Books: 'Evidence based pedagogical method'

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Smith, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1937-, ed. Smith's patient-centered interviewing: An evidence-based method. 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2012.

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Evidence-based technical analysis: Applying the scientific method and statistical inference to trading signals. Hoboken, N.J: John Wiley & Sons, 2007.

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Evidence-based instruction in reading: A professional development guide to culturally responsive instruction. Boston: Pearson/Allyn & Bacon, 2012.

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Mraz, Maryann. Evidence-based instruction in reading: A professional development guide to phonemic awareness. Boston: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, 2008.

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Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care, ed. Learning what works: Infrastructure required for comparative effectiveness research : workshop summary. Washington, D.C: National Academies Press, 2011.

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Biba, Anna. Methods of preparing children to learn Russian at school. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/991911.

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The textbook is aimed at developing professional competencies in preparing preschool children to learn Russian at school.it reveals the current content of preparing preschoolers to learn reading and writing in primary school, contains a method for teaching them sound word analysis, reading syllables and words in accordance with a scientifically based sound analytical and synthetic method, a technique for teaching children to print letters and syllables, and describes opportunities for cognitive development of preschool children in the process of speech work. The methodological material is accompanied by examples from the speech of preschool children and their training practices. A test is offered for professional self-control over the assimilation of the corresponding methodology in General. The appendices contain methodological illustrative and reference material. Meets the requirements of Federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. For undergraduate students in the field of "Pedagogical education", it can also be used by undergraduates in the study of a course on the cognitive development of preschool children and in the process of professional development and retraining of employees of preschool educational institutions and primary school teachers.

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Lomakina, Tat'yana, and Nina Vasil'chenko. Modern technology of teaching a foreign language: design and experience. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1111366.

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The monograph deals with the theoretical and practical issues of pedagogical design of the technology of teaching a foreign language in the system of secondary vocational education. Presents an analysis of key concepts "instructional design" and "technology of education" that is meaningful and reveals the basic principles of the system, activity-based and student-centered approaches to the design of learning technologies to address new opportunities and the status of the str system in the modern socio-economic conditions. The author has developed a method of selection of the content of learning English language, based on the modular structure of the course, taking into account international experience in building the content of language education for professional purposes, the requirements of the educational-methodical complex of teaching business English and core competencies stipulated by the Council of Europe, as well as the requirements of the labour market and the needs of employers standardisert, intensificarea language training specialist of middle management by reflection of the status and trends of professional activities in various fields. For use in the system of professional development of teachers of secondary vocational education, additional education and the system of corporate training.

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Smith, Robert C. Patient-Centered Interviewing: An Evidence-Based Method. 2nd ed. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002.

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Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading: A Professional Development Guide to Phonics (Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading). Allyn & Bacon, 2007.

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Zaslau, Stanley. Blueprints Urology: An Evidence-Based Method (Blueprints Pockets). 2nd ed. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004.

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Smith's Patient Centered Interviewing: An Evidence-Based Method, Fourth Edition. McGraw-Hill Education / Medical, 2018.

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Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading: A Professional Development Guide to Phonemic Awareness (Evidence-Based Instruction in Reading). Allyn & Bacon, 2007.

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Aronson, David R. Evidence-Based Technical Analysis: Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals. Wiley, 2006.

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Aronson, David. Evidence-Based Technical Analysis: Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2011.

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Aronson, David. Evidence-Based Technical Analysis: Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals. Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2007.

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Pedagogical Documentation in Early Childhood: Sharing Children’s Learning and Teachers' Thinking. Redleaf Press, 2015.

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Dewar, Jacqueline M. Evidence: From Interviews, Focus Groups, and Think-Alouds. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198821212.003.0007.

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Chapter 6 gives detailed instructions for gathering evidence through focus groups, interviews, and think-alouds. When seeking to answer questions about science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) student thinking, motivation, attitudes, or underlying reasons for certain behaviors, a scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) investigator should consider using one or more of these methods even though they may be unfamiliar. Numerous examples are given of studies of student learning in science, engineering, and mathematics that employed these methods. The investigator is advised to select a method that is appropriate for the type of research question—What works? What is? What could be? The chapter closes with a discussion of the key role that student voices play in SoTL, including the positive outcomes resulting from several projects that engaged students as co-investigators or provided undergraduate research experience in pedagogical research.

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Randall, Brendan W., and Whittney Barth. The Case Study Method as a Means of Teaching about Pluralism. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190677565.003.0019.

