Introduction to Historical Comparison

The aim of this study was to analyze the refractive outcomes of LASIK in hyperopia and hyperopic astigmatic eyes using a wave-front optimized laser platform (the Allegretto EX500 laser) and perform a historical comparison with other excimer lasers within the past two decades.

The methods to solve the aforementioned problem are the following: 1) the method of historical comparison of the Ukrainian and Jewish experience of consolidation; 2) historiographical analysis and synthesis; 3) inductive and deductive reasoning.

” The paper explores the nature of handicrafts and the possible combination with modern design from the historical comparison of rural handicrafts and urban industry.

Kuru, Islam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison (Cambridge University Press, 2019).

We aimed to provide an historical comparison between these two strategies for prevalence of GvHD, viral reactivation, timing of immune reconstitution and final outcome.

To do this, section 1 characterizes the factors that configure the situations that instigate the work of “problematize” something, as well as the “socialization / dispersion” and “historical comparison” maneuvers that lead to postulate a problematization.

Methods This study was a prospective cohort design with a historical comparison group.

Such patterns of decreased self-harm hospitalisations in 2020 were confirmed by further historical comparison to 2017 and 2018.

Bevacizumab significantly increased treatment costs, with mean ICERs between $78,000 and $84,000/LYG (life-year gained) in the contemporaneous comparisons and $75,000 and $101,000/LYG in the historical comparisons.

OBJECTIVE Through historical comparison with our previous study published 10 years ago, this paper aims to provide latest analysis of local bacteriology of acute complicated appendicitis and evaluate the effects of early escalation of potent antibiotics on course of postoperative recovery.

The economic effects of outbreak are presently being underestimated, due to over-reliance on historical comparisons with SARS and the other global epidemics.

Whether these historical comparisons hold true is debatable, but they do speak to the scale of the challenges that humanity is currently struggling to overcome.

A quasi-experimental (QE) study is one that compares outcomes between intervention groups where, for reasons related to ethics or feasibility, participants are not randomized to their respective interventions; an example is the historical comparison of pregnancy outcomes in women who did versus did not receive antidepressant medication during pregnancy.

Patients were grouped based on injury date – before SAH (PRE-SAH), immediately after SAH (POST-SAH), and a historical comparison (3/19/2019-6/30/2019) (CONTROL) – and compared in separate analyses.

Retrospective cohort study with historical comparison group.

Excess deaths attributable to Covid-19 were estimated by comparing actual-to-expected deaths based on historical comparisons and in closely matched cohorts with and without Covid-19.

RESULTS  Of the 311 preterm infants who met inclusion and exclusion criteria, 194 were in the cue-based feeding group and 117 were in the volume-based advancement historical comparison group.

In this paper, we draw these two strands of metaphoric framing and historical comparison together by identifying the metaphorical framings of past influenza pandemics in media and political discourse in the UK over an extended period (1890–2009).

ABSTRACT:Taking cue from Paul Lovejoy’s criticism of the dichotomies of centralized and decentralized societies, and Slave Societies and Societies with Slaves, this article contextualizes Lovejoy’s arguments within broader debates on historical comparisons in global slavery studies.

Originality/value This paper is the first to study multiple fads simultaneously in academic and practitioner-oriented journals in a historical comparison to investigate their roles in the diffusion of fads.

After a rejection of some principled objections against extrospective methods, a historical comparison with the development of measurement techniques in the natural sciences will show that extrospective measuring methods are still in an early stage of development.

In addition, historical comparison data were available for otherwise untreated lens-reared controls (-3D/pl controls, n = 20; +3D/pl controls, n = 9) and 41 normal monkeys.

A historical comparison cohort was derived from consecutive patients undergoing TKA between July 1, 2019 and November 30, 2019.

A triangulation of historical comparison and Price to Income Ratio are used to screen the market.

For outcome evaluation, we will compare crime (primary outcome), overdose-related offenses, and incarceration-related data 12 months before and 12 months after the index crime between participants who completed (Group 1), started but not completed (Group 2), and were offered but did not start (Group 3) the program, and adults who would have been eligible should MARI existed (Historical Comparison, Group 4).

The questionnaire was developed on the basis of previous study and included reuse of some items from the earlier survey to facilitate historical comparison.

Drawing on historical comparisons made by platform workers campaigning against Prop 22, Part I situate the third category of worker within a genealogy of industry-sponsored racial wage codes, proposals, and debates during the First and Second New Deals.

Providing striking examples from her broad practice and experience, historical comparisons, human interactions, analytical schemes, and evidence-based methods, de Wit paints a picture of the road that leads to effective leadership.

METHODS Observational data were collected by the MPD for 12 months before through 6 months after an index crime from participants in the MARI program (n = 263) who referred to MARI between September 1, 2017 and August 31, 2020 and a Historical Comparison group (n = 52) who committed a comparable crime between September 1, 2015 and August 31, 2016.

