OBJECTIVES Published negative studies should have the same rigour of methodological quality as studies with positive findings. However, the methodological quality of negative versus positive studies is not known. The objective was to assess the reported methodological quality of positive versus negative studies published in Indian medical journals. DESIGN A systematic review (SR) was performe...

P quality is probably undervalued by firms because there is little consensus about appropriate measures and methods to research quality. We suggest that published ratings of a product’s quality are a valid source of quality information with important strategic and financial impact. We test this thesis by an event analysis of abnormal returns to stock prices of firms whose new products are evalu...

In this study we investigated the measurement validity of the findings in the IS journal quality stream over the past ten years. Our evaluation applied a series of validation tests to the metrics presented in these studies using data from multiple sources. The results of our tests for content, convergent, and discriminant validity, as well as those for parallel-form, test-retest, and item-totot...

This paper intends to provide a overview of past, current and evolving standards and protocols in the area of Quality of Service over computer networks. See Also : QoS in Data Networks: Products| QoS/Policy/Constraint based routing| QoS over Data Networks (Prof. Jain's Lecture) | Quality of Service over IP: References| Books on Quality of Service over IP Other reports on recent advances in netw...

This paper intends to provide a overview of past, current and evolving standards and protocols in the area of Quality of Service over computer networks. See Also : QoS in Data Networks: Products| QoS/Policy/Constraint based routing| QoS over Data Networks (Prof. Jain's Lecture) | Quality of Service over IP: References| Books on Quality of Service over IP Other reports on recent advances in netw...

OBJECTIVES To analyze the implementation of Medicaid preferred drug lists (PDLs) in a number of states and determine its impact on quality of care and cost relative to other segments of healthcare. METHODS We reviewed research and case studies found by searching library databases, primarily MEDLINE and EBSCOHost, and searching pertinent journals. Keywords initially included "drug lists," "pri...

the iranian journal of radiation research (ijrr) is now in the eighth year of publication. this journal is the mouth piece of shared idea of dr shahram akhlaghpoor and me, which was established way back in 2002. at that time the main emphasis of the founder members was to make the subject of radiation research attractive and interesting especially for combating cancer and risk assessment. the d...

background and objective: co-authorship on writing articles is one of the indicators of reliability in scientific articles. due to the lack of information regarding to the rate of participation of the authors of articles in the ” iranian journal of pathology” this research with the aim of the survey of collaborative coefficients of article authors in this journal  from 2006 to 2012 was performe...