Iaustralian research Centre for Population oral Health, school of dentistry, the University of adelaide – Adelaide, Australia. IIPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina – Florianópolis (SC), Brasil. IIIPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Epidemiologia, Universidade Federal de Pelotas – Pelotas (RS), Brasil. Autor correspondente: ...

March 5, 2015 Type Package Title Dynamic Assembly Model of Colonization, Local Extinction and Speciation Version 1.1 Date 2015-03-05 Depends R (>= 3.0), geiger, caper, ape, deSolve, matrixStats Imports expm, picante Author Rampal S. Etienne & Alex L. Pigot Maintainer Rampal S. Etienne License GPL-2 Description Simulates and computes (maximum) likelihood of a dynamical model...

Background & Aims: An abstract is the best source of information within a content. The structured abstract is the best representation of the main source. Writing an appropriate abstract requires adherence to standards of abstracting. The aim of this study wasto investigate the compliance of Persian abstracts of research papers in medical journals of universities of medical sciences (type 1) wit...

background: back pain is a common patients' complaint, and its etiology is important because of different potential treatment approaches (based on causes). for a better diagnosis, magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is widely used in clinical settings that may result in inappropriate requests. this study aims to evaluate the appropriateness of the lumbosacral mri requests in patients with back pai...

We report the first successful test of an interoperable guideline execution engine that interprets encoded clinical guideline content and executes that content via functions of a target clinical information system (CIS). For this test, an exemplar immunization guideline was encoded in the SAGE guideline model using standards-based information models and terminologies. This guideline content was...

There has been a not-so-silent revolution in research over the last decade. Though researchers had been publishing guidelines and decrying the disarray or lack of uniform design standards for some time, evidence-based guidelines to help direct research design and publication are relatively new. The first major undertaking was CONSORT (Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials), published in 19...