I slam, Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison, by Ahmet T.

They used an historical comparison from their Paediatric Neuromuscular Clinical Research (PNCR) dataset.

We tested the effect of feedback on waste minimization compared to a personal goal (goal comparison feedback), the behaviour of others (social comparison feedback), or one’s past behaviour (historical comparison feedback).

In this case literary translation acts as a reliable tool, through which typological and comparative-historical comparisons of poetic worlds are carried out.

The morphological changes were measured by aerial satellite images and their historical comparison, terrestrial survey, sedimentation in the riverbed, water flow, water discharge, siltation, and erosion along the river, etc.

In Part I of this essay I introduce this historical comparison and describe the origins of monogenism and polygenism terminology in nineteenth century debate over the unity of the human race.

Regional and historical comparisons of forest plants and macrofungi will favor biological conservation, forest management and economic development.

Methods  A historical comparison was undertaken.

The aim of the research is a historical comparison as well as artistic and culturological analysis.

D thesis, with title “The Evolution of the Chinese Stock Market: A Review and a Historical Comparison”, which deals with an innovative subject matter: the characteristics of the Chinese stock market and its relationship with other financial markets.

Johannes Ruberg's legal-historical comparison examines the development and mechanisms of price determination in Germany and the USA, revealing the differences and similarities in institutional pricing structure in these highly dynamic telecommunications markets.

It is both mutual study of dance and historical comparison.

Conclusion Despite the caveats of historical comparison and relatively small numbers, we have experienced a trend towards improved survival in patients implanted with the Heartmate 3.

Adolescents completed questionnaires before and after the intervention and at 1-week follow-up; we compared their registration status at time of obtaining driver's license with that of a regionally matched historical comparison group.

All participants preferred historical comparison to normative comparison.

The methods of analysis, historical comparison, empirical research are used in the article, the emphasis is on the similarity of the theory of state strategic management and strategic management.

Historical comparisons drawn between the effects of medications vs surgery are generally inaccurate as novel classes of anti-obesity pharmacotherapy have since been developed and moreover, reflect an outdated approach in comparing medicine with surgery.

KEY WORDS: Sokoto and Malacca Sultanates; Nigerian Society; Malay/Indonesian Society; Uthman bin Foduye; Historical Comparison.

(2) Methods: Customers (n = 150) from the same Dutch online vape shop were contacted (to allow a historical comparison), as well as 274 visitors from the Facebook group “Belgian Vape Bond” to compare between groups from two different geographies and/or vaping cultures.

Nineteen children, aged 3 to 8 years, newly entering foster care whose caregivers were exposed to CARE were compared with 28 historical comparison children from the same foster care agencies.

Science branch libraries are also clustered into specific disciplines for historical comparison.

Materials and methods: in the course of writing the article, empirical and theoretical methods of research on these problems were used, in particular: a dialysis method, a synthesis of practical learning experience, an analysis of educational and methodical and scientific literature, a method of historical comparison, a prognostic method.

ResultsAfter controlling for group differences in demographic characteristics and outcome levels by including them in the analyses as covariates, people with arthritis were more likely to make Historical comparisons than healthy controls when rating their health.

This chapter offers an historical comparison of the United States and Australia, two countries that share much in common but also differ in crucial ways.

Results There was an 80% recovery rate in the current series vs 0% from the historical comparison (p = 0.

A historical comparison study was designed and an empowerment intervention strategy for the fathers of preterm infants was implemented.

An important part of this study apparatus was the historical comparison method of changes in the indicator system in dynamics.

This historical comparison is used to argue that changes in the nature of Christianity transformed the popular interpretation of sovereign violence from a desecrative to a redemptive force.

This study offers a limited historical comparison between Japanese and South Korean cross-border CEOs using an illustrative historical case of Aoki Ichigorô, who mass mobilized the farmers movement against the US military base in Japan and a contemporary case of Ahn Cheol-soo, who unsuccessfully ran for the presidency in 2017.

Through systematic review of government archives seldom studied by property researchers, historical comparisons are mobilised to challenge the taken‐for‐granted way in which we approach property and ownership today.

In this context, the historical comparison to health information websites is apt.

The article suggests that approaches from fan studies can offer useful perspectives for historians (and vice-versa), while cautioning against overly arbitrary ahistorical comparisons between modern fandom and premodern groups.

This chapter explores the rationale of Chinese faculty professional morality through historical comparisons of the elements of faculty professional morality between Western and Eastern.

We also assessed inpatient and one-year mortality on definite TBM patients when CSF Xpert MTB/RIF results were available in real-time to treating physicians relative to a historical comparison cohort in whom Xpert results were not available in real-time.

In addition, it also provides a historical comparison to former fast-paced programs in space.

