COPE Flowcharts and infographics – Responding to whistleblowers when concerns are raised directly

Responding to safety concerns and chronic needs: trends over time

Background For the past 20 years, the Ontario child welfare sector has made significant legislative and policy changes. Changes to legislation and policy can impact the public and sector's response to child maltreatment and inform identified trends. Using an investigative taxonomy of urgent protection and chronic need this paper examines the shift in the nature of investigated maltreatment over...

To What Extent Vital Signs Are Important to Medical Toxicologists When Conflicts Arise in Defining Toxidroms

Concerns raised by lung size-mismatched transplantation.

Correspondence 4 . Villiot-Danger JC , Villiot-Danger E , Borel JC , Pépin JL , Wuyam B , Vergès JS . Respiratory muscle endurance training in obese patients . Int J Obes (Lond) . 2011 ; 35 ( 5 ): 692 699 . 5 . National Institutes of Health Clinical Center . Obese patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and exercise training (OBEX1). NCT01155271. ClinicalTrials.gov . Bethesda, MD:...

Whistleblowers.

T he term whistleblower comes from the phrase ‘‘blow the whistle’’, which refers to a whistle being blown by a policeman or a referee to indicate an activity that is illegal or a foul [1]. Recently, whistleblowers have disseminated valuable information to the community through new media outlets, such as WikiLeaks. In medicine, whistleblowers serve to shed light on side-effects of drugs and, occ...

Runaway sexual selection when female preferences are directly selected.

We introduce models for the runaway coevolution of female mating preferences and male display traits. The models generalize earlier results by allowing for direct natural selection on the preference, arbitrary forms of mate choice, and fairly general assumptions about the underlying genetics. Results show that a runaway is less likely when there is direct selection on the preference, but that i...