Many assays have integrated, built-in, or internal controls to demonstrate their operability at specific procedural steps. What role do these built-in controls play in quality control to assure ...

The feeling that your own actions are controlled by external forces is a common feature in schizophrenia. A research team at the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, the University of ...

Control arms in randomized clinical trials (RCTs) have a key role in isolating the effects of the medical product from those caused by other factors. However, in some cases — such as phase II trials ...

Clinical trials give patients hope — especially when all other available treatments have been exhausted. That hope compels patients to commit a substantial amount of time and effort for the chance to ...

To inform continued development of the novel immune agent GEN-1, we compared ovarian cancer patients' end points from a neoadjuvant single-arm phase IB study with those of similar historic clinical ...

In 1954, psychologist Julian B. Rotter proposed the concept of locus of control. He said it contained two ends of a continuum. On one end of the continuum is the internal locus of control. On the ...

We all get tempted away from the task at hand. Who resists this temptation? Does external control help us resist temptation? How well we resist temptation and the effects of external control depend on ...