INTRODUCTION Two recent articles (both published in Psychological Science) rely on nation-level data to address questions about psychological processes: Oishi and Diener (2014), referred to here as “OD,” and Hershfield et al. (2014), referred to as “HBW.” In our opinion, both articles contain problems with regard to the use and interpretation of nation-level data. The problems are (1) the failu...

Methods: The primary source of evidence for the original version of this guideline was the systematic review and data extraction conducted as part of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Evidence Report/Technology Assessment Number 187 titled Treatment of Overactive Bladder in Women (2009). That report searched PubMed, MEDLINE, EMBASE, and CINAHL for English-language studies pu...

PURPOSE Behavior management is considered a keystone entity in pediatric dentistry. The purpose of this article was to: (1) categorize behavior management literature primarily published in Pediatric Dentistry and the Journal of Dentistry for Children over the past 30 years to determine the quantity of survey, opinion, and clinical publication types; and (2) focus on the specific techniques of b...

This paper is a critical review of the existing literature examining the validity of nonverbal intelligence as an exclusionary criterion used to categorize children as having specific language impairment. Following the completion of a computerized database search seven articles meeting the inclusion criteria were included for analysis. Study designs include: nonrandomized control trials (betwee...

In 1925, the German biologist and philosopher Hans Driesch published a booklet entitled The Crisis in Psychology. It was originally published in English and was based on lectures given at various universities in China, Japan and the USA. The "crisis" in psychology of that time, in Driesch's opinion, lies in the necessity to decide about "the road which psychology is to follow in the future". Th...

Citation plays an important role in understanding the knowledge sharing among scholars. Citation sentences embed useful contents that signify the influence of cited authors on shared ideas, and express own opinion of citing authors to others' articles. The purpose of the study is to provide a new lens to analyze the topical relationship embedded in the citation sentences in an integrated manner...

Automatically extracting organization names from the affiliation sentences of articles related to biomedicine is of great interest to the pharmaceutical marketing industry, health care funding agencies and public health officials. It will also be useful for other scientists in normalizing author names, automatically creating citations, indexing articles and identifying potential resources or co...

Patients who have undergone a total laryngectomy have altered anatomy and physiology. This results in unique and specific issues that must be recognized in order to ensure that this group of patients experience appropriate care. This article looks at the current literature and attempts to highlight specific areas of concern, so that emergency care providers can deliver an equally high standard ...