background: this study was done to determine the prevalence of publication misconduct among iranian authors. methods: data were collected through an email survey of corresponding authors of papers published in iranian journals indexed in scopus during 2009-2011. using the double list experiment, these individuals were indirectly questioned about committing one of the five misconducts including ...

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 Sosyal bilimler alanında gerçekleştirilen araştırma süreçlerinde en önemli aşamalardan biri kullanılacak yönteme ve uygulamaya karar vermektir. Araştırma, daima yöntem uygulama ikilisi etrafında hareket ederek bir bütün oluşturmaktadır. Ayrıca yöntem, sahip olunan sorunsalın inşa edilme amacını amaç doğrultusunda ortaya konmak istenen düşünceyi hipotezler eşliğinde desteklemektedir. ...

Initiated around the year 2007, Malliavin–Stein approach to probabilistic approximations combines Stein’s method with infinite-dimensional integration by parts formulae based on use of Malliavin-type operators. In last decade, techniques have allowed researchers establish new quantitative limit theorems in a variety domains theoretical and applied stochastic analysis. The aim this survey is ill...

While the aged as a group have better access to health care since the inception of Medicare, there are subsets of the population that are still vulnerable to large out-of-pocket expenses. The focus of this analysis is on those segments of the Medicare population which are particularly vulnerable to access problems due to their personal characteristics. In particular, using data from the Nationa...

BACKGROUND This article reports on the use of the 'neighborhood method' to measure the prevalence and basic characteristics of children who became separated from their parents or usual caregivers subsequent to an attack by the M23 militia group in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. METHODS A two-stage household cluster survey was conducted in 522 households in North Kivu in August ...