• SILVER SPRING, Md. , Aug. 22, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today permitted marketing of two new devices to assess a patient's cognitive function immediately after a suspected brain injury or concussion. (prnewswire.com)
  • The main objective of this study was to assess determinants of the acceptance of the Internet use for provision of chosen health care services remaining in the scope of current nationwide eHealth initiative in Poland. (springer.com)
  • Survey data was used to develop univariate and multivariate logistic regression models for six outcome variables originating from the items assessing the acceptance of specific types of eHealth applications. (springer.com)
  • Dear Peter, Following your responses to the anonymous reviewers I hereby inform you that the revision of your submission "New profiling and mooring records help to assess variability of Lake Issyk-Kul and reveal unknown features of its thermohaline structure" is now completed. (copernicus.org)
  • Once the SP network reviewers complete their review decisions, the authors can invite any journal editor they want to consider these reviews and initial audience size, and make a publication decision. (frontiersin.org)
  • if review of a paper requires synthesis - combining the different expertise of the authors and reviewers in order to determine what assumptions and criteria are valid for evaluating it - both of the previous assumptions can fail badly ( Lee, 2006 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Make the best use of Scientific Research and information from our 700+ peer reviewed, Open Access Journals that operates with the help of 50,000+ Editorial Board Members and esteemed reviewers and 1000+ Scientific associations in Medical, Clinical, Pharmaceutical, Engineering, Technology and Management Fields. (omicsonline.org)
  • The process allows peer reviewers to read about research before it is generally known and to gain insight into how other scientists write manuscripts and present data. (nature.com)
  • Editors of EMBO journals encourage senior reviewers to involve trusted early-career lab members in peer reviews, provided that they have done experimentation in the relevant field. (nature.com)
  • The programme was evaluated based on perceptions of site representatives, investigators and peer reviewers using a standardized evaluation form. (who.int)
  • The peer reviewers check the manuscript for accuracy and assess the validity of the research methodology and procedures. (lu.se)
  • Importantly, by reviewing other writers' texts, peer reviewers also train their own analytical abilities. (lu.se)
  • Further down on this page we provide information and tips for student peer reviewers. (lu.se)
  • Depending on the assessment and comments provided by the peer reviewers, the manuscript will then be either accepted or rejected by the publisher / editor. (lu.se)
  • Peer reviewers of scholarly work receive instructions from the publisher outlining what to comment on and how to assess the text. (lu.se)
  • The task of peer reviewers is to help writers sharpen their arguments and improve their texts. (lu.se)
  • ABSTRACT The objectives of this study were to assess the needs of schoolchildren relating to medication safety and to develop and implement a health promotion programme in Qatar. (who.int)
  • Dear authors, your manuscript has received three reviews. (copernicus.org)
  • Instead of reviewing a manuscript in secret for the Editor of a journal, each reviewer simply publishes his review (typically of a paper he wishes to recommend) to his SP network subscribers. (frontiersin.org)
  • This systematic review aims to identify the most suitable falls risk assessment tool for the primary care setting (ie, requires limited time, no expensive equipment and no additional space) and that has good predictive performance in the assessment of falls risk among older people living independently. (bmj.com)
  • Design A systematic review based on prospective studies. (bmj.com)
  • Statistically, usually the NI margin is set to preserve 50% of the lower bound of the CI of the magnitude of the effect of the active control versus placebo as determined in systematic review meta-analysis of historic trials. (bmj.com)
  • A systematic review by Kuang et al found that sleep bruxism is more common in adults with sleep-related gastroesophageal reflux disease, restless leg syndrome, periodic limb movement during sleep, obstructive sleep apnea, REM behavior disorder, and sleep-related epilepsy than in the general population. (medscape.com)
  • Nigeria has met all aspects of the terms of reference (OECD, 2017[3]) (ToR) for the calendar year 2018 (year in review). (oecd-ilibrary.org)
  • This peer review covers Nigeria's implementation of the BEPS Action 5 transparency framework for the year 2018. (oecd-ilibrary.org)
  • The FDA reviewed the ImPACT device through its de novo classification process, a regulatory pathway for novel, low- to-moderate-risk medical devices that are first-of-a-kind, for which special controls can be developed, in addition to general controls, to provide a reasonable assurance of safety and effectiveness of the devices. (prnewswire.com)
  • 17 Surveys (Ireland) have shown that hiding power walls reduces adolescents' perceptions of peer smokers. (bmj.com)
  • 15 Experimental studies in Australia and the USA that have manipulated the presence or absence of tobacco power walls have shown that hiding tobacco power walls diminishes adolescents' perceptions of ease of access to cigarettes 18-20 and reduces their perceptions of peer smoking. (bmj.com)
  • Incorporating new technologies to assess exposures and outcomes. (cancer.org)
