Global Environmental and Resource Assessment to be Published Annually by Two Research Concerns

How to be a critical consumer of research: two-step approach and five statistical concerns.

Nursing journals often publish research articles that require the reader to have a basic understanding of statistics. A recent review reported that one or more primary statistical analyses was used in 80% of 462 nursing research articles published in 2000. The results indicated that descriptive analyses were used the most frequently (in almost 70% of these articles). Descriptive analyses are us...

Geoengineering An article for the Encyclopedia of Global Change to be published by Oxford University

Can research that is not intended or unlikely to be published be considered ethical?

BACKGROUND For research to be ethically acceptable, the potential benefits must justify any risks involved for participants. Dissemination of research findings through publication is one way of creating benefit, but not all researchers intend to publish their research. Other factors, such as lack of size or representativeness, generalisability or innovativeness, or negative findings mean the re...

The Lambda Alpha Journal of Man Is Published Semi - Annually by the Lambda Alpha Anthropology

Graphical Methodology of Global Pollution Index for the Environmental Impact Assessment Using Two Environmental Components

One of the applied methods for environmental impact assessment is the index of global pollution (IGP) proposed by Rojanschi in 1991. This methodology enables the global estimation for the ecosystem state affected more or less by human activities. Unfortunately, Rojanschi’s method has a limitation; it can be applied only if at least three environmental components are considered. Frequently, many...