Moving Forward with the BAS

Moving Forward

.......Having reached the end of my second term as editor in chief, the time has come for Micro to move forward to the next phase of its evolution. I am delighted to announce that Dr. Erik Altman from IBM Research is the new Micro EIC. Erik is an accomplished and highly respected industry architect and researcher who has held numerous leadership positions within the computing community. He has ...

Moving forward.

Moving Forward into the Future

This is the final issue of Global Spine Journal for 2016. As the year draws to a close, we would like to update our readers, authors, and reviewers with the changes that will be made next year. This issue is also our final issue that we publish with Thieme Publishers. On behalf of the entire Editorial Board,wewould like to thank Thieme for their past services to GSJ and EBSJ over the last 5 yea...

Commentary: Moving The Journal forward.

Breaches of ethics are prevalent in biomedical publishing. Kapoor and colleagues identify several of the practical and ethics dilemmas that they have encountered in editing The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. Biomedical publishing ethics is continually evolving, with discrepant practice among different publications. Publication ethics apply to authors, editors, peer r...

Moving forward with randomized controlled trials.

A randomized controlled trial (RCT) is the most powerful tool for determining the cause-effect relationship between an intervention and an outcome. RCTs typically include random allocation to intervention and control groups, a blinding plan for trialists, assessors and/or participants, identical treatment groups except for the experimental ingredients, and an intent-to-treat analysis. RCTs are ...