By reviewing hundreds of original articles from journals published throughout the world, The Journal of EvidenceBased Dental Practice will provide readers with the best, most current clinical information available—information that will improve the outcomes of clinical procedures. The Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice will advocate the use or rejection of a procedure on the basis of expl...

Objectives: To assess the risk of bias (RoB) randomized controlled trials (RCTs) published in dental journals Spanish language.

OBJECTIVES The study updates Schloman's 1997 study, "Mapping the Literature of Health Education." The authors identify an updated list of core health education journals and determine the coverage of these journals by electronic indexes. METHODS Citations from four source journals for the years 2006 to 2008 were analyzed using the established methodology of the "Mapping the Literature of Allie...

INTRODUCTION Open access publishing is becoming increasingly popular within the biomedical sciences. SciELO, the Scientific Electronic Library Online, is a digital library covering a selected collection of Brazilian scientific journals many of which provide open access to full-text articles.This library includes a number of dental journals some of which may include reports of clinical trials in...

Tests are described comparing the sensitivity of the Erickson dipole feeds with the new strut-straddling Modified J-Pole (MJP) feeds using the new VLA Lowband receivers in the 54-86 MHz window. These tests show that the sensitivity of the MJP feeds for the “B” mounting position is comparable to the Erickson dipoles. For the “C” mounting position the MJP sensitivity is a factor of two worse than...

Based on information extracted horn the Science Citation Index* (SCP) data base, I fmd that, in terms of articles published, the biochemical literature is still growing faster than the scientific literature as a whole. What’s more, the number of references in a typical biochemical article is increasing as is the proportion of references to material more than five years older than the citing art...