Of abstracts and manuscripts.

Urological research in sub-Saharan Africa: a retrospective cohort study of abstracts presented at the Nigerian association of urological surgeons conferences

BACKGROUND Nigeria is one of the top three countries in Africa in terms of science research output and Nigerian urologists' biomedical research output contributes to this. Each year, urologists in Nigeria gather to present their recent research at the conference of the Nigerian Association of Urological Surgeons (NAUS). These abstracts are not thoroughly vetted as are full length manuscripts pu...

Experiments on the Dynamic Behavior of Cavitating Pumps

S.Papers will be selected based upon extended abstracts, in English, of about 1000 words in length. The abstracts,typed double spaced, should state clearly the purpose, results and conclusions with supporting figures as appropriate. Allreference to units and dimensions should be in SI units. Five copies of the abstracts should be submitted. PUBLICATION.Those authors whose abstra...

The Australian Journal of Physiotherapy

The release of the extended version of the 40 year index (up to 1999) provides electronic access to all the volumes of the Australian Journal of Physiotherapy. Readers are directed that manuscripts prior to 1978 (Volume 24) did not have abstracts and keywords at the time of printing. Therefore, for these earlier manuscripts, the abstracts are summaries written by the Editorial Board members in ...

Can the accuracy of abstracts be improved by providing specific instructions? A randomized controlled trial.

CONTEXT The most-read section of a research article is the abstract, and therefore it is especially important that the abstract be accurate. OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that providing authors with specific instructions about abstract accuracy will result in improved accuracy. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial of an educational intervention specifying 3 types of common defects in abstr...

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