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Quality standards in respiratory real-life effectiveness research : the REal Life EVidence AssessmeNt Tool (RELEVANT) : report from the Respiratory Effectiveness Group - European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Task Force Ghent University
Introduction: A Task Force was commissioned jointly by the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) and the Respiratory Effectiveness Group (REG) to develop a quality assessment tool for real-life observational research to identify high-quality real-life asthma studies that could be considered within future guideline development. Methods: The resulting REal Life EVidence AssessmeNt Tool (RELEVANT) was achieved through an ...
An Individually Tailored Behaviour Change Programme for Cardiovascular Prevention: Effectiveness and Cost- Effectiveness Hasselt University
Effectiveness criteria in school effectiveness studies: further research on the choice for a multivariate model University of Antwerp
In order to ascertain which school characteristics can explain the differences in effectiveness between schools, important methodological choices have to be made in school effectiveness research. One of these choices relates to the criterion or criteria the researcher wishes to use to compare schools. Should, for example, a school be deemed effective if it achieves high performances in mathematics, or in mother tongue or in both? In order to ...
Limited effectiveness of HIV prevention for young people in sub-Saharan Africa: studying the role of intervention and evaluation Ghent University
On average, 2,500 young people (15-24 years) get infected with HIV every day; 80% of which live in sub-Saharan Africa. Since no cure or vaccine is available, reducing sexual risk behaviour in this group is crucial in tackling the epidemic. The general objective of this doctoral study was to improve the effectiveness of HIV prevention interventions for young people in sub-Saharan Africa. First, we assessed the overall effectiveness of such ...
Comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of natalizumab and fingolimod in rapidly evolving severe relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis in the United Kingdom Hasselt University
AimTo evaluate the real-world comparative effectiveness and the cost-effectiveness, from a UK National Health Service perspective, of natalizumab versus fingolimod in patients with rapidly evolving severe relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RES-RRMS).MethodsReal-world data from the MSBase Registry were obtained for patients with RES-RRMS who were previously either naive to disease-modifying therapies or had been treated with interferon-based ...
Using the inverse heat conduction problem and thermography for the determination of local heat transfer coefficients and fin effectiveness for longitudinal fins Ghent University
Heat transfer is a physical process in which energy is exchanged. It occurs in numerous applications, such as production of electricity, building climatisation, food preparation,... Since energy consumption has increased tremendously in the last decades and this trend will continue, the concept of energy efficiency has become omnipresent. In electronics miniaturization has become a trend. Desktops, laptops, dvd-players, mp3-players, ...
Norms, self-interest and effectiveness: explaining double standards in EU reactions to violations of democratic principles in sub-Saharan Africa Ghent University
The promotion of democracy has become a key objective of the European Union (EU) in sub-Saharan Africa. One of the ways in which this objective is pursued is by reacting to violations of democratic principles using negative measures: naming and shaming strategies or economic/diplomatic sanctions. Yet the application of negative measures has been criticised as being characterised by U+201Edouble standardsU+201F, meaning that similar violations of ...
Leader airtime management and team effectiveness in emergency management command and control (EMCC) teams University of Antwerp
We investigated the relation between leader airtime management and team effectiveness in Emergency Management Command and Control (EMCC) teams. Leader airtime management concerns leaders’ interventions to structure who shares information when using opening and closing statements to respectively stimulate or reduce information sharing. We coded leaders’ airtime management statements across different meeting phases (structuring, information ...
Empirical Investigations on the Effectiveness of Direct Marketing Communications KU Leuven
The goal of this dissertation is "to empirically study the effectiveness of retailer's direct marketing communications, by zooming in on customer, content and incentive characteristics". In Essay 1 (Calling Customers to Take Action: The Impact of Incentive and Customer Characteristics on Direct Mailing Effectiveness), I look into how customer and incentive characteristics affect the effectiveness of CTA direct mailings at the disaggregate level ...