Abstracts are Windows to Your Research Article: What Makes Them Good?

Polymeric Gas Separation Membranes: What Makes them Industrially more Attractive?

Kenyan and Ethiopian distance runners: what makes them so good?

Since the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, Kenyan and Ethiopian runners have dominated the middle- and long-distance events in athletics and have exhibited comparable dominance in international cross-country and road-racing competition. Several factors have been proposed to explain the extraordinary success of the Kenyan and Ethiopian distance runners, including (1) genetic predisposition, (2) develo...

What makes good guidelines?

In the last two decades, a large number of national and international treatment guidelines have been developed, to assist practioners in making decisions based on available evidence. However, according to a survey of schizophrenia practice guidelines for example [1], the methodological quality of the most guidelines was at best moderate. Hence, national and international institutions attempted ...

The 2005 UbiApp Workshop: What Makes Good Application-Led Research?

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What makes for good application - led research in ubiquitous computing ?

This position paper presents a vision of Pervasive Computing as a complex and user-centric research and development object. Emphasis is put on an “augmented emulation” as a core toolkit for development and assessment of future work and we will place our proposal in the frame of some tools and work that we have undergone. We believe that developing a use-case/scenario methodology on top of this ...