Distributed multimedia systems allow a group of persons to see each other, communicate and work together on shared resources independently on their geographical positions. The multimedia systems rest on session concept to organize users in well defined groups. Many works realized inside the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) are devoted to the standardization of description, annoncement and...

In this paper we describe the theoretical framework and the core strategies of health promotion followed by a critical intra-and extra -paradigmatic analysis of the key ideas of this movement. From an intra-paradigmatic perspective we privilege a critical social theory perspective for analyzing one of the key concepts of health promotion – empowerment-exploring its potential to transform commun...

INTRODUCTION There are several vested interest lies on research publication hence the editorial policy is the sole important factor to control and regulate ethical publications in medical sciences especially on 'conflict of interest' issue. The study was aimed to assess on awareness of 'conflict of interest' issue in medical research and publication among the editorial staff, peer reviewers and a...

BACKGROUND Busy clinicians need easy access to evidence-based information to inform their clinical practice. Publishers and organizations have designed specific tools to meet doctors' needs at the point of care. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to describe online point-of-care summaries and evaluate their breadth, content development, and editorial policy against their claims of being "evi...

In 2005, we performed the largest survey on clinical trials of biotherapies for all solid tumors and found indirect evidence of a publication bias: editors of medical journals were more prone to publish positive results independently from the quality of the studies. We collected data from 2003 to 2015 in 487 studies, and the publication bias previously described was not found in the years betwe...

Does advertising compromise the issue of peer review audits of journals? In a recent New York 7hrres article, 1 George D. Lundberg, editor of JAJL4-l?re Journal of the American Medical Association (JAM4), was reported to be reluctant to provide information on the ~rformance of peer review. Other journal editors interviewed for the limes article, however, look more favorably on the idea of audit...

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...

IPSec [1] policies are widely deployed in firewalls or security gateways to protect information property. The security treatment (e.g. deny, allow or encrypt etc.) of all inbound or outbound traffic will be determined by the security policies, and thus it is critical for policies to be specified and configured correctly. IPSec policies are manually configured to individual security gateway in c...