Livestock and poultry producers face a number of challenges including pressure from the public to be good environmental stewards and adopt welfare-friendly practices. In response, producers often implement practices beyond those required for regulatory compliance to meet consumer demands. However, environmental stewardship and animal welfare may have conflicting objectives. Examples include pas...

About ENISA The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) is a centre of network and information security expertise for the EU, its member states, the private sector and Europe's citizens. ENISA works with these groups to develop advice and recommendations on good practice in information security. It assists EU member states in implementing relevant EU legislation and works to im...

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Computers are now essential in all branches of science, but most researchers are never taught the equivalent of basic lab skills for research computing. As a result, data can get lost, analyses can take much longer than necessary, and researchers are limited in how effectively they can work with software and data. Computing workflows need to follow the same practices as lab projects and noteboo...

Cada vez mais têm sido dada atenção às boas práticas de redação e sua utilidade em artigos científicos. Ensaios clínicos aleatorizados, quando concebidos, conduzidos e relatados de forma apropriada, representam o padrão ouro na avaliação de tratamentos médicos. Entretanto, os ensaios clínicos podem produzir resultados enviesados se não houver rigor metodológico. Para avaliar criteriosamente uma...

Roughly 85% of healthcare research funding may be wasted due to several avoidable reasons, including poor research question selection, poor study design, selective nonpublication, and poor reporting.1 The cost of waste worldwide was estimated at 200 billion United States dollars in 2010.1 All actors in the research field—researchers, institutions, regulators, funders, publishers, and policy mak...

Pharmacoepidemiologic studies provide valuable information about the health effects of healthcare products. The ISPE Guidelines for Good Pharmacoepidemiology Practices (GPP) are intended to assist investigators with issues pertaining to the planning, conduct, and evaluation of pharmacoepidemiologic research. The first revision, in 2004 revised and superseded the Guidelines for Good Epidemiologi...

Thematic accuracy assessment of a map is a necessary condition for the comparison of research results and the appropriate use of geographic data analysis. Good practices of accuracy assessment already exist, but Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) is based on a partition of the spatial area of interest into polygons, which leads to specific issues. In this study, additional guidelin...

Inappropriate handling and disposal practices of healthcare waste (HCW) at healthcare centers are significantly increasing health and environmental hazards. This paper summarizes the existing situation of HCW handling and management practices at healthcare facilities in Kodagu district (India). This study was conducted for a period of six months using well-designed checklists along with field o...