  • Because datasets used by applied researchers rarely lend themselves to MTMM analysis, the need to assess discriminant validity in empirical research has led to the introduction of numerous techniques, some of which have been introduced in an ad hoc manner and without rigorous methodological support. (jyu.fi)
  • Content and methodological experts assessed studies using prespecified, standardized evidence-based algorithms. (nih.gov)
  • A trade publication article on assessing the self-escape knowledge, skills and abilities of coal miners. (cdc.gov)
  • Their background experience will help them to carry out the key components of peer review: they must be able to assess whether work is new to the field and original enough to deserve publication - and by the journal in question. (nature.com)
  • Also, the objectives are supported by participating in the process of producing scientific knowledge through participating in conferences, peer review processes, publication work and the production of a thesis. (lu.se)
  • In academic publishing, the goal of peer review is to assess the quality of articles submitted for publication in a scholarly journal. (lu.se)
  • Because a peer-reviewed journal will not publish articles that fail to meet the standards established for a given discipline, peer-reviewed articles that are accepted for publication exemplify the best research practices in a field. (lu.se)
  • Jason Cohen, founder of SmartBear Software®, conducted a study at Cisco Systems® which demonstrated that a lightweight peer code review approach was not only as effective as a heavyweight code inspection process, but also more time-efficient by a factor of 7. (smartbear.com)
  • We assessed the appropriate geographic scale to apply an area deprivation index (ADI), which reflects a geographic area's level of socioeconomic deprivation and is associated with health outcomes, to identify and screen patients for social determinants of health. (cdc.gov)
  • It is intended to provide guidance on how to select, plan, conduct and evaluate simulation exercises specific to pandemic influenza, and how to set up a process for using the outcomes of these exercises to review and improve pandemic plans. (who.int)
  • This article presents a new framework for measuring and assessing the substance abuse care system in a community. (cdc.gov)
  • Certain principles to guide the monitoring have been finalized and a framework prepared.2 Monitoring will focus on trends in global health in order to assess the adequacy of international responses, and on WHO's core functions in order to review the quality and balance of the Organization's work and to define its role clearly. (who.int)
  • The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework for assessing the resilience of health systems in terms of how they have adjusted to economic crisis. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The Irish health system is used as a case study to assess the usefulness of this framework. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Ireland will be used as a case study to assess the usefulness of this framework and what it can show us about health system performance in time for crisis. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing (ImPACT) and ImPACT Pediatric are the first medical devices permitted for marketing that are intended to assess cognitive function following a possible concussion. (prnewswire.com)
  • We reviewed 212 articles to produce an inventory of community and social correlates of behavioral health, components of a substance abuse care system, and numerical values for guidelines for estimating community needs. (cdc.gov)
  • From these journals, hundreds of articles are reviewed and analyzed. (medlineplus.gov)
  • A selected-papers (SP) network is a network in which researchers who read, write, and review articles subscribe to each other based on common interests. (frontiersin.org)
  • I show how the SP network can greatly improve review and dissemination of research articles in areas that are not well-supported by existing journals. (frontiersin.org)
  • The manufacturer submitted over 250 peer-reviewed articles, of which half were independently conducted clinical research studies. (prnewswire.com)
  • Recommendations were based on evidence from peer-reviewed full-text articles only. (nih.gov)
  • More researches are required to assess the water intake and hydration status of the populations. (springer.com)
  • To gather the scientific data, editors, researchers, and contributors systematically review medical journals from around the world. (medlineplus.gov)
  • After conducting Monte Carlo simulations that compare the techniques, we present techniques called CICFA(sys) and χ2(sys) that applied researchers can use to assess discriminant validity. (jyu.fi)
  • Peer review is the backbone of modern science, and academic researchers are expected to participate in the endeavour. (nature.com)
  • Whether or not they plan to pursue an academic career, junior researchers should get involved in peer review, says Sarah Blackford, a career adviser with the Society for Experimental Biology in London. (nature.com)
  • Peer review is a common activity at university, both among students and among senior researchers. (lu.se)
  • It recognises the importance of permeability, meaning the movement of people, ideas and information between sectors, to ensure the UK effectively addresses the social and economic challenges that it faces ( see, for example, the Nurse 2023 review ). (ukri.org)
