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eefAnalytics: Robust Analytical Methods for Evaluating Educational Interventions using Randomised Controlled Trials Designs

Educational trials

Singh A, Higgins S, Xiao ZM.
GSID: zb3Uy2-IuUkJ
G Uwimpuhwe, A Singh, S Higgins, ZM Xiao… - 2021 - repository.essex.ac.uk

… Analysing data from evaluations of educational interventions using a randomised controlled trial design. Various analytical tools to perform … randomised trials, cluster randomised trials and multisite trials. The methods can also be used more widely beyond education trials....

Same difference? Understanding variation in the estimation of effect sizes from educational trials

Educational trials

Xiao ZM, Higgins S.
GSID: SiTEZ4uQlC4J
ZM Xiao, A Kasim, S Higgins - International Journal of Educational …, 2016 - Elsevier

… By applying four analytic models with comparable outcomes and covariates to a dataset of 20 outcomes from 17 educational trials, we found results closely matching in well-powered studies without serious implementation problems. The interventions and evaluations were all...

The Impact of Digital Technology on Learning: A Summary for the Education Endowment Foundation. Full Report

technology education

Higgins S, Xiao ZM, Katsipataki M.
GSID: 2N9ubAANsw8J
S Higgins, ZM Xiao, M Katsipataki - Education Endowment Foundation, 2012 - ERIC

The aim of this review is to present a synthesis of the evidence from meta-analysis about the impact of the use of digital technology in schools on children’s attainment, or more widely the impact of digital technology on academic...

SAR applications in human settlement detection, population estimation and urban land use pattern analysis: a status report

Cultural Transformation in the Geoscience Community AND Program Evaluation

Xia ZG.
GSID: PxnWxYbDhe4J
FM Henderson, ZG Xia - IEEE transactions on geoscience and …, 1997 - ieeexplore.ieee.org

Over 70 percent of the population of the world's developed countries live in urbanized areas. In developing countries migration to urban areas is continuing at an increasing rate. Detection and analysis of settlement patterns, estimating population, and monitoring population...

Uncovering Individualised Treatment Effect: Evidence from Educational Trials

Educational trials

Xiao ZM, Hauser O, Kirkwood C.
GSID: CcCM3YJNVsoJ
ZM Xiao, O Hauser, C Kirkwood, DZ Li, B Jones… - 2020 - osf.io

… The use of large-scale Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) is fast becoming" the gold standard" of testing the causal effects of policy, social, and educational interventions. RCTs are typically evaluated—and ultimately judged—by the economic, educational, and statistical …

High performance proton exchange membranes obtained by adjusting the distribution and content of sulfonic acid side groups.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

Liao H, Xiao G, Yan D.
PMID: 23549486
Chem Commun (Camb). 2013 May 11;49(38):3979-81. doi: 10.1039/c3cc41200h. Epub 2013 Apr 03.

The proton conductivity and oxidation resistance as well as dimensional stability of hydrocarbon proton exchange membranes were simultaneously improved, achieving exciting overall properties.

Joint-constraint model for large-eddy simulation of helical turbulence.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics

Yu C, Xiao Z, Shi Y, Chen S.
PMID: 24827346
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2014 Apr;89(4):043021. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.89.043021. Epub 2014 Apr 29.

A three-term mixed subgrid-scale (SGS) stress model is proposed for large-eddy simulation (LES) of helical turbulence. The new model includes a Smagorinsky-Lilly term, a velocity gradient term, and a symmetric vorticity gradient term. The model coefficients are determined by...

One-step fabrication of highly stable, superhydrophobic composites from controllable and low-cost PMHS/TEOS sols for efficient oil cleanup.

Journal of colloid and interface science

Guo P, Zhai S, Xiao Z, An Q.
PMID: 25666456
J Colloid Interface Sci. 2015 May 15;446:155-62. doi: 10.1016/j.jcis.2015.01.062. Epub 2015 Jan 28.

Facing the issues of significant increase of industrial oily wastewater and frequent accident of oil spills, the developing of efficient and affordable absorbents for improving oil pollution is of practical significance. Herein, several superhydrophobic and superoleophilic materials, utilizing filter...

Wireless implantable chip with integrated nitinol-based pump for radio-controlled local drug delivery.

Lab on a chip

Fong J, Xiao Z, Takahata K.
PMID: 25473933
Lab Chip. 2015 Feb 21;15(4):1050-8. doi: 10.1039/c4lc01290a.

We demonstrate an active, implantable drug delivery device embedded with a microfluidic pump that is driven by a radio-controlled actuator for temporal drug delivery. The polyimide-packaged 10 × 10 × 2 mm(3) chip contains a micromachined pump chamber and...

Efficient Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of an N-glycan Isomer Library.

Chemical science

Li L, Liu Y, Ma C, Qu J, Calderon AD, Wu B, Wei N, Wang X, Guo Y, Xiao Z, Song J, Sugiarto G, Li Y, Yu H, Chen X, Wang PG.
PMID: 26417422
Chem Sci. 2015 Oct 01;6(10):5652-5661. doi: 10.1039/C5SC02025E. Epub 2015 Jun 23.

Quantification, characterization and biofunctional studies of N-glycans on proteins remain challenging tasks due to complexity, diversity and low abundance of these glycans. The availability of structurally defined N-glycans (especially isomers) libraries is essential to help on solving these tasks....

Genetic Diversity, Rather than Cultivar Type, Determines Relative Grain Cd Accumulation in Hybrid Rice.

Frontiers in plant science

Sun L, Xu X, Jiang Y, Zhu Q, Yang F, Zhou J, Yang Y, Huang Z, Li A, Chen L, Tang W, Zhang G, Wang J, Xiao G, Huang D, Chen C.
PMID: 27708659
Front Plant Sci. 2016 Sep 21;7:1407. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01407. eCollection 2016.

Cadmium (Cd) is a toxic element, and rice is known to be a leading source of dietary Cd for people who consume rice as their main caloric resource. Hybrid rice has dominated rice production in southern China and has...

Differential Impacts of Soybean and Fish Oils on Hepatocyte Lipid Droplet Accumulation and Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress in Primary Rabbit Hepatocytes.

Gastroenterology research and practice

Zhu X, Xiao Z, Xu Y, Zhao X, Cheng P, Cui N, Cui M, Li J, Zhu X.
PMID: 27057162
Gastroenterol Res Pract. 2016;2016:9717014. doi: 10.1155/2016/9717014. Epub 2016 Jan 05.

Parenteral nutrition-associated liver disease (PNALD) is a severe ailment associated with long-term parenteral nutrition. Soybean oil-based lipid emulsions (SOLE) are thought to promote PNALD development, whereas fish oil-based lipid emulsions (FOLE) are thought to protect against PNALD. This study...

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