Considerations are made about the competitiveness, impactedness and internationality as characters required for the scientific publications evaluation in Brazil. The relative merits of this judgement system is appraised in the face of the Third World realities.

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International efforts to maintain and improve the physical and mental condition of mothers, workers and warriors have often figured in national campaigns to raise human efficiency. Such concerns formed an important setting for the renewed interest in cancer at the beginning of the twentieth century, as a “medical, social, economical and political issue”. These features of national cancer debate...

International evidence show that screening for colorectal cancer is cost-effective; however, in Argentina is unknown. OBJECTIVE The study shows the results of a cost-effectiveness evaluation based on two alternative mechanisms: annual faecal immunochemical testing (FIT), and colonoscopy every ten years in Argentina. METHODS The study develops a Mar- kov model in ten stages, based on informa...

Growth and development are the permanent goals of various societies. But, there is a question: How can we access to development? After World War II, the improvements of social and economic situation were followed as a major goal. Therefore, the developed countries find the way of development and innovation in economical development, equality and social justice. According to this viewpoint, deve...

Reptile Conservation (ARC) has made many advances since our last published issue. A quick glance at this issue verifies again our continued commitment and resolve to publish a journal of the highest standards devoted exclusively to the conservation of amphibians and reptiles worldwide. To review let me elaborate further. The journal is now open access. This means anyone with an Internet connect...

The authors in this volume report what it is like to be young in the rapidly changing, enormously diverse world region that is early 21st-century Europe. The chapters privilege a decidedly sociological analysis of youth as a social and cultural construction and sets of contemporary social and cultural practices characteristic of young people and young adults living in European societies. In doi...

The aim of this study was to characterize the scientific production of Italian Oral Surgery professionals by evaluating different bibliometric indices. The bibliometric evaluation was conducted on the Scopus Database upon all the Active Members joining three important Italian scientific societies in Oral Surgery (SIdCO, SIO, and SICOI). The scientific production was analysed by considering the ...

This consensus document reviews the evidence on the evaluation of biological drugs. The main conclusions of the group are: a) the current evidence on biological comparisons is based on indirect comparisons and is generally unreliable and with important methodological limitations. Therefore, b) it is considered necessary to amend the regulatory directives in the sense of strongly favoring random...

The complexity of the individual patient and organization of medical practice results in important institutional and country quality of care variability. – 17 Attempts to assess the quality of clinical practice have established rating systems that may yield completely different results and rating for the same hospital during the same period of time, adding confusion rather than help to prove th...