Competitive behavior has often been presented as the ultimate engine of economic, technological, and scientific progress. Since all such progress is likely to imply some measure of social benefit, competition has been widely praised in modern western culture. However, competition can have very negative effects on social wellbeing. An early example is known as the "tragedy of the commons." The c...

Authors of articles published in medical journals are often busy researchers who cannot afford time devoted to writing. Though they are experts in their own therapeutic area, more often than not, researchers find it difficult to actually write and publish their research. Professional medical writers with their expertise in writing clear, concise, comprehensible, and coherent content are often a...

Citation Weiss CH, Moazed F, McEvoy CA, et al. Prompting physicians to address a daily checklist and process of care and clinical outcomes: a single-site study.

review board approval for research. However, in order to be a trustworthy and reliable systematic review, the quality of the systematic review process must be improved. Core standards for systematic review may include 1) writing the review protocol, 2) comprehensive literature search, 3) duplicate study selection and data extraction, 4) assessment of scientific quality of the included studies, ...

This article presents a summary of key success factors for publishing research in top-tier IS journals; it is not intended to be an introduction to research, but to go beyond the "rational model" presented by most introductory works. The paper begins by discussing the processes by which research projects are identified and developed, specifically focusing on where project ideas are found and ho...

Learning characteristics vary for each individual learner. Research suggests that knowledge is processed and represented in different ways and that students prefer to use different types of resources in distinct ways. Adapting learning to meet the various individual differences of the students is a real challenge. Thus, the present study aimed at investigating the effect of designing an adaptiv...

Case reports have fulfilled an important role in the development of anaesthesia and continue to be highly relevant modern practice. Despite this, they are sometimes criticised for being insufficiently rigorous meaningfully inform clinical practice or research design. Reporting checklists a useful tool improve rigour and, although case report previously been developed, no existing checklist focu...