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In her course on religious diversity in the United States, Dr. Diana Eck of Harvard University introduces students to a range of religious traditions, especially those associated with more recent waves of immigration. Using case studies as the organizational pedagogy, Eck urges students to consider a particular response to increased religious diversity, namely pluralism as a civic value. We explore whether Eck’s use of the case study method provides mechanisms by which the “encounter of commitments” (a key concept in Eck’s definition of pluralism) could occur among students and thereby promote a pluralistic disposition. Although we found evidence of such encounters, their pedagogical impact may have been undermined by the lack of a precise understanding of civic pluralism and a reluctance among some students to share their views.

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Judith, Sharlin, and Edelstein Sari, eds. Essentials of life cycle nutrition. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2011.

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Judith, Sharlin, and Edelstein Sari, eds. Essentials of life cycle nutrition. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2010.

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Heinrichs, Douglas W. Model-Based Science and the Ethics of Ongoing Treatment Negotiation. Edited by John Z. Sadler, K. W. M. Fulford, and Werdie (C W. ). van Staden. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198732372.013.26.

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Current thinking in medical ethics posits that treatment decisions should result from negotiation between clinician and patient as autonomous agents. However the view of science that underlies most thinking about evidence in medicine encourages the belief that in principle optimal evi-dence-based judgment as to best treatments can be reached by the clinician apart from such ne-gotiation, reducing negotiation to a sham process. A model-based notion of science, derived from a naturalistic philosophy of science, argues that the process of predicting optimal treatment re-quires consideration of a patient’s goals, and thus requires ongoing negotiations with the patient. Hence values are integral to the scientific process, not something extra-scientific that must be reconciled with it. From this perspective the clinician’s activity becomes one with scientific method rather than an ill-defined, and typically undervalued, art.

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Brazier, John, Julie Ratcliffe, Joshua A. Salomon, and Aki Tsuchiya. Methods for obtaining health state utility values: generic preference-based measures of health. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198725923.003.0007.

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This chapter describes the six most widely used generic preference-based measures of health (GPBMs) (also known as multiattribute utility scales): EQ-5D, SF-6D, HUI, AQoL, 15D, and QWB. GPBMs have become the most widely used method for obtaining health state utility values. They contain a health state classification with multilevel dimensions that together describe a universe of health states and a set of values (where full health = 1 and dead = 0) for each health state obtained by eliciting the preferences (typically) of members of the general population. These measures are reviewed in terms of their content, methods of valuation, the scores they generate, and the possible reasons for the differences found. Their performance is reviewed using published evidence on their validity across conditions, and the implications for their use in policy making discussed. The chapter also reviews the generic measures available for use in populations of children and adolescents.

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Brandt, Kasper. Illicit financial flows and the Global South: A review of methods and evidence. UNU-WIDER, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.35188/unu-wider/2020/926-6.

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Illicit financial flows (IFFs) constitute a major challenge for development in the Global South, as domestic resource mobilization is imperative for providing crucial public services. While several methods offer to measure the extent of IFFs, each has its benefits and drawbacks. Critically, methods based on the balance of payments identity may capture licit as well as illicit flows, and a method based on macroeconomic trade discrepancies suffers from doubtful assumptions. The most convincing estimate to date demonstrates that individuals hold financial assets worth around ten per cent of global GDP in tax havens. Evidence further indicates that countries in the Global South are more exposed to individuals and multinational enterprises illicitly transferring money out of the country. Further research is warranted on profit shifting out of countries in the Global South and the effectiveness of anti-IFF policies in countries outside Europe and the United States.

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Batchvarov, Kroum N. Shipwreck Reconstruction Based on the Archaeological Record: Mediterranean Whole-Molding and the Kitten Wreck Case Study. Edited by Ben Ford, Donny L. Hamilton, and Alexis Catsambis. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199336005.013.0011.

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This article gives a case study based on the archaeological evidence of the wrecks from Catalonia, Yassiada, Sardineaux, and Kitten. It gives the description of the hull and the process of reconstruction of the Kitten vessel, based on archaeological evidence. The Kitten shipwreck is the first, and so far only, example of a postmedieval ship from the Black Sea to have been excavated and recorded, and for this reason, no exact parallels for this wreck have been published. The reconstructed method of controlling the shape of the Kitten vessel fits well with the tradition recorded in documents of the Italian Renaissance. The lines of the Kitten vessel were reconstructed from the archaeological evidence, traditional proportions, iconography, and limited comparative material from vernacular boats. This article describes the whole procedure of reconstruction and molding of the Kitten vessel, from shipwreck reconstruction, based on archaeological record.

