BACKGROUND An understanding of how public health research output from India is changing in relation to the disease burden and public health priorities is required in order to inform relevant research development. We therefore studied the trends in the public health research output from India during 2001-2008 that was readily available in the public domain. METHODS The scope and type of the pu...

We completely solve the problem of enumerating combinatorially inequivalent d-dimensional polytopes with d + 3 vertices. A first solution of this problem, by Lloyd, was published in 1970. But the obtained counting formula was not correct, as pointed out in the new edition of Grünbaum’s book. We both correct the mistake of Lloyd and propose a more detailed and self-contained solution, relying on...

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When it comes to baseball, there is no denying Ecclesiastes: “Of the making of many books there is no end.” Whatever the place of the national pastime in the hearts and minds of America’s sports fans, baseball remains the sport of choice of the nation’s literati, continuing to attract more attention from creative writers, academics, and non-professional historians than any other sporting activi...

Thomas Gerrits,1 Scott Glancy,1 Tracy S. Clement,1 Brice Calkins,1 Adriana E. Lita,1 Aaron J. Miller,2 Alan L. Migdall,3,4 Sae Woo Nam,1 Richard P. Mirin,1 and Emanuel Knill1 1National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA 2Albion College, Albion, Michigan 49224, USA 3National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA 4Joint Quantum I...

PURPOSE Precisely described interventions in nursing research reports are essential as a foundation for nursing practice and to facilitate future research. The purpose of this project was to characterize the intervention descriptions in nursing intervention research reports. DESIGN AND METHODS Quantitative content analysis was used to analyze intervention descriptions in reports published in ...

Database Tomography is a patented system for analyzing large amounts of textual computerized material. It includes algorithms for extracting multi-word phrase frequencies and performing phrase proximity analyses. This report shows how Database Tomography can be used to derive technical intelligence from the published literature. One potential application of Database Tomography is to obtain the ...

BACKGROUND Health systems guidance (HSG) are systematically developed statements that assist with decisions about options for addressing health systems challenges, including related changes in health systems arrangements. However, the development, appraisal, and reporting of HSG poses unique conceptual and methodological challenges related to the varied types of evidence that are relevant, the ...

INTRODUCTION Medical education researchers increasingly collaborate in international teams, collecting data in different languages and from different parts of the world, and then disseminating them in English-language journals. Although this requires an ever-present need to translate, it often occurs uncritically. With this paper we aim to enhance researchers' awareness and reflexivity regardin...

Purpose – This paper aims to describe China’s need for old-age pension coverage in its rural areas, to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the new rural pension system currently being implemented, and to suggest some needed reforms. Design/methodology/approach – This paper’s analysis is based largely on evidence from Chinese government documents, newspaper reports, and research reports in...