Empirically evaluating explanation generators poses a notoriously difficult problem. To address this problem, we constructed KNIGHT, a robust explanation generator that dynamically constructs natural language explanations about scientific phenomena. We then undertook the most extensive and rigorous empirical evaluation ever conducted on aa explanation generator. First, KNIGHT constructed explan...

BACKGROUND Use of core outcome sets in research has been proposed as a method for countering the problems caused by heterogeneity of outcome measure reporting. Heterogeneity of outcome measure reporting occurs in Hirschsprung's disease (HD) research and is limiting the development of a robust evidence base to support clinical practice. METHODS Candidate outcome measures have been identified t...

BACKGROUND Gastroschisis research is limited in quality by the presence of significant heterogeneity in outcome measure reporting (PloS One 10(1):e0116908, 2015). Using core outcome sets in research is one proposed method for addressing this problem (Trials 13:103, 2012; Clin Rheumatol 33(9):1313-1322, 2014; Health Serv Res Policy 17(1):1-2, 2012). Ultimately, standardising outcome measure repo...

Hyponatremia is a serious, but often overlooked, electrolyte imbalance that has been independently associated with a wide range of deleterious changes involving many different body systems. Untreated acute hyponatremia can cause substantial morbidity and mortality as a result of osmotically induced cerebral edema, and excessively rapid correction of chronic hyponatremia can cause severe neurolo...

OBJECTIVE To provide physicians and other transfusion medicine professionals with a current consensus on infectious disease testing for blood transfusions. PARTICIPANTS A non-Federal, nonadvocate, 12-member consensus panel representing the fields of hematology, infectious disease, transfusion medicine, epidemiology, and biostatistics and a public representative. In addition, 23 experts in hem...

the main purpose of this descriptive- correlative research was to study of the effect of organizational culture components on knowledge management in agricultural consulting, technical and engineering services ventures (actesv). the statistical population of the research consisted of all experts in the actesv in zanjan province (n= 301). according to the bartlett, et al. (2001), a sample size o...

the main purpose followed in this study was to identify and analyze the ways of coping up with drought in rural regions of zanjan province. the research method of the study was an analytical- explanatory one. the statistical population of the study consisted of experts of jihad- e- agriculture organization of zanjan province (n= 316). according to krejcie and morgan table, 175 individuals were ...