Abstract Sonography researchers are often confronted with questions concerning the relationship between measurements acquired in clinical practice. This educational commentary provides clarity on definition of terms correlation and agreement. We discuss statistical tests used to assess outline some common pitfalls authors fall into when reporting these. provide examples inaccurate use these son...

Excerpt] The impetus for this special issue of The Leadership Quarterly grew out of the desire of a small but enthusiastic group of leadership scholars who were interested in the concepts of integrity in general and behavioral integrity (the consistency between words and actions) in particular. Guest Editor Tony Simons' (2002) theoretical article in Organization Science had sparked a great deal...

1 Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 2 Laboratoire Sols et Environnement, Université de Lorraine INRA, UMR 1120, Nancy, France, 3 School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, 4 Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, 5 Department of Biology, Furman University, G...

This commentary provides an overview of the organizational readiness for change (ORC) literature over the last decade, with respect to prevailing definitions, theories, and tools to guide assessment of ORC in preparation for implementation. The development of the OR4KT by Gagnon et al is an important contribution to this body of work. This commentary highlights the strengths of the OR4KT includ...

There is growing evidence to the importance of translational science and medicine in the improvement of patient outcome, even though the definitions of translational science, translational medicine, and clinical and translational medicine need to be further clarified. In the present perspective, we collected commentaries and descriptions about clinical and translational medicine from some membe...

Despite the great advances that have occurred in the century following the first description of a Lynch syndrome (LS) family and more especially, in more than 20 years since the discovery of causal mutations in the mismatch repair genes (MMR), long-standing clinical questions remain unanswered. Moreover, as a result of novel technologies, new questions have arisen. With this commentary, we aim ...

The foundations of usability evaluation were being established in the early 1990’s. In this context, Usability Context, Definition, Design and Evaluation built upon Shackel’s earlier influential work that helped define the notion of usability. In this paper he established key dimensions of usability and approaches to integration of testing these within the whole process of setting requirements....

As infant mortality rates decline steadily in South Asia, largely through a fall in post-neonatal mortality, increasing attention is turning to the perinatal period(l). Many studies in this region have demonstrated birth asphyxia to be a major cause of perinatal death(2). However, the contribution of birth asphyxia to the burden of neurodisability in developing country populations is still to b...

Genetic association studies have become an important part of our scientific landscape. This commentary discusses some basic scientific issues which should be considered when reporting and evaluating such studies including SNP Discovery, Genotyping and Haplotype Analysis; Population Size, Matching of Cases and Controls, and Population Stratification; Phenotype Definition and Multiple Related Phe...

There can be no starker contrast in egg donation than between Austria, where it is forbidden, and Israel, where it is encouraged to the extent that some Israeli women go abroad in order to obtain these precious reproductive cells. There are grave ethical issues in some of the transactions involved, which may fall out with the definition of a gift. The ESHRE taskforce on cross-border reproductiv...