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Anjum, Rani Lill, and Stephen Mumford. What RCTs Do Not Show. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198733669.003.0023.

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In this chapter we discuss how it is an uncontroversial norm of science that decisions should be based on evidence. There can be debate, however, on what counts as evidence and how we get from evidence to decision. The method of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is now prominent in medical and social science. However, the method also has a number of weaknesses that are inherent to the design. There are some things that RCTs cannot test, while other interventions are well suited for the method. Among other consequences, it can be shown that the method structurally favours certain causal interventions over others.

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Anjum, Rani Lill, and Stephen Mumford. Plural Methods, One Causation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198733669.003.0027.

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No single method is perfect for identifying causation. One response is to adopt causal pluralism: the view that causation is many things. But this is problematic. A simpler response is to take such pluralism as epistemic or methodological only. If we cannot rely on one method alone, we instead have the option of approaching causation via a number of different methods. A method is useful if it attaches to one or more of the symptoms of causation, where those symptoms are also plural. Such symptoms are the more or less reliable indicators of the presence of causation. Evidence hierarchies could be based on how reliable each such method is but hierarchies can themselves be understood in a dispositional rather than strict way.

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Domhoff, G. William. The Failed Freudian Revival. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190673420.003.0008.

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Chapter 7 presents a detailed, empirically based refutation of both the classical Freudian theory and the attempt to recast it as neuropsychoanalysis based on neurological case studies. It presents the evidence that dreams do not have the adaptive function of preserving sleep, as Freudians claim. It further shows that no systematic psychological studies of Freudian claims about the cognitive mechanism that create dreams or about the nature of dream content have been supported. Nor is there any evidence that the Freudian method of free association has any value in understanding the meaning of dreams.

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Arnold, Robert M., Anthony L. Back, Walter F. Baile, Kelly A. Edwards, and James A. Tulsky. The Oncotalk/Vitaltalk model. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198736134.003.0056.

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Clinicians can, with training, improve their communication skills. In this chapter, we describe an interactive, evidence-based method for teaching clinicians to communicate with seriously ill patients. The programme, Vitaltalk, emphasizes small-group teaching with simulated patients and immediate feedback to allow learners to practice how to give serious news, talk about goals of care, and about what is most important to dying patients. This chapter describes common evidence-based principles used in developing an advanced communication skills programme based on Oncotalk experiences, identifies unique aspects of the learning context within an intensive retreat structure, and illustrates the lessons learned that can be tested in other settings. The programme is effective in improving learners’ communication skills in clinical studies. The growth of this programme in multiple specialties is discussed, as are our plans for disseminating the programme in the future.

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Flemming, Kate. Qualitative research. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199656097.003.0194.

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This chapter outlines the importance of qualitative research as a method to provide answers to clinical questions arising in palliative medicine. Rather than being a chapter about how to ‘do’ qualitative research, it is a chapter that seeks to outline the role and purpose of qualitative research for palliative care by looking at the kind of questions qualitative research can answer, exploring qualitative research and its relationship to evidence-based practice, the role of qualitative research within mixed methods research, and the developing area of the synthesis of qualitative research. It addresses some of the more practical aspects of searching for qualitative research and undertaking an appraisal of its quality, whilst acknowledging that these are contested areas undergoing methodological development. In exploring these issues it firmly establishes a place for qualitative research within evidence-based practice and for palliative medicine in particular.

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Hofmann, Christian, and Laurence van Lent. Organizational Design and Control Choices. Edited by Michael A. Hitt, Susan E. Jackson, Salvador Carmona, Leonard Bierman, Christina E. Shalley, and Douglas Michael Wright. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190650230.013.10.

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Building on new insights from organizational economics, management accounting researchers have highlighted how incentive contracts and performance measure choices complement structural arrangements in firms. We discuss how “slow-moving” elements in organizational design, such as the allocation of decision rights to local managers and interdependencies between different parts of the production function, affect the working of incentives and performance measures. We pay attention to the empirical challenges that researchers face in this area and argues that mixed-method approaches in which economic models are combined with empirical evidence can help to build a body of evidence that is robust and admits cross-study accumulation of knowledge. Finally, we illustrate how recent economic models that incorporate other-regarding preferences can help to bridge the gap between economics-based research in management accounting and more traditional approaches that rely on the behavioral sciences.

