In this Webinar, we will go over the fundamentals of scientific papers, including the different types of scientific literature available and the structural elements of a scientific article. Also, we will cover the importance of scientific papers, why do we read them, and how do we decide which papers to read. Finally, we will discuss some of the guidelines for reading a scientific paper and cri...

Due to the escalating population and the resulting increase in energy use, the world is faced with the challenge of energy crisis. To mitigate the rise in energy crisis, innovation, adoption, and diffusion of energy efficient technologies is imperative. Review of available literatures indicates that expected improvement in energy consumption has not been achieved in spite of the innovation and ...

BACKGROUND We describe a system of web applications designed to streamline the interdisciplinary collaboration in outcomes research. DESCRIPTION The outcomes research process can be described as a set of three interrelated phases: design and selection of data sources, analysis, and output. Each of these phases has inherent challenges that can be addressed by a group of five web applications d...

Project Parameters: This bibliography was compiled during a summer internship at the Teagle Foundation. I am a doctoral student interested in how our current understanding of brain development and cognition might be applied to writing instruction. Because of time constraints, this bibliography does not represent a comprehensive review of scholarly literature. I instead targeted literature revie...

Disasters are associated with a substantial psychosocial burden for affected individuals (including first responders) and communities. Knowledge about how to address these risks and problems is valuable for societies worldwide. Decades of research into post-disaster psychosocial care has resulted in various recommendations and general guidelines. However, as CBRN (chemical, biological, radiolog...

As the size of the published scientific literature has increased exponentially over the past 30 years, review articles play an increasingly important role in helping researchers to make sense of original research results. Literature reviews can be broadly classified as either "systematic" or "narrative". Narrative reviews may be broader in scope than systematic reviews, but have been criticised...

INTRODUCTION A national survey was recently conducted to explore medical education research priorities in Scotland. The identified themes and underlying priority areas can be linked to current medical education drivers in the UK. The top priority area rated by stakeholders was: 'Understanding how to balance service and training conflicts'. Despite its perceived importance, a preliminary scoping...

BACKGROUND In the past, several authors have attempted to review randomized clinical trials (RCT) evaluating the impact of Patient Information Leaflets (PILs) used during a consultation and draw some general conclusions. However, this proved difficult because the clinical situations, size and quality of RCTs were too heterogeneous to pool relevant data. OBJECTIVE To overcome this 30-year stal...