Fourteen years ago, Straub (1989) raised the issue of whether IS positivist researchers were sufficiently validating their instruments. Since then, the IS profession has been exposed to many opportunities and challenges. E-Commerce has risen in prominence. Other management trends have passed through their cycles. Our new professional society, the Association of Information Systems, has been for...

The newest version of the “Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules (NIH Guidelines) is dated September 2009. In time, these Guidelines will be updated and the newest published version will dictate our College’s Guidelines for r-DNA research applications for approval where an IBC decision or input is mandated. The PI leading the research is responsible for reading the most re...

Competing interests: We are all involved in health-care initiatives and research that should benefit from wide uptake of reporting guidelines. editors and peer reviewers, the quality of health-research reporting in journal articles is unsatisfactory. 1–6 Guidelines that specify a minimum set of items for reporting can improve the accuracy and transparency of publications, thus facilitating easi...

There has recently been a renewal of human research with classical hallucinogens (psychedelics). This paper first briefly discusses the unique history of human hallucinogen research, and then reviews the risks of hallucinogen administration and safeguards for minimizing these risks. Although hallucinogens are relatively safe physiologically and are not considered drugs of dependence, their admi...

Umbilical cord blood gas and acid-base assessment are themost objective determinations of the fetal metabolic condition at the momentof birth. Moderate and severe newborn encephalopathy, respiratory compli-cations, and composite complication scores increase with an umbilicalarterial base deficit of 12–16 mmol/L. Moderate or severe newborn compli-cations occur in 10% of neona...

On the basis of a review of current clinical research conditions in developing countries, guidelines have been formulated to ensure scientific validity as well as adherence to universal ethical principles. The main recommendation is that projects should be reviewed by two Institutional Review Boards, one in the country where the Study Sponsor is based, and another in the country where the study...

To judge the quality of a lighting installation is to determine how well it meets context-specific goals in the areas of architecture, economics, and individual wellbeing. The goals for individual well-being are behaviours such as task performance, mood, social behaviour, aesthetic judgements and satisfaction, that occur as a result of internal processes influenced by luminous conditions. These...

In public health, implementation research is done to improve access to interventions that have been shown to work but have not reached many of the people who could benefit from them. Researchers identify practical problems facing public health programmes and aim to find solutions that improve health outcomes. In operational research, routinely-collected programme data are used to uncover ways o...

In this paper, we survey guidance on tactile and haptic interactions provided by various researchers who were not in attendance at GOTHI-05. Its main purpose is to identify potential guidelines that might be incorporated into an international standard on tactile and haptic interaction. This survey also identified a number of controversial areas that will need to be dealt with in developing such...

Published research should be reported to evidence users with clarity and transparency that facilitate optimal appraisal and use of evidence and allow replication by other researchers. Guidelines for such reporting are available for several types of studies but not for meta-epidemiological methodology studies. Meta-epidemiological studies adopt a systematic review or meta-analysis approach to ex...