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A Descriptive Analysis of Overviews of Reviews Published between 2000 and 2011
Background Overviews of systematic reviews compile data from multiple systematic reviews (SRs) and are a new method of evidence synthesis. Objectives To describe the... -
Measuring coverage in MNCH: a validation study linking population survey deri...
Background: Accurate data on coverage of key maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) interventions are crucial for monitoring progress toward the Millennium Development Goals... -
Global Epidemiology of Mental Disorders: What Are We Missing?
Background Population-based studies provide the understanding of health-need required for effective public health policy and service-planning. Mental disorders are an... -
Supporting evidence-informed policy and scrutiny:A consultation of UK researc...
Access to reliable and timely information ensures that decision-makers can operate effectively. The motivations and challenges of parliamentarians and policy-makers in accessing... -
Case selection and causal inferences in qualitative comparative research
Traditionally, social scientists perceived causality as regularity. As a consequence, qualitative comparative case study research was regarded as unsuitable for drawing causal... -
Poor statistical reporting, inadequate data presentation and spin persist des...
The Journal of Physiology and British Journal of Pharmacology jointly published an editorial series in 2011 to improve standards in statistical reporting and data analysis. It... -
Workflow in Clinical Trial Sites & Its Association with Near Miss Events for ...
BACKGROUND: With the exponential expansion of clinical trials conducted in (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) and VISTA (Vietnam, Indonesia, South Africa, Turkey, and Argentina)... -
DNA extraction columns contaminated with murine sequences.
Sequences of the novel gammaretrovirus, xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV) have been described in human prostate cancer tissue, although the amounts of DNA... -
Why Has the Number of Scientific Retractions Increased?
Background The number of retracted scientific publications has risen sharply, but it is unclear whether this reflects an increase in publication of flawed articles or an... -
Singularity: Scientific containers for mobility of compute
Here we present Singularity, software developed to bring containers and reproducibility to scientific computing. Using Singularity containers, developers can work in... -
Detection and removal of biases in the analysis of next-generation sequencing...
Since the emergence of next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies, great effort has been put into the development of tools for analysis of the short reads. In parallel,... -
How could artificial intelligence aid in the fight against coronavirus?
Background News coverage of medical research is followed closely by many Americans and affects the practice of medicine and influence of scientific research. Prior work has... -
Reliability and validity of the Ethiopian version of the hospital anxiety and...
Background The hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS) is a widely used instrument for evaluating psychological distress from anxiety and depression. HADS has not yet been... -
A Critical Meta-Analysis of Lens Model Studies in Human Judgment and Decision...
Achieving accurate judgment (‘judgmental achievement’) is of utmost importance in daily life across multiple domains. The lens model and the lens model equation provide useful... -
Addressing Dichotomous Data for Participants Excluded from Trial Analysis: A ...
INTRODUCTION Systematic reviewer authors intending to include all randomized participants in their meta-analyses need to make assumptions about the outcomes of participants with... -
Rethinking Clinical Trials of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation: Partic...
Copyright @ 2012 The Authors. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use,... -
Measuring Nepotism through Shared Last Names: Are We Really Moving from Opini...
Nepotistic practices are detrimental for academia. An analysis of shared last names among academics was recently proposed to measure the diffusion of nepotism, the results of... -
The effects of vocational interest on study results : student person : enviro...
The extent to which a good person-environment (PE) interest fit between student and study program leads to better study results in higher education is an ongoing debate wherein... -
Potential Reporting Bias in fMRI Studies of the Brain
Background Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies have reported multiple activation foci associated with a variety of conditions, stimuli or tasks. However, most... -
Water, Water, Everywhere: Defining and Assessing Data Sharing in Academia.
Sharing of research data has begun to gain traction in many areas of the sciences in the past few years because of changing expectations from the scientific community, funding...
