FRONTLINE: Journalism as a research discipline

Total research productivity in a pathology discipline.

AIMS To investigate the research productivity of all staff in chemical pathology. METHODS Chemical pathologists or biochemical scientists were identified from publicly available sources. All journals, their impact factors (IFs), and individual publications over the period of 1995 to 1999 were identified from electronic databases. Each publication was subclassified with respect to type of publ...

Defining family medicine as a scientific discipline.

Statistics as a Mathematical Discipline By

Asian neurology as a discipline of study

Asian neurology should be viewed as a discipline of study. This is because ethnic, geographical, environmental, social and cultural factors influence neurological disease causation, manifestation, outcome, treatment, and clinical practice. Ethnic factor affecting disease pathology is reflected in severe spinal cord involvement as a universal feature of Asians with multiple sclerosis, and intrac...

Nature of Geography as a Discipline

The proposed course aims at explaining the nature of the subject. It throws light on the importance of geography and describes the nature of geography as a subject. It attempts to enrich knowledge and illustrate basic concepts as well as technical terms which are building blocks of geographic knowledge. Effort, however, has been made to develop the concepts in a graded and sequencial manner and...