for a proposal. To add relevance to the writing exercise, the use of abstracts from research articles in the LIS literature as exemplars for modeling the writing process introduces meaning into the overall learning process. Abstracts perform several major functions in the dissemination of scholarly, professional, and technical literature—all of which provide a rationale for students to learn to...

The purpose of this study was to investigate differences between abstracts of posters presented at the 79(th) (2002) and 80(th) (2003) Annual Session & Exhibition of the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) and the published full-length articles resulting from the same studies. The abstracts for poster presentation sessions were downloaded, and basic characteristics of the abstracts and...

Ask: Research and Methods is an open access, peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the methodology of social science research. ASK was fi rst published in 1995 by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Before 2008, ASK followed the tradition of other Polish language scientifi c journals by publishing short English language summaries of the articles. The...

Factors related to the path of abstracts from presentation at a conference to publication as a full article have been analyzed in the medical field, but only a few studies have been performed in dentistry. This study investigated the rate of publication of articles based on abstracts presented at the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Annual Session & Exhibition in 2002 and 2003 and t...

A digraph is nonderogatory if its characteristic polynomial and minimal polynomial are equal. Relations between nonderogatory digraphs and their automorphism groups have appeared in the literature (see [1] and [2, Theorem 5.10]). More recently, several articles (see, e.g., [1, 3–8]) address the problem of determining when certain operations between nonderogatory digraphs are again nonderogatory...

Background: Systematic reviews and meta-analysis have significant advantages over conventional reviews in that all available data should be presented. This study aimed to evaluate Iranian systematic reviews and meta-analysis abstracts indexed in WOS and Scopus during 2003-2012 based on PRISMA checklist. Methods: This is an analytical study. We evaluated 46 article abstracts indexed in WOS, 89 a...

Purpose: To provide a brief summary of the paper. Along with the title, this is one of the most important components of a research article. After reading the title, researchers commonly scan the abstract to determine what the authors found, and based on this information they often decide if they will read the rest of the paper. Content: The abstract is written as a mini-paper, i.e., it contains...

This paper presents a method for critically reading a research article. Emphasis is placed on the specific format of the question being asked, the control of variables to ensure internal and external validity, selected basic rules for applying statistics, and the justification for specific conclusions drawn by the investigator. The method is designed to be clinically relevant with the final eva...