A good dictionary contains not only many entries and a lot of information concerning each one of them, but also adequate means to reveal the stored information. Information access depends crucially on the quality of the index. We will present here some ideas of how a dictionary could be enhanced to support a speaker/writer to find the word s/he is looking for. To this end we suggest to add to a...

Destabilization of epidemic models with the inclusion of realistic distributions of infectious periods. Electronic appendices are refereed with the text. However, no attempt has been made to impose a uniform editorial style on the electronic appendices.

BACKGROUND To evaluate medical and dental students' utilization of electronic information resources. METHODS A web survey sent to 837 students (49.9% responded). RESULTS Twenty-four per cent of medical students and nineteen per cent of dental students searched MEDLINE 2+ times/month for study purposes, and thiry-two per cent and twenty-four per cent respectively for research. Full-text arti...

The hypertext edition, the hypermedia edition, the multimedia edition, the computer edition, the digital edition, the electronic edition are all synonymous labels for a concept without a definition. The use of “edition” in these labels presuppose a conventional understanding of that word, and is based on the implicit assumption that there is a general agreement on what an edition is. But there ...

OBJECTIVES Assess the impact of text-based electronic notifications on improving clinic attendance, in relation to study quality (according to risk of bias), and to assess simple ways in which notifications can be optimised (ie, impact of multiple notifications). DESIGN Systematic review, study quality appraisal assessing risk of bias, data synthesised in meta-analyses. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE...