract #LBA33C.L. Vale, D.J. Fisher, J. Carpenter, I.R. White, S. Burdett, N.W. Clarke, K. Fizazi, G. Gravis, N.D. James, M.D. Mason, M.K. Parmar, L.H. Rydzewska, C.J. Sweeney, M.R. Spears, M.R. Sydes, J.F. Tierne
Darkness in El Dorado (12/19/00)
No full textA new book alleges that anthropologists and reporters have greatly harmed the people of the Brazilian rain forest. The author of this controversial book contends that researchers and journalists are guilty of introducing and experimenting with diseases and staging confrontations. He says that “Darkness in El Dorado” exposes the suffering of the Yanomami people in the name of science and journalism. Guests include author Patrick Tierney
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