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Hobbs, Richard. Primary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199544769.003.0002.

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• Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death and disability in the world• The evidence base for the causes of CHD and for the interventions which reduce CHD risk is huge• Since CHD is multi-factorial, risk factors tend to co-exist in many patients, and are multiplicative in their influence on overall risk, making identifying people at highest risk clinically difficult• CHD risk scores have been developed, based on observed CHD rates amongst well-phenotyped patient cohorts followed up over years. These express absolute risk over a defined period and are the most practical method for determining which people have the most to gain from treatment interventions• Evidence-based interventions include smoking cessation, lifestyle modification in terms of diet and exercise, anti-hypertensives for elevated blood pressure, and ‘statins’ for hyperlipidaemia• Clinical guidelines for CHD prevention provide recommendations on specific targets for blood pressure and lipid-lowering therapy.

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Goodman, Nan. Evidentiary Cosmopolitanism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190642822.003.0005.

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The late seventeenth century, known for its contributions to the scientific method, also saw shifts in the understanding of legal evidence, the most prominent of which charted a course away from faith-based claims about knowledge to claims based on eyewitness testimony. Less well-known was a shift in legal evidence from the local to the global or from circumscribed to cosmopolitan witnessing. When John Locke argued that knowledge was the result of human interactions with the external world, the category of what counted as knowledge became geopolitically extensive, opening itself up to “facts,” as they were understood in local and global contexts. This expansion of the sphere for available facts led to a preference for truths grounded in the facts of a larger world—in evidentiary cosmopolitanism—which emerges in the writings of the late seventeenth-century New England Puritans as the centerpiece of their argument against royal oppression and the loss of their charter.

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Grocke, Denise. Receptive Music Therapy. Edited by Jane Edwards. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199639755.013.21.

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Listening to music is an everyday experience for most people. In music therapy music listening can be used to support many therapeutic goals. This chapter presents an overview of methods used in receptive music therapy that are supported by research literature, including music-assisted relaxation, music and imagery, and Guided Imagery and Music (Bonny Method). Salient features of each approach are outlined and supported with evidence-based research. Elements of music used in relaxation and imagery are discussed in some further depth to highlight the need for greater transparency when reporting the effect of recorded and live music in receptive music therapy.

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Munar, Myrna Y., and Ali J. Olyaei. The effect of renal failure on drug handling in critical illness. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199600830.003.0217.

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The kidneys play an important role in the elimination of many drugs. In chronic kidney disease and acute kidney injury several pharmacokinetic processes are altered. Thus, patients with impaired renal function require adjustment of medication dosing. Many drugs require a loading dose to rapidly achieve therapeutic plasma concentrations. Subsequently, the dose or dosing interval may have to be adjusted as appropriate for the degree for renal function. The most common method to estimate renal function is use of the Cockcroft–Gault (CG) equation. It has been well validated, is easy to remember, and is fairly accurate in estimating kidney function. Most drugs are dosed based on the patient’s weight (mg/kg), which makes the CG method easier to use for most estimates. Other methods are available and a patient’s renal function should always be estimated based on the best available evidence for that specific patient. Patients with chronic kidney disease are at great risk of developing kidney injury from drugs or diagnostic agents. Exposure to nephrotoxins should be avoided as much as possible.

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Lane, Jeffrey. Going to Jail Because of the Internet. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199381265.003.0005.

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Chapter 5 shows how the law works on the digital street. It reveals a new approach to gang suppression based on the editorial control of suspects’ online content. This chapter addresses a series of gang indictments in which police and prosecutors utilized social media to define and prosecute youth crews under conspiracy law, a practice that emerged as a stop-and-frisk method on the physical street lost legitimacy. The author shows how prosecutors learned to marshal social media as criminal evidence. This chapter explores also the pushback by teenagers whose code-switching strategies evolved to manage police suspicion. It considers gains in public safety and the collateral costs of the indictments.

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Clark, Caroline, Jeffrey Cole, Christine Winter, and Geoffrey Grammer. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190205959.003.0005.

