An impolitic statement

An informatics benchmarking statement.

OBJECTIVES Benchmarking statements provide a mechanism for making academic standards explicit within a subject area. They allow comparisons between courses to be based on learning outcomes rather than by defining a curriculum. No such statement has been produced for informatics. In the absence of any established benchmarking statements for informatics a new biomedical informatics course at St. ...

An Endocrine Society Scientific Statement

Bariatric surgery: an IDF statement

The International Diabetes Federation Taskforce on Epidemiology and Prevention of Diabetes convened a consensus working group of diabetologists, endocrinologists, surgeons and public health experts to review the appropriate role of surgery and other gastrointestinal interventions in the treatment and prevention of Type 2 diabetes. The specific goals were: to develop practical recommendations fo...

chairman’s statement

in recent decades, increasing advancement in biological sciences brings the need for reliable updated re-sources. scientific research journals facilitate accessibility to comprehensive resources and lay a ground for dis-seminating the latest findings of research projects to achieve constructive experiences and satisfy the scientific community. accordingly, avicenna research institute has publis...

Quark masses: An environmental impact statement

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