What is biodiversity? Biodiversity has different meanings depending on the situation being discussed and thetarget audience. For example, the Oxford English Dictionary defines biodiversity as being. The variety of plantand animal life in the world or in a particular habitat. This is definition is clearly sufficient for non-specialists.However, when looking more specifically at biodi...

is for the most part identical to an article by Jong Chul Kim, entitled " CT features of bladder small cell carcinoma " published in Clinical Imaging (2004;28:201-205). The corresponding author (JC Kim) has been contacted and has agreed that the two studies are the same.

All members of the ethical committee on publication of the Korean Radiological Society agreed that the two papers belong to the category of redundant publication.

BACKGROUND Perceived stress influences the health and well-being of older adults. This study aims to examine the association between the expectation and the receipt of filial piety and perceived stress among U.S Chinese older adults. METHODS Data were drawn from the PINE study, a population-based study of Chinese older adults aged 60 and above in the greater Chicago area. Perceived stress was...

CliniCal MediCine insights: PediatriCs 2016:10 In mid-2015 it was brought to our attention that an article published in 2009,1 Surgery for idiopathic scoliosis: currently applied techniques, Clinical Medicine: Pediatrics 2009;3:39–44, contained redundancies when compared with an earlier article published in Scoliosis,2 titled Surgical treatment of scoliosis: a review of techniques currently app...

We consider a number of notice and take-down regimes for Internet content. These differ in the incentives for removal, the legal framework for compelling action, and the speed at which material is removed. By measuring how quickly various types of content are removed, we determine that the requester’s incentives outweigh all other factors, from the penalties available, to the methods used to ob...