Manuscript in the Drawer

The drawer system concept for theATLAS

One strong constraint in ATLAS is the easy and fast access to the Tile calorimeter readout without any destructive interference with the rest of the detector. Therefore the drawer system has been designed to place all PMTs and associated electronics on a movable system inside the TILECAL girders which provide both, the structural support to the individual modules and the solenoid return ux. In ...

The "file drawer" phenomenon: suppressing clinical evidence.

HMPG secures top-drawer CEO.

She will succeed Gert Steyn, the new SAMA General Manager, who over the past two years, both before and during his current tenure, revitalised HMPG, the country's leading medical publishing group, by taking it from a net loss-making enterprise to a thriving, financially sound, technologically relevant and income-diverse platform. Kikaya will use this springboard to apply her unique combination ...

Bias in the Social Sciences : Unlocking the File Drawer

Bias ( The “ File - Drawer Problem ” ) in Scientific Inference

Publication bias arises whenever the probability that a study is published depends on the statistical significance of its results. This bias, often called the file-drawer effect since the unpublished results are imagined to be tucked away in researchers’ file cabinets, is potentially a severe impediment to combining the statistical results of studies collected from the literature. With almost a...