  • The product has passed a rigorous scientific review equivalent to a review by the FDA, Health Canada, or other governmental authority and has been found to be effective for a specific indication as an OTC drug, orphan drug, or prescription drug product. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Papers were less formal than reports and did not require rigorous peer review. (rand.org)
  • The objective of this study was to extract mucilage from the leaves of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis Linn and examine the various pharmaceutical properties of the dried mucilage to assess its functionality as an excipient. (pharmtech.com)
  • In this study we assessed the utility of flow cytometric (FC) analysis of T cell receptor β chain variable region (TCR-Vβ) expression by using 24 antibodies reactive to 70% of the TCR-Vβ repertoire. (bmj.com)
  • The purpose of this study was to assess the implementation of workplace health governance and safety strategies among worksites in the State of Nebraska, over time and by industry sector using a randomized survey. (mdpi.com)
  • This study is aimed at assessing the level of awareness and willingness to use PrEP to prevent HIV infection among female sex workers (FSWs) in Anambra State, Nigeria, and to identify factors that influence willingness to use PrEP. (bvsalud.org)
  • Furthermore, various low-carbon lifestyle options were identified using literature review, and their impacts on footprint reductions have been estimated based on the collected data of physical consumption and carbon intensity. (or.jp)
  • They might then get invited by the journal to conduct the review. (nature.com)
  • Even if they aren't invited, another natural first step is to review a paper jointly with seasoned colleagues or under their mentorship, says Emma Ganley, co-editor-in-chief of the journal PLoS Biology . (nature.com)
  • Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research (J-PEER), 6 (1), Article 2. (purdue.edu)
  • When an author has submitted a text to a journal, it will be reviewed by other scholars within the field. (lu.se)
  • Since all impact assessment, reviews, and revisions are complete, this decision process should be short. (frontiersin.org)
  • Recent studies confirm that code review can be effective without meetings. (smartbear.com)
  • We endeavoured to reduce bias by only including falls risk assessment tools that have been validated at least three times in different studies and by assessing the risk of bias. (bmj.com)
  • Five studies from the US and one from Brazil were available to assess the incidence of LTBI in prisons, while 19 studies were available to assess the incidence of TB. (who.int)
  • Future studies should measure the impact of the conditions in prisons on TB transmission and assess the population attributable risk of prison-to-community spread. (who.int)
  • Evidence-based management of bruxism is hampered by the limited number of randomized controlled studies available for assessing the efficacy of various treatment strategies, the historical lack of understanding with respect to the etiology of the condition, and the changing diagnostic criteria by which bruxism is defined. (medscape.com)
  • Are Community-Level Financial Data Adequate to Assess Population Health Investments? (cdc.gov)
  • We conducted 2 literature reviews and synthesized our findings to create a community assessment methodology and needs calculator, CAST (calculating for an adequate system tool). (cdc.gov)
  • A research project designed to determine optimal use of virtual reality (VR) technologies for training and assessing mine emergency responders. (cdc.gov)
  • Consistently, research shows that code review produces software with fewer defects, which aligns with the emphasis on working software. (smartbear.com)
  • Current peer review suffers from systemic blind spots, bottlenecks, and inefficiencies that retard the advance of research in many areas. (frontiersin.org)
  • In this role, she's responsible for the research program's development, peer review, and grant management in the areas of cancer prevention, screening and early detection, access to care, cancer treatment, palliative care, and survivorship. (cancer.org)
  • The commentary on the trial by Marso et al 1 assessing the cardiovascular (CV) safety of a new agent for treating type 2 diabetes highlights a recognised dilemma in clinical research on CV risk in assessment of new therapeutic agents. (bmj.com)
  • Assessing the Potential Impact of an Income Maintenance Program on Migration: Hypotheses and Suggestions for Research. (rand.org)
  • We then review techniques that have been proposed for discriminant validity assessment, demonstrating some problems and equivalencies of these techniques that have gone unnoticed by prior research. (jyu.fi)
  • After graduating from the doctoral program, the students are expected to possess intel ectual autonomy, disciplinary rectitude and be able to assess research ethics. (lu.se)
  • In many undergraduate courses, peer reviewing forms part of the learning process, and papers and chapters by PhD students are scrutinised in departmental research seminars. (lu.se)
  • In some courses, students work in peer groups and review each other's work-in-progress, for instance, and papers and chapters by PhD students are often scrutinised in departmental research seminars or read and commented upon by assigned readers. (lu.se)
  • I present a three phase plan for building a basic SP network, and making it an effective peer review platform that can be used by journals, conferences, users of repositories such as arXiv, and users of search engines such as PubMed. (frontiersin.org)
  • Graduate students generally are not recognized for their ability to conduct independent peer review unless, like Santos, they are already establishing an academic reputation by publishing first-author papers. (nature.com)
