But it's not clear if the performance lapses seen in the study would be meaningful in real-world operating rooms, says surgeon Emily Boyle, the lead author of the study and a researcher at the Royal College of Surgeons, in Dublin, Ireland.

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Despite the popular view of Democrats as free-spending inflationists and Republicans as sober fiscal conservatives, study after study showed no meaningful difference in investment returns.

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Celldex CEO Anthony Marucci has said previously that a meaningful and positive response rate in the study would be 12% to 15% with a progression-free survival of greater than 12 weeks.

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He says because the companies didn't decide to divide patients into those with and without APOE until after the study finished, there is a meaningful risk that the positive results are due solely to chance.

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All the same, Duke's study is proof enough that we can export brainwaves in a meaningful way.

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If a new study by research firm Latitude is any indication, this kind of integration between game and meaningful life moments is no passing fad.

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Two papers featured in the current issue of the prestigious American Journal of Epidemiology provide useful examples of how, simply because a study has been carried out, its findings can get held up as if they were meaningful, and the many considerations that should make us skeptical get short shrift.

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