Peer Review: It Should Be an Honorary Process

Should Biomedical Publishing Be “Opened Up”? Toward a Values-Based Peer- Review Process

Peer review of manuscripts for biomedical journals has become a subject of intense ethical debate. One of the most contentious issues is whether or not peer review should be anonymous. This study aimed to generate a rich, empirically-grounded understanding of the values held by journal editors and peer reviewers with a view to informing journal policy. Qualitative methods were used to carry out...

How high should it be?

MRS Shimming: An Important Point Which Should not be Ignored

Introduction: Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is a well-known device for analyzing the biological fluids metabolically. Obtaining accurate and reliable information via MRS needs a homogeneous magnetic field in order to provide well-defined peaks and uniform water suppression. There are lots of reasons which can disturb the magnetic field homogeneity which can be corrected by a proc...

Peer to Peer Edge Caches Should be Free

Bulk-data peer to peer systems have been promoted as reducing the cost of content distribution. Unfortunately, this isn’t generally true. Rather, bulk-data P2P shifts the costs of delivery from the content provider to the ISPs or content recipients. A very simple economic model of content delivery shows how this occurs and that, under some conditions, P2P can grossly magnify costs. Even with lo...

Blunt renal artery trauma: how should it be treated, or rather, should it be treated?