CALIBRATED META-ANALYSIS TO ESTIMATE THE EFFICACY OF MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENTS IN TARGET POPULATIONS: AN APPLICATION TO PALIPERIDONE TRIALS FOR TREATMENT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA

Calibrated meta-analysis to estimate the efficacy of mental health treatments in target populations: an application to paliperidone trials for treatment of schizophrenia

Abstract Backgrounds Meta-analyses can be a powerful tool but need to calibrate potential unrepresentativeness of the included trials to a target population.Estimating target population average treatment effects (TATE) in meta-analyses is important to understand how treatments perform in well-defined target populations.This study estimated TATE of

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Management of Melon Fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae (Coquillett) Infesting Gherkin:An Areawide Control Programme Adopted in Peninsular India

An area-wide control (AWC) programme was undertaken for management of melon fly, Bactrocera cucurbitae(Coquillet), in 3 km2 area in Kashapura village of Gauribidanur taluk, Chickaballapura District, Karnataka State in peninsular India from 52nd week Stackable Chairs of 2007 to 30th week of 2010.Implementation of the AWC programme included field san

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The Rapid Perceptual Impact of Emotional Distractors.

The brief presentation of an emotional distractor can temporarily impair perception of a subsequent, rapidly presented target, an effect known as emotion-induced blindness (EIB).How rapidly does this impairment unfold? To probe this question, we examined EIB for targets that immediately succeeded Colon Care ("lag-1") emotional distractors in a rapi

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