If the Peer Review Attack Fails, Attack Something Else

A political attack on peer review.

R esearch aimed at finding effective treatments for mental illness is self-evidently a good idea. Unfortunately, this noble aim is now being used in a disingenuous attempt to reduce the funding of basic neuroscience research by the US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). It may seem obvious to neuroscientists that before we can learn how to fix the brain, we need to know how it works, bu...

Case report: malaria attack in southern Brazil – five-decade relapse, simian malaria or something else?

T his is an account of two episodes of tertian fever separated by 51 years on two continents. The first was Plasmodium vivax malaria. The second may have been because of a long-delayed relapse, a new infection with P. simium, or not being malaria at all. First attack, Borneo 1956 I contracted malaria during a student expedition from Cambridge to British North Borneo (now Sabah, Malaysia) in 195...

Heart attack or rhabdomyolysis?

 Statins are commonly used drugs in the treatment of hyperlipidemia (HL), despite some undesirable side effects. These range from mild symptoms such as myopathy, muscle weakness and myalgia to severe muscle weakness associated with chronic myopathy and acute renal failure (ARF) as a result of rhabdomyolysis. The most serious and deadly side effect of statins is rhabdomyolysis. The case presente...

The checklist: if something so simple can transform intensive care, what else can it do?

the impact of peer review on efl reviewers writing proficiency

امروزه تصحیح همکلاسی در کلاسهای نگارش یکی از اجزاء لاینفک کلاسهای دانش آموز محور است. تاثیرات مفید تصحیح همکلاسی بر زبان آموزان، معلمان را متقاعد کرده است که علیرغم صرف زمان، انرژی و توان بسیار، از این شیوه ی آموزشی در کلاسهای آموزش نگارش بهره بگیرند. تحقیق حاضر بر آن است تا با مقایسه دو گروه از یادگیرندگان زبان انگلیسی، تاثیر تصحیح همکلاسی را بر توانایی نوشتاری آنها نشان دهد. 122 خانم زبان آمو...