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Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often fail to resolve with psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, or integrative medicine treatments. Given these limitations, there is a continued push to discover treatment methods utilizing novel mechanisms of action. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) offers a non-invasive and safe method of brain stimulation that modulates neuronal activity in a focal area to achieve excitation or inhibition, and may have utility for patients suffering from PTSD, although, to date, evidence of efficacy is limited. The TMS treatment can be varied to suit the needs of the patient by altering the selection of the specific treatment parameters, such as pulse frequency or stimulation intensity. The weight of evidence to date supports treatment of either the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex or the medical prefrontal cortex. Coupling treatment with script based exposure therapies may also assist with potentiation of the extinction response. Ultimately, stimulation parameters may be related to secondary downstream effects, and thus current targets may indirectly reverse the underlying neuronal pathophysiology. Given that PTSD is a complex illness with a poorly understood pathophysiology, it often exists with other psychiatric comorbidities or TBI. As such, TMS could be an effective part of a comprehensive treatment program.

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Costas-Muñiz, Rosario, Olga Garduño-Ortega, Carlos Javier González, Xiomara Rocha-Cadman, William Breitbart, and Francesca Gany. Cultural and Linguistic Adaptation of Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Spanish-Speaking Latino Cancer Patients. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199837229.003.0011.

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Psychotherapeutic interventions focusing on addressing the needs and experiences of Latino cancer patients are scarce. This chapter discusses the formative process of the cultural and linguistic adaptation of meaning-centered psychotherapy (MCP) for Latinos with advanced cancer, as well as the considerations for and the process of adapting a psychotherapeutic intervention. A brief review of the efficacy of other psychotherapeutic interventions developed, adapted, and delivered to Latino cancer patients and also the concepts and applicability of individual meaning-centered psychotherapy are described. This chapter presents the initial phase of the adaptation of MCP, including conceptual frameworks, plan, process and methods used in adapting the original evidence-based treatment for Latino patients with advanced cancer. The mixed-method approach is described to provide future recommendations for clinicians, researchers, and program developers.

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Taylor, Joan E., and Ilaria L. E. Ramelli, eds. Patterns of Women's Leadership in Early Christianity. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198867067.001.0001.

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This authoritative volume brings together the latest thinking on women’s leadership in early Christianity. Featuring contributors from key scholars in the fields of Christian history, the volume considers the evidence for ways in which women exercised leadership in churches from the first to the ninth centuries CE. This rich and diverse collection breaks new ground in the study of women in early Christianity. This is not about working with one method, based on one type of feminist theory, but overall there is nevertheless a feminist or egalitarian agenda in considering the full equality of women with men in religious spheres a positive goal, with the assumption that this full equality has yet to be attained. The chapters revisit both older studies and offer new and unpublished research, exploring the many ways in which ancient Christian women’s leadership could function.

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Cook, Joanna. “Mind the Gap”. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190495794.003.0006.

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This chapter focuses on mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) in the United Kingdom. It argues that at the levels of both structure and practice, therapists and practitioners frame mindfulness as a method for distinguishing between appearance and reality. Drawing on ethnography from a two-year therapist-training program in MBCT, it is demonstrated that mindfulness and science are understood to produce complementary forms of evidence. Both are framed as protocols for aligning human representation with the ways the world is. This concern to distinguish “appearance” from “reality” also informs the practice of mindfulness. Practitioners work to develop a decentered perspective (to see thoughts as “not really real”). Drawing upon Edmund Husserl’s technique of phenomenological modification, it is argued that in both instances—the epistemological equivalency created between scientific and meditative practice, and learning to relate differently to thoughts—the categories of “appearance” and “reality” are created.

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Elwood, Mark. Critical Appraisal of Epidemiological Studies and Clinical Trials. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199682898.001.0001.

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This book presents a system of critical appraisal applicable to clinical, epidemiological and public health studies and to many other fields. It assumes no prior knowledge. The methods are relevant to students, practitioners and policymakers. The book shows how to assess if the results of one study or of many studies show a causal effect. The book discusses study designs: randomised and non-randomised trials, cohort studies, case-control studies, and surveys, showing the presentation of results including person-time and survival analysis, and issues in the selection of subjects. The system shows how to describe a study, how to detect and assess selection biases, observation bias, confounding, and chance variation, and how to assess internal validity and external validity (generalisability). Statistical methods are presented assuming no previous knowledge, and showing applications to each study design. Positive features of causation including strength, dose-response, and consistency are discussed. The book shows how to do systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and discusses publication bias. Systems of assessing all evidence are shown, leading to a general method of critical appraisal based on 20 key questions in five groups, which can be applied to any type of study or any topic. Six chapters show the application of this method to randomised trials, prospective and retrospective cohort studies, and case-control studies. An appendix summarises key statistical methods, each with a worked example. Each main chapter has self-test questions, with answers provided.

