Joining or starting a new conversation?

Joining a conversation: the problem/gap/hook heuristic

to add something new that will matter to those participating. When you violate any of those expectations, backs turn or eyes roll, or both. The conversation metaphor changes our customary notion of what the Introduction of a scholarly paper is meant to accomplish. To position your work as a compelling conversational turn, your Introduction must do three things: (1) Identify a problem in the wor...

Book Review: Starting or Strengthening a Drug Bulletin - A Practical Manual

Joining the conversation: newspaper journalists' views on working with researchers.

For health researchers who seek more research use in policy making to improve health and healthcare, working with the news media may represent an opportunity, given the media's pivotal role in public policy agenda-setting. Much literature on science and health journalism assumes a normative stance, focusing on improving the accuracy of news coverage. In this study, we investigated journalists' ...

A New Starting Point for Atom Interferometry

Interferometers using atoms rather than light can measure acceleration and rotation to high precision. Because atoms are slower than light, atom interferometers have the potential to reach greater inertial sensitivity than their optical counterparts. However, one of the main limitations in atomic interferometry has been discriminating the different contributions to the interference signal. Brig...

Starting the conversation performance of a brief dietary assessment and intervention tool for health professionals.

INTRODUCTION For chronic disease prevention and management, brief but valid dietary assessment tools are needed to determine risk, guide counseling, and monitor progress in a variety of settings. Starting The Conversation (STC) is an eight-item simplified food frequency instrument designed for use in primary care and health-promotion settings. PURPOSE This report investigates the feasibility,...