Exposure misclassification constitutes a major obstacle when developing dose-response relationships for risk assessment. A non-differentional error results in underestimation of the risk. If the degree of misclassification is known, adjustment may be achieved by sensitivity analysis. The purpose of this study was to examine the full magnitude of measurement error in determining the prenatal exp...

In recent years, “News Curation Services” that recommend news articles on the internet to user have been popular. In this study, we propose a new “News Curation Service” that collects and recommends novel articles by using semantic relationships between events in the news articles that a user feels interest. The semantic relationships between events are represented by Linked Data. In order to r...

Disciplinary advances are dependent on two intertwined pillars: refinements in theory and refinement methods. Numerous guides exist for making a theoretical contribution, yet mystery surrounds what exactly constitutes methodological contribution. Our goal is to eliminate, or at least significantly reduce, this mystery. We draw decades of collective experiences as authors, reviewers, editors met...