Abstract Background Prospective study protocols and registrations can play a significant role in reducing incomplete or selective reporting of primary biomedical research, because they are pre-specified blueprints which are available for the evaluation of, and comparison with, full reports.However, inconsistencies between protocols or registrations
Chinese sweet lily (Lilium davidii var.unicolor), the only edible lily in the world, has high nutritional value.At present, the application of preservation technology is relatively backward, resulting here in a large loss of lily.Therefore, the preservation has become one of the key factors limiting the development of the edible lily bulbs industry
Background: Development assistance for health (DAH) is an important mechanism for funding and technical support to low-income countries.Despite increased DAH spending, intractable health challenges remain.Recent decades have seen numerous efforts to reform DAH models, yet pernicious challenges persist opi the color that keeps on giving amidst struc
Are people willing to gamble more for themselves than what they deem reasonable for others? We addressed this question in a simplified computer gambling task in which subjects chose from a set of 10 cards.Subjects selected one card at a time after being instructed that 9 cards were good (win a dollar per card) and one was really bad (lose all the m
Concessive constructions involve a complex operation whereby a speaker marks recognition, if not endorsement, of an inferential relationship obtaining between two states of affairs p and q, while at the same time overriding this relationship in context.Such constructions may distance the speaker from endorsement of one or other of the propositions,