What Are We Really Estimating in Forensic Anthropological Practice, Population Affinity or Ancestry?

Bioelectrical impedance analysis for diagnosing sarcopenia and cachexia: what are we really estimating?

As reference methods are not available for identifying low skeletal muscle mass in clinical practice, the European Group on Sarcopenia in Older People the Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia and the International Consensus for Cancer Cachexia guidelines accept bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) as an option for sarcopenia and cachexia assessment. Using different BIA equations, several compon...

Practising What We Preach: Are Knowledge Management Systems in Practice Really Knowledge Management Systems?

Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) are predominant in both theory and practice. However, are the same systems discussed in theory actualised in practice? By comparing and contrasting KMS in theory and practice, this paper demonstrates that they are indeed dissimilar. In theory, KMS have both subjective and objective components. In practice, only the objective component of KMS appears to be actu...

Do we really know what pesticides are in our food?

Population and Development: What Do We Really Know?

Population and development generally refers to the study of the consequences of population trends on socioeconomic development, human welfare, and the natural environment. Although there is a long tradition of scholarship on the consequences of population trends, beginning with Malthus, contemporary research on population and development lacks a dominant paradigm and a cumulative research tradi...

Ethics in Practice: What Are Managers Really Doing?

This study asked managers with different educational backgrounds and experience from variety of industries of a variety of sizes representing both genders and various predominant managerial functions at different levels to ‘describe the skills they think are necessary to perform their jobs effectively”. In particular, they were asked to rank 178 behavioral skills presented under 22 different ca...