The research we have is not the research we need

Literacy Instruction, Technology, and Students with Learning Disabilities: Research We Have, Research We Need

Technology, whether assistive (AT) or instructional (IT), has played an uneven role in the field of learning disabilities since its inception more than a half century ago. In addition, technology is in a constant state of flux; hence, researchers have been challenged to conduct appropriate experimental testing of interventions before they are outdated or made irrelevant by advances in hardware ...

Why we need qualitative research.

Why we need more basic biology research, not less

Much of the spectacular progress in biomedical science over the last half-century is the direct consequence of the work of thousands of basic scientists whose primary goal was understanding of the fundamental working of living things. Despite this, many politicians, funders, and even scientists have come to believe that the pace of successful applications to medical diagnosis and therapy is lim...

Cross-cultural advertising research: where we have been and where we need to go

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine recent patterns and developments in the literature on cross-cultural advertising research. Design/methodology/approach – Citation analysis was performed for cross-cultural advertising articles published in major marketing and business journals from 1995 to 2006. Findings – Cultural values were the most studied topic area in cross-cultural advert...

Acute stroke: we have the treatments and we have the evidence – we need to use them

Despite huge global burden, stroke disease has traditionally received little attention in the general medical press. We review a series of four acute stroke research articles published in a themed issue of the Lancet. Claiborne-Johnston and coworkers presented a scoring system to stratify risk of stroke following transient ischaemic attack. Chalela and colleagues demonstrated that magnetic reso...