Through the historical comparison between the course curriculum and collaboration strategies adopted over the years, there have been changes in the understanding of how to use BIM in a collaborative process for educational purposes.

ORIGINALITY/VALUE: Through a historical comparison of development efforts in one country, it becomes clear that the education development agenda is partly to blame for the rise of shadow education.

That is unusual by historical comparison.

Thus, we evaluated the outcome of MMUD allo-HSCT with PT-Cy ( n  = 22) and performed a historical comparison with a control group receiving ATG ( n  = 40) in a single center experience.

Drawing on the model of historical comparison developed by Antonio Gramsci, we argue that these two countries represent paradigm cases of the constitutional and authoritarian routes to neoliberalism.

The study design was a prospective cohort with a historical comparison group.

We just need to make a historical comparison of data on our hemodynamic activity data in Spain:3,4 in just 25 years we have gone from 42 000 studies total and 6700 angioplasties to 154 000 studies and 71 000 angioplasties, while implementing techniques not used at the time (some 7000 studies on pressure wires and 7000 studies on intracoronary imaging).

However, the historical comparison also shows that, with the passage of time, the Israeli press was significantly affected by political personalisation trends, as well as by a growing influence of more conservative voices, and as a result became far more gender-centred and stereotypical in Livni’s case.

Historical comparisons to prior water quality monitoring data, fecal coliform concentrations, and hard clam growth rates were also made.

Ryan Saylor attempts to understand state capacity augmentation in moments of commodity export surge by engaging in a historical comparison of six countries – Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ghana, Mauritius, and Nigeria.

Pharmacokinetic parameters were compared across three prespecified age groups: younger pediatric patients (aged 6 to <12 years), older pediatric patients (aged 12 to <18 years), and a historical comparison group of young adults (aged 18 to <45 years).

Our findings suggest that when compared with historical histology-only classified data, in national registry, as well as, institutional databases, there is the potential for false-positive results in contemporary trials of molecularly classified diffuse gliomas, which could contribute to a seemingly positive phase II trial (based on historical comparison) failing at the phase III stage.

Conclusion:  The phytosociological approach adopted has provided a map of the vegetation units of the study area, while the historical comparisons indicate that the vegetation of Akkerendam Nature Reserve has not undergone significant change over the last 100 years.

Design, setting and participants A single-jurisdiction population-based retrospective analysis of consecutive heat-related deaths (HRDs) reported to the CCOV between 14 and 21 January 2014 with a historical comparison group.

Eighty-four patients receiving mosapride were matched to 168 control patients (historical comparison with a ratio of 1:2).

I address the first issue by explicating the nature and value of ideal-type-set based deduction in theory building, and the second one by clarifying three methodological issues involved in historical comparison.

To engage contextualization, cross-national, cross cultural, cross group and historical comparisons are particularly useful.

Findings revealed cognitive function of this population was significantly lower than that of uninfected individuals based on historical comparisons; 87.

Complications were determined by assessing the number of unplanned clinic visits and complications in the study group compared with the historical control group (historical comparison; n = 30).

Conclusion Despite the caveats of historical comparison and relatively small numbers, our HM3 patients appear to have a lower incidence of major adverse events after hospital discharge compared to HM2 or HVAD.

Compared to historical comparison group, the telemedicine group experienced CLABSI rates of 1.

Although Wendell Willkie lost to Franklin Roosevelt in November 1940, the emergence of Willkie, who had never held any political office, has invited historical comparisons as recently as the 2016 nomination of another businessman outsider, Donald Trump.

MethodsThis quasi-experimental study with a historical comparison group was conducted in the geriatric ward of a referral centre in northern Taiwan.

This study highlights the benefits of considering multiple spatial scales when assessing historical change in stream fish assemblages, and highlights stronger inference derived from historical comparisons relative to contemporary space‐for‐time substitutions.

Due to the paucity of literature on posterior bone loss, historical comparisons with anterior bone loss may not be fully accurate.

Analyses compared the number of technical violations and new arrests between JSTEPS participants and a historical comparison sample.

The collection’s focus on cross-cultural and transhistorical comparisons across Asia brings into view a broad spectrum of modern Asia that extends from East Asia, Southeast Asia, to South Asia, as well as into global communities of Western knowledge, practice, and power outside Asia.

corporations' balance sheets – and also provide a methodology for adjusting the leverage ratio to allow for cleaner historical comparisons.

Specifically, we run two experiments in a sample of professional managers, which allows us to test whether social and historical comparisons influence how respondents interpret performance information.

We also assessed inpatient and 1-year mortality on definite TBM patients when CSF Xpert MTB/RIF results were available in real time to treating physicians relative to a historical comparison cohort in whom Xpert results were not available in real time.

Historical comparisons drawn between the effects of medications vs surgery are generally inaccurate as novel classes of anti-obesity pharmacotherapy have since been developed and moreover, reflect an outdated approach in comparing medicine with surgery.