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Uncontrollability versus perceived failure as determinants of subsequent performance deficits
An experiment is reported that attempted to dissociate the effects of uncontrollability from those of failure in the standard learned helplessness induction procedure involving instrumental tasks. The task was...
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Learned helplessness deficits: Uncontrollable outcomes or perceived failure?
An experiment is described showing that learned helplessness deficits are produced by prior exposure to uncontrollable outcomes rather than perceived failure. Although the controllability manipulation did prod...
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Open AccessThe impact of nonlinear exposure-risk relationships on seasonal time-series data: modelling Danish neonatal birth anthropometric data
Birth weight and length have seasonal fluctuations. Previous analyses of birth weight by latitude effects identified seemingly contradictory results, showing both 6 and 12 monthly periodicities in weight. The ...
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Competing risks models and time-dependent covariates
New statistical models for analysing survival data in an intensive care unit context have recently been developed. Two models that offer significant advantages over standard survival analyses are competing ris...
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Obituary: Liza Maria Veiga (née McCarthy) (October 31, 1963–October 28, 2012)
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Open AccessThe Simcyp Population Based Simulator: Architecture, Implementation, and Quality Assurance
Develo** a user-friendly platform that can handle a vast number of complex physiologically based pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic (PBPK/PD) models both for conventional small molecules and larger biologic...
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Winter weather and health
There has been much debate about whether winter warming due to climate change will substantially decrease mortality in that season. Research now finds that cold severity no longer predicts the number of excess...
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Increased risk of emergency hospital admissions for children with renal diseases during heatwaves in Brisbane, Australia
Heatwaves have a significant impact on population health including both morbidity and mortality. In this study we examined the association between heatwaves and emergency hospital admissions (EHAs) for renal d...
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Open AccessUsing a theory of planned behaviour framework to explore hand hygiene beliefs at the ‘5 critical moments’ among Australian hospital-based nurses
Improving hand hygiene among health care workers (HCWs) is the single most effective intervention to reduce health care associated infections in hospitals. Understanding the cognitive determinants of hand hygi...
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Predictors of health-related quality of life in people with a complex chronic disease including multimorbidity: a longitudinal cohort study
Factors that predict the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of people with complex chronic diseases have not been investigated to date. Determining the impact of disease on daily activities is a factor tha...
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Advancing Australia's role in climate change and health research
Australia allocates less than 0.1% of health funding to research on health and climate change. This Perspective highlights the country's strength in the individual disciplines of climate science and health res...
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Comment: Research needs more competence, less 'excellence'
There is much talk about the need for excellence, but is it really what science needs, asks Adrian Barnett
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Open AccessA structure, process and outcome evaluation of the Geriatric Emergency Department Intervention model of care: a study protocol
Emergency departments are chaotic environments in which complex, frail older persons living in the community and residential aged care facilities are sometimes subjected to prolonged emergency department lengt...
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Open Access‘Are you siding with a personality or the grant proposal?’: observations on how peer review panels function
In Australia, the peer review process for competitive funding is usually conducted by a peer review group in conjunction with prior assessment from external assessors. This process is quite mysterious to those...
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Open AccessA research pathway for the study of the delivery and disposition of nebulised antibiotics: an incremental approach from in vitro to large animal models
Nebulised antibiotics are frequently used for the prevention or treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia. Many factors may influence pulmonary drug concentrations with inaccurate dosing schedules potential...
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Open AccessThe effects of normovolemic anemia and blood transfusion on cerebral microcirculation after severe head injury
Cerebral regional microcirculation is altered following severe head injury. In addition to tissue disruption, partial pressure of tissue oxygenation is impaired due to an increase in the oxygen tissue gradient...
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Open AccessThe Geriatric Emergency Department Intervention model of care: a pragmatic trial
To evaluate a Geriatric Emergency Department Intervention (GEDI) model of service delivery for adults aged 70 years and older.
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The Vocal Repertoire of Golden-Faced Sakis, Pithecia chrysocephala, and the Relationship Between Context and Call Structure
Vocalizations are a vital form of communication. Call structure and use may change depending on emotional arousal, behavioral context, sex, or social complexity. Pithecia chrysocephala (golden-faced sakis) are a ...
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Open AccessThe acceptability of using a lottery to allocate research funding: a survey of applicants
The Health Research Council of New Zealand is the first major government funding agency to use a lottery to allocate research funding for their Explorer Grant scheme. This is a somewhat controversial approach ...
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Open AccessRegistered Reports: Time to Radically Rethink Peer Review in Health Economics
