An efficient one-pot C-H activation/borylation/oxidation protocol for the preparation of phenols is described. This method is particularly attractive for the generation of meta-substituted phenols bearing ortho-/para-directing groups, as such substrates are difficult to access by other phenol syntheses.

Is early preventive intervention effective in enhancing parental sensitivity and infant attachment security, and if so, what type of intervention is most successful? Seventy studies were traced, producing 88 intervention effects on sensitivity (n = 7,636) and/or attachment (n = 1,503). Randomized interventions appeared rather effective in changing insensitive parenting (d = 0.33) and infant att...

Jonathan A C Sterne professor, Alex J Sutton professor, John P A Ioannidis professor and director, Norma Terrin associate professor , David R Jones professor , Joseph Lau professor , James Carpenter reader , Gerta Rücker research assistant , Roger M Harbord research associate , Christopher H Schmid professor , Jennifer Tetzlaff research coordinator , Jonathan J Deeks professor , Jaime Peters re...

The increase in treatment options creates an urgent need for comparative effectiveness research. Randomized, controlled trials comparing several treatments are usually not feasible, so other methodological approaches are needed. Meta-analyses provide summary estimates of treatment effects by combining data from many studies. However, an important drawback is that standard meta-analyses can comp...

Public opinions toward social concerns are worth to be noticed for decision makers to undertake any policies and their outcomes. Social psychologists usually undertake a series of investigations to access the interaction underneath the common thinking or actions. The design and statistic processing of the questionnaires always require a lot of manpower. In this paper, two technologies, denoted ...

This paper uses a meta-Malmquist index for measuring productivity change of the water industry in England and Wales and compares this to the traditional Malmquist index. The meta-Malmquist index computes productivity change with reference to a meta-frontier, it is computationally simpler and it is circular. The analysis covers all 22 UK water companies in existence in 2007, using data over the ...

Meta-regression models are commonly used to synthesize and compare effect sizes. Unfortunately, traditional meta-regression methods are ill-equipped to handle the complex and often unknown correlations among non-independent effect sizes. Robust variance estimation (RVE) is a recently proposed meta-analytic method for dealing with dependent effect sizes. The robumeta package provides functions f...

Since more and more interactions take place between humans and different user-adapted applications in daily life, there is the great opportunity to acquire a lot of knowledge about a user and use it in order to reach a better adaptation. A common vision states that user model should be interoperable and shareable across user-adaptive applications in different contexts and environments. The core...

In this work we summarize some recent results, to be included in a forthcoming paper [1]. We define μ-density as a characteristic of quality for the kind of coverings codes called multiple coverings of the farthest-off points (MCF). A concept of multiple saturating sets ((ρ, μ)-saturating sets) in projective spaces PG(N, q) is introduced. A fundamental relationship of these sets with MCF is sho...