In June 2015, invitations were sent by email to 151 APAME journals to participate in an online survey with an objective of gaining insight into the common publication misconduct encountered by APAME editors. The survey, conducted through SurveyMonkey over a 20-day-period, comprised 10 questions with expansions to allow anecdotes limited to 400 characters, estimated to take less than 10 minutes ...

OBJECTIVES This report synthesises a subset of 31 journal articles on high-fidelity simulation-based medical education containing 32 research studies drawn from a larger qualitative review published previously. These studies were selected because they present adequate data to allow for quantitative synthesis. We hypothesised an association between hours of practice in simulation-based medical e...

A lthough sound authorship of biomedical journal articles relies on personal and professional integrity and accountability, recent controversies concerning ghostwriting and guest authorship have shown that this approach has limitations. Ghostwriting and guest authorship are often linked to academic-industry collaborations. Typically, industrysponsored professional writers prepare complete artic...

We proposed three swing leg control policies for spring-mass running robots, inspired by experimental data from our recent collaborative work on ground running birds. Previous investigations suggest that animals may prioritize injury avoidance and/or efficiency as their objective function during running rather than maintaining limit-cycle stability. Therefore, in this study we targeted structur...

Traditional preventive maintenance policies, such as age replacement, periodic replacement under minimal repair, and replacement policy N, are all studied based on the expected cost criteria without considering the management risk due to the cost variability. As a result, these policies could be significantly beyond the anticipated maintenance budget allocation and lead to crisis. In order to s...

Transactional memory systems trade ease of programming with runtime performance losses in handling transactions. This paper focuses on starvation effects that show up in systems where unordered transactions are committed on a demand-driven basis. Such simple commit arbitration policies are prone to starvation. The design issues for commit arbitration policies are analyzed and novel policies tha...

A grid has to provide strong incentive for participating sites to join and stay in it. Participating sites are concerned with the performance improvement brought by the gird for the jobs of their own local user communities. Feasible and effective load sharing is key to fulfilling such a concern. This paper explores the load-sharing policies concerning feasibility and heterogeneity on computatio...

Starting from preferences on N proposed policies obtained via questionnaires from a sample of the electorate, an Ising spin-glass model in a field can be constructed from which a political party could find the subset of the proposed policies which would maximize its appeal, form a coherent choice in the eyes of the electorate, and have maximum overlap with the party's existing policies. We illu...

In this paper, a comprehensive production planning and scheduling model is developed for a typical semiconductor plant (fab). The proposed model includes two decision making policies on production planning and scheduling of the semiconductor manufacturing systems, release and dispatching policies. The proposed release and dispatching policies decides on flow of wafer lots in the fab in order to...

We formulate and study a multi-user multi-armed bandit (MAB) problem that exploits the temporal-spatial opportunistic spectrum access (OSA) of primary user (PU) channels so that secondary users (SUs) who do not interfere with each other can make use of the same PU channel. We first propose a centralized channel allocation policy that has logarithmic regret, but requires a central processor to s...