  • This article reviews the issues related to transport of the critically ill newborn population, including personnel, medical control, equipment, policy development, and transport administration. (medscape.com)
  • Entries to the Database are subject to the peer-review process. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Historically, the process for conducting code review has been pretty "anti-Agile. (smartbear.com)
  • As originally conceived by Michael Fagan in 1976, code inspections1 were a heavyweight code review process that led to an entire generation of software developers who believed that meetings were required to review code. (smartbear.com)
  • Although the principle is the same, peer review among students looks slightly different from the peer-review process carried out before scholarly texts are published in journals, for instance. (lu.se)
  • Student peers reviewing during the writing process can take different forms. (lu.se)
  • The group presentations build upon a peer-review process in which the students, both in writing and orally, assess their peers' individual assignments. (lu.se)
  • 0.7), other ways of assessing high falls risk among independently living older people in primary care should be investigated. (bmj.com)
  • For now, the most suitable way to assess falls risk in the primary care setting appears to involve asking patients about their falls history. (bmj.com)
  • This review is built on extensive literature regarding falls risk assessment tools that are suitable for the primary care setting and representations of their predictive performance. (bmj.com)
  • Objectives To assess the quality of cancer registry in primary care. (bmj.com)
  • Use of record linkage between patient electronic health records (EHRs) and Netherlands Cancer Registry to assess the quality of cancer registry in primary care. (bmj.com)
  • Long-term targets for carbon footprints are established based on a review of existing emission scenarios. (or.jp)
  • Assessing pre-service science teachers' pedagogical content knowledge through observations and lesson plans. (purdue.edu)
  • Her work on beak development in octopus larvae - along with her knowledge, care and keen judgement - had left an impression on scientists in the field and early on in her career, she was invited to become a peer reviewer. (nature.com)
  • The Bureau reviewed written and verbal inputs from Member States and relevant stakeholders provided during the work of the INB. (who.int)
  • Maroko AR, Doan TM, Arno PS, Hubel M, Yi S, Viola D. Integrating Social Determinants of Health With Treatment and Prevention: A New Tool to Assess Local Area Deprivation. (cdc.gov)
  • Following this review, the Bureau synthesized and grouped the inputs thematically, according to the request of the INB, to provide a composite, coherent working draft that captures as many areas, perspectives and views as possible, taking into account the different stages of a pandemic (prevention, preparedness, response and recovery). (who.int)
  • Minor revision due to several open points from first round of review, required revision of added text and some additional comments as provided in the referee report. (copernicus.org)
  • Additionally, the agreement among participants about presence or absence of specific biases was assessed. (bmj.com)
  • Aims To assess chloroquine (CQ) toxicity by visual field testing, multifocal electroretinography (mfERG) and measurement of retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) thickness in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) under treatment with CQ but with normal ocular fundus manifestation. (bmj.com)
  • This paper demonstrates both how code reviews reinforce the key tenets that underlie Agile development philosophies, and also how code reviews can be conducted in a manner that aligns perfectly with Agile processes. (smartbear.com)
  • So how can code review support Agile processes? (smartbear.com)
  • As you'll learn in this paper, code review fully supports Agile tenets by promoting the development of working software, collaboration and interaction among teams, continuous attention to technical excellence and the ability to respond to change - all while maintaining a high level of quality. (smartbear.com)
  • Unlike Microsoft, Apple and Google are sticklers for code review, and their product quality reflects this added effort. (smartbear.com)
  • Using this feedback, criteria were determined to assess the quality of available data covering measurability, availability, baseline trends, international alignment, peer review and resource implications. (who.int)
  • The Global Management System and other information systems and databases in WHO will be reviewed to consider how they can be adapted in order to provide key quality measures to managers, alongside other performance-related information. (who.int)
  • In accordance with OMB's Final Information Quality Bulletin for Peer Review, ERS's Peer Review Agenda for potentially influential scientific information is reported below. (usda.gov)
  • These pathologies reflect the petrification of peer review from what it started as (informal discussions of a colleague's latest report in a club meeting) into a rigid system of assumptions inherited from outdated distribution and communication models (ink-on-paper printing press and postal mail). (frontiersin.org)
  • With the support of these peer-reviews, the students produce and report summaries of the knowledge produced. (lu.se)
  • Results The results were compared with TCR gene rearrangement status assessed by PCR. (bmj.com)