All papers published in this volume of IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering have been peer reviewed through processes administered by the Editors. Reviews were conducted expert referees to professional scientific standards expected a proceedings journal Publishing.

All papers published in this volume of IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering have been peer reviewed through processes administered by the Editors. Reviews were conducted expert referees to professional scientific standards expected a proceedings journal Publishing.

All papers published in this volume of IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering have been peer reviewed through processes administered by the Editors. Reviews were conducted expert referees to professional scientific standards expected a proceedings journal Publishing.

The Northwest Forest Plan in the Pacific Northwest, United States includes directives for survey and site protection of hundreds of rare species across many taxonomic classes. To help direct survey activities, prioritize sites, and stand conditions for conservation of these species, I developed Bayesian belief network (BBN) models of habitat relationships and multiple stressors predicting prese...

The special issue of this initial study is to examine the current work situation of consulting companies, and to elaborate a concept for supporting decentralized working consultants. The concept addresses significant challenges of decentralized work processes by deploying the Peer-toPeer methodology to decentralized expert and Knowledge Management, cooperation, and enterprise

All papers published in this volume of Journal Physics: Conference Series have been peer reviewed through processes administered by the Editors. Reviews were conducted expert referees to professional and scientific standards expected a proceedings journal IOP Publishing.

During a recent medical malpractice lawsuit brought against me, I was forced to confront the fundamentally different ways in which physician scientists and litigation attorneys assess and utilize clinical evidence. The plaintiff alleged that I failed to diagnose myocardial sarcoid in her husband and that my failure to do so resulted in her husband's death. Her case was based largely on the test...

Legal medicine often requires the provision of a report by the general practitioner. This may be either as the treating doctor or as the expert witness providing peer evaluation of a colleague, or to assess professional standards and/or delivery of health services. This article reviews the process and obligations attached to the provision of such a report.

User generated (e.g., peer-to-peer or word-of-mouth) reviews and professional experts’ reviews are important sources of external information that consumers use in making consumption decisions, but studies of their simultaneous effects is scarce. We develop a conceptual model for hypothesizing the simultaneous effects of the volume and valence of user and expert reviews on sales (i.e., box-offic...

As the size of the published scientific literature has increased exponentially over the past 30 years, review articles play an increasingly important role in helping researchers to make sense of original research results. Literature reviews can be broadly classified as either "systematic" or "narrative". Narrative reviews may be broader in scope than systematic reviews, but have been criticised...