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Trout, J. D. All Talked Out. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190686802.001.0001.

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Few topics animate, even polarize, philosophers, more than Naturalism, a doctrine which states that philosophy is continuous with, and perhaps even replaceable by, sciences worthy of the name. On one side, fans of technical progress believe that the sciences can indeed replace philosophy with something that allows us to reason and explain better. On the other, advocates of the humanities herald the insights and methods of disciplines seemingly beyond the reach of science. But these disputes are often more about turf than truth. All Talked Out exemplifies the power of science in a philosopher’s hands and takes a welcome look at the resulting fate of philosophy. Based on Trout’s Phi Beta Kappa Romanell Lectures, each chapter presents a novel and positive view of intellectual advances while addressing traditional topics in philosophy, and each chapter explains why these achievements occurred despite the archaic and often retrograde influence of philosophical doctrine and method. While foundational reflection remains as necessary as ever, philosophy, as it is conceived of in the halls of academia, no longer adds anything distinctively useful. At its best, philosophy is a place to grow new ideas. But many other disciplines can and do provide that incubation. In the end, we don’t have to kill philosophy; but we do have to figure out what it’s good for. Following a spirited Introduction, the first lecture takes stock of the growing field of evidence-based approaches to reasoning and, in light of these scientific developments, criticizes important failures in epistemology as it is currently practiced in the English-speaking world. The second lecture examines the psychological impulse to explain, the resulting sense of understanding, and the natural limits on cognitively appreciating the subject we have explained. The final lecture, on social policy, presents the proper reaction to the idea that scientific evidence matters to responsible governance.

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Locatelli, Francesco, Celestina Manzoni, Giuseppe Pontoriero, Vincenzo La Milia, and Salvatore Di Filippo. Haemofiltration and haemodiafiltration. Edited by Jonathan Himmelfarb. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199592548.003.0260_update_001.

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Many observational studies have consistently shown that high-flux haemodialysis (hf-HD) has positive effects on the survival and morbidity of uraemic patients when compared with low-flux haemodialysis, and mainly considering the results of Membrane Permeability Outcome (MPO) studies there is evidence favouring high-flux treatments. A further improvement in convective treatments is represented by the on-line modality. On-line preparation from fresh dialysate by a cold-sterilizing filtration process is a cost-effective method of providing large volumes of infusion solution. Randomized, controlled, large-sized trials with long follow-up in haemofiltration (HF) are unfortunately lacking, possibly suggesting the difficulties in performing these trials, mainly in providing the same urea Kt/V considered adequate in HD. On-line haemodiafiltration (HDF) is considered the most efficient technique of using high-flux membranes, and clearances of small solutes like urea are higher in HDF than in HF and of middle solutes like β‎‎‎2-microglobulin are higher than in hf-HD. Thus HDF, as a strategy based on simultaneous diffusive and convective transport, may combine the beneficial effects of diffusive standard HD with the possible advantages of convective HF. Five large, randomized controlled trials just concluded are inconclusive in definitively clarifying the impact of on-line HDF on chronic kidney disease stage 5 patient outcomes.

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Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen. The Global Gag Rule and Women's Reproductive Health. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190876128.001.0001.

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In recent decades, the long arm of US politics has reached the intimate lives of women all over the world. Since 1984, healthcare organizations in developing countries have faced major cuts in US foreign aid if they perform or promote abortions as a method of family planning. The policy—commonly known as the global gag rule—is a hallmark of Republican administrations. The reinstatement and expansion of the global gag rule by Donald Trump in January 2017 caused a firestorm of debate. Proponents emphasize the importance of reducing abortions globally, while critics predict large increases in unsafe abortions and maternal mortality resulting from disruptions to family-planning services. How plausible are the various claims and projections? This question is surprisingly difficult to answer because there is little statistical evidence on the global gag rule. This book helps to fill the gap by conducting a systematic analysis of how the global gag rule affects women’s reproductive health across developing regions. The analysis yields three important messages: (1) in the majority of countries that receive US family-planning assistance, the global gag rule has failed to achieve its objective of reducing abortions; (2) there is no definitive relationship between restrictive national abortion laws and abortion rates; and (3) the 2017 expansion of the global gag rule will have adverse effects on a dashboard of health indicators for women, men, and children. These powerful messages should be heard by policymakers over the voices calling for an ideologically based policy that has counterproductive results.

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