CONTEXT While medical journals strive to ensure accuracy and the acknowledgment of limitations in articles, press releases may not reflect these efforts. METHODS Telephone interviews conducted in January 2001 with press officers at 9 prominent medical journals and analysis of press releases (n = 127) about research articles for the 6 issues of each journal preceding the interviews. RESULTS ...

In this paper, we investigate the unique institution of the Japanese press industry called kisha club system, which is deemed as the symbol of media capture by the government, and collusion in the media industry. By tracing through its history, we show how the institution has developed as a result of the government’s attempt to control the media, and the media’s incentive to use the alluring op...

This publication is a digest of press releases and other announcements issued by partners across the aviation industry from May October 2011. It is not fully comprehensive, but provides a snapshot of the work being undertaken around the world by all parts of the aviation industry. Readers are encouraged to visit http://newswire.enviro.aero for the latest environmental news. Environmental news f...

AIMS The alcohol beverage industry has been expanding its corporate social responsibility and other business activities in sub-Saharan Africa. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effects of these activities on the physical, economic, psychological and social availability of alcohol in the region. METHODS Narrative review. Source materials came from the business press, industry sources (w...

BACKGROUND It is well known that the tobacco industry has placed articles in scientific literature to maintain controversy over the dangers of tobacco use, while claiming that smokers are well-informed about risk. This study illuminates an industry attempt to directly undermine popular understanding of the hazards of smoking using an industry-created organization called Associates for Research ...

The important technological and economic advantages have expanded the use of shoe press technology to the dewatering of all paper products from pulp to tissue. Whereas the development of NipcoFlex technology began in packaging paper machines 20 years ago, this technology can today be found in virtually all applications for the mechanical dewatering of the paper web in new and modernized product...

This paper describes the application of dynamic simulation to evaluate material handling resource utilization for a stamping plant in the automotive industry. The other objective of this study was evaluation of throughput relative to press schedules, shift patterns, the number of material handling resources (i.e. fork truck and tugger train drivers), and storage inventory